Has Big Brother given up on the Houseguests?
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Has Big Brother given up on the Houseguests?
Tashina | Monday, September 25, 2000 - 09:28 pm  Here's a non Eddie-bashing, non Jamie-bashing thread for you all. For weeks the HGs have been talking about how much fun the last week was going to be and how much was going to go on and how great it would be to be there then. They specifically mentioned that they thought the challenges would get more and more fun. Besides the saba-twa challenge, they seem to have been pretty much ignored since Cass left. Eddie has been talking loudly to non-existant fans on the other side of the wall in hopes of getting some music played, Jamie wanders around asking for more True-False headlines, they all sleep more than they are awake. To me, as a addicted live feed watcher, it's a bit disappointing. It seems like this should be a week of fun and games and maybe a few "well-done and a pat on the back" rewards for making it this far. Why not give us some of the pleasure of seeing them do some things for the first time in 3 months? Give them the fast food meal they've been talking about for days...offer them a night of music (they haven't broken any rules lately), give them SOMETHING fun to do. It's 9:30 and they are all sleeping except Eddie all alone lifting weights. These are all 20-somethings, not old people like they seem lately. Do you think BB just gave up on them? And do you think that's right? What would you have given them to do? [My request for this thread: no bashing of individual HGs, please] |
Gubblebum | Monday, September 25, 2000 - 09:39 pm  have contests that involve $$, for themselves or a charity- ie- mix all cloths together and whoever grabs all theirs first wins give them a pingpong table and have competitions walk around as historical character, acting part and have others guess memorize soliques (sp) (have they ever played charades) give them proejcts to do for charity- give them loaves of bread lucnh meat and have them make hundreds of sandwiches for the homeless sew blankets for sick babies give them used bikes and let them repair them for poor kids- grow flowers put together the ikea furniture (that would be funny) churn their own butter play games where they can't say certain words and if they are got the catcher gets points toward prize |
Katie | Monday, September 25, 2000 - 09:42 pm  I am hoping that tomorrow night they will do something for them. I would love for them to bring some of those burgers and fries they want and play a good movie(Brians Song would be perfect) for them. |
Cubed | Monday, September 25, 2000 - 09:43 pm  You have a valid observation here. I'm typing and listening to Eddie whistle Bolero... What happened to the challenges , both physical and mental? I think that this group of houseguests is very much different from the Europeon ones. When they selected the participants they did not take in full account the cultural differences between Americans and any one else in the world. It is not a typical American pastime to discuss literature or philosophies. Politics is so polarized as to be an unmentionable topic. Religion is personal, private and not up for discussion at all. In Europe it is quite common for teens to discuss topics on a level comparable to a college student in the U.S. They are following an example set by their parents, in their surroundings. The cafe society, the close living quarters, the length of history gives them more fuel and opportunity to exercise their minds. To speak contrary to someone else's beliefs is not breaking some unspoken prime commandent to "melt into the pot". That the hgs do not have emotional spark or engrossing, heated conversation and debate is not personally their fault. It is the result of a living in a short historied country that values similiarties rather than differences. |
Smrtass | Monday, September 25, 2000 - 10:20 pm  They need to give these kids something to do!!!! You'd think with only twentysomethings left, the producers would be able to find some inventive and creative challenges. I like the ideas that Gubblebum had, too. Making sandwiches for the homeless or doing SOMETHING productive and worthwhile would be better than all of this nothingness. They haven't even been singing much today. |
Watweety | Monday, September 25, 2000 - 10:31 pm  Heck I would even watch them play sharades over sleeping... I am beginning to believe that BB has forgot the HG's they must be busy planning for Fridays show?? but it is still no excuse. |
Elisa | Monday, September 25, 2000 - 11:07 pm  I'd like to think that there is some method to BB's maddness but I doubt it. I think after the Saturday show, they had a wrap party and all went home. I reloaded the feeds four times tonight, trying to get the sound to work. I finally realized that they weren't making any sounds. |
Katie | Monday, September 25, 2000 - 11:11 pm  They keep begging for something to do. They ask for challenges. What was BB's response? One hip hop dance while they were sequestered. That is all. |
Novasea | Monday, September 25, 2000 - 11:26 pm  Great Ideas Especially the one about the DJ party, BEFORE Jamie leaves. Maybe she wouldn't even be leaving had they had that earlier (she was opening up, it was her idea for the pool both times... ) Yeah, let them have some music, and other good challanges!
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Whit4you | Monday, September 25, 2000 - 11:28 pm  Well, when I was 20 something - I didn't NEED a "BB" to find something to do. But I think they are all tired and mentally drained at this point. Keep one thing in mind - at this point in their captivity - they are "one wrong move" away from losing 500,000. Why chance it? Sleeping is safe. IF they REALLY wanted to be doing something they could be. We would like them to be performing for us 24/7 but they are people not caged monkeys.Being under a microscope as long as they have been and trying (themselves) to give US something to wach - has been draining. I felt sorry for Eddie earlier when he was trying and trying to get SOMEONE to talk - he feels the internet viewers pain in watching paint dry. If you have noticed he's always talking to the net viewers. Last week and the George issue was draining for all of them - they are tired of performing. I think they will perform for us themselves tommorow if BB doesn't give them options. If not - get the Angels out there and stir things up!! Send a message over when they are IN the yard that says something to the effect of #4 - STAY in the house till the end!! ( BB can not MAKE that person leave!!) "She goes, we go" - that person won't make a dime - deserves to stay the last two days. A mini revolt inside the house. BB ain't gonna bring in the cops - dragging that person out. So #4 should just stay.
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Lancecrossfire | Monday, September 25, 2000 - 11:30 pm  At this point I'm thinking the HGs have some ideas of their own. I'd like BB to ask what they have in mind. If any are reasonable, it would be nice to see BB give them their own challenge. |
Katie | Monday, September 25, 2000 - 11:56 pm  Lance That would be a good idea. (BTW Josh is cleaning the toilet with TP again lol) They are so very bored though. I don't know how many times I have heard them beg for a challenge. I think it might be fun if they did a combination challenge. Everytime they played a song they danced.(He is cleaning the floor with a towel lol) Everytime they heard a bird sound they had to sing until they were told to stop. They could give so many of these and just keep doing them though the day and then give out a prize to the one who did the most. They could give them the option of getting up if they were sleeping or to just keep sleeping. It would show us a lot I think. |
Lancecrossfire | Tuesday, September 26, 2000 - 12:05 am  BB should do what one poster did a couple of days ago. Give them the staff names and have them match it up to the nicknames they've given the BB folks. They would also have to explian why they think the name matches. each would have to fill out the answers by themselves. The reward for most correct would be a dinner or beer or something with the BB staff person of their choice to be paid for by BB. If Eddie wins, the BB staff member gets to call him "slacker" as many times as they want during the course of their evening out. With as much interest that has develpoed with the 4 HGs and the BB staff, this might get their attention for awhile |
Katie | Tuesday, September 26, 2000 - 12:08 am  That would be a good idea. That would be fun, especially if we got to see the story editors too. I would love to match up a face with a nickname. |
Kathyb | Wednesday, September 27, 2000 - 04:36 am  I didn't see it, but read the descriptions of "produce baseball" on the live feeds and it sounded hilarious. I think they could entertain themselves (and us)just fine if they had more props. BB could have sent in a box of stuff every few days and let them make of it what they would - no organized challenge.Like maybe some Nerf games. Or a bunch of cans of Reddi-Whip. A badminton set. The hgs have plenty of imagination in BB, just not much to work with. |
Bbfrick | Sunday, October 01, 2000 - 03:24 pm  According to what I heard, BB gave the final 3 a McDonald's dinner on the final night. I think the reason why BB didn't want to give the guys much music, is because the guys blew their chance for music when Jamie and Josh left the bedroom while sequestered in there to see what a plane read, furthermore they have disobeyed Big Brother orders a few times that week, so they wanted the houseguests to suffer on those consenquences. However, I think Big Brother should of had a few exciting challenges, not these forced discussions that are for sole meanings of ending up on TV (which BB wants us to think that the guys started the talk on their own). |
Lafatme | Sunday, October 01, 2000 - 05:33 pm  it was lunch friday. |
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