Actually, I've welcomed the critiques. Yes, occasionally it'll get out of hand, like the stuff about the drapes, but there is usually so much glorification of whatever will look snazzy to the audience that it's really nice to hear someone actually discuss stuff like how low one is supposed to get in a sit-spin, or methods of getting into a death spiral without looking like you're trying to sit down in the process, or whether someone's footwork is so simple as to be, however pleasant to watch, useless from a technical figure-skating point of view. It makes it clear that there *are* technical differences beyond whether people fall down when they jump. Most years, that doesn't come across at all.
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