Why does anyone watch this tripe anymore?

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Ken_A_T

29-05-2005

Originally Posted by pickle:
“I watch it because i enjoy it.

It's like nothing else on TV, it's unique.

It's like a social experiment.. and you get to sit back safely from a distance and observe all. You even get to play God once a week and decide someones fate.

There is no script and anything can happen. Much more interesting than watching all the boring soaps that pretend to represent reality.

Watching the real thing is so much better!”

I do hate telling you this but there is a script given to them each day.

Ken_A_T

29-05-2005

Originally Posted by tazzeroo:
“It makes a change fom talking about the weather, work, how much aloaf of bread costs. BB means that sad people like me, with very little life have something to look forward to.”

Why not do something that is useful instead perhaps help out at a local charity. Far more useful then watching a load of braindead fools prancing about in front of a camera.

Mass Debate

29-05-2005

Originally Posted by Crimsonmon:
“Don't worry, the universe isn't going to tear apart if someone has a different opinion to yours.”

How can you be so sure???

Ironically meant, I think you could be wrong...

Ken_A_T

29-05-2005

It just shows what a lot of clever editing goes into the highlights to make it have some very distant resembalence to entertainment. I really worry about this people that watch the live output all day. Are there lives that sad that BB is so importent to them ? Boy there are some really sad people about.

FinalBroadcast

29-05-2005

Originally Posted by Ken_A_T:
“It just shows what a lot of clever editing goes into the highlights to make it have some very distant resembalence to entertainment. I really worry about this people that watch the live output all day. Are there lives that sad that BB is so importent to them ? Boy there are some really sad people about.”

Yeah - some people come on to a Big Brother forum, and actively abuse its members!

pickle

29-05-2005

Originally Posted by danmoz98:
“Interesting? Anything can happen? You think this represents reality?

Hahahahaha. Oh man, that made me laugh hard. Tell me, what's 'real' about a group of people acting up in front of a bunch of cameras?

And don't convince yourself it's interesting and anything can happen, anything that's interesting and 'will happen' will be quickly replaced with the garden”

So why are you watching it and/or posting on a forum about the show???

Surely you have something far better to do i would imagine...

danmoz98

29-05-2005

Originally Posted by pickle:
“So why are you watching it and/or posting on a forum about the show???

Surely you have something far better to do i would imagine...”

Maybe he's trying to save the world? Or the country at least, by attempting to open the eyes of the fools that watch this garbage day in day out?

pickle

29-05-2005

Originally Posted by danmoz98:
“Maybe he's trying to save the world? Or the country at least, by attempting to open the eyes of the fools that watch this garbage day in day out?”

Well if he is, he's not doing a very good job of it i'm afraid.

adamcm

29-05-2005

danmoz98 - CLI fan?

Neck_Romancer

29-05-2005

I think the original poster has a point. How typical he gets flammed for it. I think his point is that it could be so much better but it's terribly edited and produced.

A perfect point last night was when they was broadcasting one lot of people in one room with the sound from a group of people in another. Childlike mistake.

Also agree with the conversations being censored, they cut our way too much.

brunobrookes

29-05-2005

I enjoy seeing how people interact with each other, and what they do in certain situations. I love it when a housemate or BB does something funny or stupid. I think the OP intimates this - the highlight shows are normally great, but the live feed is awful. Well, I'd agree with that. I hardly watch it, precisely for the reasons outlined. Maybe half an hour here and there, but it always gets too much. Better to catch the highlights, and keep up on here. Half the fun is trying to see through the editing, or more accurately to predict how it will unfold which enables you to do things like get a bet on Nadia at 33/1. That good enough?

N-I-C-K

29-05-2005

Originally Posted by pickle:
“So why are you watching it and/or posting on a forum about the show???

Surely you have something far better to do i would imagine...”

We could ask you the same question?

Why are you replying to these posts... surely you have something far better to do then reply to anti-bigbrother posts.

Just let this thread die and lets say we won

CaptainSensible

29-05-2005

I think the OP has a valid point too - I am extremely curious & voyeuristic, but BB in its current form has far too much censorship to make it worthwhile viewing.

BB producers should devote some serious time to resolving the legal aspects of uncensored HMs.

danmoz98

29-05-2005

I don't understand why they feel we have to be 'protected' from such scenes. The audio I can understand, but the visual side of things?

We can only assume it's nudity they're censoring, but it could be anything really, how do we know? We don't see it!!

How would you feel if any other program you watched was so heavily censored? The news perhaps? A film? etc, etc

ZeroPumpkin

29-05-2005

Originally Posted by danmoz98:
“How would you feel if any other program you watched was so heavily censored? The news perhaps? A film? etc, etc”

Those aren't very fair comparisons.

danmoz98

29-05-2005

Originally Posted by ZeroPumpkin:
“Those aren't very fair comparisons.”

Isn't it? how much violence and bloodshed is shown on the news or in a film? How much sex related programming (which can be rather graphic) is shown?

ZeroPumpkin

29-05-2005

News reports are put together very carefully so that they aren't libellious (or slanderous, in the case of TV). Big Brother HMs just mouth off.

danmoz98

29-05-2005

Originally Posted by ZeroPumpkin:
“News reports are put together very carefully so that they aren't libellious (or slanderous, in the case of TV). Big Brother HMs just mouth off.”

Well done. Thank you for regurgitating what I have already stated. The audio I understand. And now the visual censorship?

biomorph04

29-05-2005

"Why does anyone watch this tripe anymore?" ..... because bb6 is fascinating, many of this year's inmates appear to be very human and complex (like them or not). while digital spy is the perfect enhanced big bro experience on top of it all

andy1973

30-05-2005

Originally Posted by danmoz98:
“Seriously, I can't understand how it's made it to series 6.

Whenever anything vaguely interesting happens we get a nice view of the garden. Flick back to whatever room once everything has died down, then back to the garden again when something happens. All so they can stick 'the best bits' on a DVD. Then of course there's the annoying audio muting.

It's a complete joke. Why do they even bother? I can't understand why there's so much censorship, even as late as 3am.”

For a big brother hater you seem to be watching more than me and I love the show.

Bohochick

30-05-2005

Quote:
“Why does anyone watch this tripe anymore?”

And I would answer...

Why do people who hate this 'tripe' write about this 'tripe' on message boards devoted to this 'tripe' when they could go write on a forum about something they like instead?

Well I like BB..no other arguement needed from me.

danmoz98

30-05-2005

Originally Posted by Bohochick:
“And I would answer...

Why do people who hate this 'tripe' write about this 'tripe' on message boards devoted to this 'tripe' when they could go write on a forum about something they like instead?

Well I like BB..no other arguement needed from me.”

Maybe we're intrigued how the brains of simple minded folk work?

But.. I like how you all brand those of us who speak negatively of the show as 'haters' when all we've done is ask why bother watching when the censorship is so strict?

starsky

30-05-2005

The censorship is no stricter than any any other show.

If a HM says "burger king make thier burgers from dead cats" obviously that can't be aired, and i'm not really to bothered about hearing it.

You obviously know nothing about production and broadcasting.

Just another attention seeker who thinks he's a tough guy by signing up to a forum and sitting his grotty little room talking shit to people on the internet..... YAWN, tough guy.

afcbfan

30-05-2005

Originally Posted by danmoz98:
“Maybe we're intrigued how the brains of simple minded folk work?
But.. I like how you all brand those of us who speak negatively of the show as 'haters' when all we've done is ask why bother watching when the censorship is so strict?”

So am I to understand you don't have anything against the programme itself? It's merely the censorship you have a problem with?

Ken_A_T

30-05-2005

Originally Posted by general_smuts:
“Being a freeviewer, this is the 1st time I've had access to the live stream. I have to say, it's totally boring and a really bad excuse for TV! You can never follow a single conversation cos it keeps cutting out all the time, and all they do is sit round all day. I think it's ok if you just watch BBLB and the highlight shows, I have really enjoyed all the previous series by doing this.”

I am thinking off offering C4 a film of me and my familly just wondering around aimlessly. I have mastered how to keep muting the sound and cutting to garden shots. I could make a fortune from this drivel.

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