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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Thursday, June 28, 2007 - 11:06 pm
a game element called "America's Player." In a nutshell, that contestant will have the chance to win extra sums of money-- but only if they carry out certain actions mandated by viewers via internet or text message voting When I first heard that Boston Rob might be going into the house I was hoping that he would be used to stir things up, act as a saboteur (spelling!) I theorized a paid actor playing a part and not able to be voted out. Instead we now find out that the same general thing is goign to occur. Obviously an actor /actress will need to be the HG picked or this twist will be an immediate bust. I figure it will be Nick as we know he IS an actor. The reason I started this thread is to discuss if this 'one person' working with America's choice is being fair to the other regular HGs. it seems that one person will sure be able to rack up some extra money. IF the special person is rotated thruout the HGs, the entire 'secret' premise falls apart. It seems to me that the Producers will be doing all kinds of game interference and of course it will be blamed on the people who wanted a say. this isnt the kind of 'say' I wanted. I've had a long day, hopefully this post is clear
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Kc103
Member
07-13-2004
| Thursday, June 28, 2007 - 11:19 pm
I'm not sure if I completely understand how this America's Player is going to work. It strictly will be one player for the entire season..or as long as they last in the house? I thought maybe the audience will be able to vote weekly or bi-weekly on a houseguest to have this title. I was thinking maybe when a HG is chosen to do different tasks a stipulation will be that he/she must keep mum about it, even afterwards, in order to keep any prizes that they won (or even didn't earn) to avoid being disqualified from the BB game.
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Rgw825
Member
07-29-2005
| Friday, June 29, 2007 - 3:04 am
Having more than 1 Americas Player would not work. Than it wouldn't be a secret anymore and house guests would start to expect people around them to act weird. Thats unless each house guest was told you are the only one. But i'm sure the last one who was it would figure it out.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Friday, June 29, 2007 - 4:49 am
I pretty much thought I understood what this twist would be about until Julie was on Letterman last night. She said something about even voting whether or not America's Player should have showmance. I can't imagine anybody but an actor being able to do this kind of thing according to our vote. I don't really care if it's fair or not, as long as it's entertaining.
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Greenie
Member
06-13-2007
| Friday, June 29, 2007 - 8:13 am
He IS vunerable to being voted out. He's a regular player just like all the others. This is just an added element to give the viewers the chance to be "a player". I don't see that it's that unfair.
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Cricket
Member
08-05-2002
| Friday, June 29, 2007 - 8:36 am
They should have done this last year when we had Janie. She was/is America's Player.
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Justin42
Member
08-05-2001
| Friday, June 29, 2007 - 8:52 am
This is Big Brother. When did the fact that multiple people 'knowing' the secret, which messes everything up, stop them? Look at the 'secret pairs' in season 6, that lasted what, 3 days? I think it's kind of bogus. I love the idea of a Mole who is on their own to sabotage the house. (The Mole still is one of my fave reality shows of all time. Not the crappy celebrity versions, though) Have them mess up competitions, nominate the wrong people, whatever. Of course it would only work well if BB enforced rules (so that this person could be 'punished' for 'violating rules'). But having someone do pointless "special missions" seems kinda blah. Sometimes I feel like the fans and producers of this show are playing a game of telephone-- the producers are very acutely aware of what's going on on the internet due to the staff (which does scour internet sites) but by the time the messages get to the "higher ups" they're so convoluted and distorted as to be unrecognizable.
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Keyholedan
Member
07-19-2001
| Friday, June 29, 2007 - 8:54 am
From what I have read in another thread, the producers will provide us with a choice of three tasks the AP would have to perform. We then are ask to vote for who should be the AP and which task. Then the chosen AP has a time limit to perform the chosen task and if so win a price money. Then we start all over again the next week. The other HG won't know who is the AP that week or what their task is. They will eventually know that there is such a thing as an AP but not who or what they have to do. So, after some time we might see that if someone is acting strangely, the others might believe that he/she is the AP. But that will only be a guest. The AP won't be allowed to confirm as they would lose the task and thus the price money. That's my understanding of the AP twist.
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Friday, June 29, 2007 - 8:55 am
<waves to Justin>
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Chere
Member
08-10-2005
| Friday, June 29, 2007 - 8:58 am
quote:The biggest twist, however, is a game element called "America's Player." In a nutshell, that contestant will have the chance to win extra sums of money-- but only if they carry out certain actions mandated by viewers via internet or text message voting. Chosen player might be asked to vote somebody out of the house or something more personal, such as flirting with another player. Eye is hoping the twist will give viewers more of a stake in the outcome of the game, in the same way auds who watch "American Idol" get to shape that competition.
Maybe a new America's Player is chosen every week. I can't imagine America's Player would be the same person throughout the season because other hgs would try to single out that person for eviction week after week. We had two seasons of that with Janelle and I'm not looking forward to seeing a third season like that. More than anything I hope this new twist will prevent hgs from forming into two alliances and having a "them against us" mentality that we saw the last two seasons.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Friday, June 29, 2007 - 9:15 am
In re-watching Julie's Letterman appearance, I definitely get the impression only one person is AP, and it's not going to change. When she says "and the other 13 players don't know". http://youtube.com/watch?v=_4G2bT2UBwI
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Justin42
Member
08-05-2001
| Friday, June 29, 2007 - 9:21 am
Naja, you're assuming Julie pays any attention to anything her people tell her about that show she does. ;)
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Cricket
Member
08-05-2002
| Friday, June 29, 2007 - 10:17 am
ROFL, Justin. I was thinking the same thing. Julie reads the cue cards. Nothing sticks. Justin, are you going to have insight into this BB as you've had in the past? ETA: Hi Scooter..I'm glad to be posting with you again. I've been laughing at some of your posts in other threads throughout the year.
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Typingfool
Member
06-07-2006
| Friday, June 29, 2007 - 12:33 pm
CBS's website said that America's Player can be voted out. Which means, the one they selected to be america's player is only america's player as long as they are in the game. Once they are voted out, we no longer have a plyer.
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Typingfool
Member
06-07-2006
| Friday, June 29, 2007 - 12:33 pm
double post sorry
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Friday, June 29, 2007 - 12:50 pm
I think it will only be fun if ONE person is the AP. but is it fair that one person will make extra $$$? I figure that we are just going to vote on Stupid stuff anyways....like a showmance, good grief. It will never be anything too outlandish as that person will promptly be voted out. once the buzzards start circling for a certain HG, there is little that can turn the tide and save the HG from eviction. Like Gerry and the handwashing. Like Michael and his 'handling' of the women Like 'the Don' and his indepth knowledge of the game I think AP has to be an actor. Oh well, we shall know in a week!
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Friday, June 29, 2007 - 6:29 pm
Sunshyne -- you saw Julie on David Letterman last night, right? When she said viewers would choose from 3 things (like a Showmance), I literally groaned out loud! They really should open up the lines to get ideas from the viewers and then choose from there -- we've proven here that we could do a MUCH better job of making this show interesting. 
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Flagg
Member
06-01-2005
| Saturday, June 30, 2007 - 1:24 pm
This is stupid. They had it like "American Idol" the first season and changed it. If they want people to feel more involvement in the show, have the audience vote people out like every single other version of Big Brother in the world.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Saturday, June 30, 2007 - 3:31 pm
But americans are the 'Leaders of the world' therefore must do something different. My sarcasm will be put to the side and truthfully, i think it is about the conflict. The USA wants to orchestrate conflict and this way they can control the situation. The public cant have the control since the Producers wont be able to skew the outcome if the public votes. I dont believe for one moment that no one had a target on Will last season. I think they were talked out of it in the Diary room. You want to work again? give us 'good tv'
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Cricket
Member
08-05-2002
| Saturday, June 30, 2007 - 5:35 pm
Sunshyne, please don't pick on America because of the likes of Alison G. She has bad taste..period. What she thinks is great, is not. It's below average. They lost complete control last year when they let Will/Boogie run the show. I wonder if that's why Arnold finally dropped out. He realized he was a laughingstock.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Sunday, July 01, 2007 - 12:40 am
i was just using sarcasm. No purposeful intent to get TVCH's Ire up although when I reread, it could be taken badly. a few seasons back we had quite a discussion about why the format is diff. in North America. we all agreed that conflict and deceit was the purpose. Same with Survivor.
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Dzzyedge
Member
08-22-2006
| Sunday, July 01, 2007 - 4:15 pm
The thing I don't like about letting us vote HG's out...is what happened before. Home towns and how large they were, really influeneced the game. I personally wouldn't want that to happen again. I think the twist is only going to be as good as the prizes or cash they offer the AP. If they aren't worth it, the person isn't going to want to get voted off. The way the twists have gone in the past, they didn't pan out. Look at the *Prom Queen* thing.....CBS handled that badly.
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Puppypaws
Member
06-09-2007
| Sunday, July 01, 2007 - 7:39 pm
I was wondering if anyone can remember where the web site was that showed some of the bb8 casting interviews ? On that site you could vote for the ones you liked. I'm thinking maybe that is how they picked america's player ???
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Lilfair
Member
07-09-2003
| Sunday, July 01, 2007 - 8:36 pm
WE don't pick AP, tptb have done that. We just pick their task from a list tptb provide us. I don't know. Doesn't sound all that great unless of course the person that is AP is not liked well and voting for an unpleasant task might be fun.
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Lurknomore
Member
07-07-2001
| Sunday, July 01, 2007 - 8:39 pm
If you asked me to come up with a dozen ways they could make BB legitimately more interactive w/the viewers I could come up with at least that many, and they would ALL be both significantly more interesting than this IMHO. I should be used to it by now, yet year in year out I remain stunned at how clueless they are to their fan base, and how they do everything that we have no interest in, from how they cast it, to idiotic twists. I am trying to keep an open mind, but right now my expections about this facat of the BB this year, along with most of it, is at an all time low. I sincerely hope I'm wrong. And from what it sounds like, it doesn't sound at all like what we wanted. But is it cast as we would like? Is there diversity we would like? Is there a theme we would like? What about this sounds like anything the fans would like?? Seriously
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