Oh, Eliza Wilson, we hardly knew thee.
(Except for the fact that we totally did because season nine of Masterchef Australia has been on our screens almost every night for 10 weeks.)
But if there’s one thing fans of the show are feeling after last night’s elimination, is that Eliza was robbed. ROBBED I TELL YOU.
Because the 30-year-old theatre nurse from Victoria was never meant to be up for elimination in the first place. She was only subbed in because her fellow contestant, Sarah Tiong, decided to play the all-powerful immunity pin.
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Immunity pins shouldn't exist - if it's a show about cooking, then "game play" shouldn't come into it. That was my biggest bug-bear about Biggest Loser, it quickly moved from "losing weight" to see who could outwit the best to get to the end, with the majority of the show "tempting" them to make bad decisions to win money, etc, rather than change of lifestyle. At least survivor is open and honest about their expectations for their participants.
It's felt like the last couple of weeks have had a lot of manufactured drama, and that's not why I watched Masterchef instead of MKR etc.
The first time Sarah had the choice to play her immunity pin, they didn't say one of the others would be put into elimination in her place or try to make her feel responsible for the producers' cruel decisions. This time they did all of that, and you could see it got to her. It felt mean.
Then the decision to put Eliza into the elimination in place of Sarah despite her dish the previous night being really good and coming 3rd. and then kicking her out when the judges could have pretty easily said Tamara's dish looked nothing like pastry-shop-window macarons (because they didn't) and it was a pretty simple-looking dish for this stage of the competition (it was).... ugh.
There's usually one elimination-for-the-sake-of-controversy at this stage of Masterchef and we just got it. Hate that.