Two episodes to catch upon today. The first will be getting a thread of it's own. The second may too - blatant fix.
The "twist" will have been set up in a way that if any key footage housemate was evicted they could activate the twist.
The way it's been edited you just assume they had planned it for now but yeeeer narh.
Absolutely - no doubt about it. I know Survivor claim that such twists are pre-planned but when a show is pre-recorded, especially a show which previously would have been live and in it's heyday would announce such twists before the nominees were even known, but as it got more desperate may have thrown things in once producers knew the nominees but viewers didn't, then it just screams fix. There is no way they'd have used this last night on the likes of Danni or Zoe.
I like Angela - she's brilliant, even if the tea thing is tiring. But producers working to save her instantly makes me dislike her.
What mensa candidate thought this up in the production meeting and thought it would make good tv
This one actually came from BB Canada, though there they had to do three spools each. Think one ended up having to be cut out as they practically passed out doing the challenge.
To be fair the challenges have been pretty good so far and included some original ones too. They're just lacking in variety.
I think a good litmus test for the racial bias question is...
If the same thing had happened - 4 POC evicted at the first opportunity in a row, leaving a completely white household - in BBUK or BBUSA, would there have been a lot of noise made?
Australia likes to think it is a diverse place but denial runs deep.
Can't speak for the later series but generally speaking BBUK, which usually had much better diversity than BBAU, never saw the house end up completely whitewashed. Most seasons had black housemates in the final.
BBUSA infamously had issues last year where they had this great twist on paper that the early evictees wouldn't leave the house but instead remain in the house in a run down "have not" room, which ended up being the white housemates in the nice house and the people of colour effectively ghettoed. There was obvertly racist behaviour from at least two housemates there too, one of whom ended up winning. BBUSA have had an Asian and Latino winner, but don't think they've had a black winner.
Anyway, back to tonights episode and not much to say really as the edit doesn't leave us much to go on. Only thing I really took from it is that Xavier actually has a good handle of the game and know what he's doing and needs to do - or importantly not do. I think Mat does as well. Keiran is not a master strategist at all - he's a lost nobody.
Maybe I am not quite as awake as I thought, I understood nothing, lol
