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apocalypsosI just saw the preview for this week's Top Chef finale.
So here's the thing. I was rewatching the second-to-last episode and it's starting to become more apparent the more I watch that Richard is completely polite to everyone, including Lisa, until she made that crack about getting congratulations last episode. Which obviously was when she won the right to make it into the final three.
I know that all of us were sitting at home thinking, "Goddamn it, the fucking producers and their need to have a villain in the final three."
You know what? I think that's the exact same thing that Richard is going to say at JT to the judges' faces.
I'm not going to say he's smug, because I don't think he is. Spike was smug. I'd call Richard more proud of his abilities and more expectant that he's going to do a good job, which there's nothing wrong with. All of us are good at something and enjoy doing it, and that's Richard's thing. Richard's problem (if you want to call it that) is while I think he watched every season of the show, understood the competition and desired to participate in the challenge, I don't think he gets how reality TV works. So while we're all at home grumbling that Lisa's in the final three, he's there in the competition with her and he's the one who has to put up with what he probably sees as a weakened competition due to the fact that one of the final three is a lousy chef with a bad attitude.
I think he knows damn well that he's pretty much handing Stephanie the win by saying it. You know what? I don't think he gives a damn at this point. I think it's going to take him standing up there saying to Gail and Tom and Padma, "We don't have three Top Chefs here, we have two Top Chefs who've won multiple challenges and the villain the producers thought they needed," before Bravo even acknowledges how often they pull this shit. And I sincerely hope that if I'm right and if that is what he says, they do a poll question asking if he's right because I will bombard those motherfuckers with, "Goddamn right, I do," answers and I'll probably put up a link here to ask others to do the same, because I'm sick of this kind of lousy crap.
I hate this "But you need someone to root against!" crap, I really do. I don't need a bad guy. I want to be able to judge the prospective winners on their talents, not their attitude. If they're a good chef with a bad attitude, that's one thing. But Lisa's an untalented hack whose wins and losses (one win for making bacon, one trip to JT on the winning side, and six trips to the losers table) pale in comparison to Richard and Stephanie's. Especially Stephanie, who aside from three trips to the losing side of JT has gone to the winning side of JT every damn episode. No, seriously.
I think Richard is going to call them on it. And I think they're going to hem and haw and say, "Oh, no, we don't do that," and it's going to come off as complete bullshit because we've all seen the "Producers may step in and assist at JT" warning at the end of every episode.
And considering that I pretty much knew beforehand that Lisa was going to the finale when there was a line in one of the previews for the finale where Richard said something about Lisa "going crazy and losing it" when she was fairly well-behaved last episode (well, up until the "congratulations" crack), I don't think she's going to take the implication that she's only in the finale because she's a hardcore bitch very well.
So here's the thing. I was rewatching the second-to-last episode and it's starting to become more apparent the more I watch that Richard is completely polite to everyone, including Lisa, until she made that crack about getting congratulations last episode. Which obviously was when she won the right to make it into the final three.
I know that all of us were sitting at home thinking, "Goddamn it, the fucking producers and their need to have a villain in the final three."
You know what? I think that's the exact same thing that Richard is going to say at JT to the judges' faces.
I'm not going to say he's smug, because I don't think he is. Spike was smug. I'd call Richard more proud of his abilities and more expectant that he's going to do a good job, which there's nothing wrong with. All of us are good at something and enjoy doing it, and that's Richard's thing. Richard's problem (if you want to call it that) is while I think he watched every season of the show, understood the competition and desired to participate in the challenge, I don't think he gets how reality TV works. So while we're all at home grumbling that Lisa's in the final three, he's there in the competition with her and he's the one who has to put up with what he probably sees as a weakened competition due to the fact that one of the final three is a lousy chef with a bad attitude.
I think he knows damn well that he's pretty much handing Stephanie the win by saying it. You know what? I don't think he gives a damn at this point. I think it's going to take him standing up there saying to Gail and Tom and Padma, "We don't have three Top Chefs here, we have two Top Chefs who've won multiple challenges and the villain the producers thought they needed," before Bravo even acknowledges how often they pull this shit. And I sincerely hope that if I'm right and if that is what he says, they do a poll question asking if he's right because I will bombard those motherfuckers with, "Goddamn right, I do," answers and I'll probably put up a link here to ask others to do the same, because I'm sick of this kind of lousy crap.
I hate this "But you need someone to root against!" crap, I really do. I don't need a bad guy. I want to be able to judge the prospective winners on their talents, not their attitude. If they're a good chef with a bad attitude, that's one thing. But Lisa's an untalented hack whose wins and losses (one win for making bacon, one trip to JT on the winning side, and six trips to the losers table) pale in comparison to Richard and Stephanie's. Especially Stephanie, who aside from three trips to the losing side of JT has gone to the winning side of JT every damn episode. No, seriously.
I think Richard is going to call them on it. And I think they're going to hem and haw and say, "Oh, no, we don't do that," and it's going to come off as complete bullshit because we've all seen the "Producers may step in and assist at JT" warning at the end of every episode.
And considering that I pretty much knew beforehand that Lisa was going to the finale when there was a line in one of the previews for the finale where Richard said something about Lisa "going crazy and losing it" when she was fairly well-behaved last episode (well, up until the "congratulations" crack), I don't think she's going to take the implication that she's only in the finale because she's a hardcore bitch very well.
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Date: 2008-06-10 10:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-10 10:06 pm (UTC)I'm sooooo watching the all-day marathon tomorrow before the finale. Go, Team Stephanie! \o/