Power Trip truly was a [removed] awful series.
Aura101
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I like to use hindsight now to see if anyone thinks it was a good or bad series?
i just stumbled across a few clips of BB secret and lies and the 'Deana' year on youtube.
its made me realise what a crock of shite Power Trip really was with some of the most loathsome useless housemates ever, with an absolutely ghastly house design and useless theme.
production really messed up this year.
i just stumbled across a few clips of BB secret and lies and the 'Deana' year on youtube.
its made me realise what a crock of shite Power Trip really was with some of the most loathsome useless housemates ever, with an absolutely ghastly house design and useless theme.
production really messed up this year.
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To be fair Secrets and Lies was a bigger load of garbage.
Power Trip was still garbage but Secrets and Lies was just 17 kinds of awful...nobody to get behind or really like to an excessive degree.
I know the producers manipulate and meddle but this year they sunk to new lows, especially the final week.
I don't even want to go into Helen's pass.
In a way, I thank them. I never will pick up the phone again.
Though ironically without Helen, this series would have been even worse, which says it all really.
i have to disagree, secrets and lies was overrated, but it was still a good series and is regarded by alot of people as the best C5 civilian series. i only say its overrated as it tailed off by about week 7. (mainly because those loathesome twins outstayed their welcome over much better housemates) plus secrets and lies being the series where the inconsistancy began, especially with putting up a random number of housemates every week & using VTE again.
I agree with everything you wrote KatrinaK. I found it the most frustrating one to watch because of the constant interference and manipulation from BB.:(
:cool: By me certainly. I hated this years so much
I'm guessing they used to work on Eastenders....
2012 - great
2013 - terrible, tedious
2014 - pretty good
If...
Well desmond isn't in charge of channel 5 anymore, so we should have it restored somewhat to its former glory.
But its been Ben Frow pulling all the strings for the past couple of years... and hes still there !
It was a poor series but it wasn't very TOWIE like
BB12 (and CBB8) were the closest we've had the series being "scripted reality". The problems with this year were standard BB ones - a poorly chosen cast, weak tasks and unnecessary meddling.
I disagree the house would have been different but in a better way, she controlled everything in that house and she never feared anything so she could do and say whatever she wanted
2011 - Rebeckah (totally alone I know!), maybe Alex but I think it was just the "best of a bad bunch" thing, I probably wouldn't have cared if it was any other series!
2012 - Deana, Caroline, Lydia
2013 - Gina, Charlie (and she was hardly the most exciting person ever)
2014 - Ashleigh, Toya, Christopher, Matthew
Power Trip was totally marred by the stupid twists every five minutes
Agree with all of this. Every year I looked forward to calling to vote in support of my favorite housemates because that was part of the game of BB. As of BB15---never again will I spend a penny voting. My eyes have been opened. If someone like Helen can win with a free pass to the final--not having to lift a finger to get there--then I'm done contributing. This is no longer Big Brother UK---I don't know what it is.
It's not even worthy of conversation and I've ran out of bad things to say about it as they have all been said already countless times.
BB15 never happened as far as I'm concerned I hated it that much. >:(
Desmond wasn't in charge during BB8 to BB11 and those were still poor
The drama they actually created for themselves was interesting e.g: Pauline going nuts, Ashliegh's evil week, Steven's gigantic ego and bizarre behaviour, Chris in the diary room, Christopher giving Helen what for, the fallout of the money pact etc.. But there were just some stories the producers couldn't let go of which were just annoying like the Helen vs Ashliegh feud, Chris's 'obsession' with Ashliegh, Steverly bonking. Also the outside info just became too much and HM's changed because of that.
I also agree with what someone said above the editors only seemed focused on misery and drama where I'm sure they had a lot of fun moments. So had the producers taken a step back stopped trying force the same old stuff and let them be themselves it could have been an excellent series.
:)Totally agree with your post. I didn't find this a bad series overall, and I think the housemates, were, on the whole, a pretty good selection. For some reason, it was decided that interference and manipulation of story lines, beyond anything I've seen on BB before, certainly as far as outside influence is concerned, was a 'fab' idea. It wasn't, for me anyway, but thanks to some of the h/ms being brilliant, this series rose above the cr@ppiness and nonsense it was destined to be.
People were naive to vote for Helen and BBBOTS were just as devious to shove her down our throats the way they did. A truly forgettable series which i felt inclined to switch off and switch off more or less i did. >:(
The problem is that under C5, there are no rules to BB. No internal logic. They really do make it up as they go along.
And I think power trip has to be up there as the most awful series I've put myself through, perhaps excepting BB4.
Has set a precedent that I don't like. Why bother watching if the producers can basically engineer a situation to get rid of any housemate they like without the public having a say?