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I like Ruby and her shed made me smile. She may not have wanted it to have been lopsided, but it reminded me of real ramshackle sheds on real allotments.

I thought Ian's crown looked awful. It was out of proportion, clunky, and rustic-looking. Not at all in keeping with an elegant charlotte Russe.

I love the fact that you often see someone with a mug of tea in hand when they're obviously waiting for something to bake. I' assume they're not actually sitting there during the blind judging - I expect it's just editing. Otherwise, like you say, it would be too obvious.

Blake - ugh. As others have said, even if the other three judges had loathed the short sparkly dress, there was no way Heidi was letting it go in the bottom. Peplum has to go - it's affected and makes most women look hippy (not hippy as in Woodstock). How many of them referenced the NYC skyline? Maybe three or four. (Too bad the Chinese woman went home last week - that challenge was made for her.)

Emilia has a deer in the headlights look that would never entice me to watch a show with her.

What is the problem with these people's voices? They all sound as if they've been inhaling helium.

He gives me the creeps. Am I the only one?

I'm sure this has been said before, but if Dom can't manage to be comfortable in a 1 minute camera presentation, he'll never make it to 30 minutes in a way that makes financial sense to Food Network.

Did anyone else notice that the cut-out in Giada's first dress echoed the vagina table of death?

Yes, I need to not expect more than a - cough! - soap opera and recognize that I watch it because it's set where I grew up and can never get enough of Derek Jacobi. I think I have a hard time parsing the humour and the angst. Still sad that Kate was the one to go!

Who's Catherine? Do you mean Caroline, whom you mention later in your post? Of course they had to kill off the only likeable and normal character on the programme. Not to wish ill on a fictional character, but anyone would have been better than Kate (except Gillian's grand-daughter, who is lovely).

I've only caught a couple of episodes, but is Paige's jewelery some kind of running joke? It's consistently ugly, and those beads she wore tonight? Let's just say I had the same necklace when I was five.

Talking of sponsors, what a slap in the face when Emilia basically said she couldn't find the spices she usually used. Did she not see the hundreds of Spice Island spices? And if she knows how to make tandoori, surely she could have come up with a basic curry blend. And why didn't she just grill the whole drumsticks?

I thought it was very classy of Rue not to roll her eyes over the octopus comment, and classless of Michelle not to acknowledge her. It then really pissed me off that she won because of it.

Agree with the "trying too hard", "manic", etc comments. Also, she doesn't have a nanny because she wants to be with her kids, yet she goes out for breakfast, is out for dinner twice, goes to the spinning class, goes to the spa, with nary a kid in sight. The main problem I have with her in her underwear is that I find her painfully thin (and given the camera's 10 extra pounds, imagine what she's like in real life?). Looking at her makes me think of eating disorders, and that makes me uncomfortable.

Thanks for the correction - didn't know either of the women. And yes, her skirt was very distracting! It never fails to amaze me what ridiculous clothes women wear on talk shows - they're constantly tugging up or down or flashing. Though given how tight men's trousers have got in the past couple of years, they can be equally distracting!

I wanted to shoot Jessica Hynes (whoever she is). She was a pathetic fan-girl, laughing too loud, repeating Clooney, trying to get in on his anecdotes. I prefer the old set-up of three on the couch and a musical number, but she totally broke up what could have been a hilarious double-act of Clooney and Laurie. You could tell Clooney was trying to interact with Laurie and involve him, but she just kept getting in the way. Ugh.

If I remember correctly, Raina told Deacon about the $1 million check, and that Beverly returned it ripped up. What the hell was Scarlet wearing in her first couple of scenes?

Why was Severide trying to bash in the grille over the window? He had a crow bar, he should have just pulled it off. Don't they teach them anything at NBC Firefighter School? Oh, hang on, I know the answer to that.

Ms Lark - her partner in crime is her brother.

Have you tried watching via the PBS website? My "like" button rarely works, so I will just second everyone who cried through the whole episode - sad moments and happy moments. My eyes are so swollen I can barely watch Mr. Selfridge!

All I could think of when Victor and that obnoxious girl were in the car with the scarf was Isadora Duncan.

"Just missing a stop sign." Really? In TV world it ends up with a quadriplegic so he can have a moment with his dad. In the real world it ends up with not just quadriplegics but lots of death.

If they don't want to end up with a Final Three of goats, then Mike, Tyler and Rodney should get together and decide to work together (with Carolyn as #4). I detest Rodney but at least he's playing the game. The three of them should agree to actually have a final 3 of people who have some clue and make it a real contest. Would they rather see Dan, Will or Sierra win or have a shot at the million?

Classy move NBC airing an ad for an earthquake disaster movie.