Let me start by saying I love this show. Having said that I'm really starting to believe the show is somewhat rigged. Roly in the finale????!!!!! I give him an A+ on the army boots he did but that shark? The shark he did was so anatomically off it was ridiculous. Sharks are fish yet he gave it the tail of a mammal (it looks like a whale or dolphin tail). Am I the only one who noticed that? And that's just one of too many to count issues wrong with that so called shark. Then lets talk about that pinup he did. You know the one with the broken neck and so many anatomically wrong body parts that you would need a slide rule to catch them all. The producers of this show obviously wanted each coach to have one member from their team in the finale. There's no other way to logically justify Roly in the finale. Rigged.
The contestant finale: let me state first I have no dog in this fight. I just try to look at each piece and fairly judge them. Roly proved why he should not have been there by completely missing the challenge. He had a green dogs head (did you see the nose on that thing) an eagle head and something that loosley resembled a snake. Where was the battle royale? A complete miss. As previously stated by others Josh's tattoo was utterly unreadable. A total mess. Whether standing close or at a distance you can't decipher anything in this piece. Only after staring at it for 20 minutes can you begin to see the three creatures. Then you can begin to see how poorly they were done. The eagle??? This head of this thing is a chicken if I have ever seen one. And what eagle has feather's like that? For that matter what bird has feather's like that? The snake was a mess and was the same size as the dragon which also was a mess. Do snake tongues really look like that? And why all the muted pastel colors? Did his piece display the three way battle royale? Who know's it's unreadable!! Juan's piece had it's issues as well. The eagle was done well but the dragon and snake not so much. The dragon was too small and looked about as ferocious as a kitten. Snake's don't have teeth like sharks but Juan missed that day in school. And again as with Josh's snake what's with that tongue??!! There was no 3 way battle royale here it was the eagle fighting the other two. One positive note on Juan's was you could distinguish the three combatants. I wouldn't want to wear any one of these tattoos. I honestly don't think any of them were that good. It was a weak final. But I think the clear winner here was Juan followed by Josh with Roly bringing up the rear. I get judging tattoo's is subjective but there is no way you can tell me Josh's tattoo beat out Juan's. Rigged.
The Master's finale: Again let me preface my comments by saying I am not partial to any one of these three. The judging of the snake tattoo's should have gone 1. Steve 2. DJ 3. Anthony. Anthony clearly had the weakest piece (why would anyone tattoo a snake with the mouth closed not showing the fangs?). The dagger was also not done well and what was the point of the cresent moon? And why wasn't the snake wrapped around the dagger instead of being coiled in front of it? Both DJ and Steve did awesome snakes. Steve put the wierd "glass" hand in his but he did it well and the snake interacted with it. DJ put a red ball behind the snake and some yellow thing that who knows what that was having the snake not interacting with either "thing". Steve clearly won this. The head tattoo's. First let me say they all three did awesome jobs. Having said that they need to be critiqued fairly which the judges did not do. Anthony again had the weakest piece. The eagle on top of the head looks washed out. The female head has black in it but the male counterpart on the oher side again looks washed out. The exact opposite with the small heads above the ears (you can't tell me the one with glasses doesn't look like Mr. T) one was washed out the other had black in it. DJ packed the color in his and it popped. The skull and the mask on top of the head both done extremely well. The blue flowery mess spreading out down the shoulders and back looks completely out of place and kills this piece. I mean it looks bad. Not only does it not fit with the piece it has blowouts (how can you give the title to someone when their piece has blowouts???!!!). Steve's piece was done extremely well. Not only that it fit the head perfectly. No blowouts, no washed out areas. So, if these pieces had been judged fairly by the judges (clearly if you have watched the show from the first season you know this is not the first time an artist has been robbed) the clear winner should have been Steve with DJ in second place and Anthony third. If DJ had followed the guidlines and just done the head piece without the blue mess then it would have been a difficult choice betweem he and Steve. But by trying to go bigger than the other two (and not following the guidlines, see Josh) he actually shot himself in the foot with a terrible blue mess completely out of place with the head piece and with blowouts. Steve was eliminated first!!!??? You can probably make a case for DJ's piece (although with that blue mess running down the back with blowouts I do question how) but there is no way Anthony's tattoo's, the snake or the head piece, were better than Steve's, no way. Rigged.
I think it's clear both Steve and Juan were robbed. As I stated at the beginning I do love this show but the lack of fair critques is becoming annoying.
