Not on Topic, But on Theme

Continued this week:  Writing on a topic that isn’t the actual topic but is thematically relevant. 

This past week’s episode of Great British Bake Off was spoiled for me.  And, yes, I realize that in the first post here, I said that I wanted the world to spoil things that were competitions as long as they refrained from spoiling narrative shows that have an actual plot.  But as I was scrolling through Twitter the day after the actual airdate of the show, someone had posted an article which announced in the title the person who had gone home in the semi-final. 

                Now, as I watched the episode, I was feeling a little bit bitter about the fact that I knew who was out.  If we’re being honest though, you can see from the start that one person isn’t going to make it when there are only four contestants and one person has been making the same wrong decision week in and week out.  In the isolation of reading a tweet, it is easy to get wrapped up and feel like some aspect of watching the show has been taken from you, but as soon as you’re focusing on the show and what you know from everything you’ve seen up to this point, there really isn’t that much to ruin.  Maybe that situation would’ve been different if one contestant who was just the best through the whole show had a terrible weekend.  That isn’t what happened though, so there isn’t that much to worry about.