Piratesbay | Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 04:58 pm     I was shocked when I was talking to a friend last week at work about BB3. This friend likes the show but she's not a regular viewer. I talked her into it last week, and it was the night before the ep on M showing what a clean fanatic he was (clearly making him out to have OCD about germs). She hated Marcellus after than bit. I had to spend the next 15 minutes talking to her to get her to watch it again and give it another chance. She was totally turned off by how they portrayed him. |
Trulyscrumtious | Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 05:16 pm     The real show is on the internet. What people are seeing on TV barely has a thing to do with what actually occurs inside. Sad really...  |
Hippyt | Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 05:29 pm     I totally agree,sometimes I don't even watch the show on TV! Yet,I always know what's going on in the house. I think without the internet this show would be a big Yawn! |
Reader234 | Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 06:22 pm     definately hard to explain!! But arent most 'addictions' hard to explain? (*eg!) Tried to get my cousin to understand, its all about the net, and the TV just to capture those facial jabs!! She just didnt get it!!! |
Angelbleu | Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 06:37 pm     The only reason I watch it on TV is to see what they said in the DR... |
Maris | Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 06:40 pm     Exactly Angel, that is the only reason I watch the show is to see what is said in the DR. In a lot of the tv show I find myself wanting to yell at the TV show the whole conversation, show it in context, because I had already witnessed the conversation and everything that prompted it. |
Cyn | Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 06:51 pm     i have only seen two tv episodes this year - tonight and the first one. i will watch them some time in the near future as a friend is taping. i was so lucky yr one had me outta the states in a remote area for a few years that never heard of bb, and last year before bb2 same friend gave me every single episode of bb1 and i watched all within 4 wk time period. it ws cool cuz i had no idea who won or anything. it was totally fresh material. needless to say, i was hooked. what i like about the network show is the way that they CREATE the story line. it's interesting and reminds me of gossip. you know, the way the story never gets told completely truthful. |
Nathalia | Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 06:55 pm     The T.V. viewers have no idea they sleep til noontime and take naps at 7 at night. |
Smartypants | Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 07:46 pm     I am SO glad that somebody started this topic. I am really torn right now. I enjoy the live feeds but tend to get disgusted and/or angry at the HG. I find myself saying things like, "I don't like this show this year! These people are lame-o boring-o-rama!!" Then.... I watch the television version and I laugh and actually like the HG. Yikes! If I had only watched the t.v. version I would think that "the couples" were cute and that Josh is actually pretty comical. Can you imagine :-) I'm thinking of seriously giving up my live feed addiction. I like the "happy go feely good smartypants" better than the "screaming at the computer screen smartyalek" Starting to hyperventilate at the thought of no live feeds... better go... |
Azriel | Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 07:56 pm     My brother-in-law and sister were over tonight watching the show. They have only seen the tv show and before tonight I haven't talked to them about what I'm seeing on the net. Right before the show started my brother-in-law said, 'I can't stand that little blond headed girl.' well...you all know I'm an Amy fan and that got me going! I asked him which of the girls on the show did he like the most. Who did he think was the sweetest? Yeah...you guessed it, Chiara. grrrrrrrrrrrr He was pretty angry when I told him some of the things that sweet little Chiara has done and said. He said, 'I thought this was a reality show. I don't like being told that and watching the show and all their advertiser's commercials and then finding out I'm not seeing reality' |
Maryk | Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 08:02 pm     I have friends too who only watch the TV show and they like "cute couples" and hate Amy. Just to show you the difference between internet viewers and TV only viewers. |
Peachie | Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 08:11 pm     We geeks are the only ones that know the whole truth about them all. LOL My coworkers only see the tv version and are shocked when I tell them what I see and hear and know from the live feeds and the posters on this board. This year I enjoy the tv show more so than the live feeds but wouldnt give up reading in here because all of you are so great at telling what is going on. ;o) |
Niceguy | Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 08:17 pm     Newspapers, radio, movies, television and internet. They all are capable of relating an event or story and the immediacy of the feeds just is unparalled in the history of recording human events. Not to get too deep here. Next level: holographic internet streaming. |
Wcv63 | Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 08:21 pm     The editing has always skewered reality to compactly fit all of the houseguests into their preassigned "roles" within the house. Without the bits they are allowing us to see via the feeds (when FOTH is not ruling supreme as so often seems to be the case) truly clues us in to the "real" reality. That's why Big Brother the tv show doesn't make sense without the feeds. Reality is only reality when it accurately reflects the events. Otherwise it's just a soap opera. |
Marcellasfan | Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 09:22 pm     Oh man, I thought the same thing. Cwhora seems like such a sweet girl when we all know she's Satan's bride. And Roddy seems to have fooled everyone with his 'brilliance'. I'm disappointed and just don't know how long I can watch this |
Niceguy | Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 09:33 pm     No, Amy said,"She's Satan's ." |
Pirate | Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 09:34 pm     Like many others here, I watch the TV shows mainly to see what's going on in the DR. And, to see the captions on some of the conversations that are just not clear enough for the LFPs to get. Eric talking in his sleep tonight was quite funny. I don't like the way the editing skews the perseption of the TV viewer. |
Marcellasfan | Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 09:43 pm     Pirate, I was rolling with laughter at Eric's talking in his sleep segment. I'm surprised there isn't a whole thread dedicated to it. |
Penpoint | Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 09:54 pm     Azriel, hope you also told your brother-in-law the things that sweet little Amy has done and said--you know, so he'd get the whole real picture. :-) |
Wcv63 | Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 09:54 pm     Marcellasfan, these Hgs sleep at such odd hours and the sleeptalking is probably FOTHed. |
Marcellasfan | Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 09:59 pm     so true WCv. |
Lurknomore | Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 10:02 pm     I don't know about anyone else but I haven't seen Eric's sleep talking on the feeds at all. Though in fairness I seldom stay tuned to watch them sleep.  |
Azriel | Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 10:05 pm     Pen, I did tell him that Amy was no angel. I don't see Amy as perfect by any means. She has had her catty moments. Doesn't it bother you that the TV show is so unbalanced? Is the Chiara on the TV show really the Chiara you see on the internet? |
Snee | Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 10:15 pm     eric's sleep-talking had me laughing so hard i couldn't breathe and was only making little squeaky sounds! hilarious! |
Duncan | Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 10:15 pm     I had this discussion with my girlfriend over dinner tonight. We watch the TV show together when we can, and I also watch the feeds. I was telling her how comical it was to watch how they made Gerry out on TV as some kind of hyper-intelligent person and they all seemed to have some kind of respect for him, when in truth all they do is tear him to shreds when he isn't around. As we were eating dinner, I didn't mention the foot sandwich, or the hemmeroid discussions they have had. |