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]
I swear I tried to tune in for Sing-Off, but I cannot for the life of me figure out what time it's on. I suck at this non-Tivo thing. I need to get my damned box in to a phone line.
It says, 8/7c. That usually means 8 Eastern and delayed to 8 Pacific, right? And 7 Central, and Damn You, Mountain. And of course, Arizona is none of those, but it's sometimes Mountain and sometimes Pacific. Right now it's Mountain. So it should have been 9, because I generally get West Coast delays? But it wasn't on then. So maybe it was 6? But last time I tuned in at 6 and it wasn't on for two more hours! So that would have made it 8 my time, which makes no sense, unless I was getting my own special Mountain delay? In which case it should have still been on when I tuned in at 9, because it's two hour? Right?
Argh. This is why I can't watch television.
I watched it this morning on the NBC Web site
Yeah, I don't have the bandwidth. Pout.
Top Chef -
Okay, first of all THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A BRONTOSAURUS. Good lord, how did AMNH let them get away with that?
Second of all, I'm concerned about Jen. Her dish looked *terrible* and her behavior, well...I'm pretty sure she was high at Judges' Table. She wasn't just obnoxious, she was off somehow. So I hope she gets whatever help she needs now that she's off the show.
Third of all, while Team Apatasaurus' food definitely looked tastier than Team T-Rex's, it wasn't particularly breakfasty. Did everyone assume someone else was going to make the pancakes, or did they collectively decide it just wasn't worth it without butter?
Well, they could have had lots of syrup and fruit toppings. Hmm, but can you make pancakes without eggs?
Okay, subbing soy or rice milk for the dairy - that would work. Assuming that they had soy or rice milk.
can you make pancakes without eggs?
Oh, that's a good point. Not too many chefs are experts in vegan baking, I guess.
I hope it was just lack of sleep that was making Jen act like that.
I hope it was just lack of sleep that was making Jen act like that.
I'm pretty sure it was a major contributor, but on the other hand, the outright defiance at judges' table seems to be a theme this season, first with Fabio and now Jen. I think, having already been through this once, even the contestants themselves are a little surprised at how little patience they have with the process. And I mean that. I think, if any of them were thinking, "I'm not going through that again," they stayed off. But I think Fabio, Jen and probably more than a few others are encountering little triggers that are just plain setting them off.
I think part of it might be that they all came in thinking they were prepared for the competition, having done it before, and with their guard and nerves down -- never mind the increased pressure and level of competition -- it's hitting them in ways that they were shielded from before in part by nerves until they acclimated.
