Ridiculous! Preposterous! Incredible!
A fashion designer -- Adejoké -- makes her best creation to date -- and so say all of the judges -- and she is sent home?!? What other competition eliminates one of their better talents because she is part of a team whose other half she did not choose?? And all of this because the judges brought back two people who were once upon a time considered inferior designers and had already been sent packing??
Does American Idol bring back eliminated singers and then send home a performer who is still considered in the running? Does So You Think You Can Dance decide in its final stages that they ought to bring back an ex-contestant and permit them not only a second chance but at the same time allow this second chance to shove aside one of their better contenders?
How preposterously stupid. How remarkably unfair. What a ridiculous ratings ruse.
I am so angry in fact, I might not watch the program again, despite my fondness for Sunny and Jessica. The reason I tuned in to Project Runway Canada in the first place was to see -- especially because I can't sew a curtain hem -- the creative, interesting, appealing, colourful, sweet outfits the contestants come up with week to week. I take delight in their designs, and I am moved by their stories. (I confess I also like to peek at Iman -- who looks fabulous -- and remind myself that she is my age.)
Now, instead of having what feels like a fair competition, we have to sit through the bemoanings of the pompously vain Genevieve -- who, it seems, can make only one style of skirt -- and one half of the pathetically nasty Kim/Jason co-conspirators. Add to this that Kim, who ought to have been gone long ago, was given, along with Jason and Genevieve, a second chance, and that the same was not true for Adejoké, rankles beyond comprehension.
What a mistake. And how unfair to the people who were the remaining contestants. And here's where my hypocrisy comes in.
Had Kim been even remotely tolerable, had she not spewed grade-four-level criticisms at the top designers, had we not had to listen to her as she took up so much of our viewing time, and had she been moderately talented (my view, I know)...and had Genevieve (who is uncannily interchangeable with Kim) been kind, generous, shown integrity, imagination, sweetness...had Jason been appealing, fair-minded, or warm...had any of them shown 1/18th of the character of Adejoké or Jessica or Sunny, I would have thought over and over, "How wonderful it is to see them come back. How I hope they do well."
As it is, I am fuming. Not only has one of my favourite programs been lopped off at the climactic stages, but who knows how long it will be before the law suit between NBC Universal and The Weinstein Company is settled, and I can sit back on my couch and watch the progenitor Project Runway with Heidi Klum at the helm? The summer could be in full swing, and I will have gone on to other enjoyments. And even then I will have to lament: Heidi Klum is a mere thirty-five!
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