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I forgot how quickly Layla jumped from guy to guy. First she flirted with Josh minimally, then there was a brief storyline between her and Michael. Then of course came her short lived story with George ( I thought she was gold digging until..) and then came Sam.
 
I wonder if Layla’s game plan was to get into a showmance? She didn’t seem too big on strategy but I guess that’s not exactly a complicated approach. I quite liked her, I wouldn’t have thought she made a big impact but looking at her placement I guess she did.
 
jessy_girl said:
I wonder if Layla’s game plan was to get into a showmance? She didn’t seem too big on strategy but I guess that’s not exactly a complicated approach. I quite liked her, I wouldn’t have thought she made a big impact but looking at her placement I guess she did.
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I loved her at the time. I wanted her to win of the final three after Michael was evicted. She was a big character from memory, but so far on the rewatch she is more in the peripheral storylines. Michael, Benjamin, Bradley, Angie, Stacey and occasionally Ray are the big airtime hogs.
 

9:41, the infamous dance battle between Sarah and Ray. I had actually forgotten that 2012 had some fun drama between the housemates. The Angie and Sarah argument (which someone shared not long ago) and now the Ray and Sarah issue. And then you have Estelle being pissed off her birthday was ruined. And then later in the episode, Ryan was humiliated on stage and made to look like he had an IQ in the negatives.

The series is enjoyable, but so far it just really lacks the event feeling the original series had. I was disappointed to be reminded that the evictions from Ryan onward were not recorded live and they made it look like the house and auditorium were connected like in 2008. Which actually had me fooled when I was twelve watching this. The secrets twist wasn't that amazing, I have always hated how it was only a twist that lasted for a fortnight. A lot of the secrets were also uneventful or obvious. George being the millionaire was leaked all over the media, wasn't it?

The two house prank has always had me sort of liking it but also not liking it. It did reveal some parts of personalities between a lot of them, I remember Benjamin taking a stand and declaring there is a second house and everyone had to agree with it. But as if they really thought they'd actually do that.
 
Zcsund1234 said:
I loved her at the time. I wanted her to win of the final three after Michael was evicted. She was a big character from memory, but so far on the rewatch she is more in the peripheral storylines. Michael, Benjamin, Bradley, Angie, Stacey and occasionally Ray are the big airtime hogs.
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I actually think she was my preferred winner of the finalists as well, Ben and estelle were big characters for sure and based on entertainment levels were probably more deserving winners, but ultimately not personalities or behaviour I wanted to reward.
 
jessy_girl said:
I actually think she was my preferred winner of the finalists as well, Ben and estelle were big characters for sure and based on entertainment levels were probably more deserving winners, but ultimately not personalities or behaviour I wanted to reward.
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I really didn’t want Estelle to win. I don’t remember why I disliked her but I really did not want to see her win. I remember seeing her leading the vote to win and being really angry. I was fine with Benjamin winning at the time, but he was never my first option.
 

I watched the most interesting string of episodes I’ve seen I think ever in my watch through so far. Gianna pulls out the nurse outfit again, I just feel awfully bad for her. She clearly believes that she should value herself to the likes of men. Christie was off her fucking face drunk omg. Then Michael on Uncut rubs his dick on Gianna’s back as a joke. Ew that foul I’m glad he got evicted.

Rachael & Vesna enter and holy shit it’s so good. Rachael makes anyone in that house look sane. A mere two minutes she drags Dean about how he’s being faithful to his girlfriend of 2 months. I don’t mind Dean, I will say he his seriously hung though. I’m loving Uncut, especially considering how much of an un-event it was last series. So many great cocks to look at.

They did the tango task and Kate was given the task of hiding dummy heads and Tim was to find out who did it. This really was such a good week of eps. Including Rachael making herself centre of attention just minutes after Michael’s eviction and also pissing off Geneva. I’m seriously invested so far and hope to see more of Vesna.
 
I felt like it was either Team Benjamin or Team Estelle and for me it was kind of neither. I really didn’t like to see someone being excluded and I did feel like Ben really tried to turn people against Estelle, but also it was clear that Estelle, despite being a really nice person, was rubbing people the wrong way and people obviously aren’t obligated to like someone. I found Zoe’s interactions with her the most interesting, I felt she liked Estelle but also liked being in the “cool” group.

Zcsund1234 said:
I really didn’t want Estelle to win. I don’t remember why I disliked her but I really did not want to see her win. I remember seeing her leading the vote to win and being really angry. I was fine with Benjamin winning at the time, but he was never my first option.
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jessy_girl said:
I felt like it was either Team Benjamin or Team Estelle and for me it was kind of neither. I really didn’t like to see someone being excluded and I did feel like Ben really tried to turn people against Estelle, but also it was clear that Estelle, despite being a really nice person, was rubbing people the wrong way and people obviously aren’t obligated to like someone. I found Zoe’s interactions with her the most interesting, I felt she liked Estelle but also liked being in the “cool” group.
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I wanted Michael to win but he fucked that up completely. Zoe was too mediocre and Stacey got evicted the week before so for me I had no choice but to pick Layla. Benjamin was more my back up option as at the time the bullying went over my head. Josh had an extremely good chance at winning had he not had to leave. As long as Bradley didn't win, I was happy in some way.
 
Maybe my memory is hazed by views of him subsequently but I just can't remember anyone wanting Ben to win. He certainly had nowhere near the support Tim had the following year.

Of the winners who won by the biggest margin? I'm guessing Aleisha in BB7 was the closest.
 
Brekkie said:
Maybe my memory is hazed by views of him subsequently but I just can't remember anyone wanting Ben to win. He certainly had nowhere near the support Tim had the following year.

Of the winners who won by the biggest margin? I'm guessing Aleisha in BB7 was the closest.
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For me Benjamin was never a winning candidate. I was always team Layla, Michael or Stacey and anti Estelle. To me watching Benjamin win was a feeling of "Oh okay, not what I thought would happen but I'll take it".

Biggest margin that had been shown to the audience was Reggie winning 72% to Chrissie's 28%. Aleisha's 51% vs Zach's 49% is the closest, but that was heavily manipulated. Jamie and Camilla's 52% vs 48% was really close as well. And before Terri was assisted in her win, she and Rory were separated by only 0.2%.
 
Watching 2004. That Bree eviction/ insertion back into the house was the biggest crock ever in oz BB history.
"oh votes were miscalculated"............. " we have to wait a few days to properly tabulate the votes as some were missing"
Wait a few days? LOL. Normally pretty efficient in counting votes shortly after lines are closed. So if the "lost votes" were found why did it take a few days? They ran a strict timeline of evicting housemates very shortly after votes were closed. Like within minutes.
Why was she thrown back into the house post haste when it still could have been her with the mysterious votes that were not counted in.
Only reason was that they had to throw her back in immediately because of the public perception that she had more exposure to the outside world in waiting for the results and would have prevented the action. Even though she had more exposure and knowledge than any housemate ever as an original housemate already. She claims she saw no nominations (which BB had to loudly announce). You dont think her mates gave her the goings on? Totally an anathema to how the game is to be played.
Just smells all sorts of manipulation to me.
Sloppy accounting? I dont buy it.
Rotten in Denmark to quote shakes.
 
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But on a positive note. I am reminded of how good and heartfelt the early seasons were. Real people interacting. learning about each others lives and broadening their own world view. Its one of my credoes. To listen and learn from all others in all diffrent walks of life. We all live wildly different lives with marked stark different experiences. And we can only learn from it. Stepping briefly into the shoes of another. It can only foster greater tolerance understanding empathy and knowledge to apply to our own lives. Compassion and understanding are grossly underrated tools for a functioning healthy society.
 
Zcsund1234 said:
I wanted Michael to win but he fucked that up completely. Zoe was too mediocre and Stacey got evicted the week before so for me I had no choice but to pick Layla. Benjamin was more my back up option as at the time the bullying went over my head. Josh had an extremely good chance at winning had he not had to leave. As long as Bradley didn't win, I was happy in some way.
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Yes I also wanted Michael to win for a while there, I went off him before the estelle thing though. I don’t love when people are “playing the game” so much. Josh would have been a very underwhelming winner, even if he was generally quite likeable. I like that vote to save did generate less typical winners, well for the first two years anyway.
 
Brekkie said:
Maybe my memory is hazed by views of him subsequently but I just can't remember anyone wanting Ben to win. He certainly had nowhere near the support Tim had the following year.

Of the winners who won by the biggest margin? I'm guessing Aleisha in BB7 was the closest.
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I remember being surprised when some evictees would say they thought Benjamin would win and I mentioned this to a colleague and she was so sure he would win, so I figured I was probably in the minority. Watching it completely independently I wouldn’t have picked him as a likely winner, but he definitely brought a lot to the show. I hated how he played up yo the audience though during nominations, among many other things I disliked.
 
jessy_girl said:
I remember being surprised when some evictees would say they thought Benjamin would win and I mentioned this to a colleague and she was so sure he would win, so I figured I was probably in the minority. Watching it completely independently I wouldn’t have picked him as a likely winner, but he definitely brought a lot to the show. I hated how he played up yo the audience though during nominations, among many other things I disliked.
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When ever I spoke about BB at school everyone hated him, I never looked at Internet forums or anything either, so in my mind Benjamin was never a contender to win. But I guess technically, he didn't, it was the same situation as Terri. I agree on the playing up to the camera, I forgot how much he did it until I started rewatching.
 
The two house prank on the housemates was annoying to me. It looked like most of them hadn't bought it. Angie especially had clued onto it more than others. They all knew that they were going to always be shown content of the other house, and I think it was Angie who brought up that showing 24 people in an episode of a show is too much. There is no way this would actually happen, it would be way too confusing to the audience. Any of them who had seen Big Brother before would also know full well they were in the actual Big Brother house. I did laugh tho when they had to bake a cake and when they received "the other house's" cake, they had the food fight. And then Bradley had to be a fucking stick in the mud and felt bad for the people who made the cake. Yuck.
 
Fuzz said:
" we have to wait a few days to properly tabulate the votes as some were missing"
Wait a few days? LOL. Normally pretty efficient in counting votes shortly after lines are closed. So if the "lost votes" were found why did it take a few days?
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I assume they were awaiting legal advice.
 
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