The Great British Bake Off 2022 (1 Viewer)

I already know Carole will be an icon (and leave in the second week).
 
Anybody watch this last night? I thought it was a great start, obligatory Sandro in my now :horny:
 
Solid first episode. The cast seem broadly likable, with a good smattering of gays. The emotional Polish queen was quite delightful, and Syabira also seems lovely and very talented.

At least one of these two is absolutely a raging Brexit voting TERF though. I kind of await with dread discovering which one it is (if not both)

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So this is getting slight criticism on twitter because their Mexico week was full of poor jokes, stereotypes and mispronunciations. Just another nail in the coffin of our great nation being a main player on the world stage? Or, to look at it slightly more rationally,... Backlash to Bake Off (finally) starts here!

I'm off to Eye-beetha for some tackos and guacamolo.
 
They’re getting reamed over the Mexican episode (hopefully this leads to a change in hosts)

 
A race row, a judge coming out as a kitty killer. GBBO is in its flop era.
 
Didn’t think much of that final. Most of the bakes were disappointing and didn’t feel that of a final. You didn’t look at something and feel like “oh they’ve absolutely nailed that!!”

Deserved winner though
 
The correct, if not glaringly obvious winner, but an awful episode of television. It all felt so negative! I really feel like the final used to be a relatively zero-stakes victory lap for the finalists, felt like they were set up to fail here.

The cast being so uniformly likable is the only thing that saved it.
 
I've only caught part of two or three episodes, but it does feel to me like the 'set up to fail' thing is something of a theme too often - giving them challenges where they clearly don't have enough time, for example. And (again, bearing in mind I've only seen about probably 7 or 8 challenges), not enough actual baking.

Being set up to fail pisses me off in The Apprentice sometimes (when they are trying to claim the show is any real indication of serious business acumen, at least), but at least there it feels like the candidates are gobshites and worthy of being laughed at. In Bake Off I don't find failure entertaining in the same way, and it feels unfair that the bakers aren't allowed to show their best.
 
lolly said:
I've only caught part of two or three episodes, but it does feel to me like the 'set up to fail' thing is something of a theme too often - giving them challenges where they clearly don't have enough time, for example. And (again, bearing in mind I've only seen about probably 7 or 8 challenges), not enough actual baking.

Being set up to fail pisses me off in The Apprentice sometimes (when they are trying to claim the show is any real indication of serious business acumen, at least), but at least there it feels like the candidates are gobshites and worthy of being laughed at. In Bake Off I don't find failure entertaining in the same way, and it feels unfair that the bakers aren't allowed to show their best.
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Even on The Apprentice I’d actually like to see them do well some of the time but especially for Bake-off isn’t that the whole point the show. Millions of people are subscribed to Instagram profiles to see bakes that look amazing but on the show that should celebrate all that it’s put aside so they can have some dramatic music laid over a tower of toffee falling apart. Sad :(.
 
VoR said:
The correct, if not glaringly obvious winner, but an awful episode of television. It all felt so negative! I really feel like the final used to be a relatively zero-stakes victory lap for the finalists, felt like they were set up to fail here.
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I think the worst thing was including vegetarian gelatine in the technical. By all means, give the contestants a slightly different ingredient than they might be used to and provide them with sufficient instructions to see how they factor that into their bake. But Sandro stood absolutely no chance, and Paul snorting with laughter at what he presented - regardless of how it looked - was such an odd tone for the final.

I'd also gladly see the back of Noel and Matt. This year, more than ever, there were moments where the contestants seemed to be responding almost through gritted teeth at the level of distraction on occasion.
 
I would have to be restrained from punching Noel in the face if I was a contestant. Absolute irritant of the highest order. You can tell most of them can’t stand him.

Matt seems nice enough.
 
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