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Also, thought about this (but a lot of people on the internet also shared the same opinion so can't take it as mine). But had Padma been the head judge, I'm pretty sure that Vinny and Lana would hands down been eliminated. I have a feeling Padma hearing Vinny say hollandaise sauce for indian food would probably eliminate him on the spot.

Yeah losing Anya, Zubair, Kat and Corwin is pretty brutal. I kind of hope we don't lose any more of our front runners (Katianna and Tristen please don't leave next week). Kind of thought Vinny and Lana should have gone home. As it seemed like they failed the main portion of the challenge, which is to infuse the ethnic cuisine in the dish. I have noticed in past seasons, you can kind of get away with not completely following the instructions as long as your food is slightly better.

This was a really good challenge. Enjoyed the creativity of converting sweet desserts into savory. I was curious how one would transform a naimamo bar in to savory. Also didn't realize the center layer of the naimamo bar is just literally butter and powder sugar? I thought it was a custard. I'm not going to lie, losing Zubair really sucks. There surprisingly isn't a lot of Indian contestants in the season of top chef (and a lot of them flamed out pretty early too). So its just super unfortunate because thought Zubair was one who easily could have gone the distance.

I do want to say that while I found the challenge a bit uneven, the challenges so far are way better than last year's trainwreck ("Chaos Cuisine", and that awful fishboil).

I don't understand why they brought back three timers. I love Callum, but hang it up. Same with Laura, I mean you got 2nd place twice, you don't have to prove anything? Also why is Jimmy back? That season had a ton of strong contestants and he didn't even make it halfway. Some people I would consider Julia (S1 Top 5, Chris' partner) Justine (S1) Marion (S2, just curious she seems to not associate from the show?) Kylie (S4) Sara (S7) Georgia (S7) Jessica (S7) Stephen (S7) Karmen (S8) Anastasia (S8) Trent (S8) Brent (S8) Elise (S9) Derek (S11)

Did anyone find the challenge to be really uneven? I'm glad neither of the licorice knob people (and Katianna) won didn't get eliminated. Because that seemed way difficult especially as a cold dish. I mean eggs, biscuits, grapefruit, apples, and peanut butter seemed so much easier. For Anya, I feel for her (which is why desserts are so hard) since you can't really check cakes till the end. I am wondering what the heck that special ingredient she put in. I'm guessing its like an-anti baking powder properties, since it looked like it took away any lift or rise from the cake? I do wonder if Anya didn't decide to refluff her ice cream, if it had saved her over Massimo.

It did seem like why she checked her lamb chops, there little time left. So she couldn't really fix anything, from what I remember. There were a ton of chefs that had quite the jitters. Don't remember so many people having time management issues.

Also, I realize that Dolores and Tom could essentially screw over the faithfuls from actually winning, since they keep voting for each other and throwing their votes away.

I feel like the editing has been really bad on Danielle. Because in a lot of exit interviews, virtually every eliminated player (except for Jeremy) was shocked that she was the traitor.

Also, its really stupid to have everyone vote. Because having people like Tony, Bo, and Shewta people that left super early be votes for Nick is so incredibly stupid. Like Tony literally just voted based on who he saw for the first two hours, before he got medically evacuated.

Yeah wished Punkin won. Again open voting is so stupid. I will never again complain about Survivor or Big Brother having drawn out votes. Geez having a commercial break before two votes are revealed, and freaking Manu counting every single one?

The open voting is so stupid. Like it was a good thing that Punkin stuck to her guns and voted off Becky. Because we easily could have a situation that Punkin and Jeannie switch their votes with Becky pleading halfway in the voting. Like that's super messy in terms of logistics, in this open vote where people can constantly switch back and forth. Lol when I said that the summit had a hard time deciding whether it was supposed to be survivor or not, I wasn't expecting them to actually have a jury. Like WTF?! Also, is it everyone? Including the guy that tripped in the first episode? I'm guessing Punkin is probably the frontrunner to win, if she makes it to the final. I feel like people would be pissed at Nick and Theron (Becky, Dustin, Amy etc.). And not sure if people respect Jeannie. So I feel like Punkin only has Becky that is pissed off at her.

I actually kind of get Therron's point and why some of the weaker people would vote out the strong. Because if Therron gets rid of Amy, at the next elimination its probably going to be between him and Jeannie (when it comes to strength). So in terms of strength wise he is already in the hot seat. And granted the summit they have 0 idea how many people are supposed to make it, and how many more "vote offs" there will be Therron would definitely get voted off soon. I kind of blame production, in that it seems like they have 0 idea what they want this show to be. Do they want this to be purely survival, or do they actually want Survivor? Like they claim that its "hypothetically" winners? earn a million dollars. But their format kind of contradicts that. So if they have a bunch of mandatory vote offs. Like if they did a "succeed a challenge, no one gets voted off", that would be different. But since they have a bunch of mandatory vote offs, it doesn't surprise me people like Becky will play the way they do. LIke if you are middle of the road person, and only the top 2/3 people make it to the end, why would you keep voting off the weak, noting that you are probably going to get the axe by all the strong people?

Also, I realize that Becky's idea of voting Geoff off is actually kind of dumb. Because she accurately ruled that there is a group of strong guys (including Dennis) that are just bro down, and probably have a big alliance. So if you were going to take a shot a strong guy, it should have been one of the guys in the dude alliance (and swung Geoff with you). Geoff was essentially on an island by himself, so there was kind of no point in taking him out.

If that's a reenactment that is such a dumb decision on the producers part. Because an open voting takes away the suspense from a dramatic/entertainment point of view. Like when you only have 3 people vote for Dennis, its like well obviously Geoff is getting voted off, the audience isn't dumb. Does the producers really expect us to suspend our disbelief that 10 people will just abstain altogether? lol