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OK, that made no sense. Raveena didn't have ice cream. WTF.

Yes! I really don't know why he's into her.

I wonder how close it would've been at the end if the teams didn't have to cover so much ground in the Metro station. They had quite a while in there speed walking before they could start running.

I don't think Scott and Lori pretended to see themselves as not competitive; I think they saw themselves as the oldest team, and combined with the fact that they both lost a lot of weight recently, saw themselves as the underdog. They kept doing really well, but in their heads, they weren't the strongest team. I don't think they were trying to manipulate other teams when they talked like that. Agreed. I've been there and it's awful. Which makes last week's use of the Express Pass worse, as Jonathan said that he was happy to have it to use in exactly this kind of situation! What an idiot. I never liked him, but him yanking the clue away from Ana after he finished the Roadblock was infuriating. He's the worst.

I think that Scott and Lori were complaining less about getting hit with the harder task--though they weren't happy about it, of course--and were more annoyed with Jonathan and Ana's Express Pass usage while also taking the 15# for themselves. Express Pass usage was dumb dumb dumb. It was interesting to hear the other teams talking about Scott and Lori. S/L are clearly a strong team; I wonder how much is that they've created a storyline in their own minds that they're the "old, underdog" team and are annoying everyone else by talking about it.

Yeah, I assume the next leg will start with maybe the two First Place teams, then maybe Second, Third, Fourth together, then Fifth and Sixth. Something like that. I liked the nurses but was particularly impressed with how calm and cool they stayed through the taxi thing. Admittedly, I don't know how long it took, but once they got into the cab, they were just like, "We made a mistake, lesson learned" and didn't meltdown. And the strategy for picking which task to do made sense--and was clearly the right choice. I hope they make it a bit longer.

Wow. I am VERY surprised at that elimination.

So, so delighted to see Jürgen again! I'm glad he pulled out the Showstopper; fantastic as always.

Duff's comment that not everything needs to be red and green was excellent. I was annoyed in the macaron judging that they got on Courtney's for not looking like pajamas, but not making a comment about the shark ones. They looked cool, but they didn't look like pajamas.

If Gill had been more upset about being eliminated, I would be more upset. Georgie had the worse week, I felt, but overall has more of the elements that Bake Off likes from its bakers than Gill does. Gill being absolutely lovely at being eliminated means I can't be too upset.

Love banoffee pie. There's an Irish restaurant nearby that does a good one (though with a graham cracker crust, I think). Paul's attitude about Dylan's mint chocolate cake was so annoying. I wanted to go force some mint chocolate chip ice cream down his throat.

My one quibble with Dylan's showstopper was how runny the cream inside was--I'm sure because it wasn't frozen. But the slices were a lot messier than the others' desserts. Not that that should've stopped him getting Star Baker.

Agreed. It isn't totally random, but it doesn't seem like Paul and Prue are even taking all of the bakes into account.

I'm annoyed at how little the Signature was considered later in the show. Some bakers really struggled there but it...didn't seem to matter.

I liked that Morgan and Joanne made up, but was annoyed that it wasn't acknowledged that even though Morgan wasn't lying...what she was saying wasn't the truth. Like a "I'm sorry I didn't believe you, but also I knew that wasn't true!" I'm interested to see where this is going. I like that we got some nuance to Esther.