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    S10.E05: The Roaring Twenties

    in The Great British Bake Off

    I’m not finding series 10 very much fun to watch. I don’t understand how several of the bakers made it onto the show, let alone make it past elimination after elimination. I don’t mind the occasional misstep, but watching these disasters and middling bakes is not entertaining. Thank goodness bake offs from Canada and shortly Australia are here for my bake off fix.

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    Halloween Baking Championship - General Discussion

    in Halloween Baking Championship

    I am surprised Brittany didn’t go home. That cake was a mess. It really looked like a child made it without adult supervision. I can’t remember anything as embarrassingly bad from a previous season. It’s a challenge for $25k and she presented a giant white blob with a black spot smashed on a disaster of a green blob. It made no sense as a “monster”. Even if it hadn’t collapsed it was a lazy design. Plus, while she’d included her marshmallow cream, all the judges agreed it wasn’t good.

    Considering they named someone who literally served the twist ingredient in a separate cup as one of the top two desserts, having it under the eclair in the same dish shouldn’t have counted against Jess. At least it was on the same plate. Making a good eclair is far more complicated than cake. Whatever.

    I felt bad for the baker who couldn’t think of a secret. And he wasted a good pumpkin recipe on the first challenge when you know pumpkin will be mandatory down the line. 

    I really liked the home baker’s cake. The fondant technique and the tentacles did look professional. When his cupcakes sunk, I thought he should have made a filling so he could cut out the middle, sunken part. 

    I don’t like ninja dad. Scaring another baker wasn’t funny. It was mean. Glad she won because I know I would have been off my game after that shock. 

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    S10.E04: Dairy Week

    in The Great British Bake Off

    4 hours ago, Athena said:

    Yeah, I was surprised like Prue and Paul that they were all so shallow. At first, I blamed it all on the technical recipe they were given because if all of them were so shallow, then they really should have specified the cutter size or given more detail about the tarts. On the other hand, making a tart is not unusual and a couple of the bakers should have known how to do it. The pastry will shrink even with the blind baking and they all cut their rounds way too small.

    Every baker made them wrong which makes me think it was an issue with the recipe or the tools provided to them. 

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    S10.E03: Bread Week

    in The Great British Bake Off

    Love the surprise handshake and Henry’s reaction to it. Not at all surprised to see his family reads the Telegraph.

    Amelia’s breads were very disappointing. Why didn’t she at least flavour her showstopper?

    Steph and Rosie’s showstoppers really were showstoppers. They were beautifully decorated. 

    Noel was over the top this episode. His jokes were less in good humor and almost bordered on offensive. The “joke” about grabbing of Paul’s bottom for example. Usually I find him very endearing, not so this week. 

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    S10.E02: Biscuit Week

    in The Great British Bake Off

    Because of the editing, Michael had disappearing, reappearing plasters. At one point he had three fingers done up. I wish his parents had taught him how to use a knife.

    The right person went home. While I think he did better than Amelia in the showstopper who cut corners by stacking instead of sculpting and had a mess of a dolphin, it was clear he was struggling the most in the tent. Amelia was lucky this week. As was Helena since until they tasted her spider, I was sure she was out. Paul was right about how original it was. It was clever of her to use spun sugar for the webbing to obscure how messy her caramel connecting the spider legs was. It all looked like strands of hot glue on a kid’s project to me.

    I was surprised how nearly all the bakers chose animals for the biscuit sculpture when they had the choice of doing literally anything.

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    S01.E08: The Gloaming

    in Carnival Row

    One more thing then I’m done ranting on and on. I certainly hope Ezra was smart enough to grab that painting. All his money woes are over. 

    Does anyone else think his sex issues and his obsession with his sister was because she wore that troll in heat perfume and it drove him crazy because she was his sister and therefore he knew, unlike the Lannisters and Jonah/Sophie, she was off limits?

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    S01.E08: The Gloaming

    in Carnival Row

    · Edited by oldCJ

    57 minutes ago, thuganomics85 said:

    The true mastermind was actually Sophie this entire time

    That was my other problem with this show’s conclusion. There’s no way Sophie could have suspected Piety would start murdering people right and left including her own husband because of the secret of his other son. Sophie didn’t even know of the prophecy about the son being more powerful. It makes no sense.

    Piety was a woman capable of kidnapping her own son without anyone involved ratting her out. She could have easily questioned Philo’s mother after getting the letter to learn who else knew the secret, find the son, and then make all of them disappear. Way less mess and zero impact on the power structure. Sophie couldn’t have predicted what a psycho Piety was. 

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    S01.E08: The Gloaming

    in Carnival Row

    On 9/2/2019 at 4:06 AM, AnimeMania said:

    What did I think about the show, it seems kind of bait and switch. You promise a story about magical creatures and you don't allow them to be magical, you just want them to be different. I don't understand why they created so many different "Crits" when they really only needed one type, since they hardly recognized or used the strengths and differences of the different Crits. It is an us vs them story that constantly reminds me of what is going on in the real world when I would prefer to escape to a fantasy world.

    I absolutely agree! It had enough episodes to give us something other than people versus people who look different and come from a different place.

    My other complaint was how one note the politics were. The chancellor and his majority were vehemently against segregation, yet his son turned everyone to the other side with a speech based on the actions of a single isolated extremist group?  It made no sense how the entire majority would flip flop so suddenly against every single nonhuman as if they had only the flimsiest of reasons to have supported them in the first place.

    When the show ended with fairies trapped in a ghetto and being killed for flying in such an obvious parallel to life under the pact in the first episode, I felt cheated. Rather than spending hours in a fantasy world of magical creatures, it was a heavy handed political commentary with a relatively predictable murder mystery (from the beginning only a single main character used magic and she conveniently had no qualms about power at all costs). Plus one love story I didn’t give a toss about (vin/philo) and a second I was surprised by and rooting for (agreus/imogen). 

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    S10.E01: Cake Week

    in The Great British Bake Off

    On 8/28/2019 at 9:31 PM, Danny Franks said:

    Everyone immediately gets what you're looking for, when you say 'dream childhood birthday cake'. And everyone did a pretty good job of producing something that looked good.

    I have a hard time believing people’s childhood dream cakes would be carrot or coffee flavoured, though. And the star baker’s decoration of brown leaves and brown snails? It didn’t exactly scream fairy. Were toadstool cakes even a thing when she was a child?

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    Say Yes To The Dress - General Discussion

    in Say Yes To The Dress

    12 hours ago, atlantaloves said:

    Hey ya'll where did that cape come from, did she buy it somewhere else and bring it with her, I missed something. I thought it was tacky, but she looked pretty damn good in it.

    They said their mother who passed away four years prior had sewn it from parts of old dresses.

    Say Yes To The Dress - General Discussion

    in Say Yes To The Dress

    On 7/28/2019 at 8:51 AM, Irlandesa said:

    Did the Lebanese bride talk about her fiance at all?  Usually we get a "this is my fiance and he's the bestest" with a picture. 
    
    But I don't recall seeing that. 

    She mentioned his name was Mario, but they didn’t show any photos like they usually do. 

    Bridezillas - General Discussion

    in Bridezillas

    16 hours ago, Giant Misfit said:

    I'm telling myself that wedding was a recreation of her much nicer wedding—only because there was a fellow in attendance who appeared to be wearing lumberjack pajamas or something.

    And almost all the seats were empty during the ceremony! And not the ones in the back either. 

    Also, when she drove off angrily from her meeting with the coordinator, everyone was wearing the same clothes as in the previous scene, but the weirdest part was the wedding cake was in the backseat! Why was she just driving the cake around days before the wedding? It’s was all so strange. 

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    Season One Discussion

    in The Twilight Zone (2019)

    4 hours ago, Joimiaroxeu said:

    Looking forward to seeing how this series proceeds, especially after Black Mirror has been such a success.

    I think Black Mirror’s success is why I was so disappointed by both episodes in comparison. They didn’t bring anything new to the table, and they weren’t tense or eerie in the least. 

    As everyone has already mentioned, Comedian was too long and repetitive and downright predictable once the dog disappeared. And Nightmare didn’t have nearly the level of tension needed to make it interesting. I would have rather rewatched the original or movie versions. It’s a shame because I really liked Get Out and Us, and I know Jordan Peele can do better. 

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