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I am kind of hoping that with this season, because it had an extended break between season, and a new host/judges, they decided to play it safe and bring back popular contestants as well as Dave as a link to the past. I think the show was really good and I hope it rated well so they have the confidence to bring in first timer contestants and ditch the Master of Chaos.

I really like her as a judge, I like how expects them all to push themselves, be diverse, and be able to do everything if they want to be the inkmaster. I really didn't like it with the old judges who would sometimes just ignore the theme of a tattoo and give people a free pass because it look good. When they said a jury of peers of the eliminated contestants I was thinking, wow they brought everyone back? Then laughed so hard when only 2 people walked in and made up the jury. I am really disappointed for Bob, he had been very consistent and always near the top all season, but I just don't understand what he was thinking for his final tattoo. It was a cool idea but the design was just odd, the dragon looked like it had been rotated 90 degrees and hard to tell what it was. Another thing I enjoyed this season was the lack of drama. There was a bit of banter between the contestants but you could tell they liked and respected each other and it just made it so much more enjoyable to watch.

I think Angel is good enough to be ink master, but to do it this season she will have to run the gauntlet against some of the best competition ever. DJ has now found his grove and putting out amazing tattoos every week. Anthony is an ink master and is consistently putting out good tattoos. Bob and Gian have been near the top for most of the season. And Creepy Jason is also there.... I guess he could be a threat if all the tattoos for the rest of the season are black and white horror tattoos.

I was kind of relieved as I thought it was just going to be Chris Nunez

I am wondering if they are asked to overreact to every challenge. They all freak out over a mystery judge, seriously who cares, if you do a good tattoo it doesn't matter how many judges there are. Super surprised that Tony survived, his tattoo was awful.

Interesting that they went for a bottom 2 when Creepy Jason's tattoo wasn't great and could easily have been a bottom 3. Maybe they thought that if they put Jason in the bottom 3 then they are just going to say he is safe and pick out of the other 2 so there is no point putting Jason in the bottom. The bottom 2 were both pretty meh and either could have gone home. I am guessing one reason Katie stayed was otherwise they would be down to only one female contestant left. I didn't notice that they were eliminating all the females.

I actually thought Anthony might go home because as he mentioned he just got custody of his son so needed to go, so Steve going surprised me. What I didn't like in the winning flash challenge piece was the fact that you could see the side of some of the cups because they weren't arranged perfectly. To me that was bad technical application and the cactus should have got it. Not that it mattered, the masters chose some bad canvases for themselves. Pretty sure the preview for the next episode shows she is back. That is the second time this season that someone has not gone home for not doing the challenge. Creepy Jason in the tattoo in emulate a famous artists style and now Tony in the latest episode, both didn't really attempt the challenge, just put up a solid tattoo and get through. It just seems wrong because it makes the challenge pointless when you just tattoo whatever you want.

Have you checked out the 30 minute video of the 3 finalists showing off their back and chest pieces? I am pretty sure Jimmy was scripted to win. Remember last season when the judges kept saying to Laura all you do is aliens, show us something different, but no mention of that this season for Jimmy and his abundance of American Traditional. I feel like he always seemed to get positive critiques even when his tattoo's had obvious flaws. And then that second last challenge, Angel gets pulled up because her forest doesn't look realistic, Kelly gets pulled up for not attempting the morph, are you really going to tell me that Jimmy hit color realism for his jellyfish? It wasn't realism and it was hard to tell it was a jellyfish. Based on the two tattoo's Jimmy showed in the finale you could justify the him winning, though given the high standard you could justify any of them winning.

Hiram said that his canvas had very difficult skin which made it very hard for him to tattoo.

I think they are going to use the save for Jimmy. That is Frank's 3rd week in a row in the bottom so had to go.

Agreed, Frank had to go, his was the worst by far. Of the other 2 it was 50/50. The finale will be interesting to see how it will be run. Here in Australia we just had the Australian Survivor finale, only 15 of the 24 contestants made it to the reunion show where the votes were read, including one of the final 2. This was due to travel restrictions. Without a studio audience it also lacked energy. Are you allowed to get tattoos in America at the moment? Here in Australia tattoo parlors have been shut down because of the close contact needed.

Wow what a load of crap, how Jimmy survived that is just laughable. On versatility day Jimmy not only does 1 style 3 times, but he does the same style that he has done for most of the competition, surely that is a fail for versatility. Then it is also a drawing skills challenge, Jimmy's drawing would have to be one of the worst in the room because it was just an illegible mess that he created to try and trip up Hiram. Where is the judges normal critique of "I can't tell what it is from across the room"? I mean it was mega obvious that Angel was going to be saved but it is just so annoying when the judges decisions are used to create drama.

I think Jason's biggest problem was not giving the judges what they wanted. He tried to be artistic but the judges, mainly Peck and Nunez, want legible stickers. I think out of all the griffins Jason's was my favourite but that is not how the judges saw it.

If you want to talk about the judges being all over the place, last week Jason was eliminated on an American traditional tattoo because his tattoo had no whip shading which is a fundamental of American traditional. The following week Kay doesn't even do a new school tattoo but Jordie is eliminated because of legibility.

Jordie's tattoo wasn't great but it was no where near as illegible as they kept going on about. They just wanted to have Jason on his own as "entertainment".

I am finding more often how judging decisions are based on getting entertainment rather than merit. I think mid west won the flash challenge so they could "get revenge" on the west. I thought the mid west and the south pieces was poor and shouldn't have been in contention. I think it should have been out of the west and east, and east should have won. But that didn't make a good as a story line.

I feel the opposite, while Raul did a really bad job with the theme he at least tried to do a schematic. But I thought the quality of the other 2 were so bad that one of them deserved to go home.

Has Dave never actually watched the show? Oliver and Chris will always rate a well done tattoo over one that better meets the challenge. Similar with the elimination, I thought there were 2 tattoos much worse than the one that got eliminated but if you have a bit of skin trauma, there's the door.

I think the weaker artists were really highlighted in that episode. Jason gifted the win as redemption for last week?

Money Mike and Emac don't count as dumb names? I massively disagreed with the bottom 2. To me the bottom 2 should have been the guy who did the shield with the arrows that didn't line up and the girl who did the fist with the writing above it. Solely on the point that they were too simple, they had six hours and did tattoos that would have taken 1 to 2 hours.

Since Missy wanted recognition that 2 minorities won immunity last week, is it ok to point out that the same 2 minorities both got blindsided this week? I mean just for balance to show representation that minorities can be on the top and bottom.

I guess you could argue the light source is some form of battery or reactor which would be mech in biomech.

I like the use of deep rich black to give it contrast but I find it a bit tonal showing a lack of texture and the color palette is a bit muted😛

As soon as a saw Jason's tattoo I knew Nunez would criticize it for being tonal, but at least you could read it. Laura's was so hard to read with all the packed in color. And Dani's was hard to read because it was a made up thing that makes no sense but hey that is biomech. I understand Jason missed the mark with realism but I thought his was easily the best of the 3. It was a decent finale with minimal teams yelling at each other about fake drama, but the bit where the eliminated coaches were throwing to each other about what the other coaches were tattooing was just so cringey. I thought the coaches tattoos were some of the best we have seen. I thought Duffy should have been last and my top 4 was nearly the same as theirs except I had Jime in there instead of DJ. I couldn't believe Jime came 6th. I think they could tell for the most part who did what tattoo in the blind judging. Jime, Ryan and DJ all played to their strengths and I am sure that is why even with "blind judging" they managed to get Ryan and DJ as the final 2.

I think I agree with your final positions but then again last season I thought it was between Tiffer and Ceej and then Tony came from no where to win. Coach's champ has gotta be DJ, he will do a big impressive tattoo and the judges will lap it up as usual. While I thought Jake's tattoo was technically really good I thought it was pretty boring. It was just a black and grey witch. I liked that they picked Jason over Jake just because Jason'e showed a bit more creativity.