Great British Bake Off 2019

HeidiHeidi

Deleted User wrote: »

Woah!!! So harsh...I totally agree! I think you just pinpointed my issue with him. Smug smirky face!

He's the ,living image of the fella (Stephen? ) from last year!

RhubarbCrumble

There's always a smug one every year isn't there, with a permanent smirk. Ian from Nadiya's year was the worst ever.

Addle

How could anyone not warm to Helena? Such a lovable goth.
She’s my favorite anyways.
And the choir boy.

TheIrishGrover

Addle wrote: »

How could anyone not warm to Helena? Such a lovable goth.
She’s my favorite anyways.
And the choir boy.

My only concern with Helena is that she is too similar to the one from last year? Joy? Cant remember her name. Can't remember anybody's name yet this season. I'm terrible with names.

No, my only concern is that she is too similar to the woman from last year. Kim-Joy. That's it. I understand they need personalities. You don't need 12 or 13 identical, serious home bakers. You need people with a bit of life to them (whether you like them or not is another matter).

But you don't want it to become a race to the bottom to find the quirkiest "personality" to the detriment of the actual baking. Now I haven't got a baking bone in my body. I burn water. But I do enjoy the format of the show. You don't want it to become "The Great British Big Brother Bake Off"

RhubarbCrumble

Watching series five (winner Nancy) of GBBO on the food channel at the moment and remembering why I hated Sue Perkins. God she's so false, OTT and irritating. It's just all about her. Mel isn't much better. It's like "The Mel & Sue show" with some baking thrown in. Honestly, Noel Fielding really was the best thing ever to happen to Bake Off.

Posy

I just love Sandi and Noel on Bake Off, they really just step back and let the bakers shine, and don't make it all about them.

Happy bread week, everyone!

TheIrishGrover

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

Watching series five (winner Nancy) of GBBO on the food channel at the moment and remembering why I hated Sue Perkins. God she's so false, OTT and irritating. It's just all about her. Mel isn't much better. It's like "The Mel & Sue show" with some baking thrown in. Honestly, Noel Fielding really was the best thing ever to happen to Bake Off.

Yeah, that actually did become more obvious as it went on alright. I still liked them and was initially quite sniffy about Noel and Sandi when announced (After thinking they had lost their mind: Yer man from The Mighty Boosh? Richmond? Really?). But I'm glad to say I was totally wrong and I think they are great. Especially Noel's interactions with the panicking and under-pressure bakers.


Actually, just looking at my post: I do not watch "Reality TV" at all and cannot understand the attraction yet here I am talking about Noel and Sandi as if I know them for years. Hah

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HeidiHeidi wrote: »

He's the ,living image of the fella (Stephen? ) from last year!

Dan!

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

There's always a smug one every year isn't there, with a permanent smirk. Ian from Nadiya's year was the worst ever.

I rewatched that series recently and really cannot get over the smugness of Ian. He loved himself and couldn’t cover it. He did deserve to make the final though. I was then also reminded of Tamal - hilarious and talented and hot.

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RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

Watching series five (winner Nancy) of GBBO on the food channel at the moment and remembering why I hated Sue Perkins. God she's so false, OTT and irritating. It's just all about her. Mel isn't much better. It's like "The Mel & Sue show" with some baking thrown in. Honestly, Noel Fielding really was the best thing ever to happen to Bake Off.

I prefer Mel and Sue still. Noel is fine, I don’t get the hype, really. They overdid his wacky stuff last year. I’ve always loved Sandy but she’s not suited to this show and she and Noel don’t have the best chemistry. Plus Mel and Sue are a big reason why the show developed in the way it did with that lovely gentle atmosphere. They actively went about playing down standard reality TV drama. I don’t think the show would have become as popular without that input and it’s down to Mel and Sue. They don’t get enough credit for it so I’ll never shut up about it!

And Noel got in the way a few times in the second episode and seemed to be distracting a few of the bakers. Alice especially seemed annoyed at him at one stage.

RhubarbCrumble

We'll have to agree to disagree on Mel and Sue

Oh Ian was something else. I was #teamtamal in the final but was just glad that Ian didn't win.

LizT

Remember Northern Irish Ian? When he threw his baked Alaska in the bin. TV gold.

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RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

We'll have to agree to disagree on Mel and Sue

Oh Ian was something else. I was #teamtamal in the final but was just glad that Ian didn't win.

Absolutely shocking. He’d eat himself if he could and is one of those people who when congratulating someone, the eyes aren’t smiling. I mean, I did stick up for Ian that year because it’s not a personality contest and he was very good. I stand by that. A lot of people seemed to want him gone based on personality alone and that would just cheapen the show. But I was SO glad he didn’t perform to his best in the final. That was an unbelievably strong final three and any of them could have taken it. I felt for Tamal. He was like Luis in Richard’s season. An incredibly strong contestant and almost always at the very top every week but often just pipped (think he won Star Baker only once). But Nadiya was just amazing after a shaky start. Sigh, season six was great.

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LizT wrote: »

Remember Northern Irish Ian? When he threw his baked Alaska in the bin. TV gold.

Yup. And whilst the media furore was insane and Diana did not deserve the full on hate she received, it wasn’t all down to editing like people said. She did say defensively “You should have used your own freezer!” and looked guilty as Ian was in the background freaking out. All she had to do was tell him she’d moved his ice cream out of the freezer and she didn’t do that. I wasn’t a fan of hers, not just because of that.

RhubarbCrumble

NI Ian wasn't my favourite person (could be a bit sharp I felt) but I still maintain Diana knew exactly what she was doing.
That was by far the best series. I still maintain Luis was robbed. Richard flew threw most of the series and got star baker so many times, but he did have a bad final.

Scarinae

miamee wrote: »

And the girl from Wales.

She's annoying me a bit because she keeps making Welsh-themed bakes and we're only two episodes in - I think she had two in cake week and one in biscuit week. We get it, you're Welsh!

I'm looking forward to bread week

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I’ll never forget a comment I saw somewhere on social media last year saying that the opposite of the Hollywood Handshake should be called the Prue Punch-In-The-Gob.

Hodors Appletart

Scarinae wrote: »

We get it, you're Welsh!

shes at it again :pac:

HeidiHeidi

God that girl with the ponytail (Alice? got star baker last week) is super-annoying :mad:


And the vet's not far behind her.


But I ADORE bread, I'm practically drooling here!!

HeidiHeidi

All that buttercream topping though....... euwwwwww

Hodors Appletart

a handshake!!!

Rfrip

I’m not getting into it at all for some reason this year

HeidiHeidi

I'm open to being surprised, but not one of those showstoppers looks like it'll stop my show in any way at all!


(Disclaimer: I can barely make toast, so I'm not really in any position to criticise, but how and ever)

Hermy

The flashing images is making it unwatchable.

Why does the camera constantly flick from one view to another?
You barely get a chance to register what's on screen before they've moved on to the next shot.

HeidiHeidi

Hermy wrote: »

The flashing images is making it unwatchable.

Why does the camera constantly flick from one view to another?
You barely get a chance to register what's on screen before they've moved on to the next shot.

I was just thinking that! Had to rewind to get a proper look at the bunch of flowers.


How do the judges eat that much dry bread!

j@utis

Scarinae wrote: »

She's annoying me a bit because she keeps making Welsh-themed bakes and we're only two episodes in - I think she had two in cake week and one in biscuit week. We get it, you're Welsh!

I'm looking forward to bread week

Same as the one with her witchcraft - spiders last week, spiderweb this time, boooring.

HeidiHeidi

I'd say Amelia is for the chop this week

Hermy

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

I was just thinking that! Had to rewind to get a proper look at the bunch of flowers.

It's become the norm in so many programmes but Bake Off is one of the worst offenders.

HeidiHeidi

Hermy wrote: »

It's become the norm in so many programmes but Bake Off is one of the worst offenders.

For me, Strictly is by far the worst offender, I could write a (short) book on the frustration of the camerawork on that :mad:



(Disclaimer; I'm no more an authority on camerawork than I am on baking, but I am an avid viewer so claiming rights on commenting)

LirW

The lady with the fringe is a bit of a snarky b*tch.

Loving the challenges so far because they're all quite simple with a lot of room to mess up.

RhubarbCrumble

Rfrip wrote: »

I’m not getting into it at all for some reason this year

I'm finding it hard to warm to most of the bakers this year. I like Michael, Henry and Steph seem okay but I can take or leave most of the rest of them. I find Alice and Rosie very anointing.