Is it too late to delete my post where I said Pauline was winner material?
Two weeks in there are now clearly two tribes in the house, which I like to call "the rationals" and "the psychos". You can probably tell who fits into which tribe. Actually there is kind of a smaller third tribe too called "the oblivious" which only consists of Danielle, Winston and possibly Marlon. It's no surprise that when the housemates were asked to vote for the next power HM each of them only voted within their own tribe - Toya was the most voted within the psychos and Kimberley most voted in the rationals (according to my count). Ashleigh is the psychos' intern and will be joining the dark side fully very soon.
Kimberly is my favourite in the house because she's quite level headed and is truly doing her best to get through the sheer amount of egotism and tenacity the rest of the house is throwing. For the most part she's also avoiding getting caught up in many unnecessary dramas. Considering how out of line Helen was to discuss showergate, Kimberley handled herself exceedingly well. If I was Kimberley I would have flipped a table and gone napalm.
Helen is completely Cruella Deville and the queen of the psycho tribe but there's something about the way she conducts her bitching in a Bold and the Beautiful / Dynasty sense that makes you love watching her and crave more of her smokey snake tongue. But I must throw some constructive feedback to Channel 5 - when her and Ash start drunkenly having a lovers' banter PLOISE provide subtitles. Along with their cryptic accents they start mumbling themselves to Hades and I can't understand a damn thing.
Toya is... well.... she makes me want to paint a new coat on my acrylic nails and scratch the bitch's eyes out. She is the asbestos of the house, causing malignancy wherever she treads. She's the type of person who boldly declares they TELL IT LIKE IT IS and WILL SAY IT TO YOUR FACE which translates to I'M ADDICTED TO DRAMA. Can she go 15 minutes without telling some one off? I just don't know.
At first I was really hoping that Kimberley would be given a power trip but it became obvious within seconds that in this round the power trip is a curse, and therefore I'm glad Toya got it. In the first week I was really liking Matthew but we've since seen he is malleable to the larger personalities and will easily jump between tribes.
I don't loik it.
On the production side of things it feels very bipolar - Much of the show fits in the swish "cool calm and collected" persona of BBUK but there are times where it gets super cheesy, ie. the "VOTING LINES FROZEN" bit. I haven't watched BBUK in a few years so it's the first time I've seen it, but man that part is just awful. Apart from that cringe moment the production of the live shows is A+. I wish BBAU would employ a lot of the creative camera work that goes into the UK live shows. And this seems like a small thing but having a split screen 2 x 2 boxes of the nominated HMs awaiting to hear the eviction results was a very nice touch.
BBAU should also give housemates as much alcohol as BBUK does.
And finally, I think BBUK may have provided a quote that beats my current forum signature:
Jale to Winston: "Are you saying you used your vomit as lubricant?"
