After that season ended I started watching the earlier years (yes through uTorrent, yes I know it's illegal, no I don't care) and have carried on watching it since. I'm not entirely sure why I bothered. The formula is exactly the same except they've binned off the white haired old lady who looks like the fat broody chicken from Disney's Robin Hood (or any of the characters from Chicken Run) and replaced her with a square-jawed slightly younger lady (techically they've just switched rolls from being one of the 4 interviewers towards the end of the show to Sir Alan's right-hand-woman and vice versa). The two side-kicks of Sir Alan irratate me slightly. I bet they make two statements regarding key moments in each challenge one being postive & one negative and just choose the right one to place in depending on which team wins the task... A lot of the things they suggest are fairly subjective but they always seem to have a very strong opinion of it. I'd like to see them be wrong... at least once..
It all just seems to end up being a bit pointless. Nearly every 'winning' candidate seems to leave very soon after being employed or gets done over in one way or another.. There's a reason why the new seasons dont start with any success stories of the old lot, they're all fucked!
Every Season There Always Seems To Be A Task:
1) ...Involving rubbish or something that looks like poo. It's possibly just a ploy by Sir Alan to see the hotter female candidates get a bit mucky. I imagine he has first dibs on the raw footage of this. It's a really gash way of showing that treasures can be found in garbage. Just like Sir Alan was found in a bin somewhere..
2) ...Involving Food. Usually a fast food restaurant or some food cart of some kind. Give up. People in the city buy their food from either Pret, Eat, Wasabi or Boots. (it seems.) This task always has some brainiac who thinks it's a good idea to sell some really obscure food choice like "Pigs Liver Sandwiches with Mustard" or something. If you're selling to the masses pick something more generic.. it's not rocket science you twats...most office-goers in London are in a daze come lunchtime and just want to make a speedy, bewildered trip to their regular eatery before returning back to their shit life - I mean work.
3) ...Involving Product Buying then Selling New Inventions: I have nothing much to say to this except that this episode is cut the same way every year.. Look for the product that everyone wants - this will turn out to be the least commercially viable. The team that wins this product will lose the task. End of.
4) ...With A Rat Race Around London To Find Obscure Items: I can't decide if they aren't allowed to use the internet or if they are all just too stupid to consider looking the items up? Even if you aren't allowed to use your mobile phones like that, go to an internet cafe.. (They still exist... probably... ) This is a task where it's absolutely the Team Captain's fault if it goes wrong. Deligate properly... stop fucking about. What are the odds you are going to find a golden bum-hole poker just walking down a street in Broadway Market (... quite high actually..) ALSO. for ONCE can people remember that it doesn't matter if you dont get ALL of the items, just bargin properly on the ones you DO get.. find two or three locations of each item. For the love of GOD.
5) ...Where The Candidates Go To A Foreign Country: To encounter the problems of a language barrier. There's always one token candidate who can speak a little bit of say, French, who then gets the full responsibility to carry the whole team. This is always blatently unfair - but depending on the cockiness of said candidate - it's sometimes fun watching them crash and burn under their own ego...
This year's candidates:
(I hadn't seen the latest episode. Good thing the website just gave away who got fired...)
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