I wish that they had expanded this episode by 15 minutes.

I have friends who ate at Michael's restaurant last month. NOw they know they've had dinner at a Top Chef's restaurant. (They really enjoyed it. They had the tasting menu and were having fun trying to decide what each course was going to be based on the sommelier's description of how the wine paired with the dish.)

Well, FUCK! I knew Kevin didn't have it from the comments that were made, but I really thought Michael had tanked two of his, while Bryan had gotten all of his (even if a couple were on the safe/bland side).

While Kevin got sucky sous chefs, I'm not sure they were to blame for the choice of just having pork belly on that dish. That was the one where Kevin could have shined (since it was a chef's choice option), so I knew him not nailing that one spelled his doom.

That said, I would love to get back to Atlanta someday and eat at his place.

And, yeah, Michael winning wasn't an abomination; he's talented, I just think he's a pretentious douchnozzle. That's not necessarily unheard of with good-to-great chefs.

He had me at "chicken skin." BF and I looked at each other in perfect foodie lust harmony when he said that. We are united in our love of the chicken skin.

My nonexistent uterus wants to have Kevin's crispy, crispy babies.

I am sad he didn't win; I thought he was just the most delicious-looking food all season. I thought he did have a crap night, and his sous chef choices were sucktastic.

He had a crap night, and really, that's what it came down to. In a sense I think it was his to lose, but they all came in pretty solid so it was make or break. Whiffing the pork belly was kind of shocking from him, and I don't think he could have ocme back from that barring other big surprises.

I think they should require people be at least 6 months past high school graduation at the time of tryouts. It's a huge transition to being more mature for most people.

It's a simple rule, really. No 16 year olds on AI. No 18 year olds on SYTYCD. That would make kat a happy camper.

That boys' cut was brutal. Brutal. I didn't want to lose any of them. Oh, Legacy. And they tortured us with shirtless Legacy in his season recap. I love that he did an LXD style routine for his final solo and I hope he has oodles and oodles of post show success. Still, I'm happy with this F3 of Jakob/Russell/Ryan.

The girls' cut was bullshit, but it was bound to be after the monumentally idiotic decision not to cut FP when she couldn't dance last night. The fact that FP pulled more votes than Ellenore is inexcusable. And the show has forced me to feel badly for the Tween Terror. Feh. I agree with the cowgirl that this elimination is probably the best thing that could happen to Mollee right now. She will mature a little bit finally. In a couple of years, she's going to be a monster. (PS: You want people to like you for your dancing, dear, not your personality. Mmmkay?)

Re: SYTYCD...Don't you think Mollee wants an acting career, ultimately? I'm not sure she wants to stay (only) in dancing.

Re: Top Chef...I think Kevin was really bothered by how little he got done with his first bad contestant and he couldn't shake it off. It has to fuck with your concentration to feel like you are way way behind like that.

Also re: SYTYCD: I think Ameriker really didn't like Ellenore & Legacy's NappyTabs routine. I think that just dampened any enthusiasm the voters may have felt.

Mollee might want to be an actress. I can see it. Sadly, the personality remark was one she made about why she wanted people to like her on this show, So You Think You Can Dance. And I know it's America's favorite dancer and blah, blah, blah personality-cakes. It's just maybe if she'd focused on dancing well and not being a hair flinging nightmare with the exception of last night (or had a better personality?) she'd have made it to the end. The best dancer of the season, in my opinion, has never won this show. But neither has the dancer who was mainly liked for his/her personality. (Some may argue Benji in S2 was like that, but that fool could dance. Still should've been Travis, but Benji was definitely more than personality)

SYTYCD: Pissed about Ashleigh, but at least that means no more Mollee. I was scared about Ellenore for a minute.

This should make for a good finale. Although, I wasn't thrilled with last season's (except for the paso doble).

On the other hand, I was cleaning off my DVR this past weekend and I'm not sure this season has had more dances I'll be saving than last season. I don't know if it's the choreographers, the pairings, or what, but not a lot stands out for me this year (despite thinking that this season's dancers were probably better overall).

Top Chef: I'm happy that I think everyone who was there in the finals deserved it, but bummed it couldn't have been Kevin, or Bryan at the very least.

And yes, it did feel rushed. The knife-draw sous-chef was almost as sucky as letting people vote for Ashleigh.

I just realized my favorite dance this season wasn't even done by the contestants! It was by LXD! (Though Ellenore and Jacob's Sonya dance is close).

Sooo happy that Jacob and Kathryn made it through! I voted for both of them, and that was the first time I ever voted!

TC: I realized I was fine with any of those 3 winning, because even though I thought Michael was an asshat, he was a damn fine chef. (Just like when Hung won.)