How can us internet nerds take back some of the power we had last year in affecting the show?
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How can us internet nerds take back some of the power we had last year in affecting the show?
Niceguy | Saturday, August 09, 2003 - 10:38 pm     This may seem like wishful thinking or nostalgia but it seemed that we(meaning BB internet fans)had a little bit more pull, clout, juice in affecting the house. I'm thinking specifically of the Chiara code and how that got into the regular news media. Perhaps its the casting of these people who seem like ciphers. Its like I don't believe they are what they say they are in real life. I'm just not buying Jack as an F.B.I. agent. I'm not buying Erika is a Pilates instructor. Dana seemed sorta real but who knows. The whole Scott drama, its looking fishy from here. |
Wendo | Saturday, August 09, 2003 - 11:16 pm     "How can us internet nerds take back some of the power we had last year in affecting the show?" Ummm, nothing probably. Barring that, stop watching. Personally, this year, we just don't have as lively a batch of hamsters as years passed. They all can't be hit out of the park, as they say. |
Xarph | Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 12:34 am     We would have to care enough about this mind numbing cast to want to bother to mess with the show. |
Nexell2 | Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 12:43 am     The Scott episode seemed very staged to me also, almost like a shocking season opener to catch the viewers interest. I didn't buy it. At one point it look like he was trying to remember writen lines. I also thought it was too convenient that there was 13 hg's, then Scott went into his act and there was the regular 12. It all seemed very strange. |
Sunshyne4u | Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 12:51 am     LOL Mr Niceguy. I am not buying some of the HGs "occupations" as well. Erika may teach Pilates occly but she is an actress who has done commercials and had an agent prior to coming into the house. Somewhere in the Live Feeds she was telling someone how a producer friend brought her into this show. Justin was recruited by producers as well while he was 'in a bar' in town.....Gee I wonder which bar??? Nathan wants to get more seriously into acting/ modelling and has his sights set on doing a "soap" when he gets out. What most people would like is BigBrother going back to what it was supposed to be, 12 ordinary strangers in a house competeing for money....not a showcase for up and coming talent!! In Canada we have the Lofters for that kind of nonsense. U8TV I thought was going to be a Canadian version of BB but it isnt. |
Realtvfan | Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 01:04 am     To me, the Scott episode represented planning by the producers, but not a staged event. My guess was that the Psychs told the producers that Scott would not be able to handle the pressures of the show. The producers wanted 5 sets of ex's and Scott brought the added interest of a meltdown. The producers planned for the Scott meltdown by preloading 13 instead of 12 in the house. The Psychs were correct. Amanda's first week nomination caused Scott consternation. Whola. My guess is based on the producers telling the HGs that Scott cost them a week's pay. That was not true. The show schedule for the fall season of a major network is not predicated on one HG leaving early. Most of the younger house guests were so immature and so full of themselves, the producers figured they would easily be believed about the HGs having so much power over a network. In BB2 there was the week with 5 HGs in late August that there was no nomination to cover for Justin's removal. There was preseason football on Thursday and Saturday that week. That was how the producers hid the extra week for Justin. The producers could have easily "added" a one-time twist of 2 evictions in one week if Scott had stayed. |
Livinnafishbowl | Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 08:01 am     Erika was also a salsa dancer in "Dance With Me" http://movies.go.com/filmography/Filmography?person_id=433689 |
Costacat | Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 02:51 pm     Quit watching? FWIW, David (on an interview I heard on the radio last week), said that the chair throwing incident was totally a joke. He was KIDDING when he said "come and get me." And the girls, who walked in and pretended to be scared, were high-fiving each other around the corner and saying "he's SO out of here now!" I can't speak as to whether the producers had a hand in any of this, but there were some suspicions that the girls faked being so scared to ensure Scott would be "expelled." David just confirmed what *I* had suspected all along. FWIW, and this is also discussed ad nauseum in another thread... Erika *is* a Pilates instructor. However, she doesn't have enough clients to make enough money on which to live, and so she also tends bar. CBS chose to show her occupation as a Pilates instructor only. She *is* one, just not a full-time instructor. |
Cliotheleo | Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 11:55 pm     Costa, Robert used humor to excuse his behaviour other times as well. That same night, he grabbed one of the chess pieces and made some remark about wanting to throw them (or something) and Jack encouraged him to calm down (the incident made it onto the show.) I think that was Robert's way of covering his butt when he got caught "I didn't REALLY mean to act psycho, I was just kidding! hardy har!" I don't think he was kidding, just trying to placate everyone into thinking he was so they wouldn't be mad at him. But I'll agree, the girls over acted a LOT. |
Costacat | Monday, August 11, 2003 - 06:43 am     Clio, I know you meant *Scott* (not Robert). |
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