Another quick comment ...

[apocalypsos]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

... ahem. Hee. Heeeeeeeeeee.

EDIT: FUCK ALL Y'ALL FOR MAKING COSTELLO CRY LIKE THAT. SERIOUSLY, FUCK Y'ALL WITH RUSTY SERRATED SPOONS.

Comments

[angels3.livejournal.com]

I know RIGHT!

I hope they kick Gretchen to the door this week, for her hateful know it all atitude and the way she took over the losing look. Along with the throwing under the bus she's getting ready to do.

I love that team misfit won and lord I think I may love temper tantrum Casinova. I know I love Mondo to bits.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, my God, Gretchen, lick their boots just a little bit more.

Casanova is slowly starting to grow on me. I'm just hoping this week isn't a fluke, but I really did agree with the rest of his team - he rebounded wonderfully with that outfit, and those pants were fantastic.

EDIT: HA! I think I love the fact that the judges are CLEARLY recognizing that Team Luxe is being a massive pile of dicks.

[angels3.livejournal.com]

Please for the love of God send Gretchen & Ivy home.

[origamicage.livejournal.com]

I SECOND THIS.

[angels3.livejournal.com]

Sadly this did not happen *sighs*

On a brighter note you go Tim. I think you said it very well.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Got your DVDs, by the way. Thanks!

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. And thanks for buying them! :)

[grlnamedlucifer.livejournal.com]

The way that Gretchen keeps digging her own grave is just beautiful, really. If she doesn't go home, I'll be so very disappointed, because she's handing it to them on a platter.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

How much am I adoring that Nina, Michael and Heidi can clearly SMELL their bullshit? And oh, my God, I want to give Costello a hug for having to stand or work anywhere near these selfish twits.

[grlnamedlucifer.livejournal.com]

Seriously, I don't know why the judges didn't finally have pity on him and let him go off stage, because there's throwing the easy target under the bus and being complete assholes.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I'm really hoping that they call them all on being horrible to Costello. I'm not holding my breath, but if they do, \o/.

[grlnamedlucifer.livejournal.com]

TIM IS MY FUCKING HERO. THE END.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I only wish he'd said something about what they said about Costello. That said, TIM OWNS ALL. THE END.

[fortuna-juvat.livejournal.com]

Tim is in rare form this season and I LOVE IT.

[vivien]

OMG, I have never seen Tim scold people like that. He wins everything ever.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping it'll sink in, but since Ivy was all, "OMG, I never thought about it like that! Tim's always right, after all, except when he's telling me there's something ho-hum about our collection, of course!" and Gretchen was all, "It really hurt when Tim said that to me, which makes it way more important than that I hurt Michael Costello by saying all those awful dismissive things about him," I'm not holding my breath.

[vivien]

Oh, nothing will get through Gretchen's mean, thick skull. Ivy has been a disappointment with her "Gretchen and I are awesome!!!" trip. Whatever.

But I think everyone else was like o.O!!! I certainly was. I loved the winning team. They pulled together and did such a good job.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, nothing will get through Gretchen's mean, thick skull.

Nothing but an auf'ing, at this rate. And even that will probably not make much of a dent.

The winning team was wonderful. They worked out their difference early on and just did what they had to to put together a coherent and cohesive collection that also held true to each one of them as individual designers. I loved that the judges pointed out that they succeeded by listening to the judges' critiques in previous challenges, which seemed like a bit of a dig on the other team, who don't listen to anything but their own massive egos.

And hopefully this will jolt Casanova with a shot of adrenaline. His outfit really was great, and leaps and bounds above what he's already put out. (Peach also improved greatly this week. I would have been happy if either of them won, really. Loved the lacework on her bodice.)

[origamicage.livejournal.com]

Oops, commented under the wrong account.

Got your DVD today, thanks!

And I haven't been watching the season, but I caught some of this episode and I REALLY HATE GRETCHEN

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Gretchen was tolerable for about five minutes in the first episode when you realized that she knew what she was talking about. Then you realized that SHE knew she knew what she was talking about, and after that it was all downhill.

[baileytc.livejournal.com]

I'm sitting on my couch telling the assholes on Team Luxe that no matter how many times they throw Michael under the bus, it's not gonna hit him. He's got immunity, you idiots.

Gretchen is unbearably obnoxious. How anyone can stand to be around her, I can't understand. I want to get farther away from my TV set every time she's onscreen.

That said, Ivy should have gone home, both for being as much of a bitch as Gretchen and for that horrifying (Nina hit that nail on the head) outfit.

Tim was absolutely furious when he told off Team Luxe. I've never seen him like that. He has NO love for Gretchen.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I'm sitting on my couch telling the assholes on Team Luxe that no matter how many times they throw Michael under the bus, it's not gonna hit him. He's got immunity, you idiots.

I know, right? What the hell did they think was going to happen? That the judges would rescind his immunity and send him home anyway? Jesus hopscotching Christ, people, the judges don't irrationally despise him as much as you guys do. UGH.

And seriously, the entire time I wanted to reach through the screen and grab all of Team Luxe save Michael by the shoulders, shake them and shout, "Hey, you jackholes, your future prospective shoppers can SEE you acting like toolboxes through the magic recording box, you know."

[baileytc.livejournal.com]

I think that Gretchen honestly thought her brilliant and articulate argument (can you hear the sarcasm?) was going to persuade the judges to can Michael C. Because she's just that smart and that perceptive and that wonderful. How does she get that huge head of hers through doorways, anyway?

Did you catch Gretchen's plea to consider their past work when deciding who to send home? She should just make a T-shirt that says "I won twice! That makes me better than everyone else!"

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I'm amazed the runway didn't collapse under the combined weight of Gretchen and Ivy's egos.

Did you catch Gretchen's plea to consider their past work when deciding who to send home?

OMG YES. The best part of that stupid argument is that it would have STILL kept Costello on the show because he won last week.

I feel like Gretchen is a lot like Santino, except that in the long run Santino's obnoxiousness sometimes gets endearing. (Not ALL the time, mind you, but the Austin/Santino Slashing Our Way Across Middle America While Dressmaking Tour every week can be hilarious at times.) But, yeah, Santino started strong and spent the rest of the season bouncing between best and worst. By the time he hit the final three and finished third, his ego took a bruising but good. He still has an ego, of course, but he's not half as aggravating as he was way back when.

That said, I'm not sure Gretchen's ego will take a hit without really, really drastic measures. I don't think even Tim's verbal smackdown is bound to do much, sad to say.

[cat-eyed-fox.livejournal.com]

The difference between Santino and Gretchen is that Santino was honest about his massively annoying ego. He was a dick, he knew it and he wasn't going to compromise his personality or his vision. He was playing the game using the RIchard from Survivor method and I always got he impression that once he stopped competing on the show and was made *his* line at home his ego got readjusted for normalacy. I think Gretchen is just this horrible. Gretchen though does that "I'm nice! Look at my big eyes and sincere voice! The looked sucked because I was helping other poor, no talent hacks!" thing. She's so damned insincere that she can't even be consistent with her ego. As soon as she suggested they not throw anyone under the bus I knew she was going to be a fucking turncoat. Tim was right that she's a damn bully, and she used that age old bully defense "I was just trying to help."

[milkshake-b.livejournal.com]

Also, Santino could be genuinely funny at times, and not in a nasty way, either. Gretchen has displayed no such talent.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Gretchen's sense of humor is like her facial muscles -- completely unable to express anything but blankness. I swear, if that woman weren't casually snide and bossy, she would have no personality whatsoever to speak of.

[cat-eyed-fox.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I actually hate her more than I've hated any of the contestants. Ever. She's just so smarmy. Santino is smarmy in a spazzy, funny, self aware kind of way. Gretchen has no idea she's an evil whore and that makes it worse.

[milkshake-b.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think I hate Ivy more. Gretchen has at least demonstrated she's good for over-the-top drama, much like Santino was. Ivy's just nasty, and not remotely entertainingly so. And I have no idea where Gretchen's delusion of Ivy's talent comes from, because I haven't seen it yet.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Ivy is just mean. She's a flunky little toady who bites and snaps and she holds a ridiculously high opinion of herself. At least Gretchen's won challenges, so I get why her nose would be in the air. I think it was when Costello won where Ivy was like, "Why didn't Gretchen win? Or me?" And I was like, "Okay, I get questioning why Gretchen wouldn't be in the top, but YOU? Seriously?! Bwahahahahaha!"

[fortuna-juvat.livejournal.com]

YES. I would have given Santino immunity every week after he started those Tim Gunn impressions. The Andre at Red Lobster thing still makes me just die.

Gretchen, on the other hand? She makes laughter die.

[milkshake-b.livejournal.com]

I'm amazed the runway didn't collapse under the combined weight of Gretchen and Ivy's egos.

Have you been reading Laura Bennett's blog on the official site? She defended Gretchen this round, and I don't really buy it although her reasoning does contain some good points, but last episode she had this great bit:

Episode 4 opens with Gretchen being taken into the police station for questioning because she is a person of interest in the poisoning of Ivy. Gretchen is a fast thinker and sends her lawyers to the hospital to offer Ivy a deal: In exchange for dropping the charges, Gretchen will form an alliance with Ivy and take her along to the top three of every challenge. Ivy accepts the deal and returns from the hospital with a diagnosis of "dehydration." In an interview segment, Ivy winks and tells the viewers that she is ready to get back to work because she was "inspired" in her hospital room. (I had an advanced viewing copy, and all this may not be on the nationally televised version, for legal reasons.)

And I swear, I really do get this inexplicable Survivor-Alliance-like vibe from the two of them. I'm not entirely sure they didn't get confused and sign up for the wrong show.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Somebody over on the TWoP boards said they couldn't figure out if Ivy is Crabbe or Goyle, and it summed up what's been bugging me about their relationship. And the thing is, I'm not sure if Gretchen is being deliberately bossy and mean or whether she doesn't even know she's doing it, but Ivy knows she's doing it, and thinks she can get away with it because she's Gretchen's mean little lapdog.

[thebratqueen.livejournal.com]

In addition to everything else, I love how Gretchen's bitchface lost the Pokemon battle to Nina's WTF face.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I don't know how she ever thought she'd defeat Nina's bitchface. Nina INVENTED bitchface. Anybody who attempts to flash a bitchface at Nina fucking Garcia will, within ten seconds, hear a disembodied voice from above demand, "FINISH HER," a split second before Nina forcibly rips out her opponent's spine simply by bitchfacing at them.

Trufax. I saw it in a science journal. For scientists. Yup. :D

[origamicage.livejournal.com]

I LOVE THIS COMMENT SO MUCH <3

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

Can I metaquote this? For it is a thing of beauty.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Heh. Sure, knock yourself out. :)

[florahart]

*does not look at comments/anything but the first line of this post in case actual winner/loser individuals are there*, but this comment is pretty much what I said. While doing a fairly undignified dance. And pointing at their pouty little poutfaces. Ahahahahahaha.

[elbiesee.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you know it's bad when my fiance (who only halfway pays attention to the TV, and mostly when Heidi Klum is on) has an opinion on who should go home.

Gretchen: *whine simper whine, with a healthy dose of bus-tossing*
Andy: "OMG kick her out already!"

[milkshake-b.livejournal.com]

I haven't even watched yet and I am sitting here going "OH GOD I THOUGHT THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN." (And I think it says something that their reactions last week were so WTF bitchy that I could predict they'd do something like this just knowing it was a team challenge.) I think I'd skip it if I didn't know I had Tim's reaction to look forward to.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

The thing is, as mad as Team Bitchface were making me by behaving the way they did, I loved this episode. Sure, they were behaving like children and Gretchen was a bully and Ivy is a cruel little witch, but the editing monkeys deserve a medal for the way they continually contrasted Team Bitchface's bad behavior with Team Misfit Toys' excellent teamwork.

And while I normally can't stand meltdowns on the runway, watching Gretchen crash and burn is a thing of beauty, mostly because you can see Heidi, Michael and Nina clearly not buying her bullshit. It's like watching them encompass every little thing you've come to love about all three of them since the show started. And Heidi ... she's adorable and I love her, but I've never thought she was as clever as she was during the entire exchange, where she continually gives Gretchen just enough rope to hang herself, and by extension the rest of her team.

As for Tim, his reaction is the ultimate payoff. :D

[milkshake-b.livejournal.com]

I... have seen it now.

Oh.

My.

God.

And you're right. It is a great episode. I think it's actually even better if you know who wins, because it makes all the remarks Team Cray-Cray makes about how they're so awesome and they've totally got this and they are the winning team just drip with irony. And Gretchen's runway meltdown combined with Tim going "THAT'S IT, I'VE HAD IT" will make this one for the halls of legend.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

It's GREAT watching it when you know who wins, because you notice shit like Gretchen pretending to dust off her shoulder and being all "We've got this in the bag" when Tim and the Garnier guy were presenting the challenge, and the fact that as bitchy and negative-Nelly as April can be she never actually seems to be wrong, and the fantastic segues the editing monkeys were pulling off.

Drummond: "We should all agree to be nice and be respectful and remember that we are a team and we need to work together.
[Cut to Team Bitchface whining "Ugh, why are you bringing THAT thing in?!" at Costello as he carried in the board with the style and fabric options on it.]

Heeeeeee.

(I think my favorite line is still when Gretchen is backstage at the judging and says, "Our collection doesn't look like any of us were involved in it, which I think is a first for Project Runway, and I think that's awesome." THAT IS NOT A GOOD THING, MULLET.)

[tigress35.livejournal.com]

Just when I think Tim Gunn couldn't possibly win anymore than he already does at life, he goes and DOES!

[silveraspen]

I HATE that this week my recorder broke, and I missed all this!

[kahoko007.livejournal.com]

If you're in the US, you can watch it online. Just go to mylifetime.com and click "Project Runway." This one was way too good to miss. ;)

[silveraspen]

Thank you!!