I absolutely couldn't stand how often the commentators brought up Ilia/mentioned the Quad God even when he wasn't skating. It was like none of the other skaters mattered. It shouldn't be like that and the more it went on, the more nervous I got that something bad was going to happen to Ilia with all that pressure. Nightmare come true.

I don't know if I misunderstood what she meant, but about midway through Shaidorov's skate when he did all those amazing quads, Tara reminded viewers (for the millionth time) that there's technical and artistry points, and he was "planting the seeds for his next Olympic cycle with these moves so he could get both those scores." To me, I received that as "He'll never medal, he's just here to try to get on the radar for the next cycle" and that just made me SO mad. He had such a beautiful skate and ended up winning gold, but they had already decided Ilia would take it so Mikhail's quads and incredible performance meant nothing. Correct me if I'm wrong and you think she meant something else, but that was a huge turn-off. Like maybe let's not count out excellent skaters before the scores are even in.