Not such a great episode for me this week. I thought the Quickfire challenge (making a soufflé) was more interesting than the Elimination Challenge.
Who cares if you can make edible haute couture? This is one gay man who could care less about a chocolate dress than a chocolate dessert. I watch these Top Chef shows cuz I wanna see them make FOOD not fashion!
And the elimination was predictable.
Some of the petit four accessories were adorable though.
As much of a boor Morgan appears to be sometimes, I still like him since he gets on the nerves of the perpetually sour Heather H & the perpetually smug Yigit. The Diva crew is 2/3 insufferable and I’m sorry to see Zach being pulled into their vortex.
I’m really glad Eric dodged a bullet–though he had two very comfortable buffers. I can’t really see Danielle sticking around much longer, and then things get a little bit more nitty gritty.
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As much of a boor Morgan appears to be sometimes, I still like him **since he gets on the nerves of the perpetually sour Heather H & the perpetually smug Yigit. The Diva crew is 2/3 insufferable and I’m sorry to see Zach being pulled into their vortex.
I’m really glad Eric dodged a bullet–though he had two very comfortable buffers. I can’t really see Danielle sticking around much longer, and then things get a little bit more nitty gritty.
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I just wish they’d show long shots of him without so much of him…talking. He keeps almost redeeming himself and then, blam!, something jerkish comes out of his mouth. He did select my favorite shoes out of that bunch, he can’t be all bad.
Did any of them make a “dress” that was actually long enough to be considered a dress?
I get that the description of the challenge just specified edible but while they were grabbing lettuce and leeks my husband said “The do know it’s called* Top Chef: Just Desserts*, right?” The leek skirt wasn’t even all that interesting. I can see where Danielle thought printing with radishes answered the challenge, but the results weren’t all that impressive.
I thought Angry Heather’s dress showed remarkable skills, but I was a little glad she didn’t win because she’d so abrasive. I keep calling her Ivy, who is a meddlesome, bitchy, asian woman on Project Runway this season who talks a lot of smack in the “confessional” interviews.
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I thought Angry Heather’s dress showed remarkable skills, but I was a little glad she didn’t win because she’d so abrasive. I keep calling her Ivy, who is a meddlesome, bitchy, asian woman on Project Runway this season who talks a lot of smack in the “confessional” interviews.
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Heather has actually won a challenge, which is more than Ivy could ever say.
I’m hating Morgan more and more each day, but can’t deny that he’s got some talent. The ring idea for a petit four was a brilliant tie-in. That Heather continually bad-mouths him reeks of abject jealously. Sure, he just cut out chocolate circles and pasted it to the form and she SCULPTED the chocolate. But welcome to the world of the creative arts where sometimes, the more simplistic approach is more highly rewarded.
The Group Diva thing is incredibly annoying and I’m sorry they are flaunting the cliquishness of it.
Heather has actually won a challenge, which is more than Ivy could ever say.
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Heather keeps getting called on the food though. They’re impressed with her art work, but they don’t seem to like the way it tastes.
I don’t know what the idea of the show was supposed to be. Of course, that might be because I don’t really know what pastry chefs do. Is it food sculpture like you see on Food Network Challenge or is it restaurant desserts or is it bakery items or something else? Are they looking for someone who can do all of those things and is the best “all around dessert chef” or are they looking for a specific type of chef? And if so, why’d they cast this group? And what’s with the challenges?
The show on its own is kind of a mess. The contestants make it an even bigger one.
So is the better tasting–in every example of people snarking against Morgan’s win (3 so far), they’re basing it solely on the presentation; but the judges have repeatedly been impressed by how good all his stuff tastes. That’s something that his competition consistently overlooks.
Bumping this for the 10/20 show.
Morgan did not hit Heather. Zac hit Heather. The camera angles weren’t the best, but I watched that scene three times because I was certain Morgan didn’t even touch her.
I wonder if she’ll apologize when it’s pointed out to her at the reunion.
I am so sick of Heather’s whiny-ness and her “Morgan degrades women” attitude. It’s obvious that she has talent but like they said, she is sabotaging herself- mostly with the Morgan-hate. It’s pretty obvious to me that it’s jealousy. She can scream about sabotage but Morgan didn’t have anything to do with whatever it was they didn’t like about her dessert. Personally, she should have gone home just by blatently saying f-you to the black and white challenge.
I don’t think it’s even so obvious that Ivy has talent. She’s definitely had her highs and lows in the challanges. So far she’s won one challenge. I meant to go back and slo-mo through the “hitting in the face” scene, but forgot.
I really wish Erika hadn’t been eliminated last night. I’d’ve picked Danielle to go home. She’s had the over-all worst performance, and has barely squeaked by in every show. Plus (and this may be bone structure and she might not be able to change), she has that obnoxious look on her face that makes me want to punch her. She always looks like she’s smelling something bad.
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Agreed, the pettiness between Team Diva and the rest of the crew is becoming what the editors are focusing on – as well as the Heather/Morgan story.
What I thought was very touching was a very brief scene when Erika was hugging everyone goodbye it was Baker Boy, Eric, who was wiping tears from his eyes. I know he doesn’t have the technical skill of the others, but I am really rooting for him as the underdog. He is stepping up on his plating and seems to be the most genuinely nice person without an agenda or playing tricks (i.e., Yigit hiding bacon).
Was it just me or did the comments made by the judges during tasting not completely match up with the comments made at judging? I was sure they commented that Morgan’s cake was dry, which I thought was funny because he soaked it a couple times, but at judging everything about his dessert was perfect. I thought they said Heather’s dessert tasted good but at judging there was nothing special about it and they seemed more annoyed that it wasn’t black and white. There were a couple other things that I don’t think matched with the judging comments but I can’t remember them.
Re: Heather, if her dessert tasted good she did not deserve to go home for not meeting the challenge. Seth did whatever he wanted in numerous quickfires and eliminations and didn’t get kicked off for that. As for the black and white thing, to me Erika’s looked the least black and white and for the most part everyone’s dish was really dark brown and white and Heather’s did seem to be dark brown. Zach’s dish didn’t look very black and white either.
There’s really no one to like in this crew, I wanted to like Yigit but then he hoarded the bacon so no one else can use it. Eric may be the least unlikeable but he’s always kind of gloomy, although it seems like something changed this time and he decided to just
have fun with it and relax and he did better.
Thank you for saving me the time it would take to type exactly that.
I guess that ice cream must’ve been really, really bad.
Danielle’s 128 didn’t look beautifully executed, or seem to make much sense all together. It looked like something I would/could have done for an event for girl scout troop 128, and not fancy enough.
Team Diva is a stupid thing to name a group. Isn’t the whole point of being a diva (in the sense that it’s come to be used) that you’re in a league of your own and it’s all about you? And isn’t it foolish in the context of this sort of competition to form any sort of alliances. Arent’ they all your competition. Or is it a brilliant response to “keep your friends close and your enemies closer”?
It’s team GoDiva, which is a play-on words for Godiva, the chief sponsor of the show. From the next week clips, though It appears their team may implode on themselves.
Though if one member of that noxious clan had to go away empty-handed last night, I’m certainly glad it was Heather, who I’m sure was dying to find some smoking gun about her missing gingerbread that would validate every ounce of venom she has in her heart for Morgan. She is really beginning to border on the irrational, taking the slightest incident as a personal affront. I couldn’t tell if it was Morgan or not with the elbow, and if it was, that’s obviously incredibly uncool. But she is such a shit-stirrer (and an insecure one at that) that I don’t trust a single word out of her mouth.
I hate Danielle’s face.
Shoot, now I have to admit that it’s kind of clever… I guess it shows how little attenttion I’m paying to the show. Last night I slept through the quickfire.
Project Runway has become pretty boring for me, too. Maybe I’ve watched my allotment of competition shows.
Heather has pissed me off from the episode where she screamed at the other Heather (damn, this show needed a Veronica) to “suck it up” when
a) the other Heather wasn’t talking to
b) or about her
c) or involved in it in any way.
It was none of her business and her over the top reaction showed runner-up crazy person to Seth.
She should have been gone last night for INTENTIONALLY ignoring the black and white challenge. If she had been smart and said “and the red is for ‘read all over’ like the joke,” or “red for an editor’s pen,” it would have given some legitimacy to it other than her being above the rules.
i looked at it like this way: what if this were a private party she was catering for, not a tv show? What if it was a wedding and the bride said B&W only and she threw red on it? It’s not for her to put her aesthetic desires OVER the clients’ wishes. Express yourself within the given parameters or GTFO.
Is that like, a thing to say suddenly? It’s just that was the second time this week (in unrelated places) I heard someone say “Go Diva” instead of Godiva.
There was a lot more purple in Erica’s dish than there was red in Heather’s. They both failed to meet the challenge, and from the comments Erica’s dish was a lot worse flavour wise. Her going home wasn’t unexpected.