gabluv

The only reason I kept watching this as long as I did was because of the interesting challenges and beautiful art. However, the judging absolutely ruins the show for me. At the beginning of every episode, if someone mentions some vague sob story about their life I instantly know they are going to win. And I'm right every single time. Every once in a while it just so happens that they actually deserve to win, but more often than not it seems like the winner was predetermined by their sad backstory. It's completely obvious when watching who deserves to win and who's overall concept, craft, and execution is better, but it seems to me like the "judges" have no actual say or real opinion in who gets to move on. Sometimes you can actually see the frustration in the mentors faces when their artist clearly deserved to win but instead lost to something significantly and obviously inferior. Overall this show is completely frustrating to watch as amazing artists repeatedly lose to something that is half-assed or makes no visual sense and I'm extremely disappointed in Skin Wars: Fresh Paint, as I enjoyed the original Skin Wars and was looking forward to this new spinoff.