It's that time of year again.
Jun. 25th, 2011 11:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
apocalypsosA new season of Project Runway starts on July 28th.
I thought about whether or not I was going to watch it for, oh, about five seconds. Because, really, of COURSE I'm going to watch it. I love that damn show. I love it even when the previous season pissed me off big-time. The one good thing about reality shows is that there is, on some level, no firm sense of continuity. If something's not working, they can change it next season, because each season is its own entity.
In other words, I'm really, really hoping they took note of just how badly people reacted to last season.
To be fair, I hope that that's sort of unavoidable, since I've been a fan almost from the very beginning and I've never seen the fans flip out over the results of the finale, the behavior of the contestants, and the general atmosphere of the show like they did last season. So very few of the contestants were tolerable, much less likable, and so many of them sucked that there were very few I or many other fans would consider buying anything from. Which obviously is not always an option considering the pricing, but -- for example -- when Victorya's winning outfit from the SJP challenge in Season Four made it onto the racks in my local mall at an affordable price, it was right about the time she was showing herself to be an uptight scumbag on the show, and no amount of affordable pricing or cute tailoring would have gotten me to buy that dress.
So apparently this season, the twist is that they're starting with twenty designers, who all have to argue their case for why they should be on the show. Four designers will be cut in the first episode, after which the remaining contestants will have to get up the very next morning and start one of the toughest first challenges ever. I'm not entirely sure I want to see designers beg for an hour or so, or whatever they plan to make them do, but I am all for making the first challenge as hard as possible. I just recall the first challenge of Season Four -- "Here is some awesome, amazing, expensive fabric. Make any outfit you want!" I know that theoretically that should be a challenge simply because it should be easy for these designers by now, but STILL.
In any event, Project Runway ... I will be there with bells on, and they'd better fucking make it work this season.
I thought about whether or not I was going to watch it for, oh, about five seconds. Because, really, of COURSE I'm going to watch it. I love that damn show. I love it even when the previous season pissed me off big-time. The one good thing about reality shows is that there is, on some level, no firm sense of continuity. If something's not working, they can change it next season, because each season is its own entity.
In other words, I'm really, really hoping they took note of just how badly people reacted to last season.
To be fair, I hope that that's sort of unavoidable, since I've been a fan almost from the very beginning and I've never seen the fans flip out over the results of the finale, the behavior of the contestants, and the general atmosphere of the show like they did last season. So very few of the contestants were tolerable, much less likable, and so many of them sucked that there were very few I or many other fans would consider buying anything from. Which obviously is not always an option considering the pricing, but -- for example -- when Victorya's winning outfit from the SJP challenge in Season Four made it onto the racks in my local mall at an affordable price, it was right about the time she was showing herself to be an uptight scumbag on the show, and no amount of affordable pricing or cute tailoring would have gotten me to buy that dress.
So apparently this season, the twist is that they're starting with twenty designers, who all have to argue their case for why they should be on the show. Four designers will be cut in the first episode, after which the remaining contestants will have to get up the very next morning and start one of the toughest first challenges ever. I'm not entirely sure I want to see designers beg for an hour or so, or whatever they plan to make them do, but I am all for making the first challenge as hard as possible. I just recall the first challenge of Season Four -- "Here is some awesome, amazing, expensive fabric. Make any outfit you want!" I know that theoretically that should be a challenge simply because it should be easy for these designers by now, but STILL.
In any event, Project Runway ... I will be there with bells on, and they'd better fucking make it work this season.
