TV Talk: Face Off Episode 8.14 “The Dream Team” (Season Finale)

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Champion Teams:
Team Rayce: Adam, Anthony, Rob, Logan, and Regina
Team Anthony: Kelly, Alan, Ben, Daniel, and Jamie
Team Laura: Darla, Julian, Emily, Gregory, and Stephanie

Check out last week’s review here.

Exciting times!!! The season eight finale!!!!! Emily, Darla, and Logan were the final three as the finale of Face Off kicked off! The entire eliminated cast came back (whoa!) to help out the final three on the huge spotlight challenge ahead. The final three got to chose their teams as it normally goes. Darla picked Rob, Anthony, Stephanie, and Daniel. Emily picked Adam, Jamie, Kelly, and Regina. Logan picked Julian, Gregory, Alan, and Ben. Ahh! It was so exciting to see everyone back! I missed so many of these faces!

The final spotlight challenge? Host, McKenzie Westmore told the final three that each team had to create a team of four characters that could star in a new team movie franchise. Wow. Talk about a challenge! First on the to do list? Genre picking since world building is key here. They each chose a number though and then the genre appeared so it was random. Emily’s genre was post apocalyptic. Logan’s genre was sci-fi. Darla’s genre was fantasy.

Then, they all had one minute to choose ten words from a board and five minutes after that to come up with a title. Darla’s fantasy title was The Spirits of Eden. Cool. I totally buy that. Emily’s post apocalyptic title was Paradise Reckoning which was a post apoc version of The Wizard of Oz. This concept did make me think of the book, Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige which was great if you haven’t read it. Anyway, Logan’s sci-fi title was The Fortress. Eh. Boring title but everyone can’t come up with killer titles, so…moving on!

For the big reveal, the characters were displayed at Universal Studios Hollywood theme park and visitors picked their favorite characters. Daunting, party of seventeen. So, I was most excited to see Darla’s creations because…it’s Darla but if we’re talking genre, I was more excited to see what Emily and Logan were up to, especially Emily. And we also all know that this entire time I’ve been rooting for Team Laura so Darla and Emily also had an edge there.

Okay, the reveal… I absolutely loved, loved, loved two out of four of Emily’s characters and the other two were definitely solid. I thought that all of Logan’s characters were solid. And I loved, loved, loved all of Darla’s characters and wanted her to win. The public’s favorite team was Darla’s as well. And the judges had nothing but good things to say about all of the characters though of course, without question, ended up choosing Darla as the winner! Yay!!! Yessss!!! I am so excited! Darla won a whole lot of Alcone makeup, $100,000, and a 2015 Fiat 500 car! Congratulations, Darla! I am so happy for her! Congrats, Team Laura! What an amazing season and what a great triumph! And already, I am super psyched for season nine. And I’d be lying if I said I also wasn’t thinking about what the show is planning for the big season ten because they’ve got to be thinking about it, right?!

An all new season of Face Off returns in July on Syfy.