ace wrote:

jemagee wrote:Yeah, I didn't like the next star show either, but I wasn't thinking along the lines of that, i was thinking of some sort of 'school' for neophyte cooks, not to get a show or anything, but people who just want to know how to cook, not sure what kind of grand prize you could hook it up to, maybe a kitchen makeover from sears or kenmore or something, a years supply of groceries or whatever...

I wouldn't even know how to pitch something liek that or if it would work, but i've seen worse reality shows become hits.

With all those sharp knives and flammable substances, think of all the potential kitchen accidents just waiting to happen. That would have to make for decent ratings.

For the big finale of Top Chef, I am just waiting for Sam and Ilan to actually make a dish out of Marcel or at least try to stuff him into a microwave. Oh the drama.

jemagee wrote:Marcel is this season stephen - but with worse hair and possibly a worse cook...for a long time my gf and i pegged sam and cliff as the finalists but cliff went into the crapper and even without the DQ was going to get sent home...I think certain peopl spent more time getting mad at marcel than worrying about food.

We were also constantly amazed that betty lasted as long as she did, as far as we could tell she just sucked bananas.

jemagee wrote:I remember the first season of top chef...the guy who blew it in the final 3...not because he made bad dishes, in fact he was better, he just forgot to make a dish, he got screwed over and that annoying red headed girl made it instead to the fials (and you KNEW she was going to lose)

The Red Tornado wrote:

jemagee wrote:I remember the first season of top chef...the guy who blew it in the final 3...not because he made bad dishes, in fact he was better, he just forgot to make a dish, he got screwed over and that annoying red headed girl made it instead to the fials (and you KNEW she was going to lose)

They had a text message poll of who you thought did a better job and the red head only got 10% of the vote.

hoya wrote:I like Top Chef, but I don't think anyone this seaosn is that impressive or even comapres to Harold.

MarkdlV wrote:I read somewhere that Harold is opening a restaurant in NYC this year.

Bill McNeal wrote:

jemagee wrote:Liev Schreiber on CSI...I think they are trying to strike a medium between the overly analytic Grissom and the 'emotionally' driven Caruso...I wonder if his character 'does well' could they possibly use him to replace to god awful caruso

Doubt it, why would they replace the lead character on the top rated show. I agree he stinks BTW. On OnA they have been playing this bit where someone took a bunch of his opening lines and strung them together, it's really freakin' funny. Supposedly it came from a youtube clip if you wanna see it.

21McBride wrote:

Bill McNeal wrote:

jemagee wrote:Liev Schreiber on CSI...I think they are trying to strike a medium between the overly analytic Grissom and the 'emotionally' driven Caruso...I wonder if his character 'does well' could they possibly use him to replace to god awful caruso

Doubt it, why would they replace the lead character on the top rated show. I agree he stinks BTW. On OnA they have been playing this bit where someone took a bunch of his opening lines and strung them together, it's really freakin' funny. Supposedly it came from a youtube clip if you wanna see it.

I don't even watch the show, but this is hilarious.

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=YMOlQX6l5dg[/youtube]

jemagee wrote:I don't think it's as good as snow crash, i don't think ANYTHING is as good as snow crash...Snow Crash to me is genre revolutionizing works that rivals Neuromancer for it's import in the science fiction genre (of coourse, again, another book that just stopped).

I have read all his stand alone books and enjoyed them all...i have all 3 hard cover books in the baroque cycle but haven't yet had the courage to delve into them...historical stuff, even fictional historical stuff is always hard for me...i've never been able to get more than 30 pages into the difference engine and i'm a huge gibson fan, even loved the most recent more 'current' one (he has a new book he's working on according to his blog)

MrsVox wrote:

jemagee wrote:I don't think it's as good as snow crash, i don't think ANYTHING is as good as snow crash...Snow Crash to me is genre revolutionizing works that rivals Neuromancer for it's import in the science fiction genre (of coourse, again, another book that just stopped).

I have read all his stand alone books and enjoyed them all...i have all 3 hard cover books in the baroque cycle but haven't yet had the courage to delve into them...historical stuff, even fictional historical stuff is always hard for me...i've never been able to get more than 30 pages into the difference engine and i'm a huge gibson fan, even loved the most recent more 'current' one (he has a new book he's working on according to his blog)

Funny that I haven't read Snow Crash yet -- I got about halfway through the audiobook version once. The Baroque cycle was tough to start. I picked up the first before a vacation, on the discount tabe no less, and got a couple chapters in. That's when VoxJr started a his medical problems, and I put it down for nearly two years. But once I got going, I couldn't stop.