#DALD robbery

[sunskate]

Do you enjoy and of Meryl and Charlie’s programs? If so which ones are your favorites and why?

ooh...well... i didn't really get deeply into ice dance until after they retired, and i was drawn in by VM, so i can't say i'm that compelled by DW because the two teams are kind of forever linked by the rivalry, so inevitable to compare, and i just love VM so much more

but.

in 2014 i was following DW in the lead up to Sochi, and i didn't know VM - Meryl and Charlie were so hyped on NBC - and i saw the FD live. and i did really love their Scheherazade then - the curve lift with this entry:

even now, that's such a striking entry. back then i didn't know anything about ice dance, and i remember the broadcast hyping the rivalry between the Canadians and "our" Americans and then finding VM so beautiful and refined but being totally puzzled by Seasons, that it felt like the music was letting them down, that it didn't have a wow factor

so in 2014 i was happy that Meryl and Charlie won, and then i forgot about ice dance until 2018😅