Friday, February 24, 2006

What to watch!??

We had to make a decision last night--I mean HOLY COW! The women's final Olympic skate, American Idol AND Survivor! Do we need TiVo or what? Well, American Idol is a must tape show, because I tape every show for my daughter because she's at school nights. On the weekend, she sits down and watches all of them. So that was a given. The other two VCRs in the house I can't figure out how to work, so...we watched Olympics with Survivor in picture-in-picture in the corner of the screen and switched when terry found the immunity idol, and when the girls weren't skating. Whew! What a challenging evening. LOL

I was very disappointed for my Russian sweetheart. Her last Olympics and you could see the disappointment in her eyes as she took the bronze. What a shocker, huh, with Japan edging out the American favorite, Sasha? I sure didn't want to see Sasha crash and burn, and she managed to pull it out for silver.

I must say the Olympics got a whole lot more interesting when they featured the skaters. Hope the network figured it out. Maybe next year we could get Fabio to be a commentator. He couldn't be any more irritating than that other fella.

9 comments:

  1. LOL!!! Fabio!!!

    Well, I watched American Idol and I just haven't gotten into Survivor yet this season. I had already seen the result for the Olympics too and knew the top three wouldn't skate until later anyway.

    I kind of liked the Japanese skater...she was so happy to win and skated beautifully. I still don't quite get the new scoring system though. How can you fall twice during your performance and still get silver? I guess she scored higher on her other elements.

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  2. I really wanted Michelle to win this time! However, since she couldn't, I wanted the Russian girl to win but she just didn't do a good job. The Japanese skater was the best. I've never watched Survior or American Idol so I didn't have a problem.

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  3. I'm an AI freak so there was no question what was going to be on TV. I did flip back and forth and saw Emily Hughes' performance. She missed one jumped but she did well. As far as the commentators--if I don't want to hear them I usually mute the TV. The skaters are so good that you don't really need the music. Their grace and the expressions on their faces is music enough

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  4. Did you watch the show called Olympic Ice? It was on a sister channel of the regular Olympics and was a daily recap and discussion of the ice skating. It was one of the best parts.

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  5. Bern: That is usually what I watched instead of the Olympics...it focused entirely on the skating and the Canadian skaters who won in 2002 commenting.

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  6. Jennifer, I thought they were so much better than the other commentary. Actually I think the 4 of them were a perfect match and should be doing more of this. I thought Mary Corillo was funny and the Canadian pair were a riot.

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  7. I agree Bern...Mary Corillo was funny. I also liked Scott Hamilton when he was on there too.

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  8. WAAAAAAAAAAAH! How did I miss that show? I would have loved it!

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  9. I am sorry you missed it Cheryl...it came on every night on the USA channel.

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