TexasTiffany

Yay! for Marcel! I'm glad he won. I'd definitely watch this again. There were new faces to me who ended up doing well. You never know who will step up. I'd like to see Viet come back. It was such a shock that he was eliminated the first challenge. He usually wins. I wonder if Chris Oh would come back. He was so exhausted. The prize money is usually increased when the producers have a hit show. Good incentive for Chris Oh, and the others to come back. One person I don't want to come back is Josie. The challenge was to make a burger without having already ground protein available and no buns either. Josie served a whole mushroom on a leaf of lettuce and called it an "abstract" burger. Also, the chefs had to include a fried side dish without using the fryer. Josie had some sauteed veggies, but nothing was crispy to tell if it was "fried". I didn't like Josie's attitude when she was eliminated. She said she got sent home "on a plating error". No, you loser, your mushroom on lettuce was least like a burger amongst all the other chefs. I liked everyone else's side dish, too. I don't need to see her again.

I'm glad this show is getting such a good response. I kind of like the clock keeps ticking and it's all filmed at one time. On many other competition shows, the editors play with the editing and time clock too much. For example, the host on other shows will yell out "2 minutes" but a contestant will be starting their sauce or just starting whatever item that we know on this green earth takes longer than "2 minutes". And, they've still got to plate. They're down to six chefs now, I think. I'd like for them to invite Chris Oh to move to a closer cooking station. He's got to walk all the way from the back and the judges comment about him being slow and tired. It's funny yet I still feel sorry for Chris. I'm really liking Marcel and his commentary. He's so mature, and appreciative, and talks about his little boy. I'm rooting for him. I'd like his mom to get the implant to hear. Everyone's got a plan for that money though. Carlos and Mika want a honeymoon for their fiance and spouse, respectively. Esther made the comment that she wanted to go to Hawaii, too. Michael being funny throws in Esther with the Hawaiian trip. LOL I doubt Mika wants Esther on her honeymoon.

I'm really loving this show. I'm surprised I like it. I started watching just to see what it was about. I'm already wondering when they could do another season. Tournament of Champions is done only once a year, but this 24 in 24 could be done every 6 months or less. Regarding Elizabeth Faulkner, I usually like her on these cooking competitions but I don't remember seeing her win anything. I was surprised that she acted like she should have won her round b/c she's Elizabeth F. more than it being about her dish. She should realize there are tons of good chefs out there that haven't been on every Food Network show ever created. It's good to see some new faces. Some of these chefs we will probably see more of in the near future. I'm really liking Martel and navy Chris. I remember the whole Top Chef awfulness at Marcel's expense. On this show when they showed Carlos Anthony and the other chefs in the break area suddenly talking about Marcel and how they wanted him out, it gave me those Top Chef bullying vibes again. I'm okay with them talking about how tired they are, etc. They're all experiencing this together and they're kind of bonding. Plus, they're so tired that they are getting silly and making jokes. I laughed at Chris Oh when he was walking his dish to the judges table rather slow. Michael Symon commented how he needs to move a bit faster. Chris said something about only having the one speed now. You don't get that on Chopped.

I wanted to like her since everyone else seems to. She went on to be behind the camera on Top Chef so I figured I was missing something. Just when I think maybe she's changed, her obnoxious self comes out again.

I'm disappointed in some of the outcomes this time. I wait a year for this show to come back. I'm all excited. I'm rooting for my favorites. BAM. Brooke's gone. Adam's gone. Jose's gone. Stephanie's gone. I still have a lot of faves, since I respect most of these chefs and love to see them do what they do, but dang it's hard to see them suddenly gone. Lee-Anne Wong was a jerk last year imho, and tends to be too boastful. I know these chefs are self promoters but many do it in a way that is more confidence with talent and the wins to back it up. Lee-Anne seems to be more on the obnoxious side of that behavior. This is the first time I've seen her win a battle and she ended up getting the highest score of the night. I'm happy for her for that restaurant donation since the devastating fires in Hawaii. She's not on my fave list. While I'm posting... sending out some fangirl crush for Shota! ETA: since Guy is going to be Guy and come up with nicknames for these chefs, if I were competing I'd want a kick ass name. Antonia "Princess Warrior" isn't bad.

First off, I'm glad this show is back. I love watching people shine doing what they do. Another plus is anyone from any background can compete and win. I have so many favorites that it's hard to watch any of them lose. After all the speculation about FN maybe scrubbing Darnell out of the show completely, I was surprised to see Amanda and Darnell's segment when it aired tonight. I agree it looked like it was edited so we got the very short version. When Amanda won, we don't see Darnell hug Amanda or congratulate her or say anything. The edit shows him exiting out the door. Gone. FN handled it well. Don't hide it but don't embellish.

ITA that Christine's first wedding gown was even worse than (on Golden Girls) Dorothy's wedding dress to Lucas that had what looked like construction paper loops on the bodice of her gown.

Maybe I've seen this show too much. Amos looks kind of like Kody. Maybe it's the facial hair.

ITA with all the comments of love and well wishes for Christine and David. I had to grab a tissue. Someone mentioned that it was a healing moment, too. It was great hearing the OG kids talk about how wonderful it was to have the family come together again and be the family they are. (without Kody trying to crush everyone's happiness) I also heard genuine emotional happiness that David's family is like the other half of their family they didn't know they had. I forgot how it was stated. David's family was out-partying them, lol. I loved that. Everyone is happy, celebrating their union. I would like to see at least another season of this show how both families are blending. (without the tumor named Kody) I laughed so hard over that! Thanks Janelle! Christine got to dance with her dad. Her mom was there. I also liked that Christine asked that all the women come up and dance together. Awesome that everyone was doing a flash mob moment. Christine recognized it and explained it to David. Such a sincere, sweet moment that caught Christine by surprise. Mykelti needs to stop sucking all the air out of the room. Put your obnoxious instigator self away.

Don't ask me "Y". (wink) I've always wondered how the heck did they come up with those names. I figured there was some Plyg name generator on the internet.

Robyn has to be so jealous.

I get that vibe from Mykelti, too. It's not about the truth for some (K, R, etc.), it's about what money they can make from a good lie whether it's a little fib or a big one.

I'm happy for Christine, too. She is excited and beaming. She's finally getting the wedding of her dreams. David and his family were great and having a good time, too. Christine's mom and dad were there. Really sweet. Her mom said she couldn't be at the first wedding so this was special for her seeing her daughter get married. I've read that before, of course, but hearing her mom say those words and how emotional it was for her made me cry. Christine said her dad has been sick for awhile. IIRC, he said something about now she's in a happy place. There are so many emotional healing moments here. It was strange when the kids were discussing what to call David. Stepdad or something else. So many wives and polygamist hogwash over the years but they suddenly find it weird that David would be their Stepdad. Call him David. Problem solved. Something I notice about David is he has a sense of humor. Kody doesn't. For me, that's a big thing. A good sense of humor is a quality. I don't mind that Christine is over the top excited. Every smile, every laugh, everyone beaming is another knife to Kody's kidney.

I don't understand Meri's thinking. She should have mentioned that big glaring truth that Robyn wasn't showing up when they did make plans together. It goes against Meri saying that Robyn had her back, etc. I would have felt more sympathetic to her sooner. If she does write a book, I doubt we'd still get the real truth, just the one she wants to spin at the time. If Meri had really been thinking, she could have used the truth as leverage against R&K at the time.

I thought Janelle saw the light many episodes ago that Kody was a piece of crap to be wiped off the bottom of her shoe. But, then Janelle will say something wishy-washy like she could still be friends with Kody... which I'm thinking she means a friends with benefits thing where they just have sex. I'm wanting her to learn from Christine's example that she could find someone nice that will treat her well and not be Robyn's sloppy seconds. Janelle really should stop telling us that she's worried about her spiritual marriage, too, since she divorced her first husband in the first place. She didn't have any trouble leaving the first one. Maybe from her perspective she's playing it up in case she can turn it into something legally binding that she's still sealed with him. She should stop giving Kody some of his power back.