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MasterChef 2025: Back To Win 2
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s2art
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Television is the space between ads.
Modern television—especially traditional broadcast and cable—has become saturated with advertising. The balance between content and commercials has shifted over time, and in some cases, shows are almost designed around ad breaks rather than the other way around.
What’s interesting is how this has shaped the pacing and structure of storytelling. Scenes are crafted to hook viewers just before a commercial, and then reorient them after the break. It’s not just about interruption—it’s about rhythm, attention, and keeping eyeballs on the screen.
Of course, the rise of streaming platforms promised to break free from that model, but even they’re starting to creep in with ad-supported tiers. It’s almost as if advertising has become the invisible backbone of the whole system, funding what we watch while reshaping how we experience it.
Television editing often masquerades as invisible craftsmanship, when in reality it's a potent tool of persuasion—and it's more than just narrative flow. It's rhythmically designed to manipulate attention, cue emotional responses, and reinforce particular consumerist or ideological messages.
The cut to commercial isn’t just a pause—it’s a narrative rupture, often reassembled to keep viewers hooked but pliable. And even within the content, editorial choices—what lingers in the frame, whose voice is given prominence, when the music swells—aren’t arbitrary. They’re sculpted to elicit trust in a product, sympathy for a character, or agreement with a viewpoint that might align conveniently with a sponsor’s interests.
It’s the kind of distortion that's harder to spot because it’s cloaked in entertainment. And the more seamless the edit, the more insidious the influence.
So from this standpoint I see a predictable outcome with the final 5, and feel pity for all the rest who genuinely believed that they had a chance!
Modern television—especially traditional broadcast and cable—has become saturated with advertising. The balance between content and commercials has shifted over time, and in some cases, shows are almost designed around ad breaks rather than the other way around.
What’s interesting is how this has shaped the pacing and structure of storytelling. Scenes are crafted to hook viewers just before a commercial, and then reorient them after the break. It’s not just about interruption—it’s about rhythm, attention, and keeping eyeballs on the screen.
Of course, the rise of streaming platforms promised to break free from that model, but even they’re starting to creep in with ad-supported tiers. It’s almost as if advertising has become the invisible backbone of the whole system, funding what we watch while reshaping how we experience it.
Television editing often masquerades as invisible craftsmanship, when in reality it's a potent tool of persuasion—and it's more than just narrative flow. It's rhythmically designed to manipulate attention, cue emotional responses, and reinforce particular consumerist or ideological messages.
The cut to commercial isn’t just a pause—it’s a narrative rupture, often reassembled to keep viewers hooked but pliable. And even within the content, editorial choices—what lingers in the frame, whose voice is given prominence, when the music swells—aren’t arbitrary. They’re sculpted to elicit trust in a product, sympathy for a character, or agreement with a viewpoint that might align conveniently with a sponsor’s interests.
It’s the kind of distortion that's harder to spot because it’s cloaked in entertainment. And the more seamless the edit, the more insidious the influence.
So from this standpoint I see a predictable outcome with the final 5, and feel pity for all the rest who genuinely believed that they had a chance!
Evan44
Well-Known Member
Masterchef Season 2025 - Quite clearly the judging team and the producers picked their winner and final 2 long ago. Who has got the most camera time so far? Laura. Whose ice cream is now on sale in Coles? Laura's sticky date thing.
Callum will make the final 2 or 3, maybe along with Sarah? But Laura's going to win, I'm convinced of it.
And how they've eliminated Theo and Declan, the rest of this season will be a bore - does anyone honestly think Ben and Jamie are better cooks than Declan?
As for the judging panel - what does Sophia do exactly? And the French guy, he's surplus to requirements too.
Suggestion for 2026 - pare the judges back to Andy and Poh and add Julie Goodwin.
Callum will make the final 2 or 3, maybe along with Sarah? But Laura's going to win, I'm convinced of it.
And how they've eliminated Theo and Declan, the rest of this season will be a bore - does anyone honestly think Ben and Jamie are better cooks than Declan?
As for the judging panel - what does Sophia do exactly? And the French guy, he's surplus to requirements too.
Suggestion for 2026 - pare the judges back to Andy and Poh and add Julie Goodwin.
Zcsund1234
Well-Known Member
ew. I've pretty much given up on this season. I feel like it's obvious who they want to give to the win to already and I am so bored of watching the same people win immunity again and again. Not to mention the lack of pressure test eliminations really killed the pacing for me. Since JLP has been dropped from Survivor and BB is all but confirmed to be 4 weeks long I can't help but want to give up my loyalty to CH10.Oh, offal night. I think i can skip this one. Vile!