Originally Posted by yogacats:
“Is it just me, or does anyone else notice that the 'vibe' this year is much more like in the old Channel 4BB?
What a great bunch of housemates (including 'ordinary' people). BRILLIANT! The way it's been going over the last few years, with the housemates being 'cast' has done the format no favours. I'm not feeling the poison this year (eg. Helen, Pauline, Mark, Steven, Kimberley, Toya) so look forward to some laughs and a more upbeat atmosphere.
OK it's early doors, but I think this is going to be the best C5 BB yet, although it doesn't have much to beat after last year's depressing argue-fest. Can't say I'm actually disliking anyone yet! I even like certain housemates. Really liking Nick, Harriet, Joel, Adjoa, Danny, Aaron (even Cristian darn it.)
What's already coming across is the 'real worldness', of the contestants, for example Harriet's self consciousness about 'only working in a cafe' , Jack's never having had sex yet, Eileen's not knowing what twerking is, Nick's massive mistake of leaving the jockey school and more or less bumming about since and having no mates. Even Christian's comment about his not being able to keep up with an ex girlfriend in the money stakes.
Brilliant C5 - THIS is what I want to watch!!! Not a load of half baked, shallow wannabees like it's been going the last couple of years. Keep it up.”
It may be better than last year, or perhaps even BBs 13 and 14. It's too early to tell. But apart from that, I don't agree at all.
The 'vibe' is not very like a C4 BB. In most ways, it is still very much a C5 series. It's going to be just as excessively tasked and twisted as last year. We already even have a HM with something like a pass to the final
, and votes where it's not clear what we're voting for.
There are still way too many wannabes in this series; and there's nothing very interesting about the 'ordinary' HMs. To me, the HM selection is very POOR; and they're just as much 'cast' as in other years. There's already signs of 'poison' from some of the guys. I'm already developing a strong dislike for Christian, Danny, Aaron and, to a lesser extent, Harriet and Chloe.
So far, none of the other HMs, apart from Eileen, has much appeal for me either; and though a few seem to have potential, I don't feel I'd have missed anything worth seeing if I hadn't been watching. I'm starting to feel I could skip weeks of this series and not regret it.
People have been seizing on the supposed 'ordinary' and 'normal' nature of some of the HMs; and 'real worldness' seems on a similar theme. But how much is it even true? There's nothing especially 'real-world' in not knowing about something (twerking) that's widely known among ordinary people. There's nothing that's more 'real world' about not having had sex than there is about having had it. And if Harriet's so 'real world' and 'ordinary', what was she doing trying to get into a tv show?
Besides, while it is in a way refreshing that there aren't so quite many HMs from London who've been hanging around on the fringes of the zeleb scene, it still hasn't resulted in HMs who are very interesting. The current popularity of these HMs seems to be almost entirely down to the belief that they're ordinary. It's just the flipside of the dislike for wannabes, rather than any positive qualities those HMs have.
