CoyoteBlue

On the SEAL Team forum, the first question in the episode threads is "Is the dog ok?!" And, you know, the idiot-proof instructions on the display; I can't buy that she wouldn't grasp the concept of an access card for a computer/machine. Oy, don't diss preteen fangirls. They often write better stuff than show writers.

Me, too, mostly because no matter how pathetic a sad sack they make him, Stuart's still such a sweetie and Raj is just a raging misogynistic asshole with every word out of his mouth.

Yeah, the reason Jason was so irritated with the kid was because he acted like he was joining this elite team - nope, kiddo, you're a "strap", just specialized support for the real team. So now the kid is trying to actually earn his way onto the team. I love Cerberus, the paratrooping dog. Just hangin' there from his harness, happy as a clam, while he gets kitted up with his goggles and custom oxy mask.

Corey and John are not doing so great that they can get away with acting like petulant. screechy bitches. Someone slip them some valium so the sane people can get on with the program.

Oh, god, they just ran a marathon of that season and I came here for sympathy, It's 9 minutes into the first ep and already I hope David and Carla die in a fire.

You mean Raj disappears for the month of December and then just returns with a wedding ring (and, I assume, a wife) without saying a thing about it? :) Sorry, lots of Indian co-workers in the past and this literally happened often enough to be a stereotype.

Blonde Asian extra guy is going to get shivved by a model one of these days if he doesn't stop micromanaging the shoots and trying to get them to be ugly contortionists.

I was confused at first, but the side walls / barriers on the mazes were progressively lower, meaning you had to do more freestyle moving of the ball on open surfaces rather than "CLUNK-CLUNK-CLUNK" from wall to wall of the maze. Once you know the way through the complex maze, you can move a lot faster and less cautiously. It took finesse to pass the ball from side to side of the straight line without it bumping over a side wall. Driving it straight down the center of the line without touching the walls would have been prohibitively difficult. Luckily, that team figured out early on how to ease it as straight as possible while still watching out for the walls.

Yeah, when Nina went the "mystery woman" route, all I could think was "yes. the mystery is why she's wearing that crap. Don't blame the French for that." Her model wanted something clean and even flinched at the "feathery crap on the shoulders!" from the beginning and yet, Kenya sent her down the runway with sloppy flapping rags hanging from her shoulders. (I count that hideous green "vest" in that.) It looked like she left a giant 80s blouse bow untied or the vest unbuttoned - it just came off as sloppy. While Brandon's aesthetic is a bit... boxy-baggy for me, at least it's interesting designs that are wearable and well made. It seemed more "clean hobo" than Kintaro's look ended up. :) Kintaro's a little hit and miss for me, but when he hits, daaaaamn. That outfit was by far the best of the day, if not the season. Clean, interesting design, wearable, pleasing to the client.

It'd be neat if the four grow so much over the repeated experience that they become *actually* eligible for the real Good Place and just as Michael thinks he's perfected his methods, they get taken up.

"Performatwins powers, activate! Form of - a howling dervish! Form of - an over-eNUNciating blowhard!" I shall refer to them as the Performatwins from now on, which will hopefully only be for another episode. Why am I thinking that the big "scandal" is that they'll break a rule about how much others can help you with labor in an individual challenge? Or Austin Powers. (Same - I liked it, but didn't feel original enough)

Yeah, I thought the same thing about swapping the two, but the numbers on the plates showed there were more of them than spots on the pedestals. What I don't get is why they thought tasting the food would have ANYTHING to do with their ability to identify a dish they've never even heard of before. "C'mon, taste it, people!" Oh... yeah... now I can tell that's totally.... babaganoushy....? Unless they just came out of a crash course in recipes for each of those, they wouldn't know what flavors to expect unless they'd already had it before and like Perez's croquets, could immediately identify them anyways. ETA - Also, I really really want to know WTF happened to Carmen, as I don't buy that fall making her feel she can't function safely in the kitchen.

Was the kid just adopted? Because if not, how old is that kid and why are the parents just introducing her to the dog now?

Aw, I'll miss Tommy, but honestly? His work this season has been meh.

Considering the twins' dramatics were dragging down the team, stressing them out and making them abandon their own stuff to make sure they made Shawn something to walk down the runway.... I'd take that personally too. I hate any team thing where I have to factor someone else's suckage into my workload. She probably would have taken it less personally if they could have let Shawn swing in the wind without penalizing themselves.

This would be my wish for S17 - PR Menswear.

See, I don't think Brandon was necessarily worried about her being curvy for the same reason most designers are. It's not that he was hoping for a stick-thin model, but a model that looked closer to the men he's used to working with. Curves are a real curve ball for the poor guy. :) "Shit, boobs! What do I do with them?" At least he was smart enough not to just cover her in a muumuu.

I really hope the twins get broken up earlier than later. They are annoying together. Indeeeed. (Though the best part of this episode *was* the other designers mocking their drama queen speech.) I liked Sinead's top. It was nice to see Brandon pull something out in the end. He really let his model tell him how to design for her, which may have started out because he had no damn idea himself, but it worked. Muslim lady - if you want me to believe that "modest" can be fashionable, try something other than skintight long-sleeve tops. I have a feeling her stuff is going to be very one note, There's only so many ways one can do "cover every square inch". I don't know what was so "modern" about it. Heh, when they called ChaCha's aesthetic "My LIttle Pony", I laughed. Seriously, he just did not deserve to be there. The looks on everyone's faces during his child-like babbling was HILARIOUS. The critique where they talked like art critics trying to unearth deep meaning in his crap. "I think you're giving him too much credit." I never saw anything from him beyond "little girl's slumber party dress-up". Some 7-year-old got into so much trouble for cutting up her Care Bear sleeping bag for a jacket.... He started out sketching to "accentuate her curves" and ended up with a sparkly sack with a scrunchie neckline. Then again, someone made a gold version of it with thin sleeves, tiny shoulder spikes, and a longer skirt so.... African Print Lady - Flat grey with butt-ugly raggedy flopping grandma-looking appliques running down her butt crack to hide the GAPING HOLE in the back. Good lord. Thanks so much for the closeup of the giant hole, camera guy. You almost gave the girl a colonoscopy. I had high hopes for her, but maybe the fabrics *were* doing all the work for her. Winner deserved the win. That looked great, with a print that could have been a trainwreck but came off amazing. Show, no one gives a shit about the "behind the scenes" shots with the crew. Stop making filler. It's just more I have to FF through.

I thought it was Jonathan's "mom", the demon who provided the blood that Valentine shot him up with.

"Bring Jace back. Please" Do you want zombies, Clary? Because that's how you get zombies.

I'm pretty sure this is the reason behind Matthew's non-plussed face in this ep. When they started off with "Whee, look at the Great Southern Star face-off!", he must have known he'd never had a chance in hell against the opportunity to make a bullshit themed finale.

Long-haired guy with the children's clothes was a little creepy. He's wearing his Oshkosh-B'gosh five-year-old's overalls while showing off his Little Lord Fauntleroy Masturbation Suit. Gah.

I dunno, it took her years to seal the deal with Charlie and they had two kids together!

And yet, for all that Jonathan is Super Demon Fighter, he couldn't manage to off a rather small child.

JR Bourne, why did you do this to me? WHY? Once Annoying KId #1 was dead and her mother killed herself, I thought the show might be salvageable. Alas, time travel.