BB6, I’ve Got My Eye On You

22 Comments

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   Ashes
   Posted August 1, 2005 at 1:18 pm

   I agree with you about the million dollar secret. I, too, wondered about the sudden shift from “making it to the final 2 undiscovered” to just “making it to the final 2.” The undiscovered part was obliterated by how obvious the partnerships were to everyone (the stupidity of Ivette aside.) But the show created a secret that was easily guessed at, so too bad for them. Telling everyone that a pair making it to the end will get more money is just extra incentive to destroy pairs.

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   callygirl
   Posted August 1, 2005 at 1:26 pm

   This is just too unbelievable so I had to post it. From realityblurred.com:

   On the feeds, Kaysar’s brilliant game play has led to some pretty harsh criticism from fellow houseguest Ivette. Ivette, you’ll recall, was blindsided by both the partner twist and Kaysar’s moves, so she isn’t exactly playing the game with all six of her brain cells. Her anger over his game play apparently led her to compare Iraq-born Kaysar to the world’s most notorious terrorist.

   Talking to April, Ivette said,

   “But didn’t Osama convince some people to fucking kill themselves for the sake of everybody? Well, what’s Kaysar¦”

   At that point, producers pulled the plug on the live feed.

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   GNARKILL
   Posted August 1, 2005 at 1:28 pm

   I think the only thing worse than allowing evicted castmates back in ala Survivor’s outcast debacle in the Pearl Islands would be throwing Lill boyscout uniform and all into the house. God I hate Lill so fucking much.

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   anon
   Posted August 1, 2005 at 1:39 pm

   My theory is that ONLY the evicted houseguests whose partner is still in the house will have a chance to get back in. That way, if both people are gone they are gone for good.

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   runswithscissors
   Posted August 1, 2005 at 1:42 pm

   I am glad you cleared this up for me. I started thinking I imagined the part about keeping the pairs undiscovered until the end. I am glad they changed that, it creates more drama this way.

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   Papercuts!
   Posted August 1, 2005 at 1:42 pm

   I’ve gotta take issue with your griping about them changing the rules, MYL. See, there was another reality show on two years ago where the producers changed the rules WHENEVER THEY WANTED TO. And it made for some quality teevee. Heck, it made for the best reality show of that summer, even.

   I’m talking about Paradise Hotel (or P-Ho for short). Seriously. The producers changed things up whenever they felt like it and it didn’t dilute the suspense in the slightest.

   And now that I think about it, both P-Ho and BB6 featured contestants who would fly into uncontrollable roid rages for no apparent reason…maybe I’m onto something here…

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   redbed
   Posted August 1, 2005 at 1:53 pm

   They’ve let houseguests back into the house before. Didn’t Amy come back in Season 3?

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   Eddiebosox
   Posted August 1, 2005 at 1:56 pm

   Eh, who cares. THey never paid much attention to the rules before. All I care about is seeing shallow people arguw with each other. Its not like Real World has them do actual “jobs” either.

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   madeyoulaugh
   Posted August 1, 2005 at 1:58 pm

   Redbed,

   They brought back Amy into the house in season 3 or 4, and I must admit it enhanced the season trmendously.

   MYL

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    Ed
    Posted August 1, 2005 at 2:00 pm

    I am shocked. Shocked! Someone calls chenanigans on the producers’ manipulations on a reality show? My q is, “What took you so freakin’ long?”

    If an eviction of all things, has no meaning, nothing does.

    Why not introduce a super power of veto to trump the regular POV? How about a secret word for the exit interview with the Bot? If the evictee says the word, they immediately get to return to the house. Maybe we could have the producers declare a “reverse” day. If this was invoked, it would reverse the vote totals.

    As bad as The Apprentice was to begin with, watching Trump not fire Omarosa early on just to get ratings was truly disgusting. BB6 is well on its way to a similar irrelevancy. Most say it’s already there.

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    jack
    Posted August 1, 2005 at 2:44 pm

    callygirl,

    i also saw that piece and about fell out of my chair. you’d think as a latina and a lesbian–two groups that suffer their own fair share of -phobia induced stereotyping–that ivette would be a little more sympathetic, but then again, she is easily the biggest goddamned MORON in BB history. i mean, this bitch makes michael ‘cowboy’ ellis look like a neurosurgeon. i hope who ever she made that crack in front of told her to shove it up her ever-widening ass.

    as for the chenanigans–well, i don’t care what they do as long as there’s lots of bitchy drama to make fun of, but aren’t there laws about changing the rules or rigging outcomes on competitive reality shows? i feel like a few years back somebody sued mark burnett because she thought he rigged her ouster for the sake of ratings.

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    sparky
    Posted August 1, 2005 at 2:55 pm

    From afterellen.com, Ivette’s interview with Marcellas before she went into the house:

    She may describe herself as “lipstick,” but don’t put the word “lesbian” at the end of that sentence. “I just say ‘I like girls,” she tells Marcellas. “I don’t say ‘I’m a lesbian.’ Such a vulgar word. I’d rather someone say ‘she’s gay.’”

    “Such a vulgar word.” She’s so not into vulgarity, that Ivette.

    This also explains why BB6 added that “She’s gay” caption.

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    Dennis
    Posted August 1, 2005 at 4:07 pm

    I’m not overly concerned with changing rules, etc. Thanks to the miracle of cable TV, my partner and I have been enjoying Season 1 of Survivor on OLN (Outdoor Life Network; we’re also watching season 2 of Amazing Race on another channel…).

    On Survivor 1, the taglines in the opening say “The winner will leave the island with $1 million”, but the winner doesn’t win until the live show, not on the island. Survivor is one of the first reality shows (other than Real World) so we have precedent for changing rules, at least.

    If the twist for bringing house guests back is their partner has to still be there, I hope it’s James that goes home this week though I have little faith it won’t be Kaysar.

    Maybe they told the “secret” and the next twist is only bringing back ousted pairs? (That could be fun, even if it means seeing Ashlea again.)

    FYI, I’d like to state for the permanent record that I doubt many in the LGBT community really care to embrace Beau or Ivette. Beau is just boring; he’s still there because he knows how to cut hair. Ivette is just an embarrasment. Her attitude is more like a straight, white, far “Right” christian lady, a Concerned Woman type. Just lesbian and nasty. I pity her partner.

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    goodjobben
    Posted August 1, 2005 at 5:26 pm

    lmao, chenanigans! great post myl, i’m with you 100%, but like ed said, what took you so long? was this just the icing on the cake following summers of abuse and betrayal by the chenbot and the bb crew?

    i’m all for calling chenanigans, though how does one go about doing so? lets do it true bb style and pull keys out of an elaborate box, hold a tournament of champions competing to roll balls down lanes with holes, or just plain taint the compound’s water supply.

    something else i’d like to call shenanigans on is all of the reality shows (survivor is the worst offender) that say the winner will leave with whatever amount of money IN CASH. they never leave with the prize, like dennis mentioned, but especially not in cash. “in cash” sounds cooler than “get a check in 6-8 weeks,” but the latter is always how it is.

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    MishaCantAct
    Posted August 2, 2005 at 6:45 am

    I have another chenanigan to bring up. A few episodes ago, the houseguests had clearly counted the number of seas on the map wrong for the first number to the safe, Big Brother was sure we all knew how dumb the houseguests were with their oversight as they were sure it was 11 (or something like that). They get two more numbers for the safe from the (fixed?) food challenge and they miraculously know the first number to be 17? When did that happen? Did BB step in? Chenanigans at work?

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    Ashes
    Posted August 2, 2005 at 6:58 am

    Dennis, Survivor actually stuck to its tagline that first season, because Rich won on the island. They announced the winner at the final tribal council and then had a live reunion on air. Only after that, when the show was a huge hit and people were working to find out the results ahead of time, did they start making the winner wait until the live finale to find out.

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    floopeygirl
    Posted August 2, 2005 at 7:53 am

    Chenbot prolly had to own up to the pairs ‘secret’ since every one in the house (well except Ivette, but that shouldn’t come as big old surprise) had figured it out. Yeah yeah yeah April & Jen and Ivette & Beau kept denying it, but c’mon .. how dumb do they think their roommates are? Everyone else in the house had a partner except for these conveniently even numbered duos?!

    And Callygirl, you are so right about Ivette!! That girl continues to blather on and on and on and on about shit she has no clue about, and is willing to slam other minorities without realizing that by doing so she is just making herself look even more stupid and ignorant, if that’s even still possible. And just remember, her mouth is as big as her ass has gotten.

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    SoWhat
    Posted August 2, 2005 at 8:02 am

    The contestants understand that the producers can “adjust” the rules at any time, so it’s not a big deal to me. I watch for the drama. I could not tell you who won the past few seasons.

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    tv freak
    Posted August 2, 2005 at 8:47 am

    It would be awesome if America voted 4 who goes back in the house. If so, Vote 4 Ashlea (or Kaysar since he is obviously a goner, unless the golden shower of veto is used)(mad props for Eddiebosox for thinking of the golden shower of veto)

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    sparky
    Posted August 2, 2005 at 9:32 am

    It would be a good twist if the single players were forced to choose new partners from among themselves, so they could have a second chance at the million. Picture a Maggie-Kaysar or Maggie-Janelle alliance. (Yikes.) It worked for Jun…

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    lemoyneken
    Posted August 2, 2005 at 10:04 am

    How’s this for a Summer of Secrets? All of the evicted houseguests are sequestered and the sequestered house is really the Big Brother House? As they all wait to come back, we watch the plotting going on and what they’ll do to so-and-so, when all the while CBS shows us with cameras everywhere the scheming going on. The winner is revealed when all the guests sequestered but the final two are asked to vote for one person to return to the house. They cannot vote for themselves and the person receiving the most votes actually wins Big Brother! CBS couldn’t come up with that original of an idea, but that would be a awesome Summer of Secrets twist! Oh, to dream.

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    TinkerbellAPixie
    Posted August 4, 2005 at 5:24 am

    In response to post #15 – Big Brother did reveal the number of seas to the houseguests. Maybe Les was worried those PB&J sandwiches were getting moldy sitting in the safe.