Chris' hair was fully blond as a child, so it likely darkened over time. In the previous skating season, he won silver in both the Grand Prix Final in Sochi and the World Championship in Yoyogi.Ĭhris is a tall man who has dark, brown hair with the top being dyed blond from the fringe to the crown. Later on, he and Victor often share the podium in various competitions. In this flashback, Victor throws Christophe a rose from his bouquet and says that he will see him at Worlds. He has been figure skating since he was a child, and during his short program at the Cup of China, it was revealed that he was impressed and inspired by Victor Nikiforov's performance when they were both youths. And the closing credits were hilarious.Christophe is usually referred to in the series as Chris. It underpinned everything the characters were doing. The upcoming competition was never far from anyone’s thoughts so it wasn’t like they just ditched the plot for a week.
The charcterisation was spot on and it felt like we grew closer to the entire cast. This episode was exactly what we needed and hit all the right notes. Of course JJ shows up and breaks the tension by being his usual self and they all return to their hotel. They’ve all got their own reasons but they want to win and while on a personal level they may be happy for Victor and Yuri they aren’t going to hand over gold without a fight.
The change in tone was palpable and very effective. Probably my favourite moment in this episode came when all of the skaters (minus JJ) were eating together and Phichit announced that Yuri and Victor were married (then corrected by Victor to engaged) and everyone was celebrating until Victor said they’d get married after Yuri won gold. Each one gives us insight into the skater and their relationship both with the other skaters and with skating itself. We also spend time with each of the skaters who’ve made it through to the final and none of these encounters fill meaningless. Bringing him back into the mix this way was fantastic and also gave us a bit more insight into his character and proved once again he isn’t just a narcissist. Having Victor narrate and give his view of the events up to now and the skaters was a great choice given Victor has taken the back seat for the past four episodes. Yuri on Ice shows us what an episode like this can really do in terms of furthering the plot and the character development. Normally, in a show like this when we have an episode almost entirely devoted to the characters taking a break from fighting (sport) what we end up with is a shallow filler episode filled with comedic moments that don’t really work and some very casual characterisation.
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