One of the Time bloggers: Why Top Chef was right to pick the wrong winner. Oh, wait, except he wasn't the wrong winner. I've seen people bitching and whining about how Hosea didn't deserve his place in the top three because he was "uneven." Really, that's the argument you want to bring up? Let's look at the other contenders I usually see people mention, in booting order... oh, and I guess these are my final thoughts on the Top Chef season, unless something else moves me to comment. Wow, that was pretentious. BUT ANYWAY:
Ariane - Fucked up the first two elimination challenges horribly and didn't do very well in the Quickfires either, other than the one she won. Then, she started winning, like, EVERYTHING. Then, she fucked up badly again and got eliminated. Definition of "uneven."
Radhika - Either won by making something that looked fucking amazing or did a beyond horrible job, usually when she had individual immunity. There didn't seem to be much of a middle ground for her.
Jeff - He went on a roll for a while, but whenever he made something bad, it seemed like it was really bad. Okay, I guess uneven-ness wasn't really his problem so much as he never, ever learned from his mistakes.
Jamie - She was highly uneven on the same darn ingredient (scallops)! I mean, she did horribly at the Christmas catering challenge with them (they like ~conspiracy theorizing~ over at TWoP that the real reason that they didn't have any eliminations during the Christmas episode was that Jamie was the clear worst and they didn't want to get rid of her... um, not so much, considering that they, well, got rid of her, and before the finale, but the idea seemed interesting during the Christmas episode) and then won the "signature dish" challenge with them. Weird.
Leah - Yeah, I hated her attitude too and she was terrible at explaining any ideas she had (IDK I JUST LIKE BACON), but that didn't mean that a lot of her food didn't look quite good (that poussin dish she made for the Quickfire round during the Restaurant Wars episode even though she supposedly had no idea what she was doing, NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM), but when she fell, she fell hard (during the Le Bernardin episode, I just wanted someone to put the poor thing out of her misery) (aaaand one more parenthetical aside because why not).
Fabio - He was my real favorite this season and I was all sad at his elimination, but he really was uneven. He had some amazing highs (the carpaccio, the roasted chicken) and some really low lows (I thought he should have gone home when Jeff did, based on the comments alone ;_;, and he sucked at Quickfires). He was also terrible at taking criticism. TERRIBLE!
Carla - Anyone that says Hosea was uneven but Carla deserves to win makes no sense at all. Carla did nothing but make a not-terrible dessert (then again, on this show that's kind of an accomplishment haha) up until Episode 8, and she was in the bottom/the losing group quite a few times. Then, she won the Super Bowl challenge. Then, she almost got herself eliminated during Restaurant Wars. Then, she like, took over the show, and that was awesome, but seeing as the last meal she made was apparently not very good according to the judges, it looks like she came crashing down again.
Stefan - Not uneven, the only chef that wasn't uneven this season (well... some chefs were even in their badness haha). No doubt he deserved to be in the finale, and as recently as the Le Bernardin episode his win looked like a foregone conclusion. But he messed up when he really critically needed to not mess up.
In conclusion, I don't think Hosea was any more or less uneven than any other contestant. At least he didn't massacre meat (Ariane), act totally out of it when a team needed his leadership (Radhika), never learn from his mistakes and get overly fussy (Jeff), make something inedible (Jamie), show that he had no idea what the hell was going on (Leah), or just plain mess up worse than anyone else (Fabio, Carla, Stefan).
Oh and Mr. Blogger Guy, Carla wouldn't have won if she put out the cheese tart. She massacred the beef and potatoes dish, remember?
But really, who cares about people hatin' on Hosea when FABIO'S GETTING HIS OWN SHOW WHOOOO!!!!!!!!
