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Yes, it is a completely different vocal style from the humungoid Broadway style. Bing Crosby rather than Ethel Merman. (Even though, go figure, Merman was Porter's favorite singer, I believe.) I think they were written for smaller more cabaret-type revues in the first place and are better suited for intimate cabaret vocals rather than belting. I still think they benefit from "better" voices, just not from giant belter voices.

I enjoyed this week's episode more than I have the previous ones. Maybe because it displayed more performances , and all of them were pretty funny, which doesn't always happen on these shows. Faison was great. It was weird how none of the women had much experience with the eyeballs and the various mechanical aspects. I assume everyone got onto this show because they had some kind of background making these kind of creatures? So did they just always work in teams before, in which somebody else took care of the robotics? It was disconcerting, as though I were watching Face Off and somehow none of the women had ever made a foam latex mask using a mold.

Starting this topic to mention (late) that Irinia's winning design for Marge Simposon's dinner date dress was shown on this past Sunday's episode of The Simpsons (April 6th- Luca$). It was rather sweet and the way it was worked in caught me by surprise. Suffice it to say it was the pretty much the kind of "fancy" date you could expect Homer and Marge to have.

Preach it. That and dumping the time-wasting strategy-killing Redemption island have just elevated this season tremendously..There is so much more energy.

I might enjoy it if they cast three mentors that the audience ALREADY hates (Orange Josh, Van, Vincent, Gretchen, etc.) , told them they were on UTG Season 2 and then revealed to them at the end that they were really on The Worst Mentors In America. Nope, I wouldn't enjoy that either. Let's just consider this turd flushed and leave it at that.

As I said at TWOP, there was no other plot on this show other than Uncle Nick's growth arc, so there was no other possible ending for the show. He's the only one of the mentors who hadn't already won Project Runway so there was no reason to cast him at all otherwise. His "development" from Shitty Mentor that none of the designers wanted to work with to Awesome Mentor that won the whole shebang WAS the story. What a goddamned waste of time this show was. Boo.

**raises hand** Me for one - I grew up there and New YORK is where I'd RATHER stay. I don't have any problem seeing the appeal of MInot, I just don't see how much creature fabrication he's going to do there. Casinos? Is he building animatronic robot characters there? Don't understand what he would be doing. My remark about the haunted houses was serious - that's a huge business and many contestants on Face Off come out of that scene.

My dad grew up on a farm about 200 miles away from Minot and I was wondering too - what can Josh be working on there, even as a hobby? Haunted houses? I don't belileve the pace is this crazy fast in the non-reality-television -competition world. I guess it's other things for him - too bad, I liked him and his work. The big rat this week seemed to me like the clear winner and I was expecting him to be a contender for the win. Although he seems young to have an eleven year old kid - he must be older than I thought. My initial favorite was the little rat driving the big scrap-metal monster - but it looked worse the more stuff they glued on it. Maybe it was too much orange blending into too much background orange? I loved the movement of the little puppet, but found it hard to distinguish his head. Still was glad that Ben won - and boy did Ivonne looked PISSED when he did.

Rashaad's was easily the best, even though I thought that the White Hair did a lot of the work for him in terms of culturally situating his energy vampire. Agree about the parsley hands, but I really liked the venus flytrap chest. I did not think Nico's tongue was that bad, even though I also saw the Grimm Aswang a couple of weeks ago. Perhaps it did look more like a victim (the ripping around the mouth for example) but I didn't find it comic. It was suggested on TWOP that perhaps the flaccid tongue was actually flapping around during the runway in a way we didn't see. I actually thought Tyler's was worse, but I couldn't see them getting rid of Tyler based on one flub, as opposed to Nico who's kind of hanging on by his fingernails. Still not sure why they didn't just send Nico home.

But she can't help it. None of us "gals" can. it's the estrogen that does the thinking for us. I was SO impressed by Tasha in the immunity challenge. I would love it if she goes to the end but I'm afraid she's entirely too impressive. Kass's thinking is very Russell Hantzesque - very emotional, based on punishing anyone who fails to "respect" her. As with Russell even if she gets all the way to the end I just don't see any way she can win. While I can see that the Outback reward meal was on the rich side, it was an actual meal. Steak, potatoes, and salad are better than donuts, cookies, ice cream, movie candy, etc. A much better food reward than empty sugar calories.

To quote myself from TWOP, in general my memory of Survivor is that ditching your initial alliance does not work out well. Thinking Penner and Dreamz. Even if you are clearly the bottom of three, the bottom of three is better than the bottom of six. Plus as noted by many above Kass has a remarkably shitty social game and apparently this is deliberate on her part. She is determined to be 'honest" with everyone which really is down there with Doctor Whathisname from season one who voted people out alphabetically. Even if you have good reason to believe you ARE the bottom of your original alliance, it's still better to stick with it until you can make a move that puts you in a better power position. This vote didn't do that for Kass. Plus the main evidence for "everybody wanting to get rid of Kass" comes from Sarah, who seems to think this because Spencer and Jeremiah told her this - in other words two people who were trying to butter her up, knew she didn't like Kass, and needed to secure her vote for this ONE tribal council. At this point I think she'll need to have the social game of Denise Stapley (from Phillippines) to get anywhere - and so far NOTHING I have seen from her indicates that she's going to have those kinds of skills.

Thank you - I may be slow but I AM getting it. Thanks for your patience with a new poster.

Okay, just for the record I am kind of confused. I am the poster who requested a thread for the show - and then that thread became the "personal life discussion thread" and and I had to look around to find this thread which would be devoted to discussing the actual television show which is what I was requesting. Did I phrase my request poorly?

Absolutely. He's a classic overplayer and I'm waiting to see it bite him in the ass.

The next time they run A Personal Journey Through American Movies With Martin Scorsese you all should check it out. He keeps returning to Duel In The Sun again and again - he saw it in junior high and it clearly made a huge impression on him. I think what he loves about it (aside from Jennifer Jones being just very beautiful) is the whole overheated hypersexualized melodramatic overkill of it all. It might even have been the Scorsese doc that made me see how much it was like the spaghetti Westerns of the sixties, which is what I noticed last time I saw it.

Another TWOPer here. That was RickyNightshade who I believe has joined here under a different screenname. Agree that that is a great description.

More wretched refuse here from TWOP. Why am I still watching this terrible show? At this point I truly do not give a flying fuck through a rolling donut who wins or loses this whether they be designers or mentors - a bold position I know but apparently all the judges feel the same. If I hadn't found this site perhaps I could have simply walked away - but, no, here are snarky posters and a Sars recap. Damn you. Damn you all to hell.

That's what I was thinking! This is turning out to be such a great season of Survivor, and after some kind of ho-hum ones recently, it's all the sadder that I won't be able to play around in the TWOP Survivor archive comparing past seasons, since that's been so integral to my enjoyment of watching the show. Glad to have found this refuge with so many familar screennames and others soon to become familar but so far I'm kind of wandering on this new beach like something of a zombie myself.

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