Big Brother

[emmelinemay]

I used to love big brother, as you probably know, and over the years it got SO dreadful that i just couldn't watch anymore. Last series was the last straw - it had become an endurance exercise rather than an entertainment. It got to the point where I wasn't watching at all - merely catching up via the big brother LJ community I was on.

It was a great community, we had drama, rows, in depth discussions, stalkers, trolls, meet ups, visits to the eviction, and I know several of the people on my flist would not be here without it. Indirectly, it's how I met Mr Peacock!

But when I reached the point of I FUCKING HATE THIS SHOW IF ONE MORE PERSON MENTIONS J*DE G**DY I WILL COMMIT MURDER, I decided time was time, and I left the community.

I'm not watching this series. I'm quite glad, it sounds HORRENDOUS. All women? My idea of a total nightmare.

But I've had more than 4 people, only one of whom I know in real life, separately tell me that 'the community isn't the same without you' and 'we miss you'.

On the scale of internet sadness, this is right up there, isn't it? I'm an internet saddo. LJ people miss me in an LJ community about Big Brother.

Comments

[gurlesque.livejournal.com]

I was really into the first series, it was really interesting.
I can't remember what other series I saw, other than last years. It's wierd to look back at the clips of the first one and see how like, basic and not-really-a-big-deal it was. The design of the house and everything, was really simple.
The presentation [as in the way BB is talked about and promoted] has changed since the first series and I imagine the reasons that people go into the house have changed a lot.
As for the demographic, I'd guess that the viewers, like the housemates, have got younger over the years...
This is something random that you might remember - in the first BB, did BB set them 'dicussion topics' for group conversations? I have this vague memory that they did, but then haven't seen that in any other BB's.

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

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.