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Why did YOU dislike BB15?
hownwbrowncow
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I am just curious as to why BB15 had such a terrible reception?
For me, this was the first series of BB I watched, and certainly for the first five weeks I thought it was great. Great launch night twists, good HMs (I may be in the minority here), I liked the power twist theme (at least in the first half), and I liked how the girls' feuds developed.
I thought the new HMs was a good opportunity to keep the series at a good momentum half way through but they were all a bit boring and it was the Armageddon week was where the series turned bad.
Evictions without the public vote was just ludicrous - we lost Danielle as a result
Then, the power trip theme just became stupid - we had a boring rehash of Week 3 in Week 7, which made it feel like e hasn't had normal noms for ages! Then we had the Power of Money and Powrr of Knowledge which were just stupid!
To top it all off, they had a DREADFUL final week, with old HMs reentering, the producers CHOOSING Helen to be fake evicted and then her winning
For me, this was the first series of BB I watched, and certainly for the first five weeks I thought it was great. Great launch night twists, good HMs (I may be in the minority here), I liked the power twist theme (at least in the first half), and I liked how the girls' feuds developed.
I thought the new HMs was a good opportunity to keep the series at a good momentum half way through but they were all a bit boring and it was the Armageddon week was where the series turned bad.
Evictions without the public vote was just ludicrous - we lost Danielle as a result
Then, the power trip theme just became stupid - we had a boring rehash of Week 3 in Week 7, which made it feel like e hasn't had normal noms for ages! Then we had the Power of Money and Powrr of Knowledge which were just stupid!
To top it all off, they had a DREADFUL final week, with old HMs reentering, the producers CHOOSING Helen to be fake evicted and then her winning
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A: The free pass to the final and the always up changed the nature of the show in the wrong direction.
B: There was too much outside knowledge from the public and even worst the bots crowd were chosen to give it.
C: The three housemates added in to the show midway didn't really add anything, at the end of the day.
A: I actually didn't mind the free pass. I probably would have if there had been, say, 4 finalists, but it did change the house dynamic because she realised she was invincible and her ego grew and I personally found that an interesting dynamic.
B: Totally agree! It was ridiculous, plus the conflict-engineering, it just became tiresome.
C: Agree.
I actually quite liked the Power Housemate theme, but it was messed up by Pauline being given too much power and the other Power Housemates not being given enough. It really did seem like things were being made up as they went along at times. I stopped watching it because the rules were inconsistent, and it was really difficult to work out what was going on. Twist after twist after twist after twist made me think, 'I don't even get this anymore'. So yeah, I didn't finish it. Hope it gets better next year (I will always give it a shot, no matter how bad it has been in previous years).
I hadn't realised that you'd given up! When did you?
And I remember you bringing that up actually - Paulines decisions would affect the whole series. I guess they needed to start it with a bang.
The night that Marlon came out and the new people went in. It wasn't only because I was fed up with the series - it was mainly because at that time I had a lot of things to do in not very much time - but the quality of the programme meant that I wasn't placing it as a priority. Maybe if I'd been enjoying it more, I'd have stopped doing something else and stuck at it.
Well if you were fed up by Week 6, then it's just as well you didn't watch the second half, you wouldn't have enjoyed it very much at all
I quite enjoyed the first 5 weeks.
I hated.
1: The hooker
2: The rest of the horrid housemates.
3: The house design
4: No live feed.
5: Marcus
6: Rylan 'It's all about me' Clark
7: Editing of episodes
8: Everything
The housemates were as part of the power trip theme already media known.
I hated the app that let people who had it decide which HM would have power and I hated the whole idea of the power to begin with.
The pass was the first in a long line of decisions that ruined the show for me.
Forget Helen was not a nice person,I found Ashleigh far worse for the show with her continual mimicking of the HM she became friends with and her terrible attitude which brought the show down to a miserable level of bitching,moaning and drama without much fun in the house.
Ashleigh and the whole steve/kim showmance thing were the worst of the show for me but it didnt stop there.
I found the nomination process for that series was messed with too much and I cant recall seeing a week of normal straight forward nominations.
The tasks were poor and the evictions were ruined by a massively negative crowd who often chanted throughout the interview.
Add to this the fact C5 pulled the plug on any sort of live feed and they made a complete mess of the psych show with judi james jumping the shark with the whole court thing and what you had was a complete disaster of a series.
I was glad Helen won over Ashleigh but neither of them should have been final 2 yet the whole series was made to be the Ashleigh and Helen show so it was obvious that they would be saved to the end.
It didnt help that the maj of this forum like BB12 ( aaron) had sided with a very sly sneaky and awful housemate ( ashleigh) and it became a vicious forum for anyone who dared to speak againest the forum favourite.
Hope I never see a series like it again.
2) The free pass to the final
3) The housemates being able to vote Danielle out
4) The three new housemates, boring and tedious creatures
5) Hooker Helen winning.
It will certainly be a memorable series in years to come, it doesn't matter if it was for the right or wrong reasons, it will still stand out.
A pass to the final which could not be revoked.
This caused the power to be with the production team.
BBs tag line is one winner you decide not so in Helen's case.
She was warned but nothing done so it was clear they didn't want Helen to be evicted.
I agree with ALL of this and would also add HELEN!!
If the Killer Nom could be revoked why couldn't the Free Pass??
They'd handled the power thing okay until week 3 when they kept adding a twist on a twist on a twist on a twist..... The pathetic desperation to it came across like they didn't have a clue what they were doing.
Then Armageddon week came where they decided to evict 2 housemates without any public vote and I was pretty much done.
I've never intentionally missed so much of a BB series before like I did from that week onwards. I ended up watching about 2 highlight shows a week.
Yes, this as well
Way too many people up for eviction each week
The overhype about Helen
Crap HMs
Yep, that's pretty much everything
Which begs the question.
How important are Twitter and Facebook in the choice of the winner.
Because the Killer Nom could have and were going to reinstate it after a week, whereas if they revoked Helen's pass, even just for a week, she may have been evicted, and then it would no longer be a pass to the final, would it?
I agree but the housemates have a code of conduct which over rides everything and if broken can result in removal from the house.
Big brother broke its own rules because after shown warnings and not shown warnings bb just ignored the rules and public opinion.