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labellementeuseSo, I know I've never really talked about it, but I have been ADDICTED to New Zealand's Hottest Home Baker, which - if you didn't know which of course EVERYONE DOES - is the best reality TV show ever about, um, bakers. Home bakers. At the end you win a kitchen. My flatmate Lizzie and I have been watching absolutely religiously, and the best part about Friday morning at school is squeeing to my fellow watchers. ANYWAY. the final was tonight.
I totes want to shout out to my girl Toni representing for gluten-free bakers everywhere! I really adore Toni, at least 75% because she is absolutely a fruitcake and so friggin' stoned. I mean last week she won a challenge and she said, in an absolute monotone, 'Oh, thank you so much.' That's all she said like ten times or something. Oh Toni. ♥ Anyway, I think it's a deserved win (although seriously, why didn't she put the cake that needed to cool so it could be iced in ***before*** the cake that could just as easily have been served warm? Ughhh, I don't know.) But that's just another way Toni is like me: time-challenged.
I liked Emma a lot too and, although I have always been pompoms for Toni, going in I really thought Emma would take it tonight! However, I think it was pretty clear that the two savouries just weren't what the judges were looking for. Her scones did look fabulous though and I really give her props for doing something well she'd stuffed up earlier.
One random comment that I'm thinking about emailing to the producers (since they're already taking applications for season 2!): I think there's been a real problem with the way they give the challenges to the bakers, because there have been some moments where the judges were clearly looking for something that they didn't bother to mention to the bakers beforehand. i.e. the cupcake challenge - they slammed the innovative bakers and were all like 'hmmmmm, spaghetti and meatball cupcakes, that's a little avant garde!' Which, seriously, if you're going to set a cupcake challenge and say 'Cupcakes are really fashionable right now!' and then you don't even recognise a cupcake from Hello, Cupcake!, one of the books that has MADE cupcakes fashionable... like, seriously. And then the same thing happened tonight IMO. Oh, they wanted a challenge about the things they'd learned. Where was that in Toni? Toni, though I love her, made the same mistakes (presentation, time management) that she'd made throughout, which I think means that her food must have been really delicious, because Emma did at least do two things - a quickbread and scones - that she had learned about on the show. But there was all that bitching about range, and seriously, fine, but if you want range, you should say you want range.
Also, wtf was up with Pauline Nunns' hair? srsly.
Also-also: all the crying at the end. <3333 I know I should be disgusted but really I was all 'OMG PAULINE'S CRYING! Awwwwwwwwwwwww.'
I totes want to shout out to my girl Toni representing for gluten-free bakers everywhere! I really adore Toni, at least 75% because she is absolutely a fruitcake and so friggin' stoned. I mean last week she won a challenge and she said, in an absolute monotone, 'Oh, thank you so much.' That's all she said like ten times or something. Oh Toni. ♥ Anyway, I think it's a deserved win (although seriously, why didn't she put the cake that needed to cool so it could be iced in ***before*** the cake that could just as easily have been served warm? Ughhh, I don't know.) But that's just another way Toni is like me: time-challenged.
I liked Emma a lot too and, although I have always been pompoms for Toni, going in I really thought Emma would take it tonight! However, I think it was pretty clear that the two savouries just weren't what the judges were looking for. Her scones did look fabulous though and I really give her props for doing something well she'd stuffed up earlier.
One random comment that I'm thinking about emailing to the producers (since they're already taking applications for season 2!): I think there's been a real problem with the way they give the challenges to the bakers, because there have been some moments where the judges were clearly looking for something that they didn't bother to mention to the bakers beforehand. i.e. the cupcake challenge - they slammed the innovative bakers and were all like 'hmmmmm, spaghetti and meatball cupcakes, that's a little avant garde!' Which, seriously, if you're going to set a cupcake challenge and say 'Cupcakes are really fashionable right now!' and then you don't even recognise a cupcake from Hello, Cupcake!, one of the books that has MADE cupcakes fashionable... like, seriously. And then the same thing happened tonight IMO. Oh, they wanted a challenge about the things they'd learned. Where was that in Toni? Toni, though I love her, made the same mistakes (presentation, time management) that she'd made throughout, which I think means that her food must have been really delicious, because Emma did at least do two things - a quickbread and scones - that she had learned about on the show. But there was all that bitching about range, and seriously, fine, but if you want range, you should say you want range.
Also, wtf was up with Pauline Nunns' hair? srsly.
Also-also: all the crying at the end. <3333 I know I should be disgusted but really I was all 'OMG PAULINE'S CRYING! Awwwwwwwwwwwww.'
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Date: 2010-03-25 09:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-25 09:22 am (UTC)PS you know you can watch the final online, right? Right. Just checking!
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Date: 2010-03-25 06:08 pm (UTC)(I may or may not spend most Thursday nights watching three hours of reality TV. I blame Mike for not stopping me.)
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Date: 2010-03-25 06:34 pm (UTC)Dude, you watch TABATHA? I can't say a words against PR since I actually download it (but if this is the first season you've seen, you should really try another season, the season currently airing is the WORST season EVER).
But Tabatha? sorta judging you right now :P
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Date: 2010-03-26 04:00 am (UTC)OTOH, I am watching Flashforward, which is quite good! Everything else I'm watching not on TV, which right now is mostly Chuck, The Big Bang Theory, and Legend of the Seeker (for that last, by "watch" I mean "giggle helplessly at the badness of".) And I can't wait for The Mentalist and Glee to come back. What are you watching right now? Mike has given up on SGU due to terribleness and shameless plot-stealing from BSG, are you still hanging in there?
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Date: 2010-03-26 07:51 pm (UTC)I actually found Flash Forward... um, sort of execrable. Nothing about it grabbed me except John Cho and Gabrielle Union, and admittedly they're a lot, but since the show is actually about boring asshole guy whose dramas I've seen before on a tonne of TV shows... yeahno. I'm watching TBBT too although on TV because the flatmates watch it. Legend of the Seeker is on my list and I am also SO SO excited for Glee to come back. And no, I didn't manage to keep up SGU - it couldn't grab me, so eh. Life's too short to watch bad TV.