just copy and pasting from fb
Oh yes, my thoughts exactly. for the most part this show is making me cringe, but mostly it is cosplay related so I am watching it even though it is painful
It is scarring to know that in this show, despite all of Yaya Han's effort to not dramaticise the whole thing the rest of the cast, or non-cast, is pretty much missing the point, just why and where did they choose these people, I mean, yes, they obviously am very skilled, Jesse for example showcases immense inner strength and skill, although he is made to seem like he ain't more than a whiner fabricator. For anyone in the cosplay community, myself included (even though I am hardly involved in cosplay actually) this show seems to be mostly of what Cosplay isn't . So what happens if So you want to be a supermodel is a show about cosplay? This would be it.
Reality check if you don't mind, for myself, the community is instead anything but this show seems to imply, I like that I am watching it because finally we somewhat became mainstream (even though cosplay is a serious mainstream sub-culture as it is). But this episode, about body sizes, I'd a double slap on my desk as I watched it, this is sadly misleading. I am sorry, since when is this a supermodel event? But alas, it is the view of SOME people, I imagine that cosplayer who mentioned the issue about body sizes is right now taking a lot of flak... on her fb or whatever.
My community (The Lost Gospel Cosplay Community) has a huge following, and over 400 members who have come and gone and came back again, there are now HR managers, Concierge managers, salesworkers, part-timers, construction workers, even a guy who is now a high wage earning surgeon in spinal injury is among us. I am sorry to say despite our day jobs and some say utterly bitching moments when someone just shows up in the same but better made costume and you go all green-eyed jealousy over them, we are simply not what SyFy wants us to be.
Ok, admittedly in most communities, there is some drama, it is never 100% clean.
