cocotaffy
Fetchez la vache... mais fetchez la vache !
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Oh I have missed them, here is a snippet of their gala rehearsal for France Nationals that last two twizzles with the arms and then head movement 
They have such a special quality to their movements. No offence to all the other lovely teams, but they are just otherworldly.
There was an interesting discussion in the dance thread about pressure on female dancers and subsequently how teams can be unbalanced in their partnership. The conversation talked at one point about Gaby and how she was described as the weak partner and also how Tessa had also suffered criticisms before their come back. It made me understand while I think P/C surpassed V/M that period regardless of results. Disclaimer: This is not out of provocation to V/M fans, I have always avoided directly comparing V/M and P/C here or anywhere in the forum while they were competing but now they both are out of the circuit and passions have calmed down, I will finally feel like expressing why I believe P/C had the edge when they were competed against each other.
During that period, Tessa was both an outstanding dancer and skater whereas Scott, while being an outstanding skater, was lacking as a dancer (lack of upper body flexibility and he was just doing nothing interesting with his arms, plus his back extension/posture was not pulled enough), he just came really short in comparison to Guillaume. Gaby on the other hand was on equal footing for me with Tessa so in the end, P/C are simply a more balanced team with both partners being outstanding skaters and exceptional dancers, all the way through their finger tips.
They have such a special quality to their movements. No offence to all the other lovely teams, but they are just otherworldly.There was an interesting discussion in the dance thread about pressure on female dancers and subsequently how teams can be unbalanced in their partnership. The conversation talked at one point about Gaby and how she was described as the weak partner and also how Tessa had also suffered criticisms before their come back. It made me understand while I think P/C surpassed V/M that period regardless of results. Disclaimer: This is not out of provocation to V/M fans, I have always avoided directly comparing V/M and P/C here or anywhere in the forum while they were competing but now they both are out of the circuit and passions have calmed down, I will finally feel like expressing why I believe P/C had the edge when they were competed against each other.
During that period, Tessa was both an outstanding dancer and skater whereas Scott, while being an outstanding skater, was lacking as a dancer (lack of upper body flexibility and he was just doing nothing interesting with his arms, plus his back extension/posture was not pulled enough), he just came really short in comparison to Guillaume. Gaby on the other hand was on equal footing for me with Tessa so in the end, P/C are simply a more balanced team with both partners being outstanding skaters and exceptional dancers, all the way through their finger tips.
But I know most people are convinced they will retire.
Okay, no not really, but yeah, I don't need P/C to skate to Phantom or Carmen or aliens (and I LOVE C/B Alien FD) or spell out who they are portraying... I don't think they ever approached their programs this way... it was always more about evoking emotions through dance rather acting specific characters. By the I think Sunday Afternoon IS actually somewhat character driven. They didn't spell it out buy saying "we are portraying X and Y" but it's pretty evident from the song selection and the progression of the program.
