Seeing Red
Seeing Red by Roxanne McDonald
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The complaints get stronger, Matt’s carpenter saws off a finger, and Goile wants to murder all his competition. |
In the Viceroy hotel, Todd Oldham informs the final four the creative challenge (and I say “creative” as an adjective for the idea the producers came up with and as one describing the demands of the challenge, as well) involves the four elements.
Andrea, who is thrilled to have met her goal of making it to the final four, gets earth. But since she’s not “crunchy”, she says, the earth element will be challenging.
Goil has fire, which he finds inspiring.
Matt takes water, which he says is perfect for him, as he’s a scorpio.
And Carisa gets air, which she assures us (and herself) will not be involving any birds or clouds.
With a $30k budget plus additional monies (if I heard right) for fabric, lumber, and paint, the four are off to the Pacific Design Center and their enclaves.
Goil is again so thoughtful about his scheme, suggesting metals, when forged, make fire, and setting himself into yet another phase of the project which consumes his time with floors and back walls and whatnot.
Todd likes Matt’s room, which uses white as its water; loves Carisa’s colors, which are gorgeous blue greens on louvered flaps along two walls; and remarks how Goil has made some very fiery choices—to which Goil admits he is very aware, he tells Oldham, that red is not facilitative of sleep, so he tried to choose particular reds or orange-reds, or something…and says red is passion as well. As we soon discovered, red for Goil is also the color of war, baby.
Point is, Goil is again immersed in what he says is a challenge about time—time management—and again he is futzing so long over walls and floors. Someone comes in and remarks how there’s a lot of stuff in his room (that it’s too busy?), and Goil says three days is not enough to get as tendentious as he would like.
Goil does, however, appreciate the fighting chance he has as a final four contender.
Matt’s carpenter, Ed Schoen, cuts his hand on an electric saw, badly enough to be whisked away to the ER. While he is gone, Matt is sad and guilty he says, and shrugs that if he so happens to get eliminated because his carpenter cut himself (and the room didn’t get finished), so be it.
Andrea, who has gotten up early (3 a.m.) to sketch, as she loves hotel design but is worried about doing something
great and about being hindered by the daunting challenge, and hopes somebody tanks. Well, somebody has to, as that is what the show requires to make it a competition. She points out how her coffee is dingy but she doesn’t care, even though she says Jonathan Adler’s gonna kill her. So…the one to tank may be her.
Killing is more on Goil’s mind. After Todd Oldham calls them all rock stars for making it this far, when Adler and the other judges, including guest judge Linda O’Keefe, ask the final four who is the biggest threat to their winning title of Top Designer, Carisa (who is in love with her suite and herself) says Matt; Andrea says Matt; Matt says he refuses to answer the question—oh, wait, that’s the almighty Michael, long gone; Matt joking says nobody; and Goil starts to show the ragged edges of his psyche, saying he is threatened by everyone and therefore must kill all three, one at a time.
His hyper-theoretical approach to design consuming his time gets him eliminated, though, not his murderous intent.
And it is less rage and fire and more of Matt’s water in the end, for our little guy, the one who wanted to avoid being the Jan Brady of the bunch, cries.
It’s sad. Pitiful, really. But Goil kicks ass in the design department, and will do well wherever he goes…provided he gets leeway with the clock and all.
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