Ink Master Season Two Finale Recap

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By SG | Monday, December 24, 2012 | 6:02 am | 5 Comments
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Steve is called first for judging and when asked how he felt by being picked last he lies and says it doesn’t bother him. Bitch you were complaining about it when it happened. He gets critiqued well for his piece even though I think it looks like a shitty block statue. Sebastian’s tattoo is very technical with great shading but is marked down for it being too detailed and dark on darker skin. Sebastian blames his client for not sitting well. Tatu Baby’s dragon is admired for taking on the challenge but she is torn apart for missing key elements of the dragon. Oliver blasts her for basically misleading her client in thinking she can do a badass dragon and he ends up making her cry. In a way he is barking at her for doing what the client wanted instead of trying to get her client to do something else she was a bit stronger in..which I have issues with. I don’t understand the manipulation of what a client wants versus what the judges want to see. Sarah’s phoenix is nice but there are elements that are messed up including the weird shaped wings and the tail feathers that look like drapes. Sarah of course talks and talks and makes excuses for her work instead of just taking the critiques. I wish someone had a muzzle on set that they could put to good use.


Sarah


Tatu Baby


Steve


Sebastian

Sarah explains that Steve is probably safe and that hers as well could be on top. Steve puts Tatu and Sebastian on the bottom and Tatu doesn’t take that well. She says what I have been thinking that she got played because they tell you to work outside your box and when she does, she is criticized for it. Steve says Ink Masters have to be well rounded at everything and that Tatu doesn’t admit when she is wrong…neither does Sarah so yea. Sebastian tries to blame skin color for his design flaws but Steve points out that Sebastian hasn’t won shit this entire competition and I’m surprised he didn’t throw out his I WON 3 TIMES line he has been favoring. I don’t really care who goes home at this point and who wins because I think they are all pretty lackluster except Tatu Baby. Steve wants Sebastian and Tatu to go home so he can win and buy more god awful button up shirts.

 

Everyone is called down with a top two of Steve and Sarah and a bottom two of Sebastian and Tatu Baby. The winner is Steve who gets a pass for the Finale 3 along with Sarah. Sarah explains that whatever shortcomings she has she proves she has skills that are well-rounded and can step outside of the box….um if you have shortcomings that means you are failing in certain areas. I guess she’s trying to say that even though she has failed she has failed consistently on the same thing so that makes it okay. Muzzle Muzzle. Tatu is praised for her fight but she is criticized on doing something she isn’t familiar with. She says it’s not a great representation of her and she is disappointed in disappointing the judges. Sebastian blames skin tone and a bad sitting client again and says that his tattoo is at least better than one other one of the group. Sebastian says that he has shown off that he can do each style at least well enough to move forward even though he hasn’t wowed them up until this point.

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5 Comments

  1. 1
    wcsdancer
    Posted December 24, 2012 at 5:33 pm

    Yesterday Spike aired a marathon of season 2, which I watched intermittently. After seeing so many episodes back to back, I’m really glad Steve won. I, too, thought it was BS that Tatu Baby didn’t make top 3, but agree with those who have said that was so that they could let her come back next season. She’s tremendously talented. Even though when I was watching the rifle stock ep, they showed the outcomes and I laughed. I couldn’t help but think of the gasm poster (sorry too lazy to look it up) who said something like “Tatu Baby’s dog looked sad…like hunting depressed him”.

    Sarah is talented but she’s a nutcase.

    Jamie is handsome, but there is something subtlely creepy about him. I told Mr. Dancer that he looks like someone who could easily bring in a semi-automatic with an extra large clip and open fire. There’s just something bubbling under the surface…

    The only person who wears worse shirts than Steve is Alan Harper on Two and Half Men.

  2. 2
    isthathissister
    Posted December 24, 2012 at 9:41 pm

    I’m SO glad Steve won, even though I don’t think he was as good as last season’s contestants either.

    And that finale was AWFUL. Just bad production values all around. It was thrown together and it showed. The introductions of all the contestants was mis-timed. Dave Navarro could not read a teleprompter to save his life. And then he cut people off as they were trying to speak! And the guy whose tattoo was gonna get fixes by tommy yelling our ” I thought you should’ve won!” in the middle of show… AND, worst of all, the judges were critiquing tattoos we couldn’t see. Like, for real, stop showing me Sebastian, Sarah, and Steve ( wow all S names, never noticed that) and show me the tattoos so I understand what the hell the judges are taking about.

    Also, Sarah did look good but she has not been working out. That was a corset and spanx.

  3. 3
    chaosbutterfly
    Posted December 25, 2012 at 4:34 pm

    That finale was so ratchet. I had high hopes, but the broken english in Dave’s opening and the mis-timed, awkward intro of the other artists quickly indicated what type of evening this was going to be.

    There was only one outcome to this season, so Steve’s win was not a shocker at all.
    He deserved it, although to tell the truth, I was not moved by his or anyone else’s up there’s tattoo. His was the best, but I don’t know…I was let down.

    I feel bad for Sebastian’s canvas, because he never had a shot at winning, so there was no reason to let him tattoo that hideous shit on her back. And then it wasn’t even executed well…all grey and wishy-washy looking. I hope Ink Master will pay for a coverup or a skin graft if need be, because I can’t imagine having to wear that on my back forever.
    No more going to the beach, no more summer tops, no more doggy style sexual relations….how is she supposed to enjoy life?

    I wanted to punch Sarah during that long speech she launched into when Chris asked her why she gave her Valkyrie a black eye. Best part of the season ending is that I will never again have to hear her yapping about being beat down and still fighting and whatever.
    I also agree that she hadn’t been working out or dieting…she put on a squeem and some spanx. If she had actually lost weight, her head would be in better proportion to her body.
    Tommy looked delicious as usual though.

    I’m so happy for Katherine that she gets another shot at the next season. I can’t say that she’ll be a shoo-in because it depends on the talent level of next season’s cast, but she should at least make the finale. Especially if she uses the time to practice.
    And I hope that she changes her wardrobe…no more too-tight, too-short everything, okay Katherine?

    Mark is a bad MMA fighter. I looked it up; he wins as much as he loses.

    Merry Christmas and thanks for the recaps, SG!!
    Looking forward to Face Off! :D

  4. 4
    upinthesky
    Posted December 26, 2012 at 3:17 pm

    If they do a live finale next season, they really need to let either Peck or Nunez be the host. Navarro was terrible, and I loved how it seemed like Peck was sabotaging him by sticking his head in the frame so he could stick his tongue out and do the devil-horns.

    Kat rolling her eyes behind Mark when he was saying the whole “I’m an MMA fighter, so the tattoo was crappy because I broke my hand,” was awesome. And on the MMA topic: I wonder if Sebastian wanted both Cupcake and King Mo solely so he could put horrible tattoos on them to get back at Mark.

    Also, Navarro was totally hitting on Sarah the whole time. It seemed like the only time he could get a full sentence out of his mouth that sounded normal was when he was flirting with her.

  5. 5
    What now?
    Posted January 1, 2013 at 4:07 am

    Wow, I seriously don’t understand the hate that Sarah is getting here (and, to be fair, in other places as well). She was incredibly talented; she was honestly robbed during the Star Wars week (and in my opinion, several others as well). She acted like a nutcase, but being a good artist has very little to do with being sane.

    I didn’t find any of Tatu Baby’s work to be impressive enough to win any of the weeks, with one exception; if she had been able to finish that damn cheetah, she would definitely have deserved that weeks win. That isn’t to say that I don’t think she did a decent job on a couple of the weeks. Her Yoda was good (just not as good as Sarah’s tattoo), her black and white submission was pretty and I really liked her zombie doll lady during horror week. Other than that…was it really that big of a loss that she didn’t go to the finals? To be honest, neither she nor Sebastien (God, don’t get me started on that talentless hack) deserved to be there at the end.

    I think the fact that Sarah had such an abrasive personality has the most to do with why she didn’t have more support. Again, being skilled in any form of art has nothing to do with being likeable. I absolutely loathed Kal Kutta, but if he had been a decent artist, I would certainly have been pulling for him to win. I know that it’s such a lame trope now, but an artistic competition is not a personality contest. Save pulling for the good guy for when you watch crap shows like Survivor and The Bachelorette.

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