Why Do People Do These Shows Then?!
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Why Do People Do These Shows Then?!
Wendo | Thursday, August 22, 2002 - 10:10 pm     Listening to Lisa talk to Roddy and how she's worried about losing herself, etc. I ask myself, Why do people do these shows then???!!! Seriously, it's not like they're not aware of reality tv shows. Don't they realize that this isn't some summer vacation, that they're their competing for a half million dollars? They get mad that people talk about it? I mean, HELLO? Why are you there then? Please, I beg someone out there to explain it to me because I just DON'T understand. |
Beagle | Thursday, August 22, 2002 - 10:13 pm     For 500 grand. That's about the only reason anyone would do it, I think.
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Nermal | Thursday, August 22, 2002 - 10:15 pm     Well, in Lisa's case, I don't think she thought this through well or knew what she was getting into or what the game is. She was found just 2 weeks before the game started. She didn't apply. Didn't watch the show. She was recruited by a BB agent who found her working in a local bar. She called him back on an impulse, at a low point in her life. The next thing she knew she was moving in the house. |
Spunky | Thursday, August 22, 2002 - 10:16 pm     Well, I think anyone who has undergone almost two months of that kind of like has the right to have a moment of weakness...the stress must be great. |
Laura11103 | Thursday, August 22, 2002 - 10:17 pm     I ask the same thing.... I know I could never handle being on this, or any other reality show (except for maybe real world).... but big brother is one of the toughest emotionally. I don't think they realize how hard it will be and then it's to late. |
Wcv63 | Thursday, August 22, 2002 - 10:17 pm     It's a matter of feeling like a game has taken over your identity. Because of the sustained nature of this game the stress is overwhelming. |
Bbholden | Thursday, August 22, 2002 - 10:17 pm     Why do they go on these shows? For the money. For 15 minutes of fame. For a chance of being discovered. For the money. They would do commercials for hemmoroids, sell Tampons and condoms and show the world their face doing any number of things, just to be seen. Some will call it their best shot and go back to wherever, USA... an adventure to talk about forever. Some will indeed get noticed. Some will become famous, even if just for 15 minutes. Some will have sex in some porn movie... anything for fame. That's why they are so darn mixed up. rofl |
Cyn | Thursday, August 22, 2002 - 10:18 pm     it's like going for a deep tissue massage and it's hurting to the point that you feel like you are going to scream. sometimes it leaves bruises. you feel beat up. you're thinking, "i came here to feel good." but, it's a process that has to unravel the knots. they go there to be on tv and have fun and get the one out of twelve chance at 500 Gs. once they get there, though, the psychological part wasn't figured into the equation. or, if it was, they hadn't planned on it effecting them. they hadn't planned on watching themselves unravel either. sensory depravation is an intense psychological unraveler to yourself and your flaws and a catalyst to... |
Creampuff | Thursday, August 22, 2002 - 10:19 pm     May I join you Wendo? I would like someone to explain to me as well. They seem to have lost sight of what COULD be waiting for them at the end of the tunnel. Were they not anticipating some mental gymnastics and a tad of anguish in being separated from their loved ones? Gimme a break! |
Wcv63 | Friday, August 23, 2002 - 12:19 am     Anticipating and experiencing are two different things Creampuff. I have felt a loss of self after having my children. I was wife and mother. I missed hearing my given name spoken. I missed having a separate identity even though I loved my life and I loved my children. This game takes over your life and takes over your personality until you start to feel that loss of identity. |
Creampuff | Friday, August 23, 2002 - 01:14 am     Wcv63, I think perhaps my post wasn't clear to you and that possibly we are speaking of different things. You're right. Anticipating and experiencing are different. My point being is that the hgs obviously must have known that they would be facing game playing and would need to wheel and deal, etc. Unless, they were not familiar with the aspects of BB. The second part of my comment had to do with the time element and the fact that they would be sequestered and separated from their families. They must have known prior to the inception of BB3 that they faced being distanced for whatever time it was until they were either evicted from the house or until they won the half million. So, they made their choices and nothing was perpetrated on them.....other than the situations that take place with the other hgs in the BB house. I've gone through the same identity separations that you have. Perhaps even moreso. My motto has always been to do the best you can, with what you have, at any given time. The big thing about this is, IMO, is that there is a super huge prize out there for one of them and the time element has a limit. It's not forever. Maybe I am totally off-base. And after all it is way past my bedtime! |
Wcv63 | Friday, August 23, 2002 - 01:23 am     Oh I'm not saying anything was perpetrated and indeed they do have that big prize in the end. Not to beat a dead horse but it's my only experience with this, sorta like being pregnant. You know it's going to end, you know the rewards will be great, you know the sacrifices are worth it...but you still get to a point where you're tired of being pregnant! I understand your point...truly...I may not be very good at explaining mine. |
Draco | Friday, August 23, 2002 - 07:31 am     When you hear old HGs interviewed it seems that all of them are glad they did the show and have no regrets/would do it over again. Although I'm sure the money and fame is what most of them are after, most of them do not get either and still are happy they did it. It must take courage and a certain strength of character to put your life under a microscope and be judged by the public. |
Wcv63 | Friday, August 23, 2002 - 07:34 am     More courage than I possess Draco that's for sure! |
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