yes! i remember that. That's how Nick's lying came out, he told everyone he's had a wife who died or something.
Nowadays they just twist things to try and make there be as many fights as possible, and get people to have sex. If something isn't going the way they like, they just fix it. The earlier series were much more natural, the producers took their lead from what the contestants were doing, rather than the other way round.
I remember in one series (one of the first 3, i think it was the 2nd) they has this task where they had to break a world record. That was brilliant, and genuinely entertaining to watch!
Nowadays, interesting people just don't apply, i guess - who else can take a whole summer off other than the unemployed, students, and 'promo girls'? What sort of person who has a good job wants to risk that and their reputation on what the show is these days?
They also seem to choose contestants for maximum drama potential, rather than in the first few where they seemed to go much more for people that were representative in some way of the people watching.
Christ, if the people in there *now* are representative (well, i can't speak for this series, but certainly the last 3), stop this ride, i want off.
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Date: 2007-06-15 10:51 am (UTC)Nowadays they just twist things to try and make there be as many fights as possible, and get people to have sex. If something isn't going the way they like, they just fix it. The earlier series were much more natural, the producers took their lead from what the contestants were doing, rather than the other way round.
I remember in one series (one of the first 3, i think it was the 2nd) they has this task where they had to break a world record. That was brilliant, and genuinely entertaining to watch!
Nowadays, interesting people just don't apply, i guess - who else can take a whole summer off other than the unemployed, students, and 'promo girls'? What sort of person who has a good job wants to risk that and their reputation on what the show is these days?
They also seem to choose contestants for maximum drama potential, rather than in the first few where they seemed to go much more for people that were representative in some way of the people watching.
Christ, if the people in there *now* are representative (well, i can't speak for this series, but certainly the last 3), stop this ride, i want off.