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Jeeze, what's happening to me? I can live with the winner and the losers. Good: Fade: Heidi likes flashier colors, that's all that kept this one out of the top. I loved the way he worked the patterns. The shape was lovely. Fade is turning out to be one of the very best in this competition. This should have gotten more praise and probably would have if this wasn't a Heidi challenge. Kini: Friggin' spectacular, although not entirely original looking. Loved it. Sandhya: Sure the fabric carried her a bit in this out fit, but she was smart enough to work the money angle and ended up with a gorgeous gown. I think that her first fabric, the gold daubed with the green could have been lovely in a different design. I'm glad she took advice and got rid of the one shoulder feather mess. Not the winner, but a good one. Sean: WOW. Great effort. Amanda, THIS is how fringe is done. Hang your fedora wearing head in shame, girl. This dress was amazing. The cut of the dress is absolutely Heidi. The layering of the fringe was smart. The whole thing turned out gorgeous. Bad: Alexander: WTF was that? Strangely stiff in the front, showing butt cheeks in the back. He's lucky that others were much, much, much worse. This outfit showed a complete lack of taste and didn't show much in the way of skills. Korina: Oh, honey, bless your heart. This looked like someone was trying to teach herself to sew from a Butterick pattern from the 70's. Hideous. That shade isn't emerald, either. She's lucky she didn't go home. Kristine: Below the waist, it was fine, but above the waist was spectacularly bad. She didn't take Heidi's input regarding devil horns, either. Deserved to go home. Mitchell: He was well past his sell-by date. I can see Mitchell having a great career designing clothes for wealthy South Florida society ladies. He wasn't able to stretch beyond that, though. That dress was an absolute mess. Sayonara. Samantha: Another WTF, and she's lucky the bottom three were so frickin bad. Bird boobs. Odd side train. And it still manages to be boring. Meh: Amanda: The dress was fine. Nothing to gush over. This was the "going on a cruise ship" outfit Heidi was worried she'd get. It's the same Cleopatra inspired gown we've seen on runways since the 1950's, although probably cut a bit deeper. I really didn't care for the combination of colors in her trim. The blue was a pretty shade. The coppery color can be pretty. Together, I didn't like it. I didn't understand the gushing over this one, although Zac didn't seem as impressed as the other judges. Char: I like Char but I think we may be learning that her skills and imagination are limited. This dress looked like a first attempt by a design school student. Char's skating along in the middle, but as the really bad designers are sent home one after another, she's getting closer and closer to the bottom. Emily: Good heavens, WTF was that. Sure, short and tight are exactly Heidi's style, but she went into sci-fi villainess territory. Ugly.

Cochise's speech about learning to set up caches from Native Americans bothered me. No one among the Volm or other races ever thought that it might be a good idea to stockpile things? Except that the moon isn't always available. It circles around the Earth so you'd have to plan on having it zap you energy as it passed by.

I kept wondering why he doesn't just walk out into the sun already. Why wait for the disease to take him? Ridiculous.

Two words: Waffle House.

If it had been me, I'd have more clearly said "Red Robin took something (hamburger) that can be rather old fashioned and made it new and interesting. The challenge for you, designers, is to take these old fashioned suits and turn THEM into something new and fresh."

This is part of my problem with the moto jackets. Good grief, there were moto jackets in Lord and Taylor a year ago. I wish there weren't so many designs that look to be knock off of things in stores now or in the recent past. That's why I like Sandhya and Fade. They have their own styles and vision and their designs don't look like something you see every day.

More thoughts now that I've had a chance to look at the photos: Best outfits: I'd have been happy with a win by any of these designers. Emily: She made a silk purse out of a sow's ear. The outfit is cute, flattering, interesting, and very well done. She should have gotten more praise than she did. Maybe the judges thought it could have been improved with some fringe. Fade: I'm starting to love your funky and fun styles. I probably wouldn't wear them, but I love to look at them. Fade can work a pattern and his shapes are fun and interesting. Definitely one of the best. Kini: This was very nice. Not something I'd wear, but it made great use of the material and actually (as the judges said) gave a good nod to the original suit. Sandhya: This was great. Fun, flattering, pretty, and I wanted to see more of it close up. How did she get that greying effect on the skirt? Another hit out of the ballpark. Worse outfits: Char: I hate to say it, because I like her, but this outfit sucked. What the heck was up with that neckline? The slit up the front was too high for a mini dress. In the photos you can almost see the model's underwear. The bow. Jeeze louise that was terrible. Colors are nice but it looks trashy and like a student project. She shouldn't have done home, however. Hernan: This outfit looks like a rejected costume from either Buck Rogers or Logan's Run. Trashy looking, poorly made. He has the fatal combination of bad taste and low skills. His trash talking was frickin pitiful. He was the correct person to go home. Christine: Oh, man was that a hot mess. Ugly and a whole series of poor decisions. She's lucky that Hernan was a complete disaster. Mitchell: What the heck is with all the sci-fi outfits? Were their minds still on the future challenge from last night? Mitchell has some trash-tastic taste perfectly suited for Miami and South Beach. For the rest of the country? Eh, not so much. This dress should be a waitresses uniform at a bar on some distant space station. Or maybe be worn by one of Kirk's alien love interests on the original Star Trek. Maybe with pale green skin to contrast the blue. He's on the cusp of bad and safe here. It appears to be well made, but damn. Safe outfits: Alexander: I thought this was nice enough but not spectacular. What were the judges seeing that I missed? Amanda: I think the judges believed the second crappy pattern in that dress was from the lining of the suit. She bought that, though, didn't she? If it was the lining, good for her for trying to make it work. If she bought it, she has terrible taste. The dress was fine, but pretty much a fringe festooned version of something you can find at any vintage shop or from a dozen or more vendors on Etsy. Meh. I hated the combination of patterns. It was a bad attempt at capturing 70's style. If she puts fringe on anything else, she should be sent home immediately. Korina: Meh. She's in well trodden territory here. How many times have we seen variations of this look on runways or on Project Runway. Heck, even in department stores over the last year or so. She modified it only so far as it could now be a costume on a military oriented sci fi show. Maybe the original Battlestar Gallactica or Space 1999. Samantha: Oh, honey. This needed a pop of color or something. This is the uniform of a very sexy policewoman on a distant space station. Maybe she hangs out with Mitchell's waitress after work. Meh. Sean: I'd have put him in the safe category, not the bad category. The top should have been black or a color to contrast the 50 Shades of Beige skirt. I liked the banding in the skirt and the ragged edges, but the seams down the side should have had their raw edges inside so it didn't look like she was wearing her skirt inside out. I put him in the safe category because he tried something here.

Hernan was the right choice to go home. Damn, dude, poor taste, poor skills, and a tad delusional to boot. I disagree with the judges on the top three. I think it should have been Kini, Sandhya, and Fade. Kini's tailoring was great given the time limitation. Sandhya and Fade both produced beautiful, eye catching outfits that looked well made. Amanda's dress should have been safe, not the winner. It was fine, but as the judges said you can find dresses like that in many vintage stores. The placement of the fringe was very good, but is she going to dangle stuff off out fits now that she won on two dangly outfits?

One last comment from me on this. Let's look at it a different way. Where do you think Phil would have been? Or Sig? Or Edgar?

There's no point to it, other than the writers must have thought it would look and sound way cool.

More likely, the word business should be in quotation marks. Either way, he learned a hard lesson. If he's actually interested in a long term career in fishing, he learned that there are potentially major risks even after the boat is back at the dock. If he's in it for the television exposure, he learned that he looks terrible when he hauls a$% and leaves the work to other people.

I was amazed that Gordon and the show paid for six months rent for the owners of this hotel. That was amazing, sweet, and one of the exact things they needed. Suki was really moved. Bravo, Gordon and colleagues.

From the recap: Would that actually work? Vampires have drank Sookie's blood at various points since the first season. Sookie never gave them the ability to walk in daylight. She's too diluted or some such thing, isn't she?

I disagree. Josh hauled a$% because the cameras were turned off. Any owner who works out on the boat would make arrangements for bills to be paid etc while he was gone. Any decent owner would take an interest in his boat, the massive investment that enables him to make a living. It really was. I have to say that whenever I see Sig and he looks rested with clean hair that I think something is wrong with him. lol The extra footage of the CM was great and it's the sort of thing that made me a diehard Deadliest Catch fan from the start. I love the ups and downs of the actual work, not so much concentration on people like Eliot or Jake (who I was rooting for to make a come back, but he hasn't changed much). I want to see them fixing equipment out at sea or hear the captains discuss the merits of various secret crabbing spots then take a risk. I've had enough of Eliot on the phone to which ever woman it is at the time or to his lawyer. I'm watching Deadliest Catch, not Intervention.

I agree with your boyfriend. I think Bill's refusal of the magic hepV curing blood is supposed to tie back to his having been a fairly conflicted vampire before he got evil and became a god and all. Maybe he's tired of drinking blood and killing people so he's just going to let himself die. The one problem with that is that a suicidal vampire doesn't need to go to all that trouble of catching a disease and take the time to wait out the disease's progress. He or she can just take a wee stroll outside when the sun is up. I have a suspicion that Bill's sacrifice of himself and Sookie's reaction to it are going to annoy me greatly. It's curious that Bridget is a microbiologist. When she was first introduced, I figured that she'd somehow be involved with the cure of HepV maybe by culturing a microbe that produces the cure or something. It seems like a fairly specific and unusual occupation and one that wouldn't be all that common up in the oil fields of Alaska where Hoyt has been working, unless he was hanging out in bars near one of the university campuses or near a Federal lab. This is probably closer to the direction they'll take than my guess that Bill's tired of being a vampire. Everything has to keep coming back to Bill and Sookie, despite they're being an uninteresting and even disliked couple.

Because they're in a contest in which Nina is a judge. In this event, Amanda is NOT their equal. They're judges and she's a contestant.

The dress was too long for Heidi. She likes shiny and super short minis.

I was actually happy with this episode: - Angela was the right person to go home. Yes, the post-apocalyptic muumuu was terrible, but Angela's been on a downward trajectory each of these episodes. Tim's right. This isn't the right venue for her personality or talents. Or her thin skin. - Speaking of post-apocalytic muumuu's, Alexander you made a mess this week. Ugly, sad, but even as bad as it was, it wasn't the worst. - Amanda got the smack down that outfit (and last week's) actually deserved. She was already sketching out her Fashion Week collection in her head, but has a lot of competition yet to go before she gets there. Amanda needs to drop the attitude and get her head in the game. - Char disappointed me mightily this week. The pants were nice, but just pants. That stuff around the model's neck was a monstrosity. Not her week. - Emily's outfit was beautiful and well made, but not really ground breaking. It deserved to be in the top but not to win. - Fade, once again, made something fascinating. The shapes were fairly standard, but his use of pattern was awesome. I'd also have put him in the top. - Hernan, sweet heaven, that was horrible. Horrible. Unflattering. Ugly. Trashy looking. He should have been one of the bottom two. Yes, the post apocalyptic muu muu was bad, but it was better than this hot mess. - Kini. It looked well made enough, but it was just sort of dark and sad. This man's from Hawaii and he sees a future this dark? - Korina, honey, I was wearing something close to that in the mid-1980's just with larger shoulder pads. Meh, at best. - Kristina's outfit was gorgeous. Absolutely gorgeous. We've seen things like this before, but she did a great job. She deserved to be in the top two. - Mitchell's Miami roots really show through, although a woman wearing a neoprene jump suit (it was two pieces but looked like a jump suit) in Miami's heat would fall over from heat stroke. This outfit looked like workout wear that you can buy at any of a range of upscale shops right now. Not exactly pushing any boundaries. - Samantha, that's a whole lot of look. I wish she'd have edited back a little. If it's cold enough to wear a giant cowl around your neck, perhaps the model should be wearing a nice pair of leather pants or tailored slacks rather than a short skating skirt. It didn't make sense. - Sandhya's look was funky, imaginative, and fun. I think Kristina's was actually better but Sandhya's showed a lot of imagination. I also enjoyed it immensely when all the haters were shocked...again. At some point they have to stop saying that they don't understand how her looks could win and start looking at what she's doing that they AREN'T. - Sean's look was designed for a modern day Puritan or Calvinist minister's wife who is too stern and hardcore to own something as frivolous as an iron.

Once the cameras should have stopped rolling, he was flying on out of there. No interest in overseeing his investment, making sure the ship was cleaned and closed up correctly, or anything. He's riding his "this is for Dad" shtick for the camera time and the money. How old is he going to be before he finally grows up? The captain and crew did a good job of saving the Cornelia Marie, very smart work. Thinking about it, it was probably better that Josh was gone at that point. On other subjects: - Saga: Elliott is sleazy at best. Those poor kids have a life of erratic parenting behind them and in front of them. Why does Elliott have Val's name on tape on his wheel house console above the kids' photos? Does he think he's getting back with her? What about his girlfriend on the boat, who apparently has had enough of cooking for the crew? I hope they drop him from the show, but know they won't. - Cape Caution: Wild Bill is a bit of a head case. I'm glad he likes his son when the pressure is off. I hope he tells his son at some point. - Northwestern: How do I love thee, let me count the ways. Skilled, professional people doing their jobs well and generally treating each other with respect. - Time Bandit: It was wonderful that one of the Hillstrands (Andy, wasn't it?) came over to help the captain of the Cornelia Marie. They're a goofy bunch, but get the job done and take care of each other. Bravo. - Seabrooke: I can see why Junior might think he's cursed at this point. That was some bad luck at a time that he was trying to catch up after being laid up after surgery. I'm glad his back seems to be doing ok, he wasn't complaining about the pain. It was nice to see everyone dealing with a problem from start to finish, finding the issue all the way to getting the crabs to port early and fixing the pipe. It was a good slice of life segment and reminded me that these guys know what they're doing, too. - Wizard: As Merylinkid mentioned above, I'd like to see a cost-benefit breakdown of Keith's decision to fish out by Russia. Did the numbers per pot justify the traveling distance? Reduced time at sea fishing offset travel time? I didn't really get a good feeling for any of that.

Or Dr Ludwig could have been trying to avoid the s$%t storm of stupid that accompanies the royal fairy family wherever they go in space or time.

I'm still halfway expecting Lourdes to rise up as some kind of more powerful minion of Lexi.

I don't understand why Lexi had to go into a cocoon to emerge as more psychic and detached. Cocoons are for physical changes, not mental and emotional ones.

This, a thousand times, this. When Amanda won, my first thought was "Oh, no, she's going to be even MORE insufferable." She doesn't have half the talent required to back up her ego and attitude.

I was disappointed in the better outfits this time. In most non-conventional challenges, there's an outfit that makes you go "Wow!" such as Mondo's ombre dress made of hamster bedding cedar shavings. Mitchell's came closest to a jaw dropper, mainly due to the iridescence of the CDs. Amanda's dress was the best of her group's (but it was mostly friggin muslin, which she herself claimed as a big no-no), by a long shot, but that's not saying much and I don't think the three of them together were the best team. They would't or shouldn't have even been in the top if this was a singles competition. They benefited because each of the other teams had at least one person bringing them down. Even with Angela's sad entry (basically a simple short dress with a minor amount of paper tatters glued one, she missed the whole idea of the competition this week), Fade and Sean should have carried that team to a victory. Angela has a bigger problem than her lack of self confidence and whining. She's really rigid in her thinking and was unable to come up with something new. She wanted to design a paper version of her wedding dress. Thank god she was talked out of those paper flowers. Angela was 100% unable to look at the materials at hand and free think. That's a profound flaw. I wonder if in future episodes if she'll basically be making versions of things she'd made in the past. Both Carrie and Hernan deserved to go home, Hernan in particular should have left. He grabbed the reins of the team and drove them straight into a ditch with a solid assist from Carrie. Sandhya's skirt would have wowed the judges. Instead of seeing something interesting there, Carrie and Hernan kept saying that they don't get it. Their response should have been "We don't get it, but she won last week for an outfit we didn't get so lets see if we can bring elements of this into our own designs." No, they badger and berate Sandhya until she comes down to their level. Both Carrie and Hernan showed themselves to be entirely without class. They'd have thrown EVERYONE under the bus to save themselves, not just Sandhya. Neither of them really listened to the critique, they just heard a snippet that seemed to fit their ego driven world view and they ran with it. Shame on them both. Among the safe folks: Emily put eyes on her model's breasts and massive hips. Jeeze louise was that hideous. I thought Samantha's was cute, however. Not massively groundbreaking, but cute and an interesting use of the CDs. Char did a cute dress again this week. She didn't really transform the tickets into something new, but the outfit was cute. She's going to be a star of this series. Kini, once again, has some damn questionable taste. WTF was that stiff looking puff ball of a dress that he put on his model? Mitchell was the star of that group. The dress was really basic, but the shine and glimmer of the CD's were beautiful. If this had been a single event rather than teams, he'd have been in the top with Fade and Sean.

You're giving Josh too much credit.