Riviere76 | Saturday, September 09, 2000 - 08:11 pm  It appears the nonsense George stirred up this morning in BB house could have been prevented by keeping the show to a 9 week run, as successful shows in Europe. The houseguests are paranoid, and just plain tired. Until today's excitement I'd been bored with the show for a month, and I often see much more (on live feeds) that doesn't reach the TV show.. A 3 month run is just too long, it's letting the HGs fall into isolation, boredom, a faux feeling of group bonding against BB and the very public who tries to root for them and stay interested. Didn't they sign on knowing it's a gameshow to win big money? And they are supposed to entertain us? Lately tuning in, feel I'm watching a show about a painfully polite ice cream social with bad actors, nervous smiles, no juicy conversation between any 2-3 people because BB orders the HG to sleep when they get close to revealing anything serious to each other anyway. In a shorter series format, BB would be much more exciting! A banishment per week as shown on the Survivor show: boom, boom, boom. No time to get a cozy surrogate family bond or lose sight of why they came--for the money.. Two live shows 1 hour each weekly, maybe Wed & Sat, one for nomination info and the other for banishments. Add a couple halfhour weekly shows of footage letting watchers get to know the HGs, and there's a better plan.. When people stay too long in a fantasy this way, it becomes reality to them. It's a disservice to viewers to see boring HGs who have little left to interact about together unless forced, trying to be so 'bonded' and rebel against the very show they were once thrilled to be part of. It's not fair to the HGs to drag things on when they have nothing new to say and need reality so much.. In today's feeds I see George snapped and is taking the other 5 to doom so he won't lose alone. It doesn't sit well with me seeing the HGs trying to wrestle control from BB yet flipflop near daily over a decision to hang in or walk out. It's in their best interests to stay the last few weeks, and for the good of CBS, of course. If the HGs take the chicken way out (they call it dignity) I hope they don't get a penny and deserve nothing, no media attention, no offers, nothing. Just let them walk back into the oblivion they came from.. How this group was casted or passed psych. evals. to get this far in the first place amazes me. I still like all the HG despite minor annoyances or lies I hear from them, but mutiny wasn't anything I'd have expected this late in the game. And it is a game to me. These HGs are hardly Suzanne Somers to complain and refuse to entertain, even if George insists this BB show is a huge megastar hit and walking out would make history. It just shows me they're losers, quitters, wannabes now, minute they walk they're hasbeens. They're just too ignorant to realize how showbiz really works and those with any hope or talent are being led astray by George as I write. That's sad to me.. CBS, if you ever try another BB style reality gameshow, please listen to viewers. Keep it fast and don't let it deteriorate into a snoozefest to both HGs & public. If I wanted to watch "Family Affair" I would. Not seeking drunken brawls or R rated speech or discord, but these HGs prove the longer format is a waste for them, they have 0 trouble letting down CBS and their few fans now. They forget who is responsible for any taste of fame they have, while giving us a taste of shame for them today. Hope your next try is better.. |