On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:21:10 GMT, "Brian Smith"
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> offered us these thoughts:
>"David / Amicus" <Amicus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>news:4226-48161DAE-840@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Get back to the format of the first season!
>
>No freakin' way!!! That season sucked because of letting viewers vote.
BB8
>was impacted because of America's Player and the only thing that saved it
>was that Eric was a great player and they had a good cast. If viewers
voted
>this season it's possible Sheila might have won (assuming no couples at
>all). That would have killed the show. Baller would have been gone first
>week because most people are too quick to judge and we would have missed
out
>on one of the more entertaining HGs BB has given us.
>
>Brian
Tastes will differ. I've seen four seasons in the original format
{including non-BBUS} and eight seasons in the HOH/etc. adaptation. I
enjoyed each of those four seasons more than any of the eight. By
half way through BBUS6, I was getting so bored with the show, that if
I hadn't gone online about it, no doubt I'd have stopped watching BB
altogether.
But I realize there is something in the American psyche that seems to
believe conflict is virtually THE source of viewing interest. Hence
the American rewrite of the BB idea into Survivor and then
conflict-engendering HOH/etc. format. So the majority wins, as it
were, and Americans watch something that is "Big Brother" more in name
than in practice. I'm not on a "crusade to counter" here; that's the
way it goes.
Still I feel it is a false comparison, to put the original BB format
side-by-side with last season's American Player concept. That was a
probably well-intentioned but ill-advised attempt to make the public
an active participant in the game -- a contestant, as it were. This
is quite a different matter than voting for an eviction.
Also it is impossible to say who would have been evicted first/early
this season, had the public voted. In the original format, evictions
are a willy-nilly collaboration between the house folks and the
public. If the house doesn't nominate someone, the public cannot vote
out that person. At the same time, the house cannot guarantee a
single person's eviction {i.e. back-door}, because the public has the
final say.
My impression is, the original format is at least as equitable a way
of tossing someone as the American adaptation. And on the whole, the
lame players seem to go early more often in the original format. I
suspect Sheila would have left some six weeks earlier than she did
here. But it's really hard to tell. It's a variation on the
question, "What would reality be, if reality wasn't what it is?"
--
Bob
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