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Episode BBAU 2020 - Episode 14 Discussion (6 July)

Is Daniel a mongrel?

  • Yes, he is awful

    Votes: 48 61.5%

  • No, he is ok

    Votes: 14 17.9%

  • Hmm, he is a bit mixed

    Votes: 16 20.5%
  • Total voters
    78
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I was so hoping it'd be Kieran who went last night, like I was praying. On my kneeees.
 
After watching the footage someone posted earlier from 2012, I realised we have not to my mind seen one single conversation about anything at all that lasted for more than a screengrab here and a soundbite there, this year.

The editing in my view is woeful, with the shoving of Kieran in our faces for a substantial chunk of 95% of all episodes so far; and it is feeling more and more like a form of nasty bullying by the editors, given a good percentage of the shots are Kieran with his tongue stuck out and looking unattractive, or doing something 'funny' like 'see the chubby guy run'. It's really unkind. I want him gone so badly, just so they can stop shoving him in my face every night. I might like him, if he hadn't been made such a major feature of the edit, or if we'd ever heard him talking about anything that didn't involve him grandstanding about his ineffectual 'strategy' in the diary room with dubbed in 'Big Brother', who shits me up the wall, also.

What I wouldn't give for a proper conversation, a heartfelt argument, anything that showed these people had some substance as human beings. Instead we are presented with these snippets of a handful deemed worthy of the screentime, that are even so effectively caricatures.
 
the Theorist said:
Why am I attracted to Daniel again tonight?
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Oh look, it happens to me everynight. Him and Chad, maybe it's #thirty or #horny unsure.

Just neither open your mouths during and we'll be good.
Sorry, I didn't watch BB live last night (later on) so I'm catching up on the forum posts now.
 
BB Daze said:
But according to Facebook, millennials don’t have time for that or something.
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I really don't understand where people get this idea from, especially the producers. Big Brother does extremely well with young people in terms of streaming. As someone in their early 20s almost anyone I talk to or know is watching it, I see it all over facebook, instagram and snapchat stories. Young people do have a strong interest in Big Brother. Young people obviously have interest in watching people socialise in a house, because it's simply relatable. If the producer's thinking is that young people don't have interest in 20 year old social experiment format of a show I would gladly say they are more than wrong.
 
Prompted by the 2012 vid posted in this thread I have been watching quite a few videos from that season.
O my lord. It is so infinitely better than the current dross served up. Conversations. Interesting tasks. Actual social dynamics.
I realise this season has its constraints but it really is night and day.
You get a real sense of a story unfolding about people and their interactions and consequences of such rather than a revolving door of balance comps with a tribal council at its conclusion. And strategy for dummies.
Watching 2012 reminded me how much I did enjoy BB.
Also reminded me that Norris and Stacey really are the bitchiest of the bitchiest. Nothing remotely interesting about gossiping behind everyones back yet accusing others of bad behaviour. Their dialogue can be summed by "drainer" and "meeper" with out even realising the absolute irony of parroting those words over and over.
Enjoying the ride. Id forgotten most of it or never really saw all of it to begin with so it retains a kind of freshness for me.
 
Tim said:
Yeah I took this week off Big Brother.

I live in Melbourne and work in social inclusion so the last few days have been hectic.

Didn't really feel like watching entitled white brats right now.
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Understandable. Obviously things aren't getting any better quite yet, so take care.
 
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