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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, August 18, 2009 - 12:34 pm
I would definitely be one of the first out here.. felt for the mom and daughter. I understand nominating our of the Core for fear of being a target of the other Core people but I sure don't see sending the Mom and daughter home yet. I'd have wanted them to stay and try for a nice prize at least (and of course from the outside I'd have liked to see them even win, but that wasn't in the cards). The crying, well I'm sure that will happen with other families votes out as well. I sort of hope that the booted families are together at the hotel and get to know each other.. maybe they can return with new friends.
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Trini
Member
07-06-2004
| Wednesday, August 19, 2009 - 11:23 am
The winners each week never give their true reason for putting up a family..remember the very first family to be evicted? The true reason was the dislike for the father who always seem to boast a lot or something like that, it turns out he is not well liked in the neighbourhood. He might truly think he is well liked.
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Trini
Member
07-06-2004
| Wednesday, August 19, 2009 - 11:33 am
..by the way I loved the feeling of the child and the stars and stripes draped around her
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Scribe
Member
08-16-2000
| Wednesday, August 19, 2009 - 4:48 pm
well guess I didnt miss a thing - won'tclog my DVR - ran over BB11 so I dropped this one - no loss - your opinion here was useful!!! Back to BB11.
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Hummingbird
Member
08-21-2002
| Wednesday, August 19, 2009 - 8:47 pm
Could it be possible that this show is staged and staffed with actors? Where could you find a whole block of families who would agree to expose their lives on TV, take weeks off from work, and leave their homes when voted off (for weeks maybe)? Not to mention that they are walled off from the rest of the world with no way to communicate. Can they even get their mail? It just seems fishy.
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Willsfan
Member
09-04-2000
| Wednesday, August 19, 2009 - 11:02 pm
Hummingbird's post brings up some very valid points IMO. I don't know if it is staged. I wonder how many days they were actually behind the wall. They did not explain how these families got groceries, got medicine or paid bills. I may have missed that part. I assume they were provided with every thing they needed. ITA with everyone that said it's not a happy or very entertaining show but I will watch the last few minutes of all the shows just to see which family wins.
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Freetimefinally
Member
01-26-2006
| Thursday, August 20, 2009 - 7:17 am
I don't think it was staged. When the wall was being built there were articles in the local newspaper about the show. How some neighbors were upset with the wall, who would be competing and such. The neighborhood also had a first show watching at hte clubhouse. Non families who participated were at this showing but they knew all of the families.
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Thursday, August 20, 2009 - 12:15 pm
It is more interesting to stare at the wall around the houses than watch the people, the terrible host or any of the "challenges" IMO.
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Cricket
Member
08-05-2002
| Friday, August 21, 2009 - 2:00 pm
I sort of hope that the booted families are together at the hotel and get to know each other.. maybe they can return with new friends. Great point, Seamonkey. I hope they are bonding as well.
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Sammi
Member
03-31-2008
| Monday, August 24, 2009 - 3:44 pm
I guess everybody has given up on this show. Here it is Moday and no remarks at all. Watched it again last night and one of the young girls really cried hard and stated what this GAME is doing to the families involved. She was really upset. She was in the family that won the challenge and were kings of the neighborgood. Can't remember their names tho. The only name I remember are the Nelsons, the family that won the first competition. I have decided that I don't like that head of that family at all. He's very arrogant.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Monday, August 24, 2009 - 3:59 pm
That was the Upshaws that won last night. And yes, they commented a lot on how the neighborhood was changing under the circumstances of the game. I was really proud of the Bussiere dad, for figuring out how to make the expulsion seem like a good thing to his young children. Good dad!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, August 24, 2009 - 5:23 pm
I was pleased to see that, too.. he really protected them and had them prepared.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Monday, August 24, 2009 - 7:09 pm
I had the show on, but haven't found myself drawn into it. Do we know how many more weeks are left? I can really see this turning friends into enemies.
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Countrydaze
Member
11-07-2003
| Monday, August 24, 2009 - 7:52 pm
I agree Sammi, I also do not care for the dad in the Nelson family. It was ok for him to nominate his good friend and neighbor on the first show, but last night he was sure he wasn't going to be nominated because the Upshaw's were his good friends. He is a bit cocky I think. I watch this show and don't know why because I don't like the premise of putting neighbor against neighbor. And Karuuna I also agree with you, I too liked the way the Bussiere dad prepared his kids. Geesh the neighborhood is sure shunning the new comers. Nice way to welcome them to the neighborhood.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Monday, August 24, 2009 - 8:01 pm
There are only 5 families left, so just a few more weeks?
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Tuesday, August 25, 2009 - 5:39 am
I think the show is fine. I also don't find Nellie offensive...consider me the odd girl out.
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Bblover262
Member
08-05-2005
| Tuesday, August 25, 2009 - 11:47 am
I actually like the challenges, they are so real, who hasn't fought over untangling Christmas lights or putting together a complicated surround sound system, but I don't like the way the nominations are done. I think it should be something like the last two to complete a task are up for nomination and then the families vote. That way there wouldn't be so much hard feelings among neighbors.
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Tuesday, August 25, 2009 - 12:30 pm
I don't like the show. I think I only watched the other night because I couldn't find anything else on. (Right now, other than BB, there is nothing I watch regularly.) I really felt for the teen girl crying. I think she is wise to see what is happening. I loved the dad who made it ok for the young kids re: them being kicked out of the neighborhood....positive adventure. I worry about these families and this neighborhood.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Tuesday, August 25, 2009 - 1:27 pm
BBlover, I agree, that would be a much better way of deciding who gets voted on. It's up to you to not be in the bottom two. Or like the Great American Road Trip,the bottom two compete in some other event to determine who goes home. None of this voting off stuff between neighbors. I was also rather surprised at the host at the end when he lectured them for not voting off the strong first, after all there was all that money at stake. Blech.
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Puzzled
Member
08-27-2001
| Tuesday, August 25, 2009 - 2:30 pm
I agree about not voting families off, too.
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Oregonguy
Member
02-12-2006
| Tuesday, August 25, 2009 - 3:43 pm
there was an interview with the first families dad and he stated after a cooling off period that they are all still friends and it has brought them closer with the families that werent considered in the core group. so everything seems fine. didnt like how the host chastised them at the end.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, August 25, 2009 - 3:57 pm
I was surprised at the host blasting them.. he's no Jeff Probst and it was just out of line and jarring. Good to know that they ended up ok.. I do think the bonding at the loser hotel migh have ended up being the best part for some of them.
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Oregonguy
Member
02-12-2006
| Friday, August 28, 2009 - 8:02 pm
read another interview with the dad and mom of the last family that left. same thing had a good time, closer to the other families. also said his young kids probably just as much fun at the hotel as in the game, so no harm there. also they got to go on little trips out of town as well about an hour away from town so they wouldnt be recognized.
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Smokey
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, August 29, 2009 - 10:15 am
I finally watched my recording of this show and still not real attached to it. I just record it and watch when there's nothing else on. I don't like how the core group is acting by going after all the outsider families. It's stupid, and not even good strategy, at all. And, I don't like "Nellie", Mr. Nelson. To me, he seems like a "do as I say, not as I do" kind of guy. He felt it was ok to eliminate someone from the core, yet would be very upset if someone did that to him. In a way, it will be interesting to see the core group have to go after one another. And the host, GEEEESH. He is one of the most annoying hosts I've ever seen.
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Gumby
Member
08-14-2004
| Sunday, August 30, 2009 - 7:18 pm
Very tense show tonight. I think the game is bringing out the worst in everyone. I think some of the families will be okay afterward, but some of them will take it overly personal. It seems the ones who preach "it's only a game" are the same ones who scream the loudest when things don't go their way.
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