Originally Posted by The_Bonobo:
“I would be more comfortable accepting your points if it wasn't a case of virtually all of the crowd being incessantly negative about every HM all of the time (including trying to drown out the interviews which is just bizarre).
I know there are sometimes other reactions in there but it is clear that for a good proportion they are long past even having an opinion. They just want to boo because they are robots following the program.
Incidentally I don't clap or boo as I am at home and that would be weird. I also have not suggested they be banned. I just think it is odd and adds nothing (in fact it takes away because the little of the interviews that can be heard are stunted due to the HMs being put off).”
I agree to an extent - the reactions are generally negative or, at best, mixed, but really, what should we expect? The violated corpse that is channel Five's BB is almost specially designed to encourage the eminantly booable as contestants, and the way most of them behave in there for ten weeks only serves to strengthen their booability!
It is a gameshow. It has a varied audience - some like booing, some like cheering, some like both - therefore it is, i reckon, extremely hard for someone, anyone, to get an overwhelmingly or even noticeably positive send-off. The show attracts dingbats (contestants and audience - me included), and that is about the size of it.