I'm so sorry, but if it makes you feel any better, my fun-time-Buffy party night involved watching a robot throw Spike through a window, so if you want to trade... no wait, I wouldn't give up that memory for anything.

Buffy ,'Get It Done'


Non-Fiction TV: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own

This thread is for non-fiction TV, including but not limited to reality television (So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef: Masters, Project Runway), documentaries (The History Channel, The Discovery Channel), and sundry (Expedition Africa, Mythbusters), et al. [NAFDA]


-t - Oct 21, 2009 8:15:09 am PDT #11331 of 23273
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Oh, dear. I was better off not knowing that.


Jesse - Oct 21, 2009 8:18:44 am PDT #11332 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

You can't picture Tim Gunn standing next to you at the website, though....


Aims - Oct 21, 2009 8:20:18 am PDT #11333 of 23273
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Yeah, much different vibe. Tim Gunn doesn't say, "Click it!"


Vortex - Oct 21, 2009 8:37:00 am PDT #11334 of 23273
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Lisa has two kids with Keith Sweat! And he wouldn't let them be on the show.

Ha! I haven't heard from Keith Sweat since the BET awards did that 90's R&B tribute (they all sounded terrible)


kat perez - Oct 21, 2009 8:42:59 am PDT #11335 of 23273
"We have trust issues." Mylar

So much reality TV, so little time.

On SYTYCD, as much as I have many, many problems with Mia, I will miss old girl. Love them or hate them, I always remember pieces that Mia has choreographed. I love the way she pushes the dancers (excepting the ridiculous Cedric routine). And while I think there are lots of good, interesting choreographers out there that the show could recruit to replace her, some of whom used to choreograph for this show (Tovaris Wilson, Marty Kudelka, etc.), I have no faith that the show would actually get them. Their recent additions, aside from Sonya, have been less than inspiring. NappyTab? Joey Dowling? Umm, no thank you. Also, the young kid from the last audition rounds was Nathan Trasoras. Gorgeous dancer. And he hasn't gotten cut yet as far as I know, but they haven't been showing a ton of him either.

On TAR, I'm still in mourning over losing Justin and Zev like that. So sad. I still love the Globetrotters. Miss America and her husband are totally growing on me. And that country singer is definitely on the list. I can't believe he tried to push Mika down that slide! WWJD?

On PR, I give up. I'd bet that if Nina had been around consistently and seen the nonsense that Christopher has sent down the runway the last few weeks, she'd have voted to auf him and not Shirin. Although for all that, I'd have been just as happy to see Logan go. The outfit looked like bad F21. And Logan is just not that hot. He's passable attractive at best. And he hasn't made anything interesting in all the weeks he's been on the show. I'd have given the win to Nicholas. His outfit was the only thing on that runway that looked like something X-tina could work it out in on stage. And she seemed to like his the best out of the top three. I honestly don't know why Carol Hannah won. The dress was pretty, I guess, but much like Althea's, it was clearly not a stage costume. Christina would barely have been able to walk in it, let alone get her Dirrrty on.


Vortex - Oct 21, 2009 8:47:49 am PDT #11336 of 23273
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

The dress was pretty, I guess, but much like Althea's, it was clearly not a stage costume. Christina would barely have been able to walk in it, let alone get her Dirrrty on.

I think that this was one of those cases where the parameters of the challenge and what the judges were looking for were different. Technically, they were designing something that she could wear onstage, but what performer ever really wears a gown onstage? (Maybe during a slow set or something, but not as a practical matter)


-t - Oct 21, 2009 8:50:36 am PDT #11337 of 23273
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

That reminds me - the judges comments on Logan's outfit were so confusing - it's cavewoman but at least it's youthful and chic. I'm starting to think I don't know what "chic" means.


kat perez - Oct 21, 2009 8:55:22 am PDT #11338 of 23273
"We have trust issues." Mylar

I think that this was one of those cases where the parameters of the challenge and what the judges were looking for were different.

Agreed. And I feel like this has happened a lot this season. Why give the contestants a design brief at all if the judges are going to be free to ignore it and just choose whatever they hell catches their fancy?


Amy - Oct 21, 2009 8:57:33 am PDT #11339 of 23273
Because books.

What's the Russian guy's name? Anyway, his dress was incomprehensible to me -- for one, it did look an awful lot like the sci-fi dress he made, but it also looked totally like an ice skating costume to me. And they (and Christina!) really liked it.


kat perez - Oct 21, 2009 9:02:44 am PDT #11340 of 23273
"We have trust issues." Mylar

Nicholas. See, in general, I hate Nicholas, and I hated his ice princiess movie costume look. But I loved Nicholas' dress for this challenge. It totally looked like something Christina would wear. I could see her rocking that dress hardcore singing "Ain't No Other Man". And the dress was reminiscent of what she wore for the "Ain't No Other Man" video without being a copy. And as X-tina herself pointed out, it was the only dress that had any movement quality. Those feathers would be great for hip shaking. And what self respecting diva doesn't hip shake? Good grief. It was so clear to me that Nicholas was the only one of them who knew anything about Christina Aguilera, or apparently had ever seen an X-tina show . . . or Beyonce . . . or Britney. Y'all know, any of the three divas of the apocalypse.