So last night we saw what a sham Ink Masters really is with its
totally useless and absurd finale. In
the previous year we were treated with to interviews with previous contestants,
live tattooing with a purpose and clips of the artists tattooing in their home
towns and we got that again, sort of.
This year’s crop of interviews seemed to be very light as
they were constantly being cut off and redirected when they arrived at the overall
feeling of favoritism that the artists felt the judges were applying to Scott
Marshall. Even the interview with Kyle
Dunbar displayed the arrogance of the judges as Nunez danced around the issue
and attempted to smooth it over. In the
end he came out looking like an even bigger tool. Several times the idea of Peck and Nunez’s
rule bending to help Scott was brought up only to have Dave swat them away and
try to redirect to other lesser drama.
If you have to redirect people from the same ending more than three
times, there is something wrong.
There was no tattoo off this year but, last year’s winner
was there to tattoo live. What I didn’t
understand wasn’t why he was there but, how someone as talented as Mr. Hamilton
is botched that design so badly. Just
goes to prove that maybe the judges don’t know everything because the finished
product was jacked.
After all of that nonsense it was time for Dave to ask
America to vote for their favorite artist and unveil the finished back
pieces. Right off the back there was a
huge similarity between Sausage and Scott.
I mean they might have been asked to tattoo the same kinds of ideas, it
was that freaky.
During the critiques Sausage received great marks for his
piece with very tiny nitpicks by Oliver Peck.
He was complemented by his use of space, skin breaks and over all flow
of design. Matti kind of blew this one
with a very cluttered design that I felt was not open enough and just kind of faded
into nothing. That is one of the judges
pet peeves so right there I knew Matti was out.
It was Scott who received an even harsher critique as his face was
described as wonky and incorrectly shaped.
It was a multi colored blah in my opinion.
Sausage ended up winning America’s vote, but in the end that
means nothing because the final word is up to the judges. Keeping in mind everything that was said
about his tattoo I braced myself for Sausages victory. This was not to be; in a shocking turn of
events the judges gave the title to Scott proving that it is flat out
rigged. The entire game was set up for
Scott and everyone one watching knew it as the crowd hailed down “boos.” It’s clear that this show isn’t in need of
new artists; it’s in need of new judges.
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