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Old 17-09-2011, 21:02
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Im sure the producers do try and influence every season to get ratings etc, but it seemed more blatent this year

They know (for some unknown reason) that Rachel and Brendon get viewers. They knew the viewers liked the couple so had a good chance of being voted back in, so they decided to have an evicted housemate come back into the house just when it looked like Brendon was going to be evicted. Then the challenge to get back into the house was a physical one that they knew Brendon would be good at.

Then when Rachel/Jordan was up against it with the newbies they had an endurance HoH a few week back (where they had to hang onto the dummy housemates), which they knew Rachel always does well in.

And finally the duo twist after pandora's box was opened again helped Rachel

Just seemed everytime the couples backs were against the wall, the producers would do something that always helped them out more than any other housemate
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Old 17-09-2011, 22:13
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No question of a doubt.

However, I don't think they wanted Rachel or Jordan to win.

They just knew that after Jeff lost and Porsche winning the HoH would ensure a boring season so made it interesting by using pandora's box to level the playing field.
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Old 17-09-2011, 22:46
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They definitely influenced things, but to be honest, I really think it was primarily for the benefit of Jeff and Jordan. Despite their relative unpopularity on some forums, they are still by far and way the most popular houseguest's with the casual audience. Rachel gained all the perks of being alligned with Jeff and Jordan, but I don't think Aunty Alli would have had any problem throwing her under the bus to create a Jordan win.

I think the fact that the challenges were suited to Rachel doesn't necessarily mean that she was Allison's choice. More likely, Allison knew that Rachel would win challenges designed for her, whereas if she designed challenges suited for Jordan, there was still no guarantee that she'd actually have won them. Jordan isn't a great competitor, Rachel is.


I'm not totally convinced the returning player thing was for the couples benefits though. There was a very real chance that Dom or Cassi could have come back that week which would have done nothing but hinder the couples. Plus I think saying that it was a physical challenge for Brendon was a bit of a stretch - it was hardly something you needed to be a bodybuilder to compete in.
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Old 17-09-2011, 22:47
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The producers have influenced every season - even before Grodner took over in BB8 and made it more blatant (and this year was much less rigged than that one). You can't really argue that Pandora's Box this season was more rigged than the guinea-pigs answer in BB9!

Obviously the producers shake-up the game, but 99% of it's not to favour a particular houseguest it's just to create drama (even the BB11 Coup D'Etat wasn't just because America loves Jeff; it's because one alliance was demolishing the other side).

Even BB3 had that veto that was rigged for Amy because the only drama would be around whether or not she kept her promise to save Roddy.
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Old 18-09-2011, 08:49
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Think ive seen it mentioned on here before, but are they told they have to open Pandora's box? iirc all housemates have in every season. I know human nature would make you want to open it, but do they have to?

Take this seasons one - they had to book Tori Spelling, get all those clothes into the house aswell as get Jessie there. Seems alot of effort on a 50/50 chance they wont open the box
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