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The fact that Silas' body hasn't been discovered by a hunter with a dog or just a dog out with it's owner is mindnumpingly stupid. Upstate New York is not a great place for dumping bodies. Too many people, too many hunters...just too much. So idiotic. Eddie just needs to leave with Hawk. End of story. There is nothing that can make me believe that Eddie could possibly love Sarah after the death looks she's been throwing at him for the past two or three episodes. If the writers don't take Eddie and Hawk out of the cult, this show loses what little credibility it has. A show about a cult could have been really good but Jessica Goldstein and the other writers didn't create that show. This show is just boring, draggy and illogical.

Torchons on Top Chef: Michael Volt made a perfect torchon in the S6 finale Part I. The only thing the judges complained about was that there wasn't enough of the torchon in the dish. Instead of one slice they thought two or three would have been better. The guy with the beard in the Alaska season made a torchon and got booted for it, as did the short guy from last season. Same mistake as Carl - you simply can't make a torchon in a few hours. Without any apology to the Marjorie fans, that woman is a fucking bitch. She's emotionally immature (the punching, the low self esteem/nerves/fears) and she's rude and disrespectful to Isaac. I don't care if Isaac spent his 10 years with Emeril washing dishes - he has a more professional attitude than Marjorie has shown this entire competition. There is simply no excuse for her constant harping about Isaac. The Seattle/Alaska season had the chef from Hawaii who worked his way up from dishwasher to cook to chef and not a single chef in the season said a bad word about him. No comments about his lack of refinement or limited knowledge of classic techniques. And the Hawaiian chef made it to the finals. So fuck off Marjorie. You might want to learn how to be more like George Paganos and less like Mike Isabella. As for Jenn Carrol, her biggest problem (aside from having a father who told her repeatedly as a child that second place is the first loser) was her drinking. She drank too much during S6, she was obviously drunk during the All Stars reunion and her unprofessional behavior on All Stars led to Eric Ripert firing her. FIRING her as the chef at Four Arts in Philly. Because in the really real world, the best chefs simply do not tolerate unprofessional behavior when a chef representing them goes off the deep end. But as Marjorie works for Mike Isabella her job is obviously not on the line because he's a bigger douche than she is. The whole Toast thing sent me over the edge. So unbearably twee. I refuse to discuss toast seriously. That sucked for Amar. Hope he makes it back in thru LCK. And ITA that Padma and Tom need to be replace. Tom has gotten way too full of himself and Padma is just obnoxious as hell. I don't have any big problems with Jeremy. Yeah, he makes some idiotic comments but he usually backs it up with his food. Loved his painful awareness that he went on about "hot chicks" and Padma gave him the death glare. At this point, I'm fine with anybody winner - just as long as it's not Marjorie.

I took a look back at every episode for this season and there was only one hotel that wasn't owned by sleaze balls or whack jobs - The Crookston Inn. I have a really hard time believing that there are no hotel and motel owners that are good people who contacted the show. I think HI has decided to take the most obnoxious owners and sleaziest hotels simply for "drama". Bad decision for a show that used to be so good. The New Orleans episode was a real low point for a season finale. As for the Empress Hotel episode we get yet another whack job owner who refuses to invest money into the place and serves the lowest end clientele. I went to the hotel's website and the rates are $49 per night which means it's still being run as a flop house. And the picture on the website shows the room that Blanche remade and the nice bedding has been stripped from the bed and the old, nasty bedding is back. The owner probably took the bedding out because she figured it was too nice for the place and took it home with her. The two sons probably won't get the property until the mother either dies or is physically and/or mentally incapable of running it. As for the hotel itself I have a very hard time considering it to even be a hotel. It's one half step above a hostel, IMHO. If the sons do ever take over the hotel, they should completely gut the interior, restore some architectural elements and expand the size of the rooms. The bedrooms and bathrooms are so tiny that it would make more sense to have less rooms. Make money up charging for larger, nicer rooms in a prime area of New Orleans and add amenities that make sense. Upgrade the TVs; install Wifi and iPod of Smartphone docking stations. Gut the entire lobby and make it comfortable and inviting. Get top quality bedding and bath products. You don't need to even necessarily add a continental breakfast because you can walk out of the hotel and go straight to some great breakfast spots. You could possibly serve french press coffee, properly steeped tea (as in no tea bags), some nice pastries or very simple breakfast items and the guests would be happy. Set up a nice spot for guests who want to have a little something to start their day. And for the love of God and New Orleans, redo the hotel exterior. It has absolutely no architectural interest at all and it makes me wonder if the hotel isn't a much newer building compared to the older, architecturally authentic homes that surround it. When Katrina hit, the French Quarter wasn't flooded at all and the Treme got a foot of water in some places. So those surrounding homes weren't rebuilt. Which makes me pretty sure that the Empress Hotel is a much newer building that doesn't really have much, or any, original architectural heritage at all.

Shibori - totally agree with everything you said, as well as other posters. I couldn't believe that five chain hotels are under construction in the town. Not only because the town is inevitably going to go bust, but because North Dakota has the lowest tourist revenue rate of all the 50 states in the country. Who the hell do the chains think is going to stay in their hotels once the town goes under? They're never going to get much, if any, of a return on their investment. Don't get me wrong. I've actually been to North Dakota in the summer. It's a breathtakingly beautiful state, but the beauty is a ferocious type of natural beauty. Teddy Roosevelt traveled through the North Dakota Badlands and it was one of his inspirations for creating what we now know as the National Park System. But North Dakota lacks the major tourist attractions that it's neighbors possess. There are no ski slopes or luxury fishing lodges like in Idaho; no cites like Minneapolis with top class theaters, symphony orchestras and museums; no Ivy League or top rated university to bring in out of staters and their visiting families and faculty; no mountain that climbers want take on like Mt. Whitney, Mt. Shasta or Mt. St. Helen's. Tourists who do go to North Dakota might spend one night at a chain hotel (if they couldn't get a room in a small, family owned motel or rental lodge) before setting out into the wilderness with an experienced local guide for an extended trip into the wilderness. (Always bring a satellite phone!) I have no idea why AM chose to go to this motel. I wonder how bad the hotel in Oregon is that the owner called him to try and take on that property. The owner is a complete shit who doesn't care about his clients or his employees. His poor little dog deserves a better owner. His employees certainly deserve a better boss. I'm incredibly disappointed in the direction this show has taken. I actually bought the first three seasons on iTunes and this season and a great part of last season just don't compare to the first two seasons of this show when we actually cared about the owners and AM truly made a difference in their lives. I've actually called most of the motels that were covered in the first two season and spoken to the owners and it's so wonderful to hear them tell me that the show and Anthony really did change their businesses and that they're going really well. They actually love it when fans of the show call them and want to find out how they are doing now. Shibori, you mentioned that you work for one of the largest corporations in the U.S. I truly don't' mean to offend you, but I have a soft spot for family owned and small operator companies and it does my heart good knowing that AM came in and helped save a lot of family owned businesses that were on the verge of going under and taking the families with them. I miss that aspect of this show most of all. That and Blance. God, I love Blanche!