Bit by bit, my predictions for this season of Top Chef<\/em> seem to be coming true.\u00a0<\/p>\n Although Brian gave us a bit of a scare last night, CJ was duly ejected (hahaha) from the airplane elimination challenge, as I suspected.<\/p>\n Remember – as I noted last week<\/a>, these Bravo reality competition shows have a formula; by the final round (in TC’<\/em>s case, a Final Four), they will always have:<\/p>\n So I reiterate my prediction:<\/p>\n So that’s the big question for next week; does Dale upset either Brian or Sara and get to the finals?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bit by bit, my predictions for this season of Top Chef seem to be coming true.\u00a0 Although Brian gave us a bit of a scare last night, CJ was duly ejected (hahaha) from the airplane elimination challenge, as I suspected. Remember – as I noted last week, these Bravo reality competition shows have a formula; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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![Kim Thayil<\/a> hairdo.<\/li>\nOne babe – Chloe Dao<\/a>, in the case of PR2.\u00a0 <\/em>Dao was the eventual winner.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nSo I reiterate my prediction:<\/p>\n\nBrian will be the Talented Guy<\/strong> (with a possible<\/em>, but I think unlikely, Dale upset).<\/li>\nCasey will fill the Babe<\/strong> role; indeed, I figured she was a lock once Camille and the long-shot (too girl-next-door-y, although I’d totally get her phone number) Lia got booted.\u00a0 If I want to wax conspiratorial, I’d say that’d be why she won last night (remember – the producers play a major role in determining the results of each week’s competition, judges notwithstanding), even though Hung’s dish got arguably better reviews; the buzz among TC <\/em>fans has been that Casey’s been eye candy, and she’d need a win or two to have some cred behind her trip to the finals).\u00a0<\/li>\nThe Jerk<\/strong>?\u00a0 Hung.\u00a0 Doy.\u00a0<\/li>\nThe fourth role in the Final Four?\u00a0 Gotta be Sara, although I can see Dale squeaking into this more easily than\u00a0the Talented\u00a0Guy.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nSo that’s the big question for next week; does Dale upset either Brian or Sara and get to the finals?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bit by bit, my predictions for this season of Top Chef seem to be coming true.\u00a0 Although Brian gave us a bit of a scare last night, CJ was duly ejected (hahaha) from the airplane elimination challenge, as I suspected. Remember – as I noted last week, these Bravo reality competition shows have a formula; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/musiciansociety.com\/UserFiles\/Image\/instru\/CoolGears3_clip_image013.jpg\"){kind=link}