SO TENSE!

[trinityvixen]

Watching the Project Runway finale, I realized that, in all the seasons I've been watching, the person I wanted to win always has. And that's from the beginning! Save for the last season (SNOOZE-A-RAMA), I had a favorite almost from the beginning, and they've always won.

So I was waiting with baited breath on the announcement of the winner this time because it was the first time that the one I wanted to win was even at all unlikely to lose! But this person did not! THANK GOD. The three collections were the most even of all the final collections I've ever seen, too, so I had reason to worry. But the way the judges were going on about the runner-up, I was so worried...

WHEW, the tension she is over. And the right person won, thank Tim Gunn.

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[ivy03.livejournal.com]

I'm very happy that Seth Aaron won (and Tim was completely right about reconceptualizing the line). But I'm even more happy Emilio lost. People that smug and superior need not to be proved right. Did you watch the reunion show? (I know, probably not.) Because I have no respect for Jay anymore. At all. And Emilio took the loss just as well as Pushenko (sp?) did his loss at the Olympics. Which is to say, in an amusingly bitter and petty way.

Yay Seth Aaron!

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

We did watch the full show, so we were all literally stunned speechless with Jay's snippiness. Everyone was falling all over themselves to apologize for every mean word spoken, and he decided to stand out by being not just bitchy but rude for no reason. What a cockface.

Emilio looked devastated by losing, to the point that I almost felt sorry for him. Until he opened his mouth, of course. I still don't like his collection. I nearly had a conniption when it looked like he could win because UGH. My great grandmother only wore clothes like that, in those colors, because it was the goddamned depression. Sheesh.

Re: Yay Seth Aaron!

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Well, all of the apologies were of the disingenuous variety. Especially Emilio's. "Well, we're great friends now. It's all good." Um...look at her face. No you're not. And saying that is just a way to invalidate and silence her. So urgh.

I am always amazed with these reality shows at how upset people get over the trashtalking. It's a REALITY SHOW. Trash talking is PART OF THE JOB. A - you should expect it. And B - it's part of the genre. It's not the same as someone running to the press about something. (WTF Anthony dissing Mila in the NYP. He was clearly not sorry.) Everyone gets their say about how much the other designers suck. I mean, the trash talking is in large part part of the act. So really, get over your hurt feelings.

This is why there is an enormous difference between Carry (sp?) being bitchy and entertaining (and I love everything she says just because of the accent), and Jay saying something vicious and rude with the deliberate intent of hurting her. Especially the way he pretended like it was all right, and then pow! That was just awful of him.

The only one who seemed to actually try to apologize was Anthony, who seemed to be trying to explain to Carry his reasoning. I think his decision was valid, but it is kind of hard to not put your foot in your mouth explaining it.

I did love Nina telling Ping to quit fucking crying. And Tim getting all defensive.

Re: Yay Seth Aaron!

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

The reunion show always makes me uncomfortable. It's all about airing grievances for more drama, which is just...ugh. Unless someone is being a bully, a repeat-offending jerk-wad, you have to give them some leeway. These are people under constant stress. Look at how much more relaxed Mila and Seth Aaron both looked coming back to the show after their break. (Not Emilio, strangely. He looked more worn down than ever.) These people are in a meat grinder, and they're all going to make crazy talk and be bitchy at one time or another. Stuff that goes on during the show, again, unless it's bullying, has to get a little more of a pass.

People who are booted off the show will be unmuzzled and able to bitch more and the people not yet booted won't be able to respond. So they're given less leeway, to my mind, or they should be. Anthony is in a strange position because his comments have always been catty but they've been either accurate or funny and have never been about being mean. Okay, his comment about Mila's age was uncalled for, but otherwise, he didn't have much to apologize about, not even when he dissed Tim Gunn. (He didn't dis Tim all that badly, really.) But that outside stuff has NO BEARING on the competition. It quite literally was not seen, heard, read, or spoken at the time it happened. It's all happening months later. So I think it's irrelevant.

Jay, I think, thought he could pull an Anthony with his comment, but his comment was mean and said from a place of being hurt, from insecurity. And it showed. Carrie commented on his aesthetic. She didn't get it, didn't like it, but whatever, that's his thing. It's not great, according to her. He tried to be like Anthony, and if Anthony had said something it would be like, "Oh, child, if you had weight with the judges, I'd be in trouble. Good thing I'm just hearing you say it with your pretty little accent then." Would it still be bitchy? Oh hell yes. But it wouldn't have been rude, and it would have only attacked her opinion, much as she was attacking (by way of his design) Jay's opinion. That would be on the level, if still aggressive.

But he didn't do that. He basically called her ugly, and that's vile. Not because she is or isn't but because he derided a person and not an opinion. Dirty pool, Jay.

[anarchicsquirrl.livejournal.com]

Yay Seth Aaron!! And yes, Jay was horrible at the reunion show. Apparently he was a dick to Tim Gunn all season but they never showed it. He was lucky he got a nice edit.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I can't believe Jay was a jerk. He was such a non-entity in most of the episodes. It's so weird that Emilio was much loathed by everyone, but we only really saw his bitchiness towards the end, and even then, not so much as you could figure out why he was so reviled. Jay got positively sympathetic edits, especially against Mila, who? Maybe not such a bitch after all. Wow.