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apocalypsos-- I did not get the pay for performance bonus this time. Apparently doing more than I normally do which usually earns me the damn thing didn't this time. Urgh. Well, at least I'm not that badly off. *sigh*
-- And then I come home to this bullshit. I don't even think I want to watch. This is why I'm annoyed that they don't take a contestant's entire performance over the course of the season into consideration for the final meal. Stefan was better and Carla was nicer. No wonder Gail and Tom and those guys supposedly were all defensive before the finale even aired about the person they chose as the winner. They knew damn well no one would like it.
I seriously hope that when the reunion airs next week, they put Leah and Hosea on the hotseat once and then spend the rest of the episode talking with Carla, Stefan and Fabio. Yet another winner I hate. Thanks a lot, show.
-- Currently pissing me off: That I think I need another hour's worth of sleep instead of working on GPW like I'm itching to do. RAWR.
-- I have been reading American Wife. I'm not sure I particularly like Alice but I definitely don't like Charlie. For some reason, this really bothers me considering who they're based on. Yes, I KNOW, but the thing is that at least Alice has some basic logic and reasoning skills and isn't an utter tone-deaf jackass, whereas Charlie doesn't seem to blurt out anything that a.) makes me believe a woman would like her would fall for this douchebag and b.) makes me believe that anyone but other douchebags would find him charming (at least at first, I think he'd even lose the douchebags later on), whereas I can believe that at least before he became a raging moron Dubya would have seemed harmless if not charming. And when he is acting vaguely like a real politician, he's treating her like shit. It doesn't exactly make for someone I want to read another three hundred pages about, even if it is from the POV of someone else who believes she loves him.
-- And then I come home to this bullshit. I don't even think I want to watch. This is why I'm annoyed that they don't take a contestant's entire performance over the course of the season into consideration for the final meal. Stefan was better and Carla was nicer. No wonder Gail and Tom and those guys supposedly were all defensive before the finale even aired about the person they chose as the winner. They knew damn well no one would like it.
I seriously hope that when the reunion airs next week, they put Leah and Hosea on the hotseat once and then spend the rest of the episode talking with Carla, Stefan and Fabio. Yet another winner I hate. Thanks a lot, show.
-- Currently pissing me off: That I think I need another hour's worth of sleep instead of working on GPW like I'm itching to do. RAWR.
-- I have been reading American Wife. I'm not sure I particularly like Alice but I definitely don't like Charlie. For some reason, this really bothers me considering who they're based on. Yes, I KNOW, but the thing is that at least Alice has some basic logic and reasoning skills and isn't an utter tone-deaf jackass, whereas Charlie doesn't seem to blurt out anything that a.) makes me believe a woman would like her would fall for this douchebag and b.) makes me believe that anyone but other douchebags would find him charming (at least at first, I think he'd even lose the douchebags later on), whereas I can believe that at least before he became a raging moron Dubya would have seemed harmless if not charming. And when he is acting vaguely like a real politician, he's treating her like shit. It doesn't exactly make for someone I want to read another three hundred pages about, even if it is from the POV of someone else who believes she loves him.
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Date: 2009-02-26 06:46 pm (UTC)Ugh. I can think of at least six of the contestants this season whose food I'd rather eat instead of Hosea's. And I love seafood more than anything, but fuck him.
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Date: 2009-02-26 06:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-27 08:53 am (UTC)The problem is, they have to judge just on the final meal...or they have to consider past performance when judging every elimination challenge. Realistically, the whole show is bullshit. Brilliant chefs (Tre) get sent home early on, and mediocre chefs hang on just by not sucking blatantly. That it works out more or less okay in the end even half the time is mind-boggling.
It's probably best to just think of the show as food porn, rather than as a competition. Less annoying that way. :(