Just wanted to go ahead and get a thread started. They’re still in New York, it’s still the usual cast, but the show is 90 minutes long now and there’s no model show. I hope they can make it work! 
I’m so happy they’re keeping it in NY. The LA season was the pits.
I sincerely hope they use the extra half-hour for good and not for evil. I want to see more of the runway show!! That’s what it’s all about.
The show is ninety minutes long? That’s going to cut into Bethenny Getting Married. I mean…er…that’s going to cut into…flips channels Biography on Black Sabbath. I mean. Screw it.
Is the Austin and Santino show right after going to be a half hour long one or a full hour? And is the 90 minute show a regular thing or just for the premiere?
ETA: Googled and it’s per episode. Wow. I’m not sure that’s a good thing. I always thought the first half hour where it’s just them talking about the challenge and sewing was pretty dull and that if anything they could downsize. I was more into the runway show. Ninety minutes. Wow.
I need my tim Gunn fix.
StG
Oooh, thanks for the reminder.
spoilers ahead
WTF? I officially have no taste. I liked that dress. I liked it a lot. I would have sent deconstruction girl, sloppy kimono guy, changed pants into pants or trashy belly dancer man home way before I would have sent pretty blue dress home.
It’s going to take me a long time to learn this new batch - by the time they’re down to 8-10, I’ll have a grasp of who’s who. Casanova’s “I think it’s tasteful” about his garment was mind-boggling.
Did anyone watch the Austin & Santino show? I didn’t, but I’m curious. It’s got to be better than the “Models of the Runway” show.
StG
Austin and Santino–I watched it. I had to force myself to finish it.
All the show seems to have to offer are the Austin and Santino “characters” and their interaction. Since I never saw their seasons of PR, I fail to see the appeal. They were sort of amusing, but not enough to make me watch again. They really played up the fish-out-of-water thing with Austin. It’s been done before and done better. A makeup wearing flamer on a horse? Hardee har har. :rolleyes: And frankly, I thought they made the citizens of Waterford, TX look like a bunch of bumpkins. I found it kind of insulting.
As far as the “fashion” aspect–WTF? So they made a pretty dress for a pretty young cowgirl. Big whoop.
Merged StGermain’s thread into Indyellen’s.
I only watched part of Austin and Santino so can’t really say.
I still can’t believe there’s 90 minutes of Proj Runway. Did we really need more? There’s nothing really new and frankly I don’t know that I want to see more pre runway show scenes. More sewing and product placement, great.
And pants out of pants girl and hairdresser smock guy got to stay while that girl who made a reasonably pretty dress left? I guess it’s true. Don’t bore them. But wow…
It’s always been a problem with the show, that for a dress to be “wearable” is the worst thing they can say about it.
If they use the extra time to actually let us have a good look at the clothing, I’ll eb happy. I’m sick of the two-frame cut and shut at the end of each episode. It reminds me of the old campaign slogan: It’s the economy clothing, stupid!
I confess to having fallen asleep before even 15 minutes were up. I’ll watch the DVR and say more later!
It felt to me like they used the extra half hour for more commercials.
I liked the outfit made out of the thousand dollar pants a lot, better than Gretchen’s (the winner) but she did seem the most original. I hated Cassanova’s (trashy belly dancer) outfit and the backward kimono guy’s outfit. I will be rooting for them to send Cassanova home, which means they’ll find reasons to keep him almost to the end, just to see the trainwrecks.
Amen, sistah! I just watched it on DVR and I feel like all I did was zap through endless loops of ads. Ad nauseum.
On an even shallower note, and ignoring the designs completely, I did notice that Michael Kors ditched the dayglo orange makeup. He actually looked like a human being.
I thought it was a bit of a cheat that after threatening to send multiple people home, they chickened out. The Utah chick who got bumped was no great shakes, but she was hardly that much worse than several others that got to stay–especially if all those people were equally vulnerable. Mr. Bowler Hat in particular had no business sticking around.
I thought so, too, ArchiveGuy. The whole, “We’re keeping BOTH of you” ending was a bit of a shock back in season three when all four of them went to fashion week. But by now it’s been done so much that they might as well just send one person home and stop teasing us with it.
I agree that it seemed that the only reason for 90 minutes was more ads.