I felt the same way about the super-fan who loved the Texas season. I thought, boy, if that is seriously how most of Top Chef's "super-fans" feel, this show is doomed.

Second half premire opens with Daryl waking up in that building they were holed up in before they moved on the hospital…it was all a dream. The raid proceeds as planned, but goes sideways again. This time daryl screams kill them all, and our heroes gun down all of the hospital people, losing none of their own in the…

So Sloan, MacKenzie, and Don, killed Charlie. Nice work guys.

Exactly, what was she supposed to do, sit there with her thumb up her ass. CIA agents are trained to use weapons. I don't understand why that would seem implausible. I do like that she missed.

That probably took a lot of effort to put together, probably a few days of work…too bad it ends up feeling like something someone threw together in 10 minutes.

Interesting question about the seemingly un-refrigerated pork. My guess is they may have missed the shot of the Restaurant Depot guy bringing the pork from the cooler in back, or, more likely, didn't want to mess with getting a release form to have him on camera, so they thought, "fuck it, let's just toss them in a…

Often during Restaurant Wars, they show a moment or two where either the front of the house person or the person expediting, is explaining some sort of system for handling the tickets with the wait staff. That was pretty much absent this season, so I am not sure if the Orange team even really had a system. The…

Wasn't KerriAnn wearing high heels during the quick fire on the very first episode of this season? I didn't dream that did I? I think someone even commented on it.

It seems that several of the contestants this year figured out that just being a line cook is the safe way to go during restaurant wars. I don't have the time or energy to do the research, but has anybody ever been eliminated during restaurant wars, who wasn't either serving as Executive Chef or working the Front of…

I hate manufactured drama, and prefer when Top Chef shows skilled chefs on top of their game. Then the drama comes from who can impress the most with their food. However, it seems this requires a deep bench of talent to consistently pull off. The season with the Voltaggio brothers comes to mind, but even then,…

Two things. Why was so much of bob's leg left on the grill? That's just wasteful cannibals. Secondly, it seems Beth would have been smarter than to try to kill a woman with a gun, using a tiny pair of scissors. I guess the zombie apocalypse clouds your judgement.

Yeah, I don't think anybody making sous chef salaries are going to be pushing back on the very sponsors who are ponying up the $10,000 quick fire prize money.

Oh, sorry. I had Aaron on the brain.

I agree that BBQ in 30 minutes is ridiculous, but smoking salmon in 30 minutes, or any seafood for that matter, is no problem at all. It didn't say they had to cold smoke it, that was a decision the chef's made on their own.

That was weird. I'm not sure what about Aaron's food or behavior suggested he was playing chess. More like jenga…while drunk.

That was Hugh's comment, and it was a brilliant one.

Yes, there is a mention of it coming in December on Bravo web site. I guess they must have changed up the format of it, since they are waiting until they have a big pool of eliminated chefs before starting it.

It is actually very strange given that not 2 minutes earlier Tom had asked the losing team if they kept in mind that they just had to be beat one member of their team to move on. Saying something like "It's still a competition, always remember that." If I were on that team, I would have taken the opportunity to say,…

Last Chance Kitchen is still coming. Aaron fights his way through all comers, and faces Gregory in the finale, his knuckles still bruised from beating up his girlfriend, and manages to defeat Gregory who is having a bad day, in the most unexpected and unjust Top Chef finale ever, which inadvertantly ends up serving…

The battle theme really was pointless, as was having them cook for all those pretty much unseen guests. It almost feels like they had a different idea in mind for the structure of the challenge, but them changed things on the fly or in the editing room.