This is really what grinds my gears about the show. I would much rather watch a show where cosplayers all had like 3 months to make a KILLER costume. I am no TV or marketing genius, so I don't know how viewable a show like that would be or how it would be pulled off. I'm just saying that I would rather watch "video documentaries" of people making really awesome costumes with a realistic amount of time.
I am going to assume that all comes down to production timing and budget. It would be very hard to keep up with and send out a film crew repeatedly for updates and to keep all the "stars" on track. It would be more realistic and the results would be more impressive, but I think the constraints of the show itself make this hard to do. The other thing, and this is not meant as a slam, is that the show places very little value on quality of costume outside of Yaya's costumes, which are all already made. They talk about odd things when judging like "did you make the undersuit by hand?" while ignoring glaring issues, but I have to believe that is being pushed by the producers who still don't really seem to understand what we do and what is valuable and what is not.
If there is any benefit to this approach, I think it lowers the point of entry for new people as they see this and think, "It only takes a week. I can do that!" The fact is, a week long build is not going to give that impressive a result, but if that is what it takes to get them hooked, I am all for it.
I know Lafiel (Riddle), NeobiZero (Jesse), CommanderHolly (Holly from crabcat) have commented previously in this thread. Here is to hoping we will hear more from them as the season progresses and don't forget, whether you love the show, hate the show or fall somewhere in between, in a number of ways it does represent us as a community and we do have a lot of people from our community participating in it.
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