staphdude

To me her death makes perfect sense. Her power was in her relationships with those that could actually enforce her will. She was utterly alone with Jon and he clearly had the upper hand. What would have been more ridiculous was him fighting through Dothraki and unsullied in order to strike her down.

You can see how they did remember and this was a “cryptic” way of indicating the fate they have chosen for themselves, right?

People have been speaking about tropes in fantasy...It seems to me that the unlikely misfit (usually a man/boy) with no claim to any special powers that turns out to be essential to the safety of the realm is classic and applies here nicely. Dany was just a distraction. Jon was meant to rule.

Jaime may have loved Brienne but he Loved Cersei. Theirs was epic love. They had children together; she was carrying his child and he had killed for her. No one affected him like she did and had for his ENTIRE life. Of course he would go to her. Loved when Cersei noped the fuck out on the Clegane reunion. I get why people didn’t like Cersei’s ending but it was fitting. She dreaded dying in that hole and ultimately she is dead. The fact that she had Jaime there probably both gave some comfort but also brought home that she had no one else in her life. For me Jon is strong and true. This is what was necessary to break his resolve to support his Queen. The King of the North- Forged in fire and pain.

I’ll take it.

A Targaryen mad woman being defeated by the King of the North will be wonderfully delicious.

Or it normalizes behaviour and provides cover for those who engage in it. Say for instance if a designer or viewer to say that a model wasn’t hot enough and we needed someone people want to look at....More Cindy Crawford less androgynous stick figure. That is good right.

Right eh. And they could use more eye candy for the female models too correct? Those discussions were fine but when someone questions the size, appearance or quality of a female model they are inappropriate...

So Bennet whines and moaned about Wallace but in my mind if he wanted to spotlight issues with following the rules he should have focused on either Phil or Renee. IMO neither addressed the challenge properly. Phil did use both ingredients but the were in no way integrated so he was able to to make a straightforward caviar dish and then people could have some “unique” cotton candy. His explanation of the colour palette of the caviar dish evoking cotton candy was BS. Then there’s Renee. You got hotdog. You didn’t use hotdog. No, wadded meat on a stick is not hotdog. It looked good but I am sure plenty of people would like to just say this reminds me of that so I will choose to do what I want and not overcome the roadblock put before me.

Her delusion is that she is the one true saviour of the people and the realm. On the personal front I agree there are lots of people who are undermining or are outright hostile to her...but that is the game she is playing.

Dany is becoming what she was destined to become...power crazed just like her brother and father before them. Delusions are steadily starting to float more closely to the surface and her ultimate love of the throne above all else is palpable. She and Cersei are two sides of the same coin. Shame it could never be Tyrion and Sansa ruling...

Well the judges are bought and paid for. Fashion whores who are high on the lucky charms infused MDMA that is Hester.

Oops missed that! While it isn’t likely a major factor I was wondering how much that was considered given pricing at Mood. I recall a previous episode where one of the sales people quoted an exorbitant per yard price for a fabric....

Pot calling her mother black. Tessa is short and curvy so perhaps she should rethink her idea of what is appropriate in a model. As a perhaps irrelevant aside could someone with more expertise weigh in on how much more material is required when sizing up designs for height and or “curviness”. Lela’s and Venny’s dresses were as boring as Sonia’s. In my mind elegance often tends towards classic. Worn with confidence those looks never shout boring. i wish they wouldn’t define a challenge one way and then judge on different criteria. according to Webter’s Elegance is “refined grace or dignified propriety” while OED says elegant is “graceful and stylish in appearance or manner”. These should be the criteria at the forefront of the judging and so in my mind Sonia should have stayed and Bishmee should have gone. Otherwise provide a more complete picture of what you are looking for, not just elegant but modern.

You don’t form a religion around someone and then throw it all away the moment the figure of adoration appears and begins behaving exactly as he always promised. Satan would not be that weak and they should in no way be able to trap him. He is the source of their power. This isn’t some touchy feely earth based witchcraft. It is dark, cannibalistic, evil magic, witchcraft. The “Dark Lord” would suffer no such indignities. Pluckiness doesn’t overcome true power.

Man, this challenged turned into a version of Noma-lite. Panna-cotta??? She really should have used the juniper in some pickled herring. Perfect as an appetizer and would have made much more sense. Bye bye vegetable based cooking. Don’t know why you were worried about vegan desserts as in my experience they are often wonderful. I think it is your execution that is the cause for concern.

I could have dealt with Hester being safe but a win is a MFing stretch. It was a cheap costume/cosplay by an earnest but uncreative teen. Games have characters in costumes. Do not craft challenges based on costumes and then ask they not do something “costumey”. A miller falls in the farm category for me so Rakan’s Syrian farm women are a no no but have a woman lugging a dusty sack and EMPOWERMENT! If anything Tessa’s would be a NPC and fade into the background with that muted palette. i also found it strange that when the teen vogue judge complained about Hester’s costume Karlie defended it by talking about how it would look virtually/digitally. Rakan’s digital drawing looked great. So judges please try and make some effort to be consistent.

And wasn’t it just recently that the “little farm on the prairie” look was all the rage? I know fashion wouldn’t exist without shifting styles and trends but this 1984 level of cognitive dissonance is ridiculous.

Someday...I am as old or older than those you list. I never said they couldn't judge fashion. Thanks but I am not looking for your validation of my opinion.

It is the derision and hypocrisy in some of her statements that I find annoying. Moreover I don't think she has a grasp on youth or street culture any more than most older people who are no longer in that demographic. All the people you listed in your response are old. What of it?

The fact of the matter is they are designing for a very narrow demographic. As a 50+, suburban man there is very little in the way of expectation of fashion. I can pretty much dress any way I want and no one bats an eye. I just assume they are imagining dressing someone 19-26 yrs old whose body type is undoubtedly model thin.

Is she a young woman? I do think she is old especially in the context of this show and her comments. Exactly. Temper, temper. To your second point- I agree that would be a better approach but that would be a tectonic shift in attitude that is just about as likely as hell freezing over.

An old woman making pronouncements on what is youthful, street and modern is laughable. THen again these people will deride something one day then sing its praises when it shows up a few seasons later. They have no shame and the memory of a gnat. I see Rene Was inspired by Eddie Veder circa 1991. Thanks God Kovind is gone. It seems to me knowing Dapper Dan reflects on the breadth of one's knowledge of fashion not whether or not "you know fashion".

The downfall of the multi-competition winning chef was somewhat surprising. They seemed to go out of their way to find redeeming features in the egg dish so either hers sweet peach fish bite really was terrible or she was next on the list. Wish they would do away with restaurant wars. It is such a tedious exercise in manufactured drama and unrealistic expectations. The only good thing I can say about this iteration is they shouldn’t be screaming about how understaffed they are.

Not really much unconventional material in this challenge. They should require the use of at least 50% items that wouldn't normally be identified as fabric/cloth/ string. I would have kept Afa and sent both Sonia and Kovind home. Afa made a survival outfit for a specific environment. That is perfectly reasonable considering they never said it had to be a Northeast, late autumn ensemble.