I'm trying really hard to focus on it. I tried edgicing (apologies to those who do not know what that is, I have discussed it in Survivor and BB threads before, it is essentially analysing edits and mapping them out visually) however there wasn't much to really go off compared to survivor as the edits were mainly the same week after week so I abandoned that idea quite quickly. the last week or two of 2001 were the only weeks I struggled. 2002 I really fair my bias will hinder my enjoyment of it already but I am trying my best. I am up to day 4 and I do love Jess so hopefully she will keep me intrigued. I will say I don't really care about the her and Marty thing at all.
I typically have been watching it of a night time as I go to bed. so around 9ish-10ish PM I'll get into bed and watch until I get tired or force myself to make it to the eviction so go to sleep at around 3am lol (working in hospitality makes this very doable, I AM NOT LOOKING FORWARD TO EVER WORKING 9-5!) so I smash a week or a bit more in a day.
There was an extremely small airlock.
I don't consider the double doors to be an airlock. An airlock means there's a significant space between the house and the actual DR. I'm far from a BBAU historian so I may be wrong but I believe the first real airlock was in the BB4 house
Oh ok, I didn't realise the double doors weren't considered an airlock.
The double doors where meant to provide a layer of soundproofing but it never really worked that well. HM's could easily stand outside and yell in to the DR or stand with their ear against the door and hear inside. Obviously adding more space between the doors made the DR a little more secure.
Obviously those who have just re-watched BB1 will be able to tell us but I think I remember that happening with Sara-Marie listening in on someone.
I mistook the double door as an airlock as well. For BB1 I thought there was a small white room between the DR and kitchen but it may have been the front wall in the DR that housemates spoke to. Watching BB2 it is definitely just a double door with heavy padding on the second one. There was a scene of Katrina in the DR whilst the others set up for her birthday and she could hear them yelling and screaming.
That was something I did notice a few years back when I watched BBUK06 where the DR was literally in the lounge area and housemates would press their ears against the door to try to hear. And it is strange how BBUS went from literally no effort of an airlock to then a long hallway between.
BBUS did have double doors on the original DR. I'm not surprised that they adopted one once they moved... The second house made quite a few improvements over the original. They were also pretty limited with the old house as it was a couple double-wide trailers in the middle of a parking lot.
The 2013 DR was in a small hallway just off the main living space. It might not have had an airlock but I suspect HM's were not allowed near the door if the DR was in use. 2012 the DR seemed separated enough from the main house that an airlock wasn't necessary and like the 2013 DR and the 2014 house while not a traditional airlock the stairs served the same purpose.
The use of an upstairs diary room was something I liked in the later UK seasons. Having the diary room upstairs near the entry/exit made it impossible for housemates to ever hear things said.
Me too. Although having it upstairs also meant the staircase was left exposed so there was no separation between the house and the outside on eviction nights.
