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To be honest, I am much the same way, actually more so when I was younger. The years have worn off some of my edges. I didn't have the strong feelings against Michelle the way other people had and have, and I wonder if that's the reason why. Thank you for the thoughtful post.

If they had edited it out, he still would have told her to lie. Not knowing doesn't make it right. This episode, and the subsequent postings, make me feel less good about watching this series. Oh, yes, I know these things are heavily edited and that people act to the camera. I just don't know what the point of it all was. Surely it must have dawned on someone in that family that going in front of a camera was not a good idea...was the money, the dubious fame, the publicity worth it to them? Marcus doesn't come off looking very good either...he doesn't care because he'll keep making money but, still. In the old days, before we showed everyone our dirty laundry, a person's good reputation meant something. No more.

Heidi Klum's Halloween costume 2014: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/01/heidi-klum-costume_n_6086852.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

Common sense. Project Runway. Does not compute. Error, error, error.

I guess we'll find out if Project Runway lasts long enough....but,yes, I can see them recycling the youngsters into Project Runway. Maybe the youngsters versus the adults challenge in the future, as well. Sigh.

I'd vote for that. I love Cat Deeley and she seems to have the most enthusiasm of any hostess, and she has a real fashion flair....maybe Alyssa could borrow her stylist (well, I do realize, Alyssa is slightly shorter but the stylist could adapt).

Of all the dresses, I liked the one Grayson did on his own before bad advice was given to him. It was very cute and I liked the peek of the floral fabric under the skirt. He seems to have a good relationship with his grandmother. I liked that he dyed the white dress, though he might have dialed back on the New Orleans colors. Still, with very little time, he accomplished quite a bit. I was not that crazy about the kimono dress (the top of it looked messy to me). I hope he doesn't base future designs on what was said to him on this show. The winning dress by Grace reminded me of a Project Runway winner (designing for the Rockettes)...I guess you can't make a dress inspired by New York without someone trying to recreate the skyline. But she did a nice job with that design and I like how she handled the sparkle and bling without it overcoming the dress. I think Christian gave her some good advice about the second dress (actually, I think he is a good judge for these youngsters; he is honest but kind and helpful, unlike Vanessa who seems stuck in a crop top rut). As for Aliyah, as soon as I saw the feathers under the bust with her ego initial hanging off it, I knew it had a problem. The model looked like a movie stereotype of a Parisian. Her L.A. look was actually more successful, in a way, because I do see young women wearing that kind of thing. I thought the whole walkie-talkie thing was stupid. Not the fault of the young people. It just was a stupid idea. The assistants this episode seemed more useful than last week. I'm not as irritated by this show as I thought I was going to be. Have to say, some of these youngsters seem more accomplished than some of the designers on Project Runway. I wish they would either give them more time or ditch the second look challenge, but it is what it is at this point.

I was hoping they were shorts. There are some deeply questionable taste issues in that workroom.

I know it's been an ongoing joke (not to mention a drinking game), but I still say that it is an upgrade to describe a woman by her profession rather than her appearance. It's a personal preference.

I guess it is just me but I think being identified by a profession (designer) is an upgrade from focusing on looks (gorgeous) for Georgina. I get it...she's a lovely looking, but it's not an achievement (unless you're a plastic surgeon). I'm not surprised Patricia was eliminated...she spent so much time doing something that she didn't use, and then she put out a garment with really awful darts. Her talking about how excellent and fabulous she is does nothing for me....what she put down the runway was neither excellent nor fabulous. You can't complain about not having enough time if you use most of your time manipulating fabric and then not using it. Overall I'd say if this is today's fashion, I'm glad I don't have money to buy it. I really didn't see anything that I'd go across the street to take a closer look at, but I am not the demographic they are aiming at. I'll probably keep watching. I noticed the preview had dogs (and not just in Mood). That's something to look forward to.

You mean Nancy Kerrigan who was clubbed in the right knee with a police baton? Yeah, if she was any kind of woman she would just have stood up and skated on, right? And she did go back to skating once she recovered which had to take some courage. Frankly, I would have cried too if someone hit my knee with a police baton. That has to be one of the poorest analogies yet on this forum, and that's saying a lot. I don't know what we expect of people. If they try to change, or apologize, they get criticized. If they stay the same, they get criticized. If you don't like someone, you won't believe a word they say. If you like someone, you won't believe anything anyone else has to say. If any of them had any common sense, they would refuse a contract that demanded them to participate in the reunion. It is a no win-no win situation for most of them, and just gives outsiders another chance to jump on the mean train. And that's why I didn't watch the reunion, and why I won't be watching the reunion. I don't know any of these people, and I don't know what really happened except for heavily edited snippets. I'd rather evaluate them on their designs than their looks or how they act for the camera, but that ship sailed a long time ago. Now I have to decide if it is worth risking my blood pressure on the All Stars. Well, it is entertainment, of a sorts.

There is an interview with her here: http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/10/30/project-runway-all-stars-alyssa-milano/ This quote gave me pause: "I think we have the most talented group of designers that any season of Project Runway has ever had." Sound familiar?

There are some people who apparently have all the time in the world to send hateful messages out to other people. The Internet has a lot of mean-spirited people who seem to think that being anonymous means you can say anything you want, no matter how cruel or vicious, and, if it's not true, so much the better. Lately I've tried to remind myself that when someone tosses mud at another person, that says more about the person throwing the mud than it does their target. Korina made herself an easy target, it's true, but the hate mail isn't really about her but about the people who wrote it.

I don't know the family or how deeply enmeshed Larissa is with the activities of her parents. They brought her in to do the books knowing she didn't know what she was doing, and that might have been a plus from their point of view (that was the impression I got, anyway; I apologize ahead of time if this isn't true). I could see one scenario where she is duplicitous and sought to be on the show for promotional purposes, or to use Marcus as a beard to hide their activities and fund future extravagances. That could be. Another scenario might be that she didn't know the whole story but then tried, as best she could, to protect her parents as she discovered more and more, and she called in Marcus so that he could reveal the rot beneath the surface so she wouldn't have to. Since I have the feeling the parents would do anything to escape responsibility for their actions, I could well see them sucking other people in so that the other people could act as sacrificial goats should anyone ever catch on to their schemes. And, to a point, it certainly worked. Haven't a clue what the real story is, but it's probably something else completely.

The daughter was not driving a BMW. I'd be willing to bet none of the employees drove a BMW. To many people, BMWs are indulgent wants, not absolute needs. What Marcus was trying to get at with the boat and the BMW and the house redecorating is that the parents were apparently willing to give up nothing for their business (in fact they were sucking it dry) and it looked terrible that they continued to be self-indulgent when others were making sacrifices (and you can argue about why the employees were doing that and if they were part of the scam, but that's not what I'm referencing here). What I don't understand is why it took more than a minute for someone as shrewd as Marcus seems to be to catch on to the parents scheming. Personally I think he was more interested in salvaging something for the daughter (tight clothes or not, she was the only sympathetic member of the family we saw and she was the one who called him in), and maybe that sympathy blinded him, at first, to the shenanigans the parents were pulling. Of course we are seeing a heavily edit bit of much larger conversations so it could have actually gone much differently in real life than it did on the show.

This might also go into Project Runway media, but it's an interview with Emily so I'm posting the link here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/logan-lynn/make-it-work-an-interview_b_6065630.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592 A quote: "I pretty much knew halfway into the competition that I wouldn't be able to win because the judges just didn't appreciate my aesthetic -- but I also knew I had to just keep doing me because my main goal was to get my real work out in the public eye and get orders. I ended up getting overloaded with requests for the hoodie that I got eliminated for, and it ended up auctioning off with the highest bid for any of the designs that season, so I'm happy." Another: "You still get to show your collection at Fashion Week and none of the press know who is actually still in the competition or not. So you still get all the exposure and, at that point, way less stress since you are no longer being judged." Now this surprised me: "I felt very fortunate to be in a cast with so many nice people. I really thought I would be having to deal with a lot of cattiness and stupid drama. There really was very little to none of that." Cheers.

You make several good points. Negotiating a better price is one thing; lying to a vendor who provided product in good faith is another. And the daughter may well not be as innocent as she first appeared to be....pretty hard to know the right to do things when you have a pair of amateur con people as parents (and I do think the parents look like schemers in this episode). I don't think Marcus is stupid....we do see more of an edge to him in some episodes...but I can't believe he wouldn't investigate more before he signed any checks. I could see him buying the fish company outright because it looked like it could have been doing decent business if anyone had a real interest in it, but giving money to that family would be pouring money into a black hole (it would disappear and never come back out again). I'll probably keep watching unless the deals become completely absurd. I don't know if I am learning much about running a business, however.

I think there are things the grandmother knows but I don't think she is a reliable source of information. She is manipulative. I have no idea what her plan is (she could just be one of those types who is evil for the sake of being evil) but I don't find anything she says to be completely credible. Of course if she is a master manipulator, she mixes truth with lies so it is hard to distinguish between the two. I agree she is up to no good. Why, I have no idea, but one does get the feeling that she likes having power over other people (why they allow her to have it is another question altogether).

I just saw this episode. Wow. The mysterious disappearance of insurance money. The BMW. Remodeling the house. Not disclosing the boat. Not revealing they are in foreclosure. If the father and mother aren't a pair of scammers, they sure are acting like it. The daughter needs to exit stage right before she ends up taking the fall for their activities. The parents are a lost cause. I don't know why Marcus didn't do research before entering into a financial arrangement with them. I feel sorry for the employees. They deserved better than to work for two people who didn't care about them or the family business but just wanted to feed their expensive habits. Apparently they aren't too bright if they thought being on "The Profit" would help their business...some of the postings on Yelp are scathing; however, someone identified as Larissa posted: I'm hoping that is the daughter and somehow someone cleared the parents out of the business so it could survive. Still feel bad for the former employees.

Note to other reality competition shows: this is how it should be done. Classy contestants, equally matched finalists, skilled assistants, and, for myself, I could see reasons why any one of the three teams would have won (and I'd be happy about it). Nice people, talented artists, and they all deserve to be there. It doesn't get better than this (well, I wish Mr. Westmore had been there--his suggestions contributed to Dina's win). I love the judges being all dressed up (and regally so), but it is the cooperative nature of the contestants that is most impressive. Not a mean spirit among them, and anyone hiring any of them will be well rewarded. Good show all the way around.

What bothers me about the show is that I don't think they thought through a several year story arc. I don't like "Hannibal" (because I hate, hate, hate the idea of making a serial murderer into an admired artist of death) but I will give the handsome series credit in that the creator of it has an overall plan for what he is doing with the characters. "Resurrection" seems muddled by comparison....maybe there will be an underlying structure revealed at some point, but right now there's so many characters meandering around and not much purpose to some of them. Of course I've probably missed something (clearly I forget from week to week who did what to whom and who died and who came back). I really get the feeling some things are being made up in order to extend the series, but I don't think they will get a chance to resolve some of the questions that have arisen. And maybe there are no answers. When it comes to life and death, the mystery of it all is the ultimate unanswerable question, and I'd be fine if they left the big questions to the viewers to answer for themselves. Unfortunately now the writers seem to be trying to come up with explanations (mostly through the grandmother, who is a voice without credibility) and I think that's a mistake. She has some weird agenda and I'm not sure I will be happy if she is the center of everything that is happening. Of course there may be more revealed about her and the family that will explain why they are considered so important. I'm just not getting it yet. If a third season is in doubt, I hope at least they work out an ending for the second season which is not just a leap off the cliff.

I guess I amuse easily. I figured these little side winks were for those of us who may not be devoted to the Batman saga and need a little guidepost as to whom everyone is. The hardcore fan won't need it. I guess I didn't think it was worth getting upset about. Apparently I was wrong. Not for the first time. But I'm still amused.

I liked Nygma having a mug with a big question mark on it. Yes, I know that's pretty obvious, but I do like the way they tuck in the transforming parts of identities. Oswald seems to change a little bit each episode as he turns more and more into the Penguin. I don't know why the teen catwoman was creeping around in future Batman's living room or why she picked out the silver box to steal...that just seemed like an extra scene thrown in to keep her in the loop. Such a waste. I'd like to see her have more to do than pose on top of objects. Don't really buy the therapist's explanation of why she created murderers (or had such a long time span between them). Pretty weak as a storyline (I missed the explanation of the penny but I don't think I care enough to look back at the episode). This is the last show I thought would grow on me, but, overall, it is one of the few of the new shows that I look forward to seeing each week. Not for the creep of the week, but because there are more complicated dynamics between the characters than I expected. I like, for example, the relationship between the two detectives...as predictable a trope as that is, there is something interesting about how they don't trust each other but they must trust each other in certain situations. Unfortunately, so far, the women fall into stereotypes (though I keep my hopes up for the teen catwoman to break out one of these days). I'm not well versed on the Batman canon, so maybe that makes this easier for me to watch. At least I'm interested enough to keep watching which is more than I can say for some of the other shows that debuted this year.

I think it depends on how much they cut it up and how you could repurpose it. Some fabrics are fairly fragile...once they have been sewn, they lose integrity where the thread has gone in. I can't see someone bidding on a garment just for the fabric unless they really, really loved the fabric and it was a large enough piece to make it worthwhile to repurpose it. But I don't design or sew so anything I write is pure speculation on my part. I suspect people bid on Project Runway fashions because they love the item and/or they want it as memorabilia (perhaps with an eye toward reselling it) and/or they are a superfan (as someone else suggested) or they are a friend/relative and want to support the designer.

But once she cut the fabric, it's not worth the same as it was before it was cut and sewn into the garment (I'm not debating whether it is worth more or less, but it wouldn't be the same). I might like the Italian print, but I couldn't necessarily use it as something else if I didn't like Char's design (I realize taking apart her design would defeat the purpose of buying the garment). Theoretically, you aren't buying the value of the fabric alone but the fabric, the creative design effort, and the time it took to actually make the item, but one could take a beautiful fabric, make something hideous out of it, and make the fabric worthless as a result (I am not saying that's what Char did). I can see how a garment could be worth less than its expensive material components if the garment itself is deeply flawed.