And in a whirlwind, Big Brother is over
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I think tonight has been a rather unsettling one for BB fans, the type of which makes me question why I watch this show. I learnt a number of things from it though:
Firstly, that for producers of this show what comes first are ratings rather than people. There am I, wannabe psychologist and psychic, predicting before even Makosi left that Nadia being evicted would be most damaging to her. The plug should have been pulled on the interview, or preferably that Nadia should never have returned in the first place. I was always concerned when she declared winning as 'acceptance.' Nadia has a skewed version of popularity, most probably caused by an early lifetime of rejection and ignorance from people. I do hope that she can recover.
Secondly, I think the reason why BB gets such a bad name is that the vast majority of people who watch it are morons with zero emotional intelligence. Sorry, but that is exemplified by the crowd tonight. A crowd baying for blood, completely oblivious to their actions, taking pictures as they booed, revelling in the show: the spectacle of self-destruction appeals to lots of people.
Thirdly, and previously I felt she got a rough time on here, I have come to realize that Davina has a lot to answer for. She can stir up ill feelings and create tension out of nothing, exaggerate elements and then backtrack. Her tweets and continual condemnation of Nadia were music to the ears of the Twitter tweens. And then she begs for quiet and understanding.
I just think people can be so very cruel. Nadia was silly, she understood that, but tonight we saw a fragile human being churned up and exposed. A bloody human being. BB is a soap opera for many, but for many of its housemates the experience does not end when the confetti falls. What a shame we only really truly realized this when the curtain is about to tumble down. Let us hope that it will shield some of the unsavoury elements of this show.
Firstly, that for producers of this show what comes first are ratings rather than people. There am I, wannabe psychologist and psychic, predicting before even Makosi left that Nadia being evicted would be most damaging to her. The plug should have been pulled on the interview, or preferably that Nadia should never have returned in the first place. I was always concerned when she declared winning as 'acceptance.' Nadia has a skewed version of popularity, most probably caused by an early lifetime of rejection and ignorance from people. I do hope that she can recover.
Secondly, I think the reason why BB gets such a bad name is that the vast majority of people who watch it are morons with zero emotional intelligence. Sorry, but that is exemplified by the crowd tonight. A crowd baying for blood, completely oblivious to their actions, taking pictures as they booed, revelling in the show: the spectacle of self-destruction appeals to lots of people.
Thirdly, and previously I felt she got a rough time on here, I have come to realize that Davina has a lot to answer for. She can stir up ill feelings and create tension out of nothing, exaggerate elements and then backtrack. Her tweets and continual condemnation of Nadia were music to the ears of the Twitter tweens. And then she begs for quiet and understanding.
I just think people can be so very cruel. Nadia was silly, she understood that, but tonight we saw a fragile human being churned up and exposed. A bloody human being. BB is a soap opera for many, but for many of its housemates the experience does not end when the confetti falls. What a shame we only really truly realized this when the curtain is about to tumble down. Let us hope that it will shield some of the unsavoury elements of this show.
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Show feels flat without these two great characters and the whole BB has turned into a nasty hate filled warzone controlled by JJJ loving chavs.
DISGRACE.
Yep, totally. And you know that they'll just whimper behind the "it's only pantomime" excuse as usual, which it clearly ceased to be after racist chants were heard at Makosi's first eviction. I dread to think what any foreigners watching would think.
The whole thing has become similar to a bear baiting show.
It has denigrated to such a degree this year with the pathetic power struggles and nasty tactics that it no longer has the appeal it once had. They have killed the whole thing. I am not a Nadia fan but I admired and respected the way she handled herself this evening. Well done Nadia bb has a lot to answer for especially Davina.;)
It started during BB7 with 'GET GRACE OUT' and reached its disgraceful low point with tonights treatment of Nadia.
People on here should remember that hardly anyone raised objections to the way Grace was set up by the producers. Tonights embarrassing spectacle was the culmination of allowing a crowd, of a couple of hundred people, several years of being the 'voice of the nation'. It is television at its absolute worst.
Money more than ratings
Nadia dared to badmouth their current cash-cow (JJJ)
It was always going to be downhill for her from there.
Makosi talked a lot of nonsense, but she wasn't a bad person. We've seen a hell of a lot worse over the years. I think people booed her just for the sake of booing. The religious stuff that she said was a bit dodgy, but again, not really massively offence.
Nadia made the mistake of criticising someone very popular. I know Josie isn't liked by many on here, but it is undeniable that most of the BB-watching audience likes her.
With Nadia, some of the boos were Makosi-esque panto villain boos, but also, Nadia got the rare 'fallen-hero' boos. She didn't really deserve it, but I think a lot of people didn't appreciate her tantrums. This is what I've said many times - the people who watched in 2004 aren't necessarily all going to be the same people watching again in 2010. The teenies in 2010 probably didn't get her character portrayed out of context, without the journey of her being the transsexual gaining confidence within the house and facing prejudices. To the teenies nowadays, she was just a screaming annoying housemate who said blunt, inappropriate things, and who had a weird past.
That's how I feel about it now aswell. It's like we proper BB fans (most of whom have been watching since Day 1) have no control over who we want to stay anymore, now that it all the tweenies making all the decisions and shouting down anybody who doesn't like their favourite.
I'm so relieved that it's ending and if it does go to Ch.5 next year I don't think I will watch it. 10 years is more than enough of our lives to give to one show when all we get back is negativity and to be made idiots of of on the franchise's own spin-off shows etc.
What an apt note for Big Brother to end on though, as it had been heading this way for such a long time.
Yep
The JJJ tweenies have no idea of the history of the show and don't appreciate entertaining HMs and the true BB lovers suffer for it.
The producers & Davina (who is so ridiculously over paid that she sees no sense) would happily head in that direction.
I wish I could disagree with this, but I can't. I've watched BB since the very beginning, and I've long lamented it's metamorphosis into a festival of idiocy. I'm a purist, and I miss the days when watching BB was more of a subtle pleasure. Before the imbeciles took over, with their moronic appetite for third-rate cabaret. The clarion call now appears to be ''Entertain me you worthless f**kers, and if you so much as glance at someone the wrong way, I'm gonna boo the **** outta ya!!''
Sadly, the apple has fallen a long way from the tree.
A brilliant post
The tweens that watch now dont take into account this is the womans life, it doesnt end after tonight. That ill feeling will carry on, but Its Nadia so it all seems acceptable as she was nasty. If you ask me the comments about her on here and the way the audience was towrads her was more nasty then anything shes actually done in that house!