The Apprentice 2014

This week we were down to the last five candidates, this was also the week of the interviews... So what exactly was the point of the series?  You see the candidates business plans were torn apart and two sacked pretty much because of them, so why bother testing them for eleven weeks if they had a shit business plan? Surely Sir Alan Sugar would have checked their business plans before selecting the final group of candidates, if he checked them and they were crap whats that say about him? 
It also makes the whole series totally pointless if one of Sir Alans friends Claude Littner is going to choose the final two, why not skip the program and just pick the best two in the first place, or is Sir Alan more interested in being a tv personality than a businessman?
Makes me think so.