SO TENSE!

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Watching the Project Runway finale, I realized that, in all the seasons I've been watching, the person I wanted to win always has. And that's from the beginning! Save for the last season (SNOOZE-A-RAMA), I had a favorite almost from the beginning, and they've always won

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Re: Yay Seth Aaron!

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The reunion show always makes me uncomfortable. It's all about airing grievances for more drama, which is just...ugh. Unless someone is being a bully, a repeat-offending jerk-wad, you have to give them some leeway. These are people under constant stress. Look at how much more relaxed Mila and Seth Aaron both looked coming back to the show after their break. (Not Emilio, strangely. He looked more worn down than ever.) These people are in a meat grinder, and they're all going to make crazy talk and be bitchy at one time or another. Stuff that goes on during the show, again, unless it's bullying, has to get a little more of a pass.

People who are booted off the show will be unmuzzled and able to bitch more and the people not yet booted won't be able to respond. So they're given less leeway, to my mind, or they should be. Anthony is in a strange position because his comments have always been catty but they've been either accurate or funny and have never been about being mean. Okay, his comment about Mila's age was uncalled for, but otherwise, he didn't have much to apologize about, not even when he dissed Tim Gunn. (He didn't dis Tim all that badly, really.) But that outside stuff has NO BEARING on the competition. It quite literally was not seen, heard, read, or spoken at the time it happened. It's all happening months later. So I think it's irrelevant.

Jay, I think, thought he could pull an Anthony with his comment, but his comment was mean and said from a place of being hurt, from insecurity. And it showed. Carrie commented on his aesthetic. She didn't get it, didn't like it, but whatever, that's his thing. It's not great, according to her. He tried to be like Anthony, and if Anthony had said something it would be like, "Oh, child, if you had weight with the judges, I'd be in trouble. Good thing I'm just hearing you say it with your pretty little accent then." Would it still be bitchy? Oh hell yes. But it wouldn't have been rude, and it would have only attacked her opinion, much as she was attacking (by way of his design) Jay's opinion. That would be on the level, if still aggressive.

But he didn't do that. He basically called her ugly, and that's vile. Not because she is or isn't but because he derided a person and not an opinion. Dirty pool, Jay.