Friday, October 28, 2011

Skating and Gymnastics Replays

If you watch figure skating or gymnastics (especially rhythmic gymnastics or the ladies’ floor exercise), you’ll notice that after the performance, the television coverage will always show slow-motion replays of selected portions of the routine (especially if they screw something up: then they show that part over and over again from all angles. Jerks.). But when they show the replay in slo-mo, they always play the accompanying music back in its original speed, which I think it totally cheating. They really ought to play the music back in slo-mo too; that way it would still match the movements like it did the first time. Plus, it would be ridiculously silly. And that way, even people who are being forced to watch it (and would otherwise hate watching it) would have something to entertain them, too.