@iJake It's funny you said that about how the HMs aren't following the predetermined narratives. My husband watched the final 30 minutes or so of BB tonight so he saw who got evicted and who Ryan chose to send to the Sanctuary. Then on comes an ad talking about how Lina's dropping a bomb or whatever tomorrow night because she's flirting with Travis. He turns to me and says..."wait how does that work? They're still not going to be in the same place since the footy guy will be in the other place for however many days and she's going in the house. Why are they advertising that?" And I was like, shhh babe... these are questions we no longer ask this year haha
And I'm the same re the evictions. Last year at this time I would've been GUTTED if Tim, Tahan and Jade left. Then a week or two later it was just Tim and Tahan. Then it was Tim, Drew and Tahan. By the end it was Tim, Tahan, Drew and to a lesser extent Jade. The whole time I wanted Tim to win but I was able to fully engage with the ups and downs of the relationships and ever-changing dynamics in the house. This year I'm like you...it's like we're expected to play Where's Wally (I'm not meaning Jake) when it turns out Wally's sipping margaritas in Miami and isn't even in the book.
We shouldn't be having to try to do a puzzle when not only are half the edge pieces missing but 50% of the dodgy middle ones too. You're right... it SHOULD be so simple. I get that they have to try to up the ante each year because we live in a country where not only is overall tv viewership dropping off and BB is an old ass show, but we download more overseas content here than anywhere else. Fair enough... pull every stunt you can think of. But you can still do that and maintain the basics at the same time, even the Ch 9 standard of basics that we'd finally become adjusted to last year. It's not an either/or proposition but this year it seems they've lost the plot and the HMs who would be considered the "misfits" in Tim's vernacular last year are being completely ignored for this stupid teenage shit. When even we can't figure out what day or time it is in the BB house by looking at footage, something is seriously wrong.