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Is it just me, or did Ice Dance get really boring somehow? It used to be my favourite discipline to watch, and I was bored to tears watching the fee dance. Granted, I missed the short dance, perhaps that was different, but it was all so... same-ish, all in the elegant to cute range. And painfully gender normative to boot. It's as if everyone is afraid to do something even a little out of the norm and risk losing points. Even the Kerrs fell in line.

Or are the rules killing creativity? I really do miss couples like Anissina/Peizerat, or Denkova/Staviski. Does anyone even do the reverse lift any longer?