Vinnie's Eviction

Yeah I said this in the episode discussion for it, I thought it was quite sad for an eviction to happen just like that for anyone. No prior prep and just woken up in the middle of the night. I'm not much of a fan!

Also to add onto vinnies issues at the time he was trying to resolve things with others like Ed and he didn't get much chance so it would have stung more.
 
As I said in the other thread, while I know BBUK does backdoor evictions all the time, I admit that was easily our most brutal eviction we've seen on BBAU. Does that mean it wasn't fair? Not at all. It keeps the HMs on their toes - especially these HMs, who've had it far too easy this season.

It's all part of the game. It was brutal, yeah. But finally we had something different happen - and we already knew to expect these types of evictions this year, both due to the short length as well as inheriting BBUK’s twists.

I've been vocal about my dislike for Vinnie and I still believe he was the right one to go last night, especially so poetically given the circumstance. But entertaining as it is, I do feel bad for anyone being booted so unexpectedly like that. However... it was brilliant TV.

BBUK has had far more shocking backdoor evictions. If anything, Vinnie should take solace in knowing his eviction was actually kind of iconic.
 
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Evictee aside, it's trash production yet again. At every level.
  • Their countdown timer very clearly signalled the eviction, not the closing of the vote, and they wasted a lot of peoples time late at night.
  • I wasn't around for much of the feed today but it appears they recycled the Abiola playbook - heavy censoring for no reason other than trying to hide what we've already figured out. This is a continuation of bad will towards live feed viewers.
  • The experience for the evictee was second class and is not in the spirit of Big Brother. I would be absolutely fuming if I was Vinnie.
The producers don't care about the integrity of the experience for the housemates or for the viewers. It's a desperate, pathetic look on their part.
 
imsocold said:
Evictee aside, it's trash production yet again. At every level.
  • Their countdown timer very clearly signalled the eviction, not the closing of the vote, and they wasted a lot of peoples time late at night.
  • I wasn't around for much of the feed today but it appears they recycled the Abiola playbook - heavy censoring for no reason other than trying to hide what we've already figured out. This is a continuation of bad will towards live feed viewers.
  • The experience for the evictee was second class and is not in the spirit of Big Brother. I would be absolutely fuming if I was Vinnie.
The producers don't care about the integrity of the experience for the housemates or for the viewers. It's a desperate, pathetic look on their part.
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Oh, the way production handled the live stream of this eviction is a whole other conversation for sure...

Disagree about your third point, though. This is Big Brother. It sucks but that's the reality of this game... far more shocking surprise evictions have happened internationally. I've agreed it was brutal, but we shouldn't be so precious just because this is the first time BBAU was bold enough to evict someone like that on our version.
 
Poona said:
Yeah I said this in the episode discussion for it, I thought it was quite sad for an eviction to happen just like that for anyone. No prior prep and just woken up in the middle of the night. I'm not much of a fan!

Also to add onto vinnies issues at the time he was trying to resolve things with others like Ed and he didn't get much chance so it would have stung more.
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It’s the show? You’re assuming everyone feels bad for Vinnie. It’s reality TV.
 
imsocold said:
Evictee aside, it's trash production yet again. At every level.
  • Their countdown timer very clearly signalled the eviction, not the closing of the vote, and they wasted a lot of peoples time late at night.
  • I wasn't around for much of the feed today but it appears they recycled the Abiola playbook - heavy censoring for no reason other than trying to hide what we've already figured out. This is a continuation of bad will towards live feed viewers.
  • The experience for the evictee was second class and is not in the spirit of Big Brother. I would be absolutely fuming if I was Vinnie.
The producers don't care about the integrity of the experience for the housemates or for the viewers. It's a desperate, pathetic look on their part.
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imsocold said:
If I were Vinnie I'd be withholding any press and social media they want him to do tomorrow, and then go on the live stage and read production for FILTH on national TV.
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Why?!!!! LOL. It’s the show!
 
Even UK folks usually hate their backdoor evictions... not so much because the setup isn't great, but more so because it denies the evictee a proper eviction experience. I understand that argument and people have a point, because the UK used to do these things with a live audience. Series 5 and the following celebrity series (for context: both happened before Australia got FNL) had surprise evictions through the diary room without a chance to say goodbye but evictees were still greeted by the crowd.

As a housemate, I don't think I'd mind though... I'd be happy to avoid the booing mob in the UK. As a viewer.. I do think there is something missing because (at least with the UK), you're missing out on housemate's first impressions after leaving the house. You miss on them seeing their highlights reels.

For Australia... it's not like the regular evictions are a great experience. Only difference is that you have a crowd and Vinnie will still get his moment with the crowd anyways.. the other thing that is missing is the door opening in front of the crowd, but I don't think the door opening is that exiting. I'd be more pissed if I couldn't walk the eviction plank everyone else.

The way the eviction was done was not bad though... yeah, it was a shock. They didn't see it coming. I think the act of being evicted was done well. And Vinnie will get over the fact that he left in the middle of the night when he didn't expect it. Worse things have happened on the show before, even in Australia.

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Why?!!!! LOL. It’s the show!
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I'd do the same... not necessarily because of the snap eviction, it's really not a huge issue. But if I was unhappy with production, I'd definitely drag them in a moment when they can't edit around it.
 
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imsocold said:
Evictee aside, it's trash production yet again. At every level.
  • Their countdown timer very clearly signalled the eviction, not the closing of the vote, and they wasted a lot of peoples time late at night.
  • I wasn't around for much of the feed today but it appears they recycled the Abiola playbook - heavy censoring for no reason other than trying to hide what we've already figured out. This is a continuation of bad will towards live feed viewers.
  • The experience for the evictee was second class and is not in the spirit of Big Brother. I would be absolutely fuming if I was Vinnie.
The producers don't care about the integrity of the experience for the housemates or for the viewers. It's a desperate, pathetic look on their part.
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The countdown timer though aligned with when voting supposedly ended (1am AEDT). Considering there has probably never been an eviction that has occurred immediately after voting ends, the eviction happening bang on 1am AEDT was never going to happen.

Having said that, I do agree that putting the countdown timer on the stream in the manner they did was a mistake and the handling of the stream (especially not capitalising on the thousands that stayed up) was shambolic yet unsurprising in light of the trigger happy censoring we’ve seen this season.
 
SoftKitty said:
The countdown timer though aligned with when voting supposedly ended (1am AEDT). Considering there has probably never been an eviction that has occurred immediately after voting ends, the eviction happening bang on 1am AEDT was never going to happen.

Having said that, I do agree that putting the countdown timer on the stream in the manner they did was a mistake and the handling of the stream (especially not capitalising on the thousands that stayed up) was shambolic yet unsurprising in light of the trigger happy censoring we’ve seen this season.
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It was rough last night. I'm in QLD, so I stayed up at 12am to watch it. I had to be up at 6am for work.
 
imsocold said:
If I were Vinnie I'd be withholding any press and social media they want him to do tomorrow, and then go on the live stage and read production for FILTH on national TV.
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I'm thinking production would have known it was a brutal eviction type and would have treated him like a king compared to everyone else evicted. That's what I'd like to think anyway
 
It was certainty up there in being a brutal eviction. Gemma's eviction in BBAU11 was more humiliating I think though. This one was just way more unexpected for him.

(The censoring of the livestream is getting ridiculous at this point though.)
 
This was a pretty hard episode for Vinnie and possibly the most brutal ousting of a HM we’ve ever seen - including Nelson/Constance’s eviction. John and Ashley had a better showing than this..
 
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