GBBO Snowflakes

[rackhampearl]

Preparing for a flaming here but it has to be said. Is it just me or are the contestants on GBBO become more emotional each year? A little bit of criticism from Paul and Prue and it looks like they're gonna have a melt down. I get it's a competition and you want to win of course but it's really not that serious. It's bleeding baking for Christ sake. They're acting rather childish imo. Thoughts?

The whole thing has gone to pot.

Not watching again. What a crock of shit.

They're all chosen from a PC pot of contestants.

I think it's because it's gone from 'Best Amateur Baker' doing nice cakes for friends and family to 'Potential Career Launch' for people wanting to be celebrity bakers. So it's all much more fraught.
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I dunno. I really enjoyed it this year. There were some genuinly funny moments.

But most of the "bakes" were shite. Not a vintage year.

It’s been poor in my opinion.

Ruby and Rahul making it to the final was surprising in itself , they had done bad rounds over the last few weeks.

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I lost interest half way through the series. Partly because I can't abide Noel and Sandi, partly because I feel no warmth towards any of the contestants.

Think it might be the pressure is greater, having to make afternoon tea for 450 in 2 hours type of pressure (when the bread takes 90 minutes to prove) the Paws Hollywood critises the presentation and bread not being given enough time.

They are being too harsh, the lovely thing about GBBO was always how nice and encouraging the judges were towards the contestants. Nothing like the x factor, the opposite actually.

If I cooked for 5 hours and someone criticised it, I'd be upset too!

Fuckers I would say.

More encouragement and good comments next year.

I am currently sitting by a camp fire in the middle of a field in Yorkshire, so I googled the winner, and I am gutted! I wanted Kim Joy (and why has she not got a surname???) to win right from week one. So disappointed with the finalists and the result.

I don't think they are 'snowflakes' for showing their emotions.

GBBO shows them having things go wrong, but recovering themselves and pushing through.

It shows them trying even when out of comfort zone.

Showing emotion shows they really care about what they are doing, and they have a desire to do well.

Thus YABVVVVVVVVU.

Any show channel 4 get hold of spirals into a controversial, edgy, overly diverse pile of wank!

No more relatable Betty from next door making a moist Victoria sandwich - welcome Gaz the man tanned unicorn whisperer from Portugal (now living in Manchester) who identifies as a tree and sells personalised human dog collars on Etsy!

I do get that the prospect of winning could be life changing ie book deals, tv appearances ect, granted. A few tears I can understand but they look emotionally snapped, like anxiety riddled. Especially Kim and Raul. Bloody uncomfortable to watch. I guess I'm just a frosty old cow. I just think it's abit much. Never gone for the tears on competition shows.

Relatable to whom?

Ah, so having a personality that's a little different makes them a snowflake. OK then.

Dunno about snowflakes but none of those final showstoppers looked good at all!

Ugh it was hideous this year.

Ruby should have won just because she cried the least, was upbeat, funny and didn't take herself seriously.

I hate the checklist tokenism in the selection of contestants.

I've also grown really tired of the genre of television that takes a much-loved hobby and kills any joy that anyone ever had in it.

It started with GBBO but has been used for pottery, art and dressmaking. Lets time the bejeebers out of everything, kill any enjoyment and make it really stressful, often culminating in contestants crying, being really upset and not wanting to do said activity ever again.

YANBU at all.

The showstoppers tonight all looked like Miss Havishams wedding cake.

The presentation; even Kim Joys twee-fests have been nowhere near as good as early years.

Stop making it ridiculously hard and dramatic; re-start making it about it really good and stuff you want to actually eat.

This was the shittest final ever IMO.

I sort of know what you mean but I think this year they really did set tasks that were verging on impossible, and that is more than likely going to take people to breaking point.

Saying that, Ruby is incredibly calm and it's my mission in life to Be More Ruby.

I agree the final showstoppers looked a bloody dogs dinner. I miss it when the final used to be afternoon tea, pretty as possible, rather than these overblown nonsensical tasks.

Maybe snowflakes was the wrong term. I'm just finding it more and more uncomfortable each year the more anxious and upset the contestants get. Takes the fun out of it imo.

Disappointing sludge cakes. They looked like they were made of mashed up play-doh.

It was obvious from the start who would win. Ruby was lucky not to go early on, but improved a lot over recent weeks.

The show stoppers are now completely unrealistic and the whole thing has lost its way.

The melt downs are inevitable. The stupid fire pit challenge in a year when it’s so hot bars explode in the tent is just stupid.

Seriously would you have eaten any of those showstoppers? Even my sister makes better cake than that and we’ve all agreed over the years that her talent lies in opening M&S boxes rather than oven doors.

Oh no! We are watching on catch up and just found out from the thread who won! Maybe a spoiler alert for anyone else?