This is a light fun show for me to watch, so I was surprised by how mad I was by the final decision. How in the hell did Gabby and Ryan come in last place of all the finalists? I thought they were in the running to win. Their circus creation was bright, fun, motorized, detailed, humorous, and had lots of little storytelling scattered throughout.

In comparison, Scott and Owen's was a big old mess. They were right about there not being a big focal point. Their original idea to have the wizard in a cyclone as the focal point got dwarfed by their insistence on making their scene WAY too busy, yet somehow their solution was to make ANOTHER focal point? There was too much going on but not in a good way. It just looked like a jumbled chaotic mess and I didn't think the story was very clear without an explanation.

Gus and Max's deer with wolves scene was very pretty but I was sure that they would get dinged for being too simplistic. Once the judge said that it made him feel emotion, I knew that they had risen up to contention but I thought it would between them and Gabby/Ryan.

The stupid thing about the live voting is that there were 250 votes from the people who came in, but the judge's vote counted for 100 votes so whoever he wanted to win was going to win regardless of how everyone else voted. The only possible way to avoid his 100 votes determining the winner would be if EVERYONE voted for the same team.

I'm used to the finale video of the contestants' families but I loved that they did one for the crew too. That was really sweet.

Normally Hamish doesn't bother me but there was a bit too much "LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME!" directed at the contestants during the finale. I wanted to tell him to STFU and leave them alone because they were exhausted, under pressure, and knew they had to be up for 28 hours to build. The last thing they need is the equivalent of a five year old child saying, "MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM!" I felt it was particularly egregious with the deer team at one point because they were clearly trying to ignore him and he would not leave them alone. Look, if you're bored, go bother Brickman. Leave the contestants alone.

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