Gen X Journey

Gosh, it’s only been one night and already I’m missing Masterchef. Such a lovely show, and a powerful one–caused a time shift for the great political debate–now that’s people power.

 I actually tried to watch the great political debate. Julia was judicious with her use of the questioner’s names wasn’t she? Anyway all I could hear from her was blah, blah, blah Laura and all I could see was Tony Abbott getting all antsy but knowing he couldn’t butt in because that would make him look bad and unfriendly to women.

Did anyone else find the worms on Channel 7 and 9 really distracting? I couldn’t even figure out what the Channel 7 worm was doing. And then I realised why I was only hearing blah, blah, blah–I was concentrating on the worm. So I switched to ABC where there was no worm but still blah, blah, blah–must be my short attention span. Can anyone tell me why the debate needed to be on three channels?

Anyway back to Masterchef–a show that’s all about the cooking,but you know what? it’s not really. It’s about people behaving nicely toward one another. Really there is no horrible person in that show. A bit of clever editing and foot in the mouth from Joanne gave us a villain, but not really. How villainous can a touchy feely suburban housewife be? Jonathan was also half a chance for being hated because he was so cocky, but everyone seemed to really like him so I don’t think he was really as bad as morning radio shows would like us to believe.

So what does that leave us? A show where the judges give constructive criticism, seek the positive and give appropriate feedback. A show where the contestants come from the varied cultural backgrounds of modern Australia. We had the lovable gay guy, the curry maker, the housewife, the pretty girl, etc, etc–it ticked every box on the demographic checklist.

But you know who I feel really sorry for. Today Tonight–what are they going to do for stories now? Hardly a night went by when they didn’t run a negative Masterchef story–from too much butter in the dishes to the degeneration of modern society as we know it. And it was all Masterchef’s fault. Gosh now they are going to have to go and find some real news stories, not bits and pieces cobbled from old Jamie Oliver interviews interspersed with dodgy Masterchef footage.

Coles has been a big winner from all this too. They’ve got Curtis Stone (and hasn’t that fine looking boy developed a personality of late) and recipe cards. The Coles produce on Masterchef–it’s beautiful, nothing like you’d expect to see in a supermarket. Well nothing like the Coles supermarkets near my house. I was there the other day and there were five manky zucchini in a box. Obviously all the good ones were in the Masterchef pantry.

Some of the chefs around the place aren’t overly impressed with Masterchef though. Neil Perry called them a bunch of little nobodies. Cruel and cutting to the heart, but then everyone was a nobody till they became a somebody. Perhaps Neil is a little jealous that their cookbooks will probably outsell his. But good on him though for cutting them down to size–how dare anyone have a dream of opening their own little tapas bar. Actually I didn’t see him at the chef grand reunion on Sunday night. I’d have forgotten to invite him too. Might have been awkward for everyone. George might have bounced up really high on the balls of his feet and punched him straight in the nose.

Well I guess I’ll just have to wait now for Kiddy Masterchef. That should be lovely. I can’t see anyone being critical of children, they might cry and heaven knows we’ve seen enough of that this year. But I do hope they bring back the cheese ads. I know I just keep on raving on about them but they’re just so funny I’ve decided to include one for you viewing pleasure. Funnily enough though my husband doesn’t think they’re funny at all. But that’s because he never uses his listening face. Image