Some updates:
Week 2: A VIP Cruise on M/S Big Brotherella
The second week’s task was a virtual cruise on
M/S Big Brotherella, a cruise ship where Ville, Eevis, and Helmeri were VIP passengers living in a VIP cabin (extra room) and the other housemates were the crew, with Kristian appointed as the cruise director.
The crew needed to bend backwards to create the most hospitable and entertaining environment for the VIP passengers. Kristian was responsible for planning the shifts, listening to the demands of the VIP passengers, and keeping track of what everyone is doing, and that they're doing it the proper way. The VIP passengers had to enjoy their trip and demand services, such as ŕ la carte restaurant services and live entertainment.
The crew roles at any time were:
- Kristian as the cruise director
- 2 entertainers
- 2 cooks/waiters
- 2 HMs cleaning
- 1 info desk & PA announcements attendant
- 1 HM at the helm
The crew (Kevin and Tarina) entertaining the VIP passengers (Eevis and Ville).
Kristian was excellent in his role as the cruise director and played a comically unctuous cruise host to the VIP guests, noting their every little wish while trying to keep track of his crew, and assign them to suitable tasks, which was very taxing to him.
To get an idea of Kristian’s stress levels during the week, here's
a machine-translated excerpt from the WHATM thread, where Kristian is trying to get some sort of a confirmation of whether or not the rules of the task would allow him to take part in the shifts in his role as the cruise director since one of his crewmen (Anu) had called sick and he was one person short of staff.
The only problem for him was that BB did not give any clear instructions and the task was originally described in a letter which the VIP passenger Ville had received personally, but which he was not allowed to directly show to the others.
There was also a conflict between Jukka and Kristian since VIP passenger Eevis tried to lure Jukka to the VIP cabin to give her some personal night-time massage but Jukka was part of the crew, so Kristian could not let him go.
Kristian as the cruise director, using his fingers as a creative memorizing aid to plan the shifts since he was not allowed access to pen and paper.
Kristian at the end of a hard day on the cruise ship.
The HMs succeeded in the task, likely due to Kristian taking the task so seriously despite of all the difficulties. At the end of each day, he was
so done it's a small miracle he managed to pull it off. The other HMs were mostly really great as well, having to suddenly switch roles whenever the fog horn sounded, and continue whatever some other HM had been doing at the time.
Timo was evicted at the end of the week. He was generally well-liked by the other HMs but they thought he would maybe "need" the house the least. The viewers probably liked Timo, too, but did not see him as the most entertaining housemate. He was one of the older HMs, quite a calm guy, more discussion-oriented than action-oriented, and generally went to bed early, so his screen time in the dailies was limited.
Week 3: BB trolls the HMs
The 3rd week had no task. BB offered the HMs false cues and small fake daily tasks which had no solution, just to mess with their minds. By the end of the week, the majority of the HMs only needed to believe in that they have succeeded in the task to actually succeed in it. (They were asked about this individually in the DR.) The housemates succeeded in the taskless task; only Tuula did not believe in them succeeding in it.
One of the big drama events during this week was Tarina and Kristian having a conflict of opinion over Tarina redoing some of the jigsaw puzzles that had been sent to the house during the week. Kristian thought the already-solved puzzles were important to the task and that they would possibly be penalized for Tarina's action, and that Tarina was not following her own principles about making all important decisions together when she did something like that without consulting the others. The conflict between Tarina and Kristian got so bad the HMs decided to arrange a formal mediation between them, overseed by Kimmo and Eevis in the bedroom, with just the four of them present. Tarina felt that Kristian was attacking her personally, whereas Kristian’s view was that Tarina is overly sensitive and gets offended about various things all too easily.
The housemate to be evicted at the end of this week was
Eevis (Eeva-Leena). My view is this eviction result was primarily because she spent too much time with Jukka during the first couple of weeks and did not have enough interaction with the other HMs.
A big part of Eevis getting evicted was that she and Jukka endangered the 2nd week weekly task by trying to get to sleep together even when separated to different sides (crew & VIP passengers), and continued having sex during the 3rd week every night in the bedroom or bathroom even after BB had specifically ordered them to sleep in the bedroom among the other HMs, instead of spending their nights in the relative privacy of the living room (as they used to during the first couple of weeks.) The other housemates sleeping in the bedroom generally did not want to witness their kissing, petting, and other activity during the night. But although the couple tried to be discreet about it, they did it anyway, and could not remain apart from each other even for a single night. This somewhat impolite behavior irked many of the viewers as well, or at least did not win too many votes for Eevis in the eviction vote, once she was first nominated by the HMs.
Week 4: Outdoor life and pine-cone cows for toys
The 4th week’s weekly task was carried out in the outdoor task area, which had a simulated national park theme. The housemates spent their nights in sleeping bags under an open-air, sloped canopy, made their nature calls in a wooden outhouse (which they actually built themselves during the first week), cooked their food using a spirit burner / alcohol stove kit, and had to furnish 79 kg of four-legged toy animal figurines (cows) made out of of sticks and pine cones by the end of the week.
The HMs succeeded in the task. After getting back into the house, they got a party with Oktoberfest theme and were given enough alcohol to get very, very drunk — which many of them did.
Anu and Helmeri, who had been eyeing up each other even before this week but had not yet done much about it, were both ****-faced in the party, but in a very cutesy way. The other HMs — Mira in particular — egged on them to act on their desires and kiss each other, which they eventually did, after much initial encouragement from the others.
A WHATM report with more pictures
here. See also the other pages of that thread and
the thread from the previous day for more pictures from the party.
The evictee at the end of this week was
Tarina, so the Tarina-Kristian conflict got its closure. Soon after, Kristian told the other HMs he was really relieved about this result; a big weight was lifted from his shoulders. Tarina being offended about anything and everything he says — and on behalf of the other HMs as well — and trying to make them discuss about their feelings, and do communal decisions about every little insignificant thing, was all just really foreign to Kristian. Instead of having lengthy discussions about feelings and demands for apologies and heightened sensitivity, Kristian would have liked Tarina just to come up to him and say something like "Kristian, you ****ing asshole, we have talked about this!" bluntly to his face, and that would have been enough for him to get the message, but Tarina did not want to use this kind of language or communication style even after asked to.
Week 5: Stressing it out
Now we're at the end of week 5. This week's task has involved dividing the housemates into two teams, blue and red, both wearing spandex suits of respective color and smart rings which record their stress, or excitement levels. The task of the blue team was to keep their stress levels below the average and the task of the red team was to keep their stress levels above it. The teams were also switched around mid-week.
The housemates failed at this task, partially because the sponsored wearable ring monitors were maybe recording a bit funny and inconsistent readings. It was not for lack of trying, though:
This week, the HMs were also shown a short movie from last week's Oktoberfest party, titled
Only a Little Kiss:
Rough translation of the conversation:
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0:09
Helmeri (laughing): "Hey, why are you... like that?"
Anu (turning around, confused): "Like... what?"
0:25
After hugging for a while, Helmeri starts breathing more heavily and making some sighing noises:
Anu (amused/confused): "What? Are you laughing... or crying?"
Helmeri: "I'm laughing!"
Anu: "Which one it is?"
Helmeri (smiling): "Laughing."
Anu: "Well, good!"
Helmeri (with laughter): "If I were crying... that would maybe be... somewhat more interesting!"
Anu: "Yeah."
0:47
Helmeri (looking at Anu in the eyes): "Hmm?"
Anu: "Hmm."
Helmeri: "Hmmh."
Anu: "Hmm."
Helmeri: "Hmmh."
Anu: "Hmm."
1:00
Helmeri (very politely): "May I... may I kiss you?"
The couple is kissing.
1:23
After giving a little laughter.
Helmeri: "That was, like, a little kiss."
Anu: "Mmh."
Helmeri: "Only a little kiss..."
Anu: "Yeah."
1:36
Helmeri (pushing Anu away): "Now we got to go... Jukka is waiting for us."
(Jukka went out in the yard to smoke a cigarette and the couple were supposed to follow the suit.)
1:41
Helmeri: "Wha-what do I put on my feet to go? These?"
Helmeri (trying on the slippers): "These are ****ing wet! All wet! All, like, ... Prbrbrbt!"
Helmeri: "Better to go without."
2:15
Helmeri: "I have a horrible headache!"
Anu: "What?"
Helmeri: "A horrible headache!"
Anu: "The same!"
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Here is the official reaction shot video from the "premiere" of
Only a Little Kiss in the BBF house and the official link to the "movie" itself (in case the video clips embedded to these articles are viewable from outside of Finland):
https://www.bigbrother.fi/uutiset/as...aan-jatko-osaa
https://www.bigbrother.fi/uutiset/yl...ieni-pusu-vain
This week,
Jukka,
Mira, and
Tuula are up for eviction. In an unusual twist, the viewers got to nominate the HM they want to save the most each day during the week, until only three of them were left unsaved. A snapshot of the percentages of these intermediate nomination results were shown to the house each day, and the saved HMs were also announced each night.
Normal eviction televote (by the viewers) is in progress now and will close on Sunday.
(There have been some
rumors and speculation about a possible upcoming housemate exchange with another BB production. For instance, some of the HMs have had weird DR visits and have made some veiled comments about something nice/interesting possibly happening. No official word on it yet, and it might be just a misinterpretation of the available cues. We'll see.)