That book was aimed at the kind of people who want to impress others with their baking/decoration skills, I think. We had a couple of them where I used to work who would make out they quickly rustled up an impeccably decorated rainbow cake.

I thought it was so clever to think to do the dome upside down.

“Truly cruel that after many, many months of pandemic misery, this year the weather gods gave England one of the most cold, wet, miserably summers in living memory.”

Hey the AV Club has had a rough ten years.....

It’s interesting how pre-pandemic media that sort of explored the idea got the mortality rate a  bit wrong but deadlier diseases also have less chance to spread, I suppose. I quite liked Station Eleven when I read it but I don’t know how memorable the characters were.

“Her character is a little thin in places, but”... I don’t care..., I think that should have read. Also how can you blame this on the production when most of a character’s character in a show is established via dialogue and all the things that would be in the script like dialogue, actions and body language?

So your point seems to be “except for two characters we are supposed to like not really reacting to losing a child” explain why Moff is bad with characterisation?

I loved Practical Magic when it came out, I was just the right age for witchy hijinks. Haven’t seen it a while though.

“I’m rewatching Season 6 right now, and the way Rory and Amy just instantly move on from the River revelations is near sociopathic.”

“Seriously, the entire point of S6 was de-mythologizing the Doctor.”

Did Donna ever lose her kid and not bat an eyelid for about 5 episodes? I don’t know that I love Donna’s ending but she was a good believable character. Moff’s plots were fun but a lot of the character work was lacking. Also criticising Moff isn’t the same as saying RTD never put a foot wrong.....

“Moffat’s run didn’t even increase the average, it just took out the fucking fart jokes.”

I really wish Jodie could have done a season with RTD. Chibnall’s heart just hasn’t really been in the sci-fi premise of Who in my opinion. I was hoping post-Moff that the show would get back to hitting emotional beats and writing characters that you cared about (as opposed to two Special-est Special People and Overly…

Maybe so but if everyone beats you in the other rounds and you bomb the technical, you go home.

It’s just a fraught relationship here between people’s self-perception of their own class and how other people see them and there’s probably a billion million word essay on it somewhere......

I could have lived with that this series but I would hate it if it happened on a week where you got say Giuseppe and Jurgen having a shocker out of nowhere and they sent both home ;-) (I don’t think they would do this mind)

I liked her as a person and all but it’s always going to be frustrating when someone is near the bottom for several weeks running or in the bottom two and they keep escaping and bakers who generally seem to be more talented keep leaving.

I like Chigs and Crystelle. I do think if Chigs is newish to baking there’s a chance he’ll get caught out by one of the later technicals. Anything with a bain-marie :-)

So many of the technicals seem to be “intricate fiddly dessert that in no way tastes good enough to be worth doing from scratch”.

It’s hard to make a case that Amanda should have stayed. She’s done badly a lot of weeks and had a shocker this week. I’m frustrated George is still in though, I don’t really want another Laura situation where someone consistently struggles but squeaks through for weeks and weeks. I’m still salty about Freya going as…