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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am enjoying this season, just as I enjoyed every season.

I will say this has been perhaps the most predictable season, with the bakers going out in a very predictable order. Jurgen and Giuseppe were earmarked for the final from the first episode. You could predict with a high degree of accuracy which baker would go out in which order up to the final.

On the whole, I still prefer the early seasons. They were a tad bit more realistic that it was meant to be a home baking show, so we didn't have ridiculous glass domes or sculpture cakes.

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True. This season has been predictable, but the casting has been good. Some seasons are stronger than others. I think this season the bakers are stronger than the most recent prior seasons. It also helps that they are doing more normal "home baker" challenges.

I love the early seasons, too. I wish they would show the original BBC seasons, since what is marketed to us as Season 1 is really Season 3 or something like that. I like Prue, but miss Mary Berry. Sue and Mel were hysterical. Sandi Toksvig and Noel made a great duo. Not so sure about Noel with Matt. When they made a sketch about being "free from presenters", I thought it wasn't that bad of an idea. A woman or a poc male/female in place of Matt might have been better.[/quote]

This season is stronger than last year (the year of COVID explains a lot) but I wouldn't rank this as one of the stronger groups. We have two great bakers - Jurgen and Giuseppe, but everyone else seems weaker to ordinary. Chigs is good, but in a typical year he's closer to middle of the pack than one of the potential finalists. Same with Crystelle. I'm rewatching the season with Nancy and Luis and Richard and Chetna and Chetna didn't make it to the final but she's a much more interesting and talented baker than either Chigs or Crystelle.

I am probably nitpicking too much and we do have to be generous with the marketing embellishments proclaiming every season is the best bunch of bakers ever. Everyone is delightful and it is always an endearing show to watch.

I do wonder how the bakers are selected because are these really the 12 best bakers out of the thousands who apply to be on the show? Giuseppe and Jurgen, possibly, yes, are understandable. But the rest does have you scratching your head and you figure other factors came into play in picking them that has nothing to do with baking but more to do with meeting demographic requirements. It's almost a cliche to this point as almost every season seems to see the same types of contestants. [/quote]

So I have just recently started watching, and been bingeing past seasons while also watching the current season. Totally agree they seem to have a set list of ‘Types’— the nerdy science guys, the regular Joes, the young gay men, the grandmothers, the young housewives, and the very young quirky Gen Zs. Each season seems to have at least one of each of those, and then a few ‘at large’ contestants.

I really like it, but much prefer the original hosts. And I find the time aspect to be annoying. It seems to be more about who can bake really quickly than who bakes well. Or maybe there is enough time and they just create some drama by mischaracterizing the time element.

Anyway, the big downside of this show is that I have started baking WAY too much! [/quote]

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