#felt fun

[puppet-fuckery]

I can't believe puppet-fuckery wasn't taken. Sweet as shit.

[macaroni-rascal]

what do you think is VM’s worst (relative to the rest at least) program? can we get a mini wax poetic about why it’s worse lol

This is so fun, I can’t stand it. Easiest answer ever:

Won’t You Charleston With Me.

I decided to just choose from their senior career, but even if I was looking at their senior and junior career (the whole Malagueña thing), this program would still come out on the bottom, for a few reasons:

Lack of flow, lack of speed, lack of training time, awkward looking lifts.

However, there are a couple really cool moments that I will always love from this program, and be forever sad they didn’t have the time to make it something super special, because you know they would have killed this program from start to finish.

They do start quite strong in the program, the first little bit with the fast music is fun and has the two best parts of the program back to back, when they mug the judges like the icons they are, and I do love the quick footwork leading up to that part too:

And also the little hop they do in close hold:

Both are lovely little moments that make you think the program is going to maintain that energy and speed, but alas, it does not.

The no touch midline is quite slow, and while it does have some nice little musical touches, it doesn’t have the pop or attack they’d normally have, like in dark eyes the year before, or like the iconic midline from farrucas they would have the next year.

The entrance into their spin is super cool though and I love it, I am so glad I found a gif of it: Tessa does an illusion spin while holding Scott’s hand while he does a spread eagle into ina bauer around her, right into the spin. So! Cool!

The spin, however, is just tragic.

Who allowed this to happen? This was a mistake! It always was a mistake, and I hate it so much.

I don’t like choreographed kisses, they just aren’t good. VM make it the least awkward and cringe it could possibly be...but it’s still not great. I do, however, appreciate Tessa turning her toe out.

I don’t like either of their lifts in this program either, I think they just look a little too laboured, which comes back to not enough training time, etc. The straight line lift looks like something weapo would have done two seasons ago...and that is saying something. They are definitely difficult, but not executed properly.

Like the midline, their diagonal step sequence has awesome musicality, but lacks speed, precision, and finesse. They come to an almost complete stop in the middle of their already quite slow step sequence, just for this stunning piece of transition, and again, who allowed this to happen? 

The move they are doing in their second lift so illegal, it’s hilarious. But, that’s fine because it’s not good anyway, and it lead to the creation of one of their most iconic lifts of all time, the curve lift from farrucas, so I can’t be that mad. It just wasn’t done cooking yet.

I do like that they book ended the opening and closing poses, they definitely got into the character of the dance, and there were some fun moments. I would say I have watched this the least of all of their programs and that’s just fine with me.