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Masterchef 2017

Clearly I am missing something then if you all love Arum, Ben and Diana so much. It possibly may be at attention to detail or my lack of actually caring about cooking. I just wish the editors would show more than just the top 3 and bottom 3. Before I started watching Masterchef in 2014 I rewatched the first 5 series on TENPLAY. It was so much better back in the olden days. Yes there where still backgrounders but not a many as there have been in recent years. The editors actually showed more then just 5 contestants cooking during the mystery box and almost half if not 3/5 of contestants where shown during the invention test so you could never be sure about who was the top and btm 3. In pressure tests when ever one contestant made a mistake they'd show at least one other if not all btm 3 make a mistake and vice versa. Immunity challenges where better in the earlier series as they only went for half an hour and contestants used to win pins more often then they do now. And team challenges and team eliminations where always my fave part of the week. The editors did a well done job with those and I could never pick who was going into elimination or who was going home. However the last four years I have watched have not been the same. The mystery box challenge always typically only shows 5 or 6 contestants and its always so predictable. As is the invention test and they always only really show the btm 3 and top 3. Pressure tests are almost always deserts and they aren't really as enjoyable as they used to be. Immunity challenges are almost a complete waste of time as the contestant almost never wins a pin. For Christ sake only 2 pins where given out this year and one of them was a guaranteed one. In series 3 in 2011 Dani who made top 4 won 2 pins in the space of 3 weeks! Team challenges don't grab me like they used to. Its almost always predicable and the locations they use are not really as enjoyable as they used to be. However I will say I did enjoy the taste tests eliminations they used this year where the btm 3 go into round 2.

If it where up to me next year I would change a lot of things. The editing team need to seriously show us more than 6 contestants at a time! It's almost impossible to keep up with them all if we don't get to know them quickly. Last year I did not know how to pronounce Elena's name until she faced her first elimination in week 6, I spent 5 weeks thinking it was pronounced EL-IN-A. Pressure tests need to be altered to live up to their name. Stop always being desserts! Immunity challenges need to be completely done up. No more facing off against a guest chef. The top 3 each week just need to cook off against the other for a guaranteed immunity pin or even the winner gets to skip cooking for a week. Team challenges are okay but I'd like to see more interaction with the guests. In earlier series a lot of the time the losing team was decided by which ever team made the least amount of money or which ever team received the fewest votes by the guests. That way it eliminations bias from judges. Team eliminations I liked this year. I like the guess the ingredient and the first to make a mistake is in the btm 3. It tests their food knowledge and it reminds me of the earlier series'. And I really do think they need to use more service challenges. They are great to watch!

And finally I agree with all of you on this one, one of the judges needs to go if not 2. They need to add either 1 or 2 female judges to stop all this bias, this year it was Tamara and not long ago it was Georgia in 2015. A points system would be very handy as well. Accumulate all points and during eliminations which ever cook has the fewest points accumulated or lowest percentage of points is eliminated. That way it stops good cooks going home on the back of one bad day in the kitchen and also eliminates the factor of blandies scraping through to top 10 when someone else could have been there.

This week was the lowest rating week we've had on Masterchef since 2013. This series average has now fallen below 900,000. I am now doubting the possibility of the finale rating anywhere close to 2 million. I don't even think it will reach 1.8M. Well I guess that goes to show that Masterchef needs a serious overhaul without completely disturbing the format.
 
For what its worth I would like a winner who actually wants to work in the industry. It is always a bit disappointing when the winner decides they don't even want to work in food. I think Karlie has some real talent, its just she is not good at cooking on a commercial way. Which at least she does know which is why she wants to be a critic. Hopefully this is something she realised during this competition not before it, as it seems like a strange competition to enter if you did know that already. On that note, for all we hear from Tamara have we actually heard from her what her "food dream"is? It really does come across as she is angling for fame not a career as a chef.

I think consistency throughout the competition is important too. To me Sarah, Ben and Karlie have probably been the most consistent in terms of the high quality of the dishes they have cooked.

I like Arum, and he has produced some good dishes but he has been up and down.
And I don't really rate Diana- she is a blandie without the blonde to me.
And Tamara has already been eliminated, and then brought back because she was judges pet, not because she produced the best dish that day- that in itself speaks a lot for inconsistency.

That is why I would like it to be a Sarah vs Ben final. I think it may be a Sarah vs Tamara final though.
 
Evan44 said:
Why this season sucks, as well as being full of Tamara and to a lesser extent Karlie?
They sent home Bryan way too soon and didn't bring him back when they had the chance(blame Tamara), they sent Michelle home too early, they sent Callan home too early, and they probably sent Sam home too early also.
Out of those left, Sarah and Ben and Diana are my faves, Arum is OK, but the other two...........I'd easily swap them for 2 others
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I often imagine what would have happened if Tamara hadn't lost that challenge and then - of course - had to come immediately back, thus scotching Bryan's (rightful!) chance to return. For me the show lost a lot of appeal when Bryan (unfairly) and then Callan left. They had such lovely natures and smiles, and both had interesting ideas.

Far too many men went too soon, and far too many interchangeable and perfectly nice blondes stayed for far too long. But I wouldn't change the judges. I am fond of the three little pigs and they have a sort of chemistry together, balancing each other out.

On an unrelated note: I turned my TV on today and saw some nondescript woman and man doing some sort of demonstration of microwave potato chips... It turned out it was former winner and irritating woman Emma Dean and some bloke called Lynton! Funnily enough, she had her hair cut in a bob just like Tamara's and dyed the now fashionable shade of pewter/grey that Eloise was rocking. Quite funny.
 
Melore said:
I often imagine what would have happened if Tamara hadn't lost that challenge and then - of course - had to come immediately back, thus scotching Bryan's (rightful!) chance to return. For me the show lost a lot of appeal when Bryan (unfairly) and then Callan left. They had such lovely natures and smiles, and both had interesting ideas.

Far too many men went too soon, and far too many interchangeable and perfectly nice blondes stayed for far too long. But I wouldn't change the judges. I am fond of the three little pigs and they have a sort of chemistry together, balancing each other out.

On an unrelated note: I turned my TV on today and saw some nondescript woman and man doing some sort of demonstration of microwave potato chips... It turned out it was former winner and irritating woman Emma Dean and some bloke called Lynton! Funnily enough, she had her hair cut in a bob just like Tamara's and dyed the now fashionable shade of pewter/grey that Eloise was rocking. Quite funny.
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There was a Lynton on Masterchef, was it this guy? >
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Neither of those two were very memorable (although I remembered them I guess)
 
Dennis Haikalis said:
Clearly I am missing something then if you all love Arum, Ben and Diana so much.
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I don't know where you got that. Some people like Ben and Arum, others like Ben, most like Sarah, and so forth.

I love Arum. I don't love Diana. I do like Ben for the win. I love Sarah! Would be super chuffed if Sarah won. I like Karlie (Meow!), but have gone off her a little bit c/- her wanting to be a food writer not cook. I don't like Tamara, but it's not her fault she's been shoved in our faces - she didn't do the edit, either.

Dennis Haikalis said:
This week was the lowest rating week we've had on Masterchef since 2013. This series average has now fallen below 900,000. I am now doubting the possibility of the finale rating anywhere close to 2 million. I don't even think it will reach 1.8M. Well I guess that goes to show that Masterchef needs a serious overhaul without completely disturbing the format.
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Meanwhile: "If Seven has had a worse night this year than last night it’s hard to recall it. Unbelievably, the network could not rise above 450,000 viewers after 7:30 pm."

http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2017/07/yummy-mummies-switch-off-in-horror-night-for-seven.html

There are so many other factors. I would say something about the ratings but someone would fly in on that one in 5,4,3,2,1...and prove me wrong with a graph! The landscape has changed. It is holding its own. It is one of Ten's highest rating programs. It also does exceptionally well in other territories. It's not going away.

Dennis Haikalis said:
And finally I agree with all of you on this one, one of the judges needs to go if not 2.
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There's another all! There is no all. I wouldn't want the judges lineup to change.
 
Yeah, there is no all. I didn't like any of Tamara, Karlie, Eliza or Eloise, but the latter three do have their supporters on here.
I only really *love* Arum! and Sarah, really liked Bryan and Callan, quite like Ben and Diana.
And I don't want the judges to change. They are annoying, but it's their show, they are as much part of it as the contestants.
 
I like Diana a lot. I like the flavours she uses and I love that she can completely blitz a cook. And I like her independence as well - she doesn't need anyone to molly coodle her like Tamara/Karlie etc. does. She just does her shit, takes risks and lives or dies by it. Haha, just realized I am pretty much describing myself!
 
Sounds like we all have our reasons and our pics for next week :) I am liking that they are not all the same. And I get to watch on Melbourne time next week too!
 
Like anything reality on television. You have to broaden.
Widen the demographic watching.Cast applicants who seem remarkably composed in their off-camera commentary.
Hype drama. Implement more usage of gimmicky pins. Locales for variance to avoid boredom and not for the cultural cuisine.
Die-hard loyalists dont pay fat men tv execs bills. They need new blood.
But its lose-lose.
True fans lose interest. As do the goldfish roped in with theatrics.
The cycle.
Survivor and Race are probably the only two imho that have sustained.
Because apart from certain structured frameworks those shows evolve by their very nature of the game.
Tho seeing oz survivor previews and character snippets im a wee bit trepidatious. Some of which I am still reeling from.
Imagine. A lie to end all lies.
THE BIGGEST EVER.
"I do Yoga"
*aside to camera*
"No. I dont"

Thank the lord for you lot. You guys make the sadomasochism of watching this stuff bearable.
Sorry for rambling.
Im fuzzy.:)
 
On Facebook there is a lot of vitriol towards Sarah for using the pin that put Eliza in the elimination.

Its not like Sarah had the power to send someone home. Why wouldn't you use the pin in that scenario? The way she was upset when callan left I think she hoped the first time when she didn't use the pin that she would sned Tamara home. She wasn't going to risk the judges fucking her over a second time.
 
You can't win! She'd have been an idiot not to use the pin at that stage and potentially put herself out of the comp. It was her last chance to use it, too.

Eliza made a very strange choice in doing a fish dish, given she's 'the Baking Queen'. She needed to twist that seaside memory into a baked dessert! It is hardly Sarah's fault she chose to cook what she did, or that the judges were always going to find a way to boot someone other than Tamara.

The fact that Eliza had never been in black before is astounding - a lot of that is sheer luck, as plenty of great people have gone to an elimination c/- a team challenge and then gone home - but I think it worked against her. It's always better to have experience of a pressure test or elimination round, to know what it is to work with your head on the chopping block, etc. She had a good run. Too bad, too sad, etc. It's not Sarah's fault.
 
I think Monday night is when the bottom 3 have to do supposedly the most difficult pressure test ever!
Overall, I wish I was much more enthused for finals week, but frankly out of the final 6, only Sarah, Ben and Diana interest me.
I can't help thinking how much more exciting it would be if Callan or Bryan were still there.
Oh well, more Tamara tonight, can't wait........
 
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