Who would you have fired?
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From who was brought back - although you may say that Patrick should have been brought back and fired, which is fair enough, he's been useless.
I'd have fired Maria. She pushed for the high prices, didn't contribute to the task, but mainly she was the one of the the three that in no way deserves to win the series. The other two deserved to remain in the process for their previous record and their potential. Maria has displayed no talent or potential, just immature hostility Oh and that panto eye-rolling and sick-making face at the same time, yeuch.. Unless she has a redemptive arc in store... which I find quite unlikely.
I'd have fired Maria. She pushed for the high prices, didn't contribute to the task, but mainly she was the one of the the three that in no way deserves to win the series. The other two deserved to remain in the process for their previous record and their potential. Maria has displayed no talent or potential, just immature hostility Oh and that panto eye-rolling and sick-making face at the same time, yeuch.. Unless she has a redemptive arc in store... which I find quite unlikely.
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ALTHOUGH, had he'd been bought back I'd have fired Patrick for, as my mum said out loud at the time, all he did on this task was dine on sweets and tea!
Navdeep and Patrick seem the strategists of the lot.
Failing that Patrick had to go (I think Andrew would've got a warning but been let off the hook). He's was a panicky project manager week one and just jumps into decisions without thinking it through. Let's not forget the divemono, that's the only flair he's shown. The other weeks he's been MIA.
Alice failed to communicate properly and spent too much time swanning round posh hotels doing little real research. She also brought the wrong people back.
Without her swanning to the posh hotel, we wouldn't have had the epic moment of Nick behind them scoffing cakes.
Even discounting that though, her instructions were too vague and she appeared to give Andrew little or no guidance on how much to spend on cakes etc, which was the real task-losing factor.
I think rather than in previous series, where being the PM of the losing team rarely meant you'd be fired, this series that seems to mean you're almost definitely the one that will go. Maybe that's fair, but ultimately Alice did ok overall imo, and deserved another chance, while Maria should have gone as she is a useless gobby mentalist.
I would have fired Maria simply because she's an obnoxious little scroat.
I agree though. I would have to have fired her due to her voice making my ears bleed and those bloody faces :mad:
Yes, she can be obnoxiously loud and dominating, but she's never shied from making contributions and taking part in any decision-making process. She's one of most active candidates and she deserves credit for that.
It's those who play safe that need to be put in a firing line. Playing safe by not making contributions, questioning and assisting the PM directly, and taking on a crucial role in a task. I'm looking at you, Patrick.
I would have fired Maria though, given that it's beyond obvious that she's incapable of adapting her behaviour, and she's usually wrong.
I think "traditional with a twist" is pretty meaningless!
My issue was not with pricing the cakes for sale, but with the amount they laid out on them in the first place. This actually made a higher price a virtual necessity. And that at least was none of Maria's doing.
Do you honestly not think she'd adapted her behaviour? I thought she'd calmed down considerably on the task (not in the boardroom, but that's another matter).
If I was looking for good TV I would have fired Navdeep. Maria is car crash TV and Alice is the most photogenic of all the girls IMO.
I agree. Much as Maria has been annoying, she did seem to pull herself together on this task. It was just unfortunate that Alice brought Navdeep into the boardroom over Patrick. Who, as you say, should have gone.
I prefer Navdeep
The cake expert Andrew (Is that right as Steven seems to be the one with kitchen experience) is also toast - as he's failed to produce appealing cakes on a task targettted at his interest. Against those two, Alice showed more potential and hasn't compromised her proposal as far as we know - though by losing she's fallen down in the race behind those with aPM win..
Navdeep may have a hill to climb, but she's hadn't done anything wrong and its clear he likes Maria - possibly as she's most like him, so it was pretty much fatal bringing them back,. Another case of not bringing back the right people, reading his signals and setting up the people who Lord Sugar wants to fire anyway.
For example, if each meal they chose to make cost £7, there's no point selling them for £7 each because that way there's no profit being made.
Its a shame Alice went because she seemed quite wise but having said that a lot of what she did throughout the day was ful of business-catchphrases and didnt actually amount to saying much in terms of actual usefulness.
She might not've gone had she brought back the baker boy and tried to pin things on him (costings, target market experience, etc)