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I figured Dina would win after seeing the insane amount of detail on each of her knights, but it was really neck-and-neck. I don't think I would have been upset with any of the finalists winning, and I'm sure Drew and Cig will be getting some work.
And my favorite thing of all were the skeleton pants that Rashad wore! *LOL*
I think those were Cig's. His other team member (Sasha) was wearing one of his hats, too.
And it's apparently no longer 'Chuck Norris facts' but 'Michael Westmore facts'.
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I just want Ve back.
I don't mind if they keep Lois, because she's been great, but there have been times I've missed Ve's rather racy sense of humor a lot this season.
The horribly ironic thing is that this is a season that's allowed beauty makeups to succeed, if not outright focused on them, and Ve, who's known for her beauty makeup, is nowhere to be seen.
I think I mentioned it in that episode's thread, but I also really missed her for the high school/mythical creature challenge. That seems like the type of thing that she loves judging.
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Funny, I take her humility as being genuine. Some people truly are humble about their gifts, talents and/or skills. I find it refreshing myself.
I agree, I think Dina really is that humble. And, honestly, there's a world of difference between saying "I suck" and saying "I'm not sure I can compete with the people around me." Dina's always fallen into the latter group. While she's certainly had training in makeup, she's nowhere near as experienced as some of the competition - some of whom have already worked in television and film, one of whom has won an Emmy. I can see those sorts of CVs being intimidating to her.
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If they're going straight into the final challenge, it was weird that George got a scene about packing up his stuff and going back to wherever he's from when we all know he'll be right back out to work on one of the finalists' teams.
I think they do that more as a courtesy than anything else. George gets his 'goodbye' scene like all the previous contestants despite everyone knowing he'll be right back for the finale portion.
Dina is amazing, is in my top three favorite contestants of all time, and I hope she wins the whole shebang. I wish that the judges would have commented on the mantis butt though. She put a lot of work into that!
I love that she was actually trying it on and making sure it would be feasible for her model to wear. It seems like the better contestants take the model's abilities and comfort levels into account when designing and fabricating. Cig did something similar, IIRC, earlier in the season (the fat suit for his gangster character, maybe).
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Why was Cig so committed to a simian face for a crab/yeti hybrid?
The yeti is often pictured or described as looking a bit like an ape. I think his cross was more between an actual yeti and a yeti crab.
When it got down to Drew or George, I was really wishing Rachael was still around. George is fun in the lab but seems to miss the mark more often than he hits it. Drew seems to overthink his concept without thinking through whether or not the concept itself is actually good, and he seemed to have sculpted a potato this week. A cuddly and/or unique potato, but still a potato.
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The funny thing to me is that Renee actually looks like she's just not using fillers or Botox (or as much of them) anymore. She got a noticeable eye lift several years ago and, combined with a possible lip filler, looked really plastic for awhile. I don't think she looks much like herself, but she looks a lot better than I would have predicted.
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This might get me stoned to death but...
I don't think Bill Murray is that funny. I said this to my husband last night after seeing non-stop commercials for his new movie last night and he was aghast. He started listing movies and I was like, "Nope, no, hate that movie, nope." The only one that I conceded was Stripes and even that one, for me, is due in large part to the supporting cast.
I'm in semi-agreement. I think Murray can be funny, but he isn't inherently a funny guy. He also seems like he'd be exhausting to try to work with, which, at least for me, tends to overshadow whatever character he's playing.
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I know, it's just pushing it, like it was on Sisters. Certainly they could have found a different way to depict that. I know nothing of pregnancy tests, but wouldn't they stay clear if you weren't pregnant?
Pregnancy tests usually measure a specific hormone in urine (at home) or blood (in a doctor's office). Because production of the hormone indicates pregnancy, if the level is higher than normal, you'll get a positive result. Unfortunately, production of that same hormone also increases when you hit menopause. You end up with a lot of false positives (or change-of-life babies) around perimenopause.
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Martha and the Doctor aren't any more "stuck" in 1969 then the others - they just aren't there for long enough to make it to 1970 and beyond. If they had never gotten the TARDIS back, Martha would have been in the same boat as Billy.
I think I'm just thinking about it in too linear a fashion.
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But I find it hard to believe Sasha was taking such a pedantic approach. Why do I have a feeling she was complaining about coming up with a one-eye concept and one of the others casually mentioned that Cyclops meant "round-eyed." And she thought making a bunch of eyes would be kewl.
I kind of think she was having difficulty hiding her model's eyes and was trying to figure out a way to get out of doing so. She used Mr. Westmore's advice to hide them, but didn't remove the other extraneous eyes.
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Okay, this one's been bugging me for awhile. Is there an in-universe explanation for how Martha and the Doctor got stuck in 1969 in 'Blink'? They obviously got sent there by a Weeping Angel, but everyone else that the Angels sent to the past lived normal life spans, aged, and died. Billy was touched by the same Angel, also winding up in 1969, but aged normally and died in the present as an old man. For whatever reason, the same doesn't happen to Martha - she and the Doctor just live in 1969 forever until they get the TARDIS back. Did I miss an explanation for that, or is it just more timey-wimey bull?
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I was sad to see that it came down to George and Rachael, as I really like both of them. I have to wonder if Rachael was going for more of a flocked look with her makeup, but it came out rough-looking instead. And I have absolutely no idea how you hear "Cyclops" and go to "tons of eyes." It doesn't make any real sense and doesn't fit the parameters of the challenge.
I'm liking Lois a lot more than I thought I would, but something about this challenge really made me miss Ve.
EmoFaun was fantastic (fauntastic? ugh, I'll show myself out).
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I'm tired of Derek. I don't enjoy watching him anymore, even though there's no denying his talent. He's technically brilliant as a dancer and adept at using clever props, smoke, hand-action, and various other distractions to cover his partners' weaknesses. But to me his dancing seems all mechanical perfection without a lot of personal feeling. His sexy dances aren't sexy and his emotional dances don't emote. It may be a "perfect" performance, but it's served cold. That being said, tonight's number didn't seem 10-worthy. The choreography wasn't Derek's best, and Bethany's footwork was mostly just a lot of twirling around.
At some point in time, I just started mentally calling Derek "Stuart," after the old MadTV character who screamed "Look what I can do!" before flailing around. He's proficient with both choreography and staging, but it all seems to be about showing off instead of actually emoting.
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I have a question and I'm sorry if I offend anyone with it, I swear that's not the intent. I'm just curious to know if people actually spend a lot of time at home discussing their own race/heritage. On the show it seemed like that was the only thing Andre and his family talked about and I think it's just so we can get to know the family more, but it did make me wonder if that's common for people of any race.
I'm white, but on one side my family is made up of pretty recent (only one or two generations back) immigrants. That side of the family definitely talks about how American (or not) any of my relatives is acting. It's a weird line between wanting your kids to have a better life than you, and not wanting your kids to lose track of their roots or how much work their parents or grandparents put in to give them that better life. So far, I'm finding that blackish is handling that line pretty well.
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FWIW, my grandparents came from Friesland and my mom and aunt both had porcelain dolls. They did indeed have the holes in the head for the hair, so perhaps it's something more scarce to find, or maybe it was only done during a certain time period, or region.
I'm pretty sure the heirloom doll kicking around in my family has a porcelain head with rooted hair. It's about a century old, though, and has been restored (which may have changed some things about it).
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The really frustrating thing about Sasha is that when she's on, she's on. If she doesn't have a concept immediately, though, it seems hard for her to get to something that's even acceptable. That said, I really liked her clown this week. The execution was great, and the concept reminded me only a bit of the dolls from the Doctor Who episode 'Night Terrors.' I also liked seeing Cig go a bit smaller than his normal hulking sculpt, but I'm still not sure that he could do something as basic as a beauty makeup. I feel like it's late in the season for me to still be wondering about that.
The others were largely forgettable. I'm not entirely sure why Stella decided that her clown needed to be made out of stuff found under the bed - the reaching hands were creepy enough. Dina's paint job was fantastic, but I wasn't really sold on the concept itself. She didn't seem to be, either. While I love Rachael, I started thinking her makeup would be right at home in the live-action version of The Tick. A little too cartoony.
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While I appreciate what Moffat's done, I don't find a large number of his episodes to be rewatchable, especially outside of series 5. Conversely, while I find Davies's run to generally be more rewatch-friendly, it's really hit-or-miss on the writing.
I think I really would have liked to see Davies writing under Moffat as show runner, or a true collaboration between the two.
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For a comedic performance, I absolutely adore Allison Janney in Drop Dead Gorgeous. Everything about her Loretta is hysterical, but she's never over-the-top with it. Seeing Janney in non-Loretta performances still weirds me out a bit.
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Clara however, is the Impossible Girl, but her mystery has been solved and I don't think Moffat knows what to do with her. Jenna Coleman is doing the best with what she's got, but it's not much. Clara is the one who should be ready to leave with the Doctor, since she has no close family that we've seen and her job seems to be exasperating, yet she treats traveling with the Doctor like it's a distraction. It doesn't do much to make me like her.
Not long after Jenna Coleman was announced, I read a brief interview with Moffat in which he said that part of the reason he cast Coleman was because she could talk faster than Matt Smith. It didn't exactly impress me, as it didn't seem that Moffat had a clear idea of what to do with Clara or what her character would be. She was just someone that could talk faster than the Doctor, even when he was babbling away. I'd hoped that Moffat would get away from that, but it really doesn't seem like he has. There's nothing tying her to her own place and time except her decision to stay there, but that decision has never really been explored. It's such a waste of a character that could be pretty interesting and an actress clearly talented enough to handle better material.
I am enjoying Capaldi, though, I'm just hoping he starts getting some better material. It's a shame that his Caecilius is still stronger than his Doctor.
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I've been on a bit of a weird Apollo 13 kick, rewatching it a few DVD chapters at a time over the last few days, and I'm once again thoroughly enjoying Ed Harris's role as Gene Kranz. Kranz isn't an easy person to play without lapsing into a 'good guy' parody - this is the guy who wrote and delivered what came to be known as the Kranz Dictum in response to the Apollo 1 tragedy - but Harris never fails to make him entirely realistically human. It'd be easy to make him too nerdy or too much of an optimist. Instead, he's a consummate professional who won't even entertain the idea of losing three astronauts, simply because it's his job to get them home safely. And when they do get home, that's when he can quietly collapse. Truthfully, I'm still a little pissed that he lost the Oscar on this one.
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How did the replacement wind up being a petite woman after we were told at length that one contestant had to change his plans because there weren't enough female models to go around? If the producers are going to engage in shenanigans, they should have stayed consistent and given Stella a male model.
My guess is that they rotate the available models for each challenge and include a male and female backup. The models likely aren't always all available, for one. I'm also pretty sure that a designer getting the same model each week would be an unfair advantage. Sculpting on the same face or knowing the model's personality could be a huge difference in the success of the makeup.
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I loved that Dina got the win tonight. Everything about her makeup was fantastic. I think I just have a disconnect with Cig's stuff, though. I can see that it's generally good, technically speaking, but something about it leaves me cold. I'd love to see him do a subtle makeup, even just once. All of his stuff is so big and over-the-top that it's beginning to feel like he can't do anything else, which I don't think is the case.
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I really liked the winning makeup this week. It was the only one that I could actually see running around Universal Studios for the next six weeks. So much is usually made of the huge and involved makeups that it was nice to see the judges appreciate restraint.
Speaking of the judges, I'm not entirely sure whether they're encouraging Sasha or just humoring her.
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I was interested in the way he was manipulating the image on the computer while they were sculpting. Do the contestants have that available to them in the lab? I wonder why more of them don't try that out when they're having trouble getting the sculpt the way they want it.
IIRC, last season the contestants used 3d modeling in one of the challenges, each working with someone trained in the software. It's worth noting that a lot of modeling programs aren't exactly intuitive and many of the contestants likely wouldn't have a lot of experience with it.
If anyone's interested, though, Autodesk (a pretty prominent modeling software company) has a few free apps for iOS that offer barebones sculpting called 123d sculpt and 123d creature. Definitely not as advanced as what the pros use, but a lot of fun to fiddle with.
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S07.E15: One Knight Only
in Face Off [V]
I think switching it up to bring in three former champions changed the dynamic a bit. If it had just been this season's cast members there likely would have been more joking around. With that said, though, I loved seeing Rashaad again. I had forgotten how beautiful his sketches are. I'm envious of anyone that puts a pencil to paper and gets results like that so quickly.
This is one of those weird finales where I'd actually have loved to see Drew, Cig, and Dina set up shop together. Drew's great at conceptual stuff, Cig fabricates and does beautiful large sculpts, and Dina is excellent with paint and fine detail. I think they'd be close to unstoppable, truthfully.
I've seen some spoilers
that they're bringing back some former contestants (champions?) to mentor the new group, turning it into more of a team competition at certain points.