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Khablam
Mar 29, 2012

"This is the first game with a message" says a lapsed gamer confidently, who can only name Super Mario and thinks its the best idea to replicate it.

This could be the apprentice nadir.

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Khablam
Mar 29, 2012

Oh boy, if you can't get HS2 to splurge money on something, what are you even doing?

Khablam
Mar 29, 2012

Austen Tassletine posted:

Was this show always so blatant with how artificial the restrictions are? Are they really supposed to come up with some concept and branding before meeting the principal client they are pitching to, or even being told who they are? Surely at least a facade of plausibility should be maintained.
The strings around the "present a .... to client ........" have been more visible for a few seasons, (its obvious teams are given limited scope selections) but this one is surely the nadir. Whilst it's easy to assume the teams were coached beforehand on what they could ask of a video-game designer in 24hrs, "pick a name and a colour for this car!!" is very literally something I did in a year 6 business studies taster lesson.
An actual year 9 business studies project we did was more nuanced than anything they've done in several seasons and looks more like something from the first 5.

I'm at a loss at what any of the show is meant to represent, beyond laughing at stupid decisions being a passable way to spend an hour a week.

Khablam
Mar 29, 2012

Hah, no, this is the nadir of the show's concept.
What they're doing for this task is the basic concept of how corporate experience days are purchased.
You, as a manager or procurer etc, will go through the brochure and put together your experience and choose from like 3 meal options etc.
e.g. https://chillisauce.com/events

What's next week's task, putting someone's shopping in their basket for them?

Khablam
Mar 29, 2012

stev posted:

Why did they pay insane money to a catering company if they had to do all the food and place setting themselves?
I can only surmise they realised shots of the contestants standing to the side as people did their experiences might not be enough, so they had to engineer something to be "chaos".
Seriously these experiences would have been the same, if not better, if the teams were replaced with a printed itinerary. Since the contestants didn't run, say, the pitstop task themselves.

Khablam
Mar 29, 2012

A lot of the issues are COVID related for sure, but they are only highlighting issues that were always present in the corporate tasks.
It's clear from no one, even supposed members of the public, wearing masks in enclosed spaces nor the visible presence of any COVID measures at all, that everyone you're seeing on the show is pre-arranged for them.
Frankly they shouldn't have bothered rather than trying to create an alternate reality where it wasn't filmed during a pandemic.

Khablam
Mar 29, 2012

This must be the third week Akeem has been told off for not shutting down one of Stephanie's terrible ideas, and this time he's fired for it.
What is her business plan, a blowjob factory for has-been computer salesmen?

Amazing.

Khablam
Mar 29, 2012

The editing was on point this week, though.

Team A: they think we want to kill babies
*cut*
babies having a mental breakdown trying to eat Team B's food.

Khablam
Mar 29, 2012

In a smarter series, someone might have pointed out that Morocco is in Africa, and entirely west of London. But pointing out the awful geography seems like nitpicking compared to putting "eat this and your baby dies" on your baby food, I guess.

Khablam
Mar 29, 2012

The weird rub of this is, Brittany's plan makes a lot more sense than the shows actual premise.
Who the gently caress wants to give up a 50% stake in a business that is, supposedly, established and on course to make millions, for £250k? It's a completely ludicrous offer akin to the payday loans of the business world.
No one would take this offer on Dragon's den.

"I have an idea that I am sure will work, here's the research and groundwork, here's a prototype/recipe, do the rest for me and I'll give you 50% equity" is a much more realistic situation.

It's like it's trying to differentiate between itself and Dragon's den, but they've not sat down and thought it through.

Or maybe its intentionally bad so you get idiots wanting to open a bakery (there's been like 10 of these now) or a fast-fashion line.

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Khablam
Mar 29, 2012

stev posted:

Stop making Harpreet reinvent and relaunch her fully established business. What's the point.
It looked like they edited pretty closely around Katherine saying she didn't care about the branding as it was a pointless exercise. And she called constant attention to the artificiality of doing it in two days.

Format is dead.

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