Looking Ahead- Can You Please Not Skate to That? Carmen

After the year of the Paso, Carmen has been done and not always well. Sometimes Carmen can be done well, but all too often they are the same and completely uninteresting. Carmen has been done essentially the same way for many years, and it has become completely uninteresting.

Over the years, we've seen good, bad, and mediocre Carmen programs. Let's take a look at some of the Carmen programs and compare.

This season alone, far too many times have we heard the music from Carmen.

Some examples include:

Yue Zhao and Xun Zheng

Elena Ilinykh and Ruslan Zhiganshin

Rika Hongo

Takahito Mura

Samantha Cesario

Alexandra Aldridge and Daniel Eaton

There are certainly more of these programs this season, but I think you get the point.

The use of Carmen is far from a new phenomenon, over the years we've seen more than our fair share of Carmen programs.

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir 2012-2013

Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte 2012-2013

(which, let's face it, was a terrible idea for them to skate the same year as Virtue/Moir)

Mao Asada 2005-2006

Evgeni Plushenko 2001-2002

Katarina Witt 1987-1988

Anjelika Krylova and Oleg Ovsiannikov 1997-1998

Yuna Kim 2003-2004

Evan Lysacek 2005-2006

Natalia Bestemianova and Andrei Bukin 1984-1985

Michelle Kwan 1998-1999

Whether you love them or hate them, I think we all can agree, it's time to give the Carmen programs a break, at least for a little while.