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Oooh, you Project Runway!

I am so mad at you right now! SO SO SO MAD AND FURIOUS! I sat there after the judging thinking, “No. You’re kidding. You CAN’T be serious.”

You sent home Ra’mon over LOUISE? That shoddy half-baked retro knock-off queen? Did you even take ANY of the past episodes into consideration? How many memorable designs has Louise had? Has she ever shown a single spark of creativity outside, “hey, I know, I’ll make a 1930′s dress!” Jesus, even her NAME is a knockoff! Her hair is a knockoff! EVERYTHING ABOUT HER IS UTTERLY UNINSPIRED, UNRECONSTRUCTED RETRO BULLSHIT!

Deep breath. Release. Let it go, Mary.

Ra’mon so totally didn’t deserve to go home. If this is Project Runway’s way of injecting “drama,” being unexpected by cutting the designer who has talent over the designer who doesn’t have talent, then they’re idiots and I hate them.

Let’s see, since I’ve got my hate on, what else did I hate in this episode …

1) Nicolas. I just hate him. He’s pretentious and arrogant and his look sucked and his story was stupid. And I’m getting tired of this, “I’m just worried about so-and-so …” no, Nicolas, you’re NOT worried. You’re just using that as an excuse to passively-aggressively slam someone, and it’s ugly. If you want to slam someone, go ahead. But don’t couch it in pretending to care, you pusillanimous no-talent.

2) Christopher. Yeah, Tim’s such a wise mentor for explaining to you that a halter top over a bustle isn’t quite 18th century. If by wise mentor you mean Captain Fucking Obvious. And then you sent the halter down the runway anyway, and the judges splooged all over themselves over it! Still, I would rather have seen you win than Nicolas.

3) Epperson. “Gee, I really wanted a period piece, but all I got was this stupid Western.” EPPERSON, MEET MY CLUE STICK. CLUE STICK, EPPERSON. What the hell era do you think most Westerns are set in? And even if you don’t groove to the styles of 1860-1890, there are Westerns set in time periods even after that! Like, say, “Giant.” God, somebody please help me. You do get points, however, for a) ultimately recognizing that “period piece” and “Western” are not mutually exclusive, and b) independently discovering Steampunk, which I was SO hoping someone would reference last night. What with all Ra’mon’s Trek & Star Wars references, it would have made this THE definitive SFnal Project Runway episode.

Oh, screw it. I don’t care any more. I am not taking this Ra’mon thing well. Project Runway, you’re dead to me. Until next week.

September 25th, 2009 | Category: Television
  • Kath

    I’m right there with you. I could NOT believe Nicholas won, or that they’d send Ra’mon home instead of Louise.

    It was … frustrating.

    Though, on the good side of things, there were at least three or four designs this week that I thought were simply awesome sauce.

    • http://www.demimonde.com M.K. Hobson

      I thought Gordana’s look was sublime in a very Laura Bennett kind of way, but she overdid it with the costumy accessories and the hair feather (what the hell, did Mood have a .99 cent sale on ostrich feathers that week?) AND THAT BLONDE WIG!!!

      If she’d kept the styling more understated, I don’t think she would have been in the bottom three. But then, the judges seem to have some kind of Gordana hate-on which I don’t understand. She often ends up in the bottom when I think her work is stronger than others who get a pass …

  • Kath

    I’m right there with you. I could NOT believe Nicholas won, or that they’d send Ra’mon home instead of Louise.

    It was … frustrating.

    Though, on the good side of things, there were at least three or four designs this week that I thought were simply awesome sauce.

    • http://www.demimonde.com M.K. Hobson

      I thought Gordana’s look was sublime in a very Laura Bennett kind of way, but she overdid it with the costumy accessories and the hair feather (what the hell, did Mood have a .99 cent sale on ostrich feathers that week?) AND THAT BLONDE WIG!!!

      If she’d kept the styling more understated, I don’t think she would have been in the bottom three. But then, the judges seem to have some kind of Gordana hate-on which I don’t understand. She often ends up in the bottom when I think her work is stronger than others who get a pass …

  • silveredmadness

    I agree *wholeheartedly.* Both the husband and I (I force him to watch project runway. Force, perhaps, is not the right term. He stomps around muttering for five minutes in order to preserve his man card until I find him peering out from the kitchen at the TV and he returns to willingly immerse himeself in the drama. But I digress.)

    ANYWAY. We were both completely floored. Louise has NOTHING INTERESTING going on. Ramon… Ramon won a group challenge *on his own* for gods sake. And Nicholas simply cannot win, because he’s already a self-satisfied piece of trash, and the world couldn’t take the weight of his ego. Also, his work sucks.

    Christopher’s was pretty, if not period.

    I did like Epperson’s dress, though.

    • http://www.demimonde.com M.K. Hobson

      After considering this more, I am ready to make a Radical Prediction.

      They’re going to do one of those challenges where people who’ve been kicked off come back and get a second chance … and Ra’mon will come back.

      Apparently Tim Gunn has said to interviewers that there are all sorts of twists and turns this season, and this would be just the kind of twist I’d expect. I think they’re faking us out.

      Watch what happens! (Oh … wait…)

  • silveredmadness

    I agree *wholeheartedly.* Both the husband and I (I force him to watch project runway. Force, perhaps, is not the right term. He stomps around muttering for five minutes in order to preserve his man card until I find him peering out from the kitchen at the TV and he returns to willingly immerse himeself in the drama. But I digress.)

    ANYWAY. We were both completely floored. Louise has NOTHING INTERESTING going on. Ramon… Ramon won a group challenge *on his own* for gods sake. And Nicholas simply cannot win, because he’s already a self-satisfied piece of trash, and the world couldn’t take the weight of his ego. Also, his work sucks.

    Christopher’s was pretty, if not period.

    I did like Epperson’s dress, though.

    • http://www.demimonde.com M.K. Hobson

      After considering this more, I am ready to make a Radical Prediction.

      They’re going to do one of those challenges where people who’ve been kicked off come back and get a second chance … and Ra’mon will come back.

      Apparently Tim Gunn has said to interviewers that there are all sorts of twists and turns this season, and this would be just the kind of twist I’d expect. I think they’re faking us out.

      Watch what happens! (Oh … wait…)

  • silveredmadness

    Didn’t Top Chef do that last season? Or am I thinking of something else?

    In either case, I remember thinking it was a dick move on the part of the producers when it happened.

    • http://www.demimonde.com M.K. Hobson

      Yeah, Top Chef did it last season, I think. But the people who got the chance to come back didn’t score high enough to make it back on (they had to actually win the challenge, not just place.) And yeah, it’s a punk move in any case. But if it got me Ra’mon back, I’d be behind it. I really do think he should be one of the final 3.

  • silveredmadness

    Didn’t Top Chef do that last season? Or am I thinking of something else?

    In either case, I remember thinking it was a dick move on the part of the producers when it happened.

    • http://www.demimonde.com M.K. Hobson

      Yeah, Top Chef did it last season, I think. But the people who got the chance to come back didn’t score high enough to make it back on (they had to actually win the challenge, not just place.) And yeah, it’s a punk move in any case. But if it got me Ra’mon back, I’d be behind it. I really do think he should be one of the final 3.

  • silveredmadness

    ALSO: from the way Louise ran off the stage crying, I’m pretty sure she realized she was the one who should have been cut.

  • silveredmadness

    ALSO: from the way Louise ran off the stage crying, I’m pretty sure she realized she was the one who should have been cut.

  • Cassandra

    I haven’t watched the ep yet, and am now really ready, but Oh Gawd, who can trust the show that let that little shit win both the contest and audience fav last year. Looking online, no one liked him, but he won it all. Rigged, rigged, rigged! So I TRY to maintain a zen indifference, otherwise I would contemplate atomic annihilation.

  • Cassandra

    I haven’t watched the ep yet, and am now really ready, but Oh Gawd, who can trust the show that let that little shit win both the contest and audience fav last year. Looking online, no one liked him, but he won it all. Rigged, rigged, rigged! So I TRY to maintain a zen indifference, otherwise I would contemplate atomic annihilation.