Recap: Top Model: Ethereal Nymphs of the World Unite! - 
by J-Unit
The last few eliminations really didn't cause that much of a commotion among the remaining models, but losing Michelle was much different. Twins spend so much time together growing up that they usually become pretty close, but Amanda and Michelle were like freakishly close. Since they are still fairly young, they haven't spent a lot of time away from their parents, let alone away from themselves. Everything considered, I think that Amanda is doing quite well. And if she is ever going to have a modeling career outside of gimmicky things with her twin sister, than she will have to learn how to do things on her own every now and then.
Now, I am not sure if somebody was asleep at the wheel when they were editing this episode, but it nearly put me to sleep watching it. And this should have been an easy episode to come up with something interesting to say! Not even five minutes into the episode, and we meet Nacho Blanco, esteemed flamenco teacher. Dancing With the Top Models? Sounds like a great spin-off show to me, and how can you go wrong with a bunch of models awkwardly stomping around and trying to learn how to dance?
Well, a number of things went wrong. I know that I shouldn't stereotype people, but how can you have a flamenco teacher that is so subdued? I thought that Nacho would be running around, speaking incomprehensibly, shouting "AGAIN! AGAIN! AGAIN!" but he didn't do any of that. He was surprisingly calm, and other than Amanda, none of the girls were all that freaked out about having to dance. He was slightly amusing when he was going through the steps because he would make these sounds like he was trying to do a little Catalonian beat boxing, but the sounds came more like a short flamenco instructor who was stuck inside a pinball machine. And to make matters worse, Nacho's translator sucked any energy out of the room.
Oh, and at the end, they had us watching while Amanda picked the blisters off of her feet. WTF? I am not anti-feet, and I don't care if people wear sandals or open toed shoes, but people who were flip flops don't normally pick the blisters off of their feet in front of me. It is like a social contract. In exchange for allowing us to get some sun on our little piggies, we agree not to bring any more attention to the feet than is absolutely necessary. This is normally where I would say something like "then again, looking at pictures of her blisters is better than looking at pictures of her face", but I am going to try and be nice on account of Amanda having lost her sister.
And if things weren't boring enough, they decided to have Miss J. visit the girls and give them a little bit of advice. Miss J is good in small doses because she really doesn't have that much to say. Putting her on the panel means she has used up all of her good lines by the third episode. That's not to say that Miss J has nothing good to say. When she is instructing the models in their walks, she usually has some very helpful things to say. But just because she may be a good runway instructor doesn't mean she is going to have any personality.
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