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18 hours ago, Auntie Anxiety said:
I thought I saw a shadow of a camera man/woman in one or two shots? Maybe I’m delusional from not eating enough moss?
I thought so too, but it was just how he was holding the camera (with the long microphone attached) with his arm straight out to the side. The shadow from the setting sun made it look weird.
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21 hours ago, slaterain said:
The woman guest coach annoyed me and I didn't agree with many of her points (granted she did try to tell Jason what was wrong - well the nose part at least). Her attitude was a bit obnoxious while the guy was giving really clear recommendations and supporting the women. I wish that they didn't move the guest coach on based on who got cut and instead based it on who got the best tattoo!
I'll admit I experienced some schadenfreude joy with the sequence:
- "I won every single flash challenge, right up until the men stopped listening to me"
- All the men listen to her
- The men lose
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I didn't care for Ash's tattoo, and she'd been circling the drain for so long, I'm glad she's out.
Jason's was totally off though. The top of the axe handle was twice as thick as the bottom. It made no sense.
Even so, floating handcuffs and that terrible canton on the flag, so dark and making the skull disappear, I don't really have a problem with that decision. It may have been biased, sure, but she didn't help her cause with an equally bad if not worse composition.
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12 hours ago, SweetSin said:
It seems the producers tell the contestants to keep dressing the same to fulfill some look or stereotype. Noah with the overalls and bandana to keep the southern country look going, Micah with the backwards hat for some reason, Nick too keep looking like a college kid, Bri has to look like she walked off the set of Beverly Hills 90210, and Dorian has the play the older contestant with the library bun in her head.
Absolutely 100% this is how it's done, on this shows and others. Producers pick the wardrobe and make them keep wearing the same thing. The poor fishmonger in his hoodie, dressed for a frigid New England morning or ready to go out on the Andrea Gail, must be boiling under those hot studio lights.
(As far as wardrobe goes, most famously, Cochran from Survivor had never worn a sweater vest before being forced to wear one on every season he's on, and that's what he's known for now)
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On 8/1/2019 at 4:58 AM, Writing Wrongs said:On 7/31/2019 at 10:38 PM, mlp said:
I wonder if all the contestants hadn't already chosen their cakes before the filming and had been given recipes and instructions then acted out choosing for the cameras. I find it hard to believe that they all just figured out the ingredients and so on by tasting their selections. They barely had time to get the cakes baked and cooled let alone spend time thinking and maybe experimenting to get flavors right.
Exactly. I find it hard to believe that these "home cooks" know how to produce most of what's on the show.
Typically, in past seasons, after Gordon describes the challenge, they stop filming and are given instructions/recipes/guidelines/rules/etc. Then they restart the cameras and return to their stations and give it a go. They are allowed to consult the massive library of recipe books next to the pantry for a set amount of time as well.
Same on other shows, I remember one 'controversial' challenge on Top Chef where a team had to either cook 'all-vegetarian' or 'all-carnivore' food, and the team that picked 'all-carnivore' acted stunned when they weren't allowed to use some pantry staples. Tom blogged after the show "we went over the entire challenge with the Rules Lawyers in between describing it and doing it, so, any misunderstanding is on the contestants."
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1 hour ago, Ham On Wry said:
I give him some degree of credit for trying to deliver AND downplay the perversion of what the guy asked for, his drawing notwithstanding. His canvas's request was a metaphor for his own scenario. I myself fail to imagine a cowboy-riding horse that doesn't result in a perversely suggestive image. Because a man has to go on all fours to be ridden by a horse..or the horse has to stand on two feet like a human.
So , for Dave to opine as he did---well, ya, this canvas is a sick mf who should move to Washington state and work for Boeing--but if your canvas wants a tat of a horse fucking a cowboy? Is the judging criteria now, Which of these tats do I like most and would most want myself?
I dunno, I think Pon could have done something like the classic rearing-up pose, the human on two legs, rearing up, with his arms bent in front with the hands bent down, and the horse on his back, waving a cowboy hat in the air, like this but with the roles reversed... but... Pon can't draw. Pon could only copy a reference of what he found online. For that reason he deserved to go home... because he couldn't create an image the canvas wanted other than the horsefucking one. If he had drawing talent he could have satisfied the canvas and avoided the suggestive angle. But he could only do it head-on because he doesn't have the drawing talent needed.
42 minutes ago, Wandering Snark said:And with respect to that tat, how do you put a horseshoe on backwards (twice even as the smaller shoe was the same!) and get the shape wrong as well?
I noticed that! I'm surprised none of the judges brought it up. It's not quite as egregious as misspelling the Bible book from seasons ago, but, still, something they will usually nail an artist for HARD.
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Everything about this episode made-up me giggly happy. Kelly's comments, Ash's humor, Jime totally killing it, and the women's sweep were all fantastic to watch. Granted I fast forwarded through all of the scenes in the dorms, but still, fun episode.
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2 minutes ago, Tanstaafl said:
shoot the wolverine pining it to the ground. Not that it doesn't take a lot of courage to finish it off with just a hatchet. It would have been interesting to see exactly how he was able to kill it
I assume he just walked up to it, grabbed it with one bare hand, then placed his other bare had right in front of the wounded animals mouth so he could pin it in place while he thought about what to do. Right, Nikki?
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5 hours ago, ML89 said:
Evan reminded me of that guy who was first out of the first Top Chef after tasting with a spoon and then reusing it, who got into it with Tom C.
I noticed Subha did this in this episode, lol
He tasted his sauce, loved it, dipped the spoon back in for a second taste it was just so delicious of course, tasted it again, then dropped the twice-used spoon back in the same bowl.
Surprised none of them caught it.
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I thought it was hilarious that the guy who said last week "Really, I don't have to do a watercolor background every time" managed to do one in a black & gray challenge. It looked like a terrible decision, but there it was!
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13 hours ago, MostlyContent said:
Nathan doesn't bring a ferro rod. WAIT. WHAT?
My (mostly not-really serious) conspiracy theory is that he tried really, really hard to get a fire going with sticks, saw his camera had stopped recording, and decided to use that as cover to pop out the battery and used a bit of wire to jumper its connections to get a spark ;)
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I want whatever that cake thing was
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When I first started watching this show years ago, I'd wonder how they'd decide who gets to go through to the actual show from the auditions. I would imagine it's tough, early on, for the judges to decide if someone did, or didn't, deserve to be in the top-20 having only tasted a few dishes and not having much to compare it too. How silly would it be should someone cook in an early matchup, have a great, but not better than the person next to them, dish... only to be denied a spot, and have everyone that follows fail to measure up and be sent home prematurely?
Then I realized that they must have some idea of who is going to be a talented chef, and who is cannon fodder, before the judges actually taste their food.
I mean, if the producers are watching audition tapes, then call up a cook to say "we're thinking of having you audition, what's your signature dish?" and he says "I'm going to mix a traditional Indian stew from my homeland into a classic Creole delicacy of my adopted country," and you just know they penciled him in as one of the 20 'contenders' to make the cut.
Then they just had to find 20 other idiots to round out the rest of the competition to make it good for TV. And they knew they had one of them all set when he answered the signature dish question with: "I'm going to bake a vannoli. It's a vagina cannoli."
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On 5/23/2019 at 5:56 AM, green said:
What TAR did was showcase the problem in Uganda and showed gays winning the leg there. And it is a TV series that is seen in most countries in Africa (and everywhere else) so it actually made a positive, helpful contribution, however minor, to the problem. People there who never knowingly met a gay person before but only hear them demonized see something different on their screens now and it starts them thinking. You have to talk and even show to open channels and minds if you want change. Not shun.
Maybe I read too deeply into things, but, I couldn't help but notice after all the talk of the LGBTQ+ issues in Uganda... the detour task was to assemble a bundle of sticks...
I don't know if Production was thinking everything through.
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Heck of a weird play in the most recent Survivor South Africa tribal council. One of the worst mis-reads of all time.
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Season 2 is coming to Amazon on May 17
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Quite well done
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It's always fun to spot the Star Trek: The Next Generation connections on this show. The sub captain was named Reginald Barclay.
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"Ah, fuck you calling me 'Father' like it doesn't turn you on just to say it."
Lordy
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This is a great show. And so fucking crazy. I mean the comedy is hilarious, the sexual tension runs high, and then the outright deep human drama it's all revolving around... just pathos. It's awesome.
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4 hours ago, North of Eden said:
It was a dumb play not putting it between the seasons. When it was sandwiched their last year it had the best ratings it had in YEARS (Cody and Jess being on it probably helped too-sorry but I love 'em) but instead they'll fritter it away in June when all the "gone fishin' " signs are hung up and few are watching.
I wish they would too, but CBS can't anymore because of how Sweeps fall in the calendar. Unless they doubled up TAR and did 2 hours a week for a bunch. But I'm glad we get at least one season of TAR a year.
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10 hours ago, cousin oliver said:19 hours ago, cooksdelight said:
If they hadn’t gotten rid of Reem when they did, a machete would have wound up in her back. That woman is so freaking annoying, I don’t remember anyone like her ever being on the show before.
Natalie was just last season!
Haha exactly! I'm glad Reem got voted out early because watching Natalie hang around for as long as she did was definitely exhausting! It was a better show once she was gone, and I'm hoping that Reem doesn't linger either.
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I went to college with David, nice guy. We worked on a TV comedy show together for a year.
Funny thing, one day I ran into Survivor contestant Aubry at a food truck. I mentioned she looked familiar, but couldn't quite place where I knew her from. She said I probably recognized her from Survivor. Then it clicked. "Were you on Millennials vs Gen X?" I asked. "No, I was on the season before that." "Oh, that's right. My friend David was on the Gen X tribe so that's the one I watched."
She instantly knew who David was, and said they'd become friends on the Survivor circuit. Said she'd pass along a hello from me.
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I am 99% sure that the landing area where they did the first contact is the quad at CSUN, and the massive building was the same one used as Starfleet Academy in the JJ rebootverse.
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Masterchef (US) - General Discussion
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I dunno, this happens every season. The nice, soft, fan-favorite type who just isn't really all-around skilled enough to win but you still like them gets a golden parachute upon elimination.
It's pretty much guaranteed that Micah will be offered a job at one of the judge's restaurants once he's finally kicked off. No doubt.