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Originally Posted by DouglasS
Paras didn’t do any manipulation or have any control the whole game. She was a coaster not a floater - she wasn’t targeted because she was seen as pathetic and everyone saw her game. She arguably manipulated Mandy - a person with no power, no control and someone even worse than her at the game!
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Originally Posted by Pro Sniper
Listen, Paras and Will are incomparable as HG's......other than the fact they made it deep into the game from non-powerful positions. Floater/coaster, whatever, Will played the game in a care-free manner and used only his charm and personality to win the 1st and almost another. He wasn't in 50,000 alliances. He wasn't in the DR or having cam chats every second telling the world he was "running the house", deciding who left..and at what stage. He simply gave an honest representation of his unspectacular, yet effective strategy. He had a ton of fun taking the piss out of everyone and it was enjoyable watching him do it. His overall character is colossal compared to pipsqueak Paras. That's why nobody has any real issue with him being called 'one of the greats'. He pioneered the floater role in a way that is unlikely to be topped. This is proof enough that it isn't necessarily about which game-style you're playing, but more about how well you play that style, and how true you are to it. From her ultimate floating position, Paras veered miles away from her true path and headed straight for delusion-ville. She enjoyed the comfort of floating..but wanted badly to be viewed as some sort of "power player" who was "calling the shots". EMBARRASSING.
If I were a HG I'd make it my mission to target every player in the mould of Paras. The type who are heavily reliant on getting a piggyback deep into the game. I'd make sure every weak player was gone before the strong started taking shots at each other. I'd recruit a group(calling it Floater Crushers) of like minded people to target these weasels. There'd be no free passages for floating trash on my watch. That way, if and when I made the f2 and the result went against me, it wouldn't be so difficult to swallow,, given a) an opponent of similar worth would be crowned. b) it wouldn't likely be a heavily biased vote against me just because I wasn't as "nice to all the faces"
There really should be a softcore and a HARDCORE version of this game. That way wimps like Paras and bitter jurors could stink up the softcore version..while the HARDCORE version could feature players like Erica, Kaela etc.. players who would play hard and vote true. #NO BABIES.
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To be clear, I wasn't defending Paras (frankly I couldn't care less who won this dire season), I was just taking issue with the implication that winning zero comps
in general means someone wouldn't deserve to win Big Brother
The bit in red is pertinent because this season has seen a resurgence of houseguests and fans alike not understanding the difference between coasters and floaters. Which one Paras was is neither here nor there to me, just so long as people understand there is a difference! And that floating is a perfectly legitimate strategy that has been used effectively by people like Will, Jun and Andy
And I certainly wasn't trying to compare Dr Will to Paras either (NO ONE will ever come close)