*headdesk*

[apocalypsos]

Oh, come on, I just want a copy of last night's Top Chef.

GRRRRRRR.

I've been spoiled for it, though. Fuckin' Ilan. And I heard we're not getting a reunion show this season. Not that I blame the producers considering how repellent these people are, but aw, maaaaaan.

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[backfromspace.livejournal.com]

I like it when the one who looks like an elf and skinny indie one fight.

[beanside.livejournal.com]

Oh. My. God. And the preview for next week has me terrified! It's a train wreck of enormous proportions. Like Lord of the Flies on acid.

But yeah, I almost am sorry there's no reunion show. Someone on TWoP suggested bringing back Ken from Season 1 and setting him loose on them. I'd put twenty bucks on the Aussie to kick Sam's ass in under 5 minutes.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I haven't gotten to see anything yet (although I finally got a torrent to work, THANK GOD), but I read that rumor about Marcel maybe getting his head shaved. I can't believe we've gotten to the point with these idiots where I'm not shocked by that rumor at all.

[beanside.livejournal.com]

You saw Marcel sleeping on the couch, and Cliff holding a finger up to his lip and tip-toeing towards him.

Sadly, it wouldn't surprise me in the least. This year's poo-flinging monkeys are making Tiffany and Dave from last season look so much more appetizing. And I wanted to strangle them both.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I really wish these shows would dock you points for bad behavior. Survivor and Big Brother is one thing, but this and Project Runway are supposed to be TALENT competitions. I don't want to see this sort of behavior from these people, I want to see the creative process at work, damn it.

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

I will cut a bitch. I. Will. Cut. A. Bitch.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

You and me both, if only because I've come to love that Dairy-Queen-Soft-Serve hairdo with the burning passion of a thousand fiery suns. Dude, he works on that hair. He clips it up at night. Heh.

I hope that rumor's a pile of crap. That's really a ridiculous low to stoop to. And still, not surprised.

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[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

I really, really, really hope they haven't stooped that low. And if someone does stoop that low, I hope they get the boot immediately for such shithead unprofessional behavior.

I'm surprised the producers or the judges haven't stepped in to just go "What the fuck is wrong with you people!?" I know, good TV and all, but still. After a while, decency and respecting the nature of the program should come first.

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[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

If I were Marcel and that happened to me, I'd sue.

And yet, you just know Marcel wouldn't. He'd just shrug, get it styled, and say, "Let's just get back to the food," which makes me love him SO MUCH.

*crosses fingers that the headshaving theory is WRONG*

Seriously, I think the reason they're not having a reunion show this year is because the fan reaction is so pissed off concerning the behavior of Sam, Frank, Betty and Ilan all season long. Not that Marcel's got a lot of fans, but I get the impression from nearly everybody I've run into online that love him or hate him, they're sick to death of the way he's been treated.

I wish they'd have one anyway, though. Something tells me the only thing that might sink some common sense into their thick skulls is a little public humiliation.

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[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

Marcel is such a laid-back guy. Yeah, he can be a bit arrogant, but he wasn't the one comparing himself to Ashton Kutcher, Sam. He also doesn't wear hoodies in the freaking interviews. None of what he does justifies their behavior. I can't get past that. How do they think it's okay to treat someone like that?

I think instead of a reunion show, they should put Sam, Betty, Ilan and Frank in a room while the fans yell at them and girls hit on Marcel while he makes them different kinds of foams.

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[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Once Sam can major in biochemical engineering in college, get Demi Moore to think it's worth getting that greasy feeling on her hands on a regular basis to fuck him, and have Bruce Willis like him enough not to throw him off a building, he can compare himself to Ashton Kutcher all he wants. Until then, he can bite me. (I have a very soft spot for Ashton Kutcher, and I don't even know why.)

And you know, it's not even the hoodie that gets me. It's that it's a white hoodie that he wears with a lime green doo-rag. It's like, "This is what the guys at the country club tell me thugs wear."

The thing about Ilan and Marcel is that they're two sides of the same coin. I'll bet any money that they were both picked on in high school for being dorky. But Marcel grew up to have a more mature response to bullying by brushing it off while Ilan is gleeful to finally be one of the "popular" people.

It takes brass balls big enough to make walking through doorways difficult for any of these people to call Marcel arrogant when every single one of them save Elia has confused "arrogance" for "confidence" when talking about their abilities as chefs.

Dude, I am totally up for that reunion show replacement. If anybody's looking for me, I'll be over there straddling Marcel's lap requesting Marcel feed me that chocolate and cherries dessert.

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[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

And you know, it's not even the hoodie that gets me. It's that it's a white hoodie that he wears with a lime green doo-rag. It's like, "This is what the guys at the country club tell me thugs wear."

You have no idea how hard that made me laugh. And yeah, I kind of like Ashton as well, despite his occasional penchant for toolish behavior. (See: lots of episodes of Punk'd.) He was in Texas Rangers. And his career lived!

That observation about Marcel and Ilan makes a whole lot of sense. Marcel is the person that got past the fact that he was bullied, where I bet Ilan still mutters at night about the kids who stole his lunch money in elementary school.

Ilan's a pretty decent chef so far. He's dropped the ball recently, but he's generally been a solid bet. But he is also not God. Or the authority on what is decent food and who is a decent cook or not. IIRC, part of the reason Harold won last season was because he was classy. His food was superior, yes, but he also got props for not being a dillhole. Ilan has rapidly passed Betty as most obnoxious and unprofessional. He doesn't deserve to win Top Chef. Not just because of talent, but because if the rest of the kitchen wants to stick you in the oven with your food, you are not a good chef.

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[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Ashton reminds me of guys I like hanging out with -- funny, willing to make themselves the butt of a joke, genuinely nice, and able to have an intelligent conversation the same way he can have a stupid one. (Dude, if you can even consider going to college for biochem, I'm impressed.)

And, yeah. Harold and Tiffani were both talented enough to win, but what the people this season don't seem to be understanding is that Harold won because he was liked and respected. I think the problem this season, though, is that so far these people are more on Ilan's side than they are on Marcel's, which makes me wince.

I saw someone on the TWoP boards who said that these people are behaving like this fully expecting that the audience will be just as annoyed with Marcel as they were and will be behind them all the way, and are probably getting quite a shock now that the audience is calling them all bullies and sympathizing a lot with Marcel. I'm betting that's a big reason we're not getting a reunion special this season. It's the first time I can recall that a Bravo reality show hasn't had one.

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[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

(Hey, I have an Ashton icon!)

Man, you really need to download the most recent episode, and fast, so I can mention bits from it, because this is about the third time I've reminded myself to delete spoilers. ;)

There's a weird almost mob mentality about how everyone is ganging up on Marcel. They just keep piling it on and it snowballs. The more they do, the more they encourage each other and soon, if Marcel sneezes they're going to come up with a plan to superglue is freaking nostrils closed or something.

This conversation is the first I've heard about not having a reunion show and I'm disappointed. I love the reunion shows. (They were especially fun with Survivor because everyone looked human again.) The reunion shows let you see the contestants when they've backed off and they're markedly different and you go "Wow, either they do badly under pressure or there was serious editing going on." Or they're the same and you roll your eyes.

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[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0765425/board/nest/56518431

100 Things I Learned From Top Chef.

115. That it's not a yes or no question, it's an EXPLANATION so let's sit the *beep* down and let Betty tell us the answer!!!!

116. Marcel will not sit down.

126. Elia likes to leek the weesk with the feesh and she loves tom coleekio.

103. Mia doesn't give a *beep*. Kiss her ass...she sold drugs.

[umetnica.livejournal.com]

I heard it was Elia whose hair got shaved. There was even a picture of her at the Hawaii reunion with very very closely cropped hair.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Yeah, although I also heard that Marcel's now got a picture on his Myspace of him with his head shaved. It could just be that Cliff or whomever does it just takes a few chunks out of his hair -- enough to warrant a haircut -- and Elia overcompensates in her show of support by shaving it all off.

It could be that she and Sam decide that they've had enough of this crap and go for it together -- Sam says in a confessional in the clip from next week's episode that he wants to win and doesn't want to step on anybody to get there, which might be a hint of how he feels about the whole thing. The one promo from next week with Chef Tom shows clips of the home video footage from what looks like a hallway, and from what I can make out Sam doesn't look happy at all. He'd go way up in my estimation if he does it, too.

It just doesn't seem reasonable for them to cut Elia's hair as a prank at all. That's a cruel thing to do to anyone, especially a woman, and Elia's the friendliest person on that show right now.

[budclare.livejournal.com]

omgwtflayout?!? Is the font supposed to get smaller in each comment in a thread?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Yeah, okay, that's starting to bug even me, and I like my fonts small.

*goes off to play with layout again*

[budclare.livejournal.com]

It's wasn't even just small for me. I literally had no idea it could get that tiny. Maybe my browser just didn't like it.