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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I pretty much quit watching after Rahul Mandal won. It was so obvious that that season was rigged; there were so many times he should have been out. [/quote]

I do remember that season. That he survived a bad episode while Manon was sent home was surprising to many people, especially as the rules officially were that you were judged by the episode's bake and not previous episodes, although in cases of effective ties the judges could look to past bakes as a tie-breaker. It was controversial. And it is fair to wonder if the judges broke their rule for a reason.

The downside to viewing a baking show is that we can't taste the bakes and can only go by what the judges say, which is also heavily edited. A good example is last week's bake when one might think based solely on the comments Giuseppe was the weakest, not Lizzie. But I rewatched the episode with the subtitles and if you looked carefully at the comments, it's better to say Paul and Prue were judging the two differently, they judged Giuseppe as a first rate baker so his cake wasn't up to his usual standards, while their comments on Lizzie's cake was kind rather than genuinely praiseworthy. The editing wanted the viewers to think Giuseppe had done a bad cake, but that wasn't the case at all. It's probably why Paul immediately said in the discussion afterwards that Giuseppe was safe.

Speaking of casting, the producers do clearly like to have at least one baker who hasn't been baking for a long time (Rahul, Chigs) and obviously picked them over highly talented bakers with years or decades of experience.

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