On Project Runway season finale

I've actually been very satisfied with the outcomes of both reality shows I watch. Project Runway's first Lifetime season ended yesterday with Irina as the last Frau standing. While I did think Irina seemed overly confident and overly critical during the season, her designs continued to stand-out. This led me to the conclusion that I really don't want to know the personalities of the contestants. They cloud my judgment. Just because Mariah Carey is a diva and Whitney Houston is a crackhead doesn't mean they can't belt it out better than anyone. The same goes for Irina.

She may be a total bitch (please help me with a less offensive synonym), but if I were wearing one of her pieces, I don't think anyone would care that the person who designed it wasn't very nice. Just as no one would care that Althea has an overbite and Carol Hannah has acne (now I'm not very nice). Carol Hannah, if you ever read this, just lock yourself away for a week, don't wear any foundation and only touch your face to wash it, you'll be fine.

The reason I don't think I want to watch Project Runway anymore besides the fact that Christopher was in the bottom 2 for 5 weeks in a row and still didn't get voted off is because there just isn't enough time on the show dedicated to the actual fashion. What is an average show? 42 minutes? Do we spend 32 of those minutes watching them sew barely even getting a glimpse of what's to come? Then we see the item on the runway from top to bottom for a split second. Then they only keep 5 designers up on stage for judging, sending away how many others? Others that maybe I liked better than their top 2, but I'll never know why they were just 'safe'.

While I did agree with Irina as the winner, I also liked Althea's collection and wanted to see for myself why Irina's was better. I found myself going back and watching the runway show piece by piece today attempting to pause on each one. You know what? I couldn't. The film editors didn't show every outfit in each designer's collection from top to bottom, frontal view. So I spent how many useless minutes watching Carol Hannah keel over and vomit (actually that was pretty entertaining) instead of seeing the designs themselves. It's just not worth it anymore.