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apocalypsosI was really against the, "I'M GIVING YOU ALL A NEW CAR!" aspect of having the QC winners sit out the EC and leaving the losers to cook Thanksgiving dinner. There's just something about the whole setup that put me off, although I do like that it was almost a poke to the contestants that they should actually try to win rather than try not to lose. I dislike it a lot when contestants have that attitude, which was one of the main things I disliked about season two of Project Runway, for crying out loud.
Having said that, I'm glad Elia won. That soup sounded delicious, and I like her a great deal. Aside from her understandable "breakdown" -- because really, if somebody else's food tastes bad to you and they win and you lose, of course you're going to be frustrated -- she's been very level-headed when everybody else has been losing their heads, and even tonight she recovered nicely from her annoyance when she got a chance to question Chef Tom and he gave her an understandable straight answer. And really, her question didn't come off as confrontational at all, which is more than I can say for the rest of the contestants.
I blame my love for Elia for the fact that I really think the Marcel hate is being blown WAAAAAAAAY out of proportion by these people. She's worked with him and knows him well, and I don't doubt for a minute that if she had a problem with him at any time she would say so in an interview. If I'm going to trust anyone's opinion of him I believe in someone who's worked with him for a while and knows him longer than a few weeks like these people have.
I think my thing with Marcel is that he's a watered-down version of Stephen and I didn't hate Stephen either. I don't get the impression that either one of them are mean so much as awkwardly honest in their critiques. Are they both a little too proud of their work? Well, yeah, but you kind of have to be to even bother signing up for these shows. Nobody comes on saying, "I don't think I'm a very good chef, so here goes nothing," except for maybe Suyai. I think that you could invite them both to a wing night at the local roadhouse and they'd both come, but Stephen's demeanor would throw off everyone around him and make it difficult for people to approach him while Marcel would try to get into conversations and put his foot in his damn mouth and end up walking away with this vaguely sad air and weak smile like, "I'm trying to make friends and it's not working. Why is it not working?" And the fact that he's a nerd would entirely escape him.
It's like the thing with Frank's toothbrush. It wasn't like Marcel scrubbed the inside of the toilet with it and dropped it into a vat of lard, mealworms, and lye. He put it in a plastic bathroom carrier and put it on the floor with some other items. It's perfectly good for every dorm-living college student in the U.S., but Frank decides to go freakin' batshit about something he could easily replace for a couple of bucks if he's so pissed off.
I just don't like where the Marcel hate is going. Is he the nicest guy in the world? No, he's early-twenties smug. Early-twenties smug is HARMLESS. Annoying, yes, but harmless.
Meanwhile, Betty's going to get her damn ass kicked if I get anywhere near it. If I had to say, "Oh, my God, SHUT UP," to the screen one more time to her tonight, I was going to scream, especially when she decided to place blame on her own fucking recipe and baking going wrong on the two other people helping her. Look, St. Betty, try to take a little fucking responsibility. Your dish went wrong, which meant YOU went wrong, not the two people holding blowtorches. No, not even if one of them is Marcel.
So I was hoping she'd get knife'd, and instead Carlos goes. I could see why, though. A salad, Carlos? Come ON.
Ilan may look like Ted Allen, but he still acts just like Ryan from The Office.
Also, is Sam getting hot or is it just me?
Having said that, I'm glad Elia won. That soup sounded delicious, and I like her a great deal. Aside from her understandable "breakdown" -- because really, if somebody else's food tastes bad to you and they win and you lose, of course you're going to be frustrated -- she's been very level-headed when everybody else has been losing their heads, and even tonight she recovered nicely from her annoyance when she got a chance to question Chef Tom and he gave her an understandable straight answer. And really, her question didn't come off as confrontational at all, which is more than I can say for the rest of the contestants.
I blame my love for Elia for the fact that I really think the Marcel hate is being blown WAAAAAAAAY out of proportion by these people. She's worked with him and knows him well, and I don't doubt for a minute that if she had a problem with him at any time she would say so in an interview. If I'm going to trust anyone's opinion of him I believe in someone who's worked with him for a while and knows him longer than a few weeks like these people have.
I think my thing with Marcel is that he's a watered-down version of Stephen and I didn't hate Stephen either. I don't get the impression that either one of them are mean so much as awkwardly honest in their critiques. Are they both a little too proud of their work? Well, yeah, but you kind of have to be to even bother signing up for these shows. Nobody comes on saying, "I don't think I'm a very good chef, so here goes nothing," except for maybe Suyai. I think that you could invite them both to a wing night at the local roadhouse and they'd both come, but Stephen's demeanor would throw off everyone around him and make it difficult for people to approach him while Marcel would try to get into conversations and put his foot in his damn mouth and end up walking away with this vaguely sad air and weak smile like, "I'm trying to make friends and it's not working. Why is it not working?" And the fact that he's a nerd would entirely escape him.
It's like the thing with Frank's toothbrush. It wasn't like Marcel scrubbed the inside of the toilet with it and dropped it into a vat of lard, mealworms, and lye. He put it in a plastic bathroom carrier and put it on the floor with some other items. It's perfectly good for every dorm-living college student in the U.S., but Frank decides to go freakin' batshit about something he could easily replace for a couple of bucks if he's so pissed off.
I just don't like where the Marcel hate is going. Is he the nicest guy in the world? No, he's early-twenties smug. Early-twenties smug is HARMLESS. Annoying, yes, but harmless.
Meanwhile, Betty's going to get her damn ass kicked if I get anywhere near it. If I had to say, "Oh, my God, SHUT UP," to the screen one more time to her tonight, I was going to scream, especially when she decided to place blame on her own fucking recipe and baking going wrong on the two other people helping her. Look, St. Betty, try to take a little fucking responsibility. Your dish went wrong, which meant YOU went wrong, not the two people holding blowtorches. No, not even if one of them is Marcel.
So I was hoping she'd get knife'd, and instead Carlos goes. I could see why, though. A salad, Carlos? Come ON.
Ilan may look like Ted Allen, but he still acts just like Ryan from The Office.
Also, is Sam getting hot or is it just me?
