Reunion Show

This is my very first blog ever. Posted it 20 August 2006 on my Friendster blog.

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i just saw the reunion show of the project runway season 2 cast. god, the show was hilarious. i was laughing the whole time and wishing the show wouldn't end (this despite a really terrible headache and some eye-twitching on the side). i didn't know the season 2 designers were so funny, funnier even than the season 1 designers, until i saw the show. all the while, i thought they were rather grim and hardcore, based on the episodes i saw, which, for some reason, always had santino ranting and talking back to the judges. also, in the episodes i saw, the designs were rather lame compared to the season 1 creations. i realized i didn't see the episodes where the designers were having fun and the designs were actually awesome (i have to say kara saun, jay, and austin still rule, though!).

i didn't see all the episodes, because when season 2 started airing here in singapore, i left for the philippines to do my field work--yes, school always gets in the way. hehe. at that time, season 2 was actually airing in the philippines, on discovery travel and living, i think; however, i was never really home to see the show. when i got back here, the season was almost at its end--thus, the reunion show. it's a real bummer not to have seen so many episodes, but at least, i'll get to see the last two shows. and of course, olympus fashion week. yay! by the way, season 3 has started airing, too, and this time, i'm updated. all i can say is thank god for youtube.

coming back to the reunion show, i really loved the montage where the designers, santino and nick especially, were singing ala broadway. they were singing about daniel f, who i think at that time just got eliminated, and the possibility of his returning for season 3. (daniel f could be quite creepy. when he was asked if he would return for season 3, he said he just might, then he said, 'i love you, heidi.' heidi, i think, tried very hard to keep a straight face. that was just weird.) aside from that musical montage, santino's spiel/tim gunn impersonation 'what happened to andrae?' was just brilliant. santino basically created this story about tim gunn and andrae having some kind of affair, and it was just crazy, especially when footage of tim gunn asking after andrae was shown as santino was narrating the so-called affair. there was also footage of daniel v bending over with laughter and chloe laughing so hard she had tears in her eyes while this was going on.

but the best really was andrae's montage. i had always thought he was rather volatile and overly expressive. for example, in one of the episodes i saw, zulema asked for a walk-off, which, well, evoked a lot of different emotions from the designers, but the expression on andrae's face was priceless: his mouth opened real wide, and his eyes went wild, and it was like that for a long time he looked just a little bit insane. in the reunion show, they showed a montage of andrae with all these crazy expressions on his face. apparently, the camera captured each and every one of them. hehe. then there was the clip of his meltdown at the runway that lasted for about 10 minutes. i read somewhere he had a meltdown, but i didn't know it lasted that long. the judges obviously didn't know how to react to him and, i think, they weren't sure if it was for real. heidi actually pointed that out; she said that since andrae was from los angeles, they weren't sure whether it was real or he was just acting. i don't have any opinion on that. all i know is the last thing he said (very tearfully) sort of touched me: 'i know it's just clothes, but it's also my life.' god, i love andrae. he's just so funny.

i'm really excited to see the final show. originally, i was unhappy with santino being part of the final 3 (i had wanted nick), but after seeing the reunion show, i thought it's just right that he's part of the finale, because he makes good tv. thing is i never really liked santino's designs. they're too out there for me. but i'm not really a fashion person, so what do i know, right? oh well. anyway, i'm looking forward to seeing chloe's and daniel v's collection.