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Post by Tibidabo on Aug 30, 2017 15:24:58 GMT
Well I quite liked it - Noel surprised me, I found him understated and not irritating, which I had thought I would. Sandi I like anyway and thought she was funny, though I'm not convinced this is really the vehicle for her. I'll wait to see how the chemistry between her and Noel progresses. Paul is Paul. I really didn't like Prue - I'd never heard of her before so wasn't expecting anything. I thought the standard was much better this year (well, apart from those mini rolls. Basic skills too!) Those showstoppers were amazing! My early likes are Steven, Tom (though that might not have much to do with his baking ) Kate and Vera Duckworth - that watermelon was stunning inside! I'm also loving Liam, though I'm not sure how far he'll go. Yan is annoying me and I have no idea how Stacey even got through auditions - everything she made looked like the sort of stuff my kids used to bring home from cooking lessons at school. (And I mean primary school.) Right person got star baker and wrong person went home, though they probably wouldn't have lasted much longer if they had stayed anyway.
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Post by tmesis on Aug 30, 2017 16:58:44 GMT
I think it still works because it's really the contestants that make the show rather than the presenters, and God knows why, but you empathise more, and get emotionally drawn into their personal journey (sorry, hate that expression too) than with any other cooking show. All the new presenters were good and better than anticipated. Just the ads are an annoyance but I think I'll get used to that.
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Post by longinthetooth on Aug 30, 2017 17:04:23 GMT
Couldn't bring myself to watch it. Don't like Noel, not that keen on Sandi and know nothing of Prue. No Mary = no bake off. Can't stand adverts either.
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Post by alece10 on Aug 31, 2017 16:14:05 GMT
Although I boycotted the show, my inner self forced me to watch it on catch up. Didn't like Noel, he is a bit dull and has a scary face. Sandi who I normally like was non descript and I miss the relationship between Mel and Sue. Pru was dull as dishwater and Paul was Paul. However I really liked the contestants and there are some great characters especially Flo who I think is going to be very funny and Steve who is like Will Young with a beard and is going to cry a lot.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2017 20:45:20 GMT
Noel and Sandi were very good (knew Sandi would be) and i dont miss Sues stupid ways of saying 'Bake', that had really started to grate last series.
But couldnt warm to Prue at all and the whole thing felt over produced and trying too hard. It had lost a certain simple innocence. Not sure ill carry on, ill just watch repeats on Good Food and Amazon.
Ugh and the adverts, why not just have two slightly longer breaks inbetween each round?! having them more regularly and before the judging killed the flow. If sky can have fewer ad breaks for mega hit like Game of Thrones then c4 could for bake off
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Sept 1, 2017 12:18:42 GMT
I don't think Prue is trying to be the new Mary Berry, I think Prue is trying to be the new Paul. She's come in and gone, "Screw this, I know far more about baking than you, I'm the Simon Cowell of this judging panel!" (though as catchphrases go "dry" is not a patch on "soggy bottom") and left Paul floundering. You can see him debating if he's supposed to be 'the nice one' now. Or maybe it's the editing trying to make him look like 'the nice one.' Whichever, it's not working. There is no kindly figure exuding warmth and being supportive of the bakers any more.
I'll put peppermint in a mini roll with a gun to my head.
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Post by TallPaul on Sept 1, 2017 12:26:18 GMT
As someone who genuinely will not be watching a single moment on Channel 4, I'm not sure I'm allowed an opinion anymore, but, for what it's worth, Prue is not, and never has been, a baker, which is quite important for a show with 'bake' in the title. She is (was) a successful restaurateur and businesswoman, but never a baker.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 1, 2017 12:30:00 GMT
Let's face it, it should have been Delia.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2017 13:29:49 GMT
Let's face it, it should have been Delia. Well let's face it, we really should be referring to her as Dame Delia.
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Post by sirdaniel on Sept 1, 2017 13:31:05 GMT
By and large, Noel was the best part of the first episode for me. Funny guy.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2017 13:44:49 GMT
As someone who genuinely will not be watching a single moment on Channel 4, I'm not sure I'm allowed an opinion anymore, but, for what it's worth, Prue is not, and never has been, a baker, which is quite important for a show with 'bake' in the title. She is (was) a successful restaurateur and businesswoman, but never a baker. I don't know, American MasterChef didn't suffer any for having restaurateur and winemaker Joe Bastianich as a judge for the first few seasons...
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Post by Tibidabo on Sept 1, 2017 14:34:00 GMT
Awful, awful show. This is the antithesis of Masterchef Australia, what with its nasty judges spitting food out and tipping whole dishes into the bin and constant bitchiness between the contestants. Then there's Gordon Ramsay's knowledge of only 3 adjectives, not to mention his bizarre way of punctuating sentences in places that shouldn't be punctuated. I find it unwatchable. MC Canada is an even worse bitchfest.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Sept 1, 2017 14:42:49 GMT
Oh, I didn't know that. She can **** off then. At least until her vocabulary expands a bit. #drydrydry
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Post by tmesis on Sept 1, 2017 14:59:07 GMT
Let's face it, it should have been Delia. Well let's face it, we really should be referring to her as Dame Delia. I think I read that Blair wanted to make her Lady Smith, with associated elevation to the Lords but, rather gratifyingly, she turned him down.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 5, 2017 19:31:56 GMT
Biscuits 🤤🤤🤤
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Post by hulmeman on Sept 5, 2017 20:14:39 GMT
Well at least Mary Berry's wardrobe is being put to good use by Noel. Not that I watched it of course.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Sept 5, 2017 20:22:30 GMT
Really wouldn't surprise me if Fielding was quietly ditched before any future series. He isn't bringing anything to the tent.
Some pretty shoddy baking today. Biscuit week shouldn't be that challenging unless the ovens are dodgy
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 5, 2017 20:24:38 GMT
I'd have scoffed the lot from round 1. After that it was bleugh.
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Post by Tibidabo on Oct 17, 2017 14:15:17 GMT
I have a colleague who went to this week's recording for An Extra Slice, which included watching tonight's show beforehand. Although she didn't tell me who went (some sort of official secrets' act was signed) and I wouldn't have asked anyway, I do have a teeny little spoilerette for tonight. So do not click if you do not want a hint as to who left. Apparently, tonight you will need tissues
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Post by zak97 on Oct 17, 2017 14:20:49 GMT
Noel can go at the end of the season, I have warmed to Sandi, but not him. He’s humour attempts are so flat. It’s as if they’ve told him to channel Mel and Sue, it just doesn’t work.
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Post by Tibidabo on Oct 17, 2017 21:12:43 GMT
Right. That's it. I'm NEVER watching again. FIX!!!!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2017 21:15:17 GMT
Noel can go at the end of the season, I have warmed to Sandi, but not him. He’s humour attempts are so flat. It’s as if they’ve told him to channel Mel and Sue, it just doesn’t work. I disagree i love Noel and Sandi together. Pru needs to go and Paul needs to realise its not his show just because Mary iant around anymore
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Oct 20, 2017 19:54:03 GMT
Noel can go at the end of the season, I have warmed to Sandi, but not him. He’s humour attempts are so flat. It’s as if they’ve told him to channel Mel and Sue, it just doesn’t work. I disagree i love Noel and Sandi together. Pru needs to go and Paul needs to realise its not his show just because Mary iant around anymore Agreed with first sentence, but a fan of Pru here. Wasn't before but she is good.
Been watching one of the first series of GBBO on UK cookery gold. Spoiler Alert. Paul and Mary have both aged in reverse. Paul isn't orange yet and Mary has loads more wrinkles. Both look at least ten years younger at BBC's end. And the cookery isn't as consistently good in early series.
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Post by theatremadness on Oct 24, 2017 19:47:30 GMT
Love that the technical this week was a Les Misérables slice!!
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Oct 25, 2017 7:23:23 GMT
Can’t stand that Sophie. Smug or what. The other woman is dead sloppy, can’t see how she’s scraped into the final. Steven to win!
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Post by zak97 on Oct 25, 2017 8:57:59 GMT
Loved the panning to Stacey last night, every time someone else had good feedback - you could just sense the "damn, I want to kill you" coming from her.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2017 9:00:19 GMT
Can’t stand that Sophie. Smug or what. The other woman is dead sloppy, can’t see how she’s scraped into the final. Steven to win! Steven is the epitome of smug. He genuinely hates it if others get great feedback - you can see it all over his boat race. I was hoping he would go this week as he has been getting progressively more arrogant and peacocky as the weeks go by.
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Post by lynette on Oct 25, 2017 10:19:09 GMT
So Stacey ‘just’ did a couple of pink birds or whatever Hollywood said but what about the messy rainbow which was all there was there. Both tasted ok. And the tutu was totally cracked so why didn’t hollywood pick up on that? Weird judging and the comment about having to look back to what they had done in the past was a teensy bit dodgey as if they had put it in after the edit to explain why they were keeping Stephen but correct me if I am wrong the judging is in the ‘you are as good as your last cake’ basis no? Well obviously no. So in Strictly what if they kept in a celeb cos she did a nice waltz in week 1 even though she did a poor foxtrot in week 5? I’m just surmising. They don’t do that and it means you have to perform every time. You don’t award the grand national to a horse that won every time but not this time do you? I’m just putting this out there as my logic might be all over the place. But I just felt that Stacey was hard done by and the finalists were pre ordained
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Post by oxfordsimon on Oct 25, 2017 10:24:49 GMT
I would personally favour a radical rejig of the format - with a series of two halves. The first would be on the basics: Bread, Pastry, Cake, Biscuits - with the contestants all being ranked on a leaderboard (and no weekly elimination). Then only the top 5 or 6 bakers would proceed through to the second half - with the more technical/themed weeks. At this stage you would go to a weekly elimination heading towards the final.
That way, you would test them all on core technique and really see who can cut it - rather than someone who is great at Bread, Pastry and Cake but who is weaker on Biscuits being eliminated due to one limitation.
Would this make for good television? Done well, yes. Would it make for higher standards and a fairer outcome? Absolutely.
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Post by theatremadness on Oct 25, 2017 10:34:04 GMT
So Stacey ‘just’ did a couple of pink birds or whatever Hollywood said but what about the messy rainbow which was all there was there. Both tasted ok. And the tutu was totally cracked so why didn’t hollywood pick up on that? Weird judging and the comment about having to look back to what they had done in the past was a teensy bit dodgey as if they had put it in after the edit to explain why they were keeping Stephen but correct me if I am wrong the judging is in the ‘you are as good as your last cake’ basis no? Well obviously no. So in Strictly what if they kept in a celeb cos she did a nice waltz in week 1 even though she did a poor foxtrot in week 5? I’m just surmising. They don’t do that and it means you have to perform every time. You don’t award the grand national to a horse that won every time but not this time do you? I’m just putting this out there as my logic might be all over the place. But I just felt that Stacey was hard done by and the finalists were pre ordained I see what you mean lynette but I think it's just different rules for different shows. Strictly make it clear that the dance off is to be judged on that particular performance and nothing else - presumably the 'nothing else' encompasses popularity and entertainment value which the audience at home take care of when they vote to keep people in! I remember at least 1 or 2 occasions on previous Bake Off's on BBC1 where Paul and Mary (more so Paul) talked about having to refer back to previous bakes to make a decision on who should go home so last night wasn't the first time. Also editing will play a huge part in how we view it. Most of the time over the 8 series', it's been pretty obvious who will go but I'm sure on the odd occasion it's been a surprise, it wouldn't shock me too much if the judges regretted some of them. It's a decision they have to make there and then, whatever is in their mind at the time. Maybe sometimes the decision is wrong, but that can only be down to gut feeling and human error. No opportunity to watch the series so far on catch up, or watch this weeks episode again on +1 to make sure they didn't miss anything. And in the Grand National, it's a sprint to the finish line and whoever passes the line first wins, it's not really comparable to Bake Off so that's the only logic I don't get. I also don't see what Bake Off would gain from predetermining their finalists but that usually is the first port of call for fans when a result doesn't go they way they hoped! I jest, of course!
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