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Is BB ruder/stupider than it used to be?
Mr.Lavigne
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It's weird to think how far we have come/regressed, when in the days of BB3, it was peeing in the shower that caused all the fuss, and this year it's ejaculating. And in BB7 Glyn was cooking an egg for the very first time, these days contestants don't even know where eggs come from.
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The selectors appear to have chosen too many HMs on looks alone.
I miss the old format and as it goes on it gets more tedious..
And I do not like Pretty Boys,and Sara, Lauren, Shievonne & Becky are pretty.... Don't know what happened to all the rest.:eek:
Oh I like Adam though:D
The old series didn't have that so they had to 'feel' each other out by interacting with each other more, which often made things more interesting and less nasty.
I just about hate half the contestants of this series, the verbal insults are still flying around like crazy, I can't remember hating so many contestants in a past series.
Unfortunately she started a trend but at the time she was in a minority. They all seem to revel in their ignorance now and wear it as a badge of honour :mad:
And by not only not punishing conor but also making him into a hero for the task, they are setting another bad trend & badge of honour. BB are totally irresponsible
I'd say Caroline is one of the most intelligent they've ever had
Are you talking about Lesley's passive-aggressive 'apology' to Sam when they were sitting on the bed? She was being nasty, her words were drenched in condescending loathing.
Yeah, that's the one. I felt it was quite sincere.
Sam is actually coming off as an idiot whilst rewatching this. She made no effort, tried to glide by with her sexuality, didn't bother with task, randomly got in bad moods, started arguments then when people stepped up to the argument she would just go "Shut up!" and not say anything else. Seeing as Leslie was 19 at the time and Sam was 24, Sam should have known a little better.
That's just my take on it.
Lesley was being very nasty. Sam may have tried to hide behind her sexuality, but she wasn't a malicious person. Where you see an idiot, I see a nice girl hindered by really bad anxiety/poor social skills. Like all bullies, Lesley sniffed this out and made Sam her target. She was as jealous of Saskia as she was of Sam, but she knew that if she tried any of her crap with Saskia, Saskia would have put her in her place. If Lesley was sincere, she wouldn't have kept bitching about Sam, after she made her 'apology' and after she was evicted. It's funny how Lesley only apologised to Sam after getting warned by BB, she knew her behaviour must have been coming across badly. I remember both Sam and Lesley (maybe Mary too) went to T4 on the Beach where it was filmed for BBLB and Lesley made an obscene gesture behind Sam's back to humiliate her. She really was a nasty, thuggish bully overcome with jealousy and spite. Sam was a sweet girl, I always think she would have got on better in BB 7 or 8. Lesley should never have been picked for the show. She was a MAJOR contributor to the nasty vibe of BB6 that everyone moans about.
Apart from 'hate' thing, I pretty much agree with every word of this.
This just goes to show the importance of live feed and the fact that the highlights shows have always been edited in some peoples favour. I remember at the time people were saying Sam got shocking treatment from the producers in terms of edits and the story we saw unfold on the live feed was completely different. Makes you wonder just what we're missing without it.
She really did get an unfair edit. The make-up bag incident was completely whitewashed. The highlights didn't show Sam crawling on the ground in tears, or Derek breaking the light switch in anger, or the other housemates gloating in seeing Sam cry. The edit made it look like it was simply a personality clash between Lesley and Sam, when in reality, it was half the house, with Lesley as the ringleader, tormenting and bullying Sam. I was glad when Lesley was evicted and Sam began to relax. She started to forge a friendship with Makosi, and even Derek, who had previously despised her, grew fond of her.
No it isn't, let me say this again: you have to be more pragmatic and desperate to want to be a BB housemate now than you did in the past. As a brand, it's had its day. Nobody's going to get Brian Dowling's career off of this, they'll be lucky if they get any further interest. You're going deeper into the midden to take a punt on slimmer odds if you go on this show years after most people stopped giving a **** about it. That is reflected in the kind of people who take part. They're people for whom 'former Big Brother contestant' sounds like a decent job description.
Another thing is the difference in audience and the channel's view of its audience. Channel Four is a public service broadcaster. Channel 5 is owned by a guy who gave free newspaper ads to the EDL, and whose target demographic is specifically the thick and ignorant. For 5's idea of their viewers to be able to laugh at you, you need to be far more aggressively stupid than you do for Four's audience. Four made an entertainment show that pretended to be a serious psychological experiment so people had an alibi for watching, 5 makes a show that runs two Twitter accounts openly taking the piss out of the housemates. The dropping of the live feed reveals 5's lack of real interest in the concept, they just want to squeeze any remaining juice out of the brand. Big Brother is over. I'll be very surprised if it doesn't switch to celebrity editions only in future.