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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Another fucking terrible move by the judges as they send home Tatu Baby over Sebastian. Dave says it was difficult but was it really? Sebastian is well-rounded but he’s not a showstopper. Chris tells the remaining artist to do the best job of their lives and everyone is surprised that she was sent home. Sebastian says he is technical but he’s just edged out by the top two and Steve tells us that Sebastian is a C (you next tuesday) and he and Sarah are A (holes). Sebastian takes a moment and breaks down and explains the reason why he pushes himself so hard is his brother who passed away and was unable to see his success in tattooing. Nice to see him show some humility since he’s been portrayed as kind of an asshole. The artists meet with the judges and they learn that the finale tattoo will be whatever they want on their canvas and where ever they want and will be done in their home shops in 6 4 hour sessions. The clients are pretty stoked except Sebastian’s who wants something girly which is far from his style. They couldn’t have given her to Sarah…better yet she couldn’t just be like fuck it, I’m out?

 

The Live Finale was…interesting. I don’t know about you but I’m sending Dave a copy of Hooked on Phonics because he has trouble reading teleprompters. What the fuck was that eliminated contestant entrance with the random male models? They couldn’t get these guys some chairs to sit in on the stage but they can give them bar stools off to the side? Dave asks some stupid questions about how Tatu Baby feels about being eliminated and she takes the PC answer of it hurt. I would have been like “Fuck YOU…Sebastian REALLY???” but that’s just me.

Jamie defends himself and challenges Oliver to shave his hair in order to give Jamie a visible tattoo. Jamie also says he doesn’t want to be covered in shit tattoos like everyone else. Production should have taken the chance to talk with or at least zoom in on Forrest’s face since he was sitting BEHIND THE JUDGES. Next, Crazy Bitch is back and yelling at Nick about her shitty tramp stamp and then Mark’s pin-up says what we all said about it, it’s too dark. Sexy Tommy Helm comes out and offers to cover up his piece. We finally get the final three to come out and yes, Sarah does look good but that’s not something I ever disputed. If fact I pointed that out like 8 episodes ago but whatever she still has exorcist face and the stance of a football player.

Why is Steve’s shop in a shitty strip mall while Sarah and Sebastian have nicer looking places? I’m just wondering if he spent too much money on those god awful shirts when it could have went to a better location. We get a closer look at the process of creating the finale pieces and again Sebastian’s client had the chance to walk out and still went through getting that horrible piece on her back. I don’t know any female that would agree to that shit…and I know some fucked up, I think I’m a Suicide Girl girls. They didn’t interview the girl so I guess we will never know what motivated her to continue on with the piece. I think Steve’s piece is probably my favorite of the three but I still don’t think he really earned a shot at the title.


Sebastian


Steve


Sarah

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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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