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Just matter of time Marissa will be going home. She acts like she walks on water herself. It is always one bad apple in the bunch. Otto made a mistake and he own up to it. Remember they edit the show, so we don't know all of the story, only what they wanted us to see.

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Otto owned up to it and Marisa needs to go. I also can't stand Marcel - Am I the only one who sees how annoying these two are?

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I agree with your statement. Think Otto went to far. He took the hit, returned the item and then fell on the sword.
Marissa was so outraged she couldn't make her will know at the store. Instead she chooses to tear the team apart and report to Tom. She is a pastery chef and fails terribly at that task. She turns on her desert helper and doesn't even allow her to finish her comment. Otto in the spirit of competition made an observation that they did not pay for something and he paid the price. Did Marissa pay for her mistakes.
Did the other team members care about the leaches. Team worked poorly together and if the desert was good, combined with the good pork dish they could have won. So tell me how the leches had anything to do with this teams failure. Think highly of Otto, Marissa values are very selfserving and her skills as a chef are very questionable.

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To be really fair about it, they should of sent both home, Otto and Marissa. They should of said okay Otto will take that you willing to go home, but we still need to send one more person home, Marissa.

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A very interesting episode. More than enough blame to go around. When Otto thought (at the car he talked as if he wasn't sure if the lychees had been paid for) that the lychees were overlooked by the checkout person, he should have asked for the receipt to check. When (is her name Marissa?) thought he had dishonestly stolen the lychees, she should have confronted him. If she had, they could have looked at the receipts and found out what was what, and returned them before the competition began. But, not every one has the strength of character to confront (which may be her downfall - honesty counts, but so does taking a stand for what you believe in - versus grandstanding or tattling - not that I am convinced what her motives were).

As for Otto pulling out - he is an instructor - he was in the bottom in challenge one, in the bottom in challenge two - and with his integrity on the line. He had utterly no choice but to act as he did - to try to save as much face as possible and keep his real career as a teacher of others intact. His bowing out seems to prove beyond doubt that he used really bad judgment over the lychees, but I don't think he would actively steal - but would take advantage of a mistake. I think he weighed the options and thought a clean breast of it was less damaging than probably continuing in the bottom. As a human in the real world he seems a grand hearted, giving and caring man - and sometimes people like that let their emotions take over them...I imagine his motives were mixed.

Team Vietnam mostly was wise enough to pull together as a team - easier for them perhaps as they had someone familiar with the cuisine, and two chefs used to catering.

There was one malcontent in the Vietman group (I'll bet he would have made Team Korea even more disfunctional) [I'll get better with the names eventually...] but there were many more overly competitive non-collaboratives in the Korean group.

Nice guys and gals do win in the end (a la Harold) yet, America loves the rascals (Tom Sawyer). So far, interesting challenges and a crew I've not pegged into slots. Makes Weds. worth the wait.

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Exactly....I can see the three finalists now..hhaha

And poor Betty playing Daves role

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yea...thats true...

plus...I wonder if anyone ever got any long hairs in their food? everyones hair is all hanging down in front...and not only the women...Wolverine too!

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To be really fair about it, they should of sent both home, Otto and Marissa. They should of said okay Otto will take that you willing to go home, but we still need to send one more person home, Marissa.

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Otto mentioned not paying for the ingredient to Marissa at the store. She should have told him what she thought then. She should have said, "Oh, well, we'd better take it back," or "Let's have a quick meeting" or SOMETHING. But no. He put it on the table, and she just ignored it. No one would ever have known if he hadn't mentioned it. If he wanted to be deceitful he would have just never mentioned it at all. By bringing it up, he was getting another person's opinion.

I think Marissa should have left for her crappy dessert and for her failure to step up to the plate at the store. AND for her willingness to throw him under the bus later. Otto didn't say, "Oh hey! Guess what! We got free stuff! Who hoo!" He sounded concerned.

I really think Otto WAS caught up in the moment. He didn't know what to do. So he brought it to Marissa's attention. He was probably going through the possible scenarios in his head: dragging all the stuff out, trying to figure out what to take back, how much time that would take, how everyone would be pissed off...and how much easier it would be to just blow it off. So he asked Marissa and she did NOTHING. Until she blew the whistle and made Otto look like a thief. Lack of character.

Marcel looked better in this episode. The trailer for next week has him looking pretty bad, but he was pretty cool in this one.

I like Elia. She is just different. She isn't really emotional or perky. But she is nice, I think.

I like Betty a lot. I am glad she won.

I think Marissa would have been gone if Otto hadn't of backed out. The judges said that it was her dessert that caused them to lose. Not Otto and not the rice.

Oh, and I just have to say that I like Padma MUCH better than I liked Katie. I was prepared to not like her based on some of the comments here, but she's okay in my book. She's not a robot, and she doesn't tell people to pack their knives and go like she is ordering them into the death chamber because they murdered her dog.

Ha.

Sam

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