Stars on Ice 2011 - Yay's and Nay's

Nay's

It's rather awkward watching these two skate together now that...ya know...they're DIVORCED. Fitting how 98% of the choreography was side-by-side. Whoops.

Gone are the days where they represent an orchid and a stem. Now they represent two thorns constantly probing each other.



Where are the ponies in the background? Why aren't the unicorns dancing wistfully in the distance? Does he know that the originator of this song is Miley Cyrus and was originally intended for 12-year-old girls? Oh, but he's wearing black. It's okay. He's a man.





The program itself is fine and pleasant. But that's it: Sasha Cohen is much more than fine and pleasant. She has taken absolutely zero artistic liberties in her professional career on Stars on Ice. She is capable of branching out and becoming a personified authentic artist, but skating to this muzzzakkkk bores me to pieces.



Gone are the days of group numbers with an innovative and intricate storyline. I'm sure a lot of it has to do with the limited time the cast gets together nowadays, but the group numbers are so basic and elementary that far limits the skills of these professional skaters.

Yay's

Katia never grows old or stale. She is like a fine wine that grows better with age. How is it possible that with age she becomes even more delectable? She has even grown to be somewhat of a diva, something we all knew was inside of her, but was sorely repressed after she had to take on the abandoned widow persona for 10 years.



Unfortunately for us Americans, Buttle is not on the U.S. tour. Even though this is an old program of his, it has grown to be even more sensual, sophisticated, and dare we say exotic with time. Images from his masterful Nagoyagatsi free skate are in this program. And even though he's wearing black, there is sequins on the sides of them...which makes it acceptable.



Who can go wrong with Kurt Browning? Even though he slightly resembles a martian in that outfit, Kurt can spread-eagle and footwork his way in any performance to make it memorable.



Shoot me in the face: I enjoy this Lysacek program. The dramatics of the program work for him, he's wearing his Vera Wang, and he's so segmented and obsessive in his choreography that he'd make any OCD-addict put the program on repeat for about 500 times. The ending position is a total diva move. I think he stole it from Johnny.

Yay and Nay?

The program has potential, but looks to be in the beginning stages of development. Once they actually gain some speed and more attack, the program could certainly be a wonderful program for them. However, the abrupt quality to this performance made everything look labored and difficult.