I gave you the best years of my life!
Oct. 28th, 2011 12:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
coffeebuddhaDear Project Runway,
Ever since I watched the first episode of the first season I've loved you. I've loved you madly, deeply, and passionately. I gasped at Jay's Chrysler building dress, coveted Austin's gowns and Seth Aaron's jackets, and gaped at Kenley's offensiveness. I laughed at Santino's Tim Gunn impressions, wished time after time that Tim Gunn was my uncle or at least a family friend, and wondered aloud 'what the hell is Heidi wearing' more times than I can count. I've watched models sewn into dresses, models go missing, models completely fail to keep their opinions off their faces during judging.
And I loved it. That's why it pains me so much to say this:
I think I need to see other creativity/talent-based reality shows.
Don't get me wrong; it's not me. It's you. You've changed. I've always known there was producer manipulation, but until the last couple of years it wasn't enough to get worked up over. There are so many things I want to say to you, but they're all sticking in my throat. I thought you did your worst to me when Gretchen's hideous collection won out over Mondo's gorgeous one for the flimsy and patently untrue reason that hers was more 'on trend'. I thought wrong.
Again, don't get me wrong. I liked Anya's collection well enough. It's very pretty; how could it not be when she basically remade one pretty dress over and over again in different fabrics? BUT it was even prettier back when Uli did it back during season 3 and lost for not being diverse enough.
Uli did it first, Uli did it better, Uli did it with more diversity, Uli did it with a hell of a lot more skill and quality, and Uli was eliminated because the judges thought it still wasn't enough. Anya winning was a complete farce and stinks of producer manipulation and the judges being taken in by a pretty face. She seems like a nice enough woman and I wish her all the success in the world with her career, but the fact remains that there is absolutely no reason why she should have even made it to the finale after the utter disaster she presented last week that the judges hated 2/3rds of. The fact that they made it a final four instead of a final three screams of the producers sticking their noses in where they didn't belong, because there was no way they could justify cutting anyone other than her and of course the former beauty queen who's been sewing for less than a year just has to be kept around.
I want to love you, Project Runway. I do. But I just can't do this anymore. I want to see talented designers completing ridiculous challenges and getting stressed out and pulling it all together at the last moment and getting rewarded for their hard work. I don't want watch consistently strong competitors being just as consistently overlooked and disregarded in favor of someone who only appears to still be squeaking through because they're more dramatic.
If that's what I was looking for in my reality tv, I'd watch some shit like Jersey Shore. I've stuck by you for years now, but I don't think I can anymore.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry that you've turned into such an unenjoyable fucking joke.
Ever since I watched the first episode of the first season I've loved you. I've loved you madly, deeply, and passionately. I gasped at Jay's Chrysler building dress, coveted Austin's gowns and Seth Aaron's jackets, and gaped at Kenley's offensiveness. I laughed at Santino's Tim Gunn impressions, wished time after time that Tim Gunn was my uncle or at least a family friend, and wondered aloud 'what the hell is Heidi wearing' more times than I can count. I've watched models sewn into dresses, models go missing, models completely fail to keep their opinions off their faces during judging.
And I loved it. That's why it pains me so much to say this:
I think I need to see other creativity/talent-based reality shows.
Don't get me wrong; it's not me. It's you. You've changed. I've always known there was producer manipulation, but until the last couple of years it wasn't enough to get worked up over. There are so many things I want to say to you, but they're all sticking in my throat. I thought you did your worst to me when Gretchen's hideous collection won out over Mondo's gorgeous one for the flimsy and patently untrue reason that hers was more 'on trend'. I thought wrong.
Again, don't get me wrong. I liked Anya's collection well enough. It's very pretty; how could it not be when she basically remade one pretty dress over and over again in different fabrics? BUT it was even prettier back when Uli did it back during season 3 and lost for not being diverse enough.
Uli did it first, Uli did it better, Uli did it with more diversity, Uli did it with a hell of a lot more skill and quality, and Uli was eliminated because the judges thought it still wasn't enough. Anya winning was a complete farce and stinks of producer manipulation and the judges being taken in by a pretty face. She seems like a nice enough woman and I wish her all the success in the world with her career, but the fact remains that there is absolutely no reason why she should have even made it to the finale after the utter disaster she presented last week that the judges hated 2/3rds of. The fact that they made it a final four instead of a final three screams of the producers sticking their noses in where they didn't belong, because there was no way they could justify cutting anyone other than her and of course the former beauty queen who's been sewing for less than a year just has to be kept around.
I want to love you, Project Runway. I do. But I just can't do this anymore. I want to see talented designers completing ridiculous challenges and getting stressed out and pulling it all together at the last moment and getting rewarded for their hard work. I don't want watch consistently strong competitors being just as consistently overlooked and disregarded in favor of someone who only appears to still be squeaking through because they're more dramatic.
If that's what I was looking for in my reality tv, I'd watch some shit like Jersey Shore. I've stuck by you for years now, but I don't think I can anymore.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry that you've turned into such an unenjoyable fucking joke.
