Jack_
20-06-2013, 12:30 AM
...and what they've done wrong (which is quite a fair bit). I've been meaning to make a thread on this a few days.
I'll first start by commending them at least for trying something different, I'd rather this than another one of their 'let's shove an earpiece in the token fat housemates ear and make them ask to see another housemate's cock'. Whilst I believe it's copied from an international version of Big Brother, it is at least very different from the kind of thing they'd usually do, so for that I was initially pretty impressed.
But they have totally gone the wrong way about it and it has really pissed me off this week. They started off fine (although the suitcase thing was pretty unbelievable really) but they have just shoved him in the other housemates faces too much. What ruined it really was their obsession with letting the other housemates watch him in the diary room...now while that's all very good at stirring stuff up, they have drawn far too much attention to him and made it so obvious. Why they couldn't have just let him take a bit of a backseat I don't know. He's not actually done that bad a job and he has deflected quite a few things this week pretty well until the shoddy production team behind this have only gone and ruined it for him, and that brings me on to the worst part of this all...
If this twist ends on Friday, then what. the. ****. was the point in it? Seriously? They promoted the hell out of '#whatsthesecret' and whilst I know they'll be other secrets and lies twists (and hope there is too), this is the main one and for them to make such a big deal out of it and then end it this early would be a ****ing joke and just another one of their ****ty little twists that ends after a week, what is their problem with being committed to something and actually pulling it off properly?
If it ends on Friday barely any of them are going to be surprised and what do they expect when they've royally ****ed things up this week? It'll be just another one of the standard calling Michael to the diary room, he goes on the plasma and then 'Michael...as you know, you are not a postman, you are an actor...etc etc'...BORING. Their reactions will be 'haha I knew it'. YAWN. How about letting him actually settle in, keeping the Head Housemate title going and giving it to someone else every week for the next few weeks (so he's no longer centre stage) and let him control things in a more discrete manner. We should be getting options like telling him which housemate's stuff to steal and who else to plant it on (i.e. steal Gina's stuff and plant it on Sallie), that'd be much better and a few weeks down the line I don't think they'd suspect him. If they let him become part of the group and stop drawing attention to him their suspicions may fade away. He doesn't have to take over the show either so I'm not buying that argument from some people, there's been plenty of other action this week so it's been a fair balance and that could continue if he stayed.
He should stay till around week 8, and then this is how he should be revealed:
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Just a bit of context...C4 trained a load of people to become astronauts and they believed they actually flew into space but really they were just in a simulator and it was one big hoax and it was kind of like Big Brother in a way, and this is how they revealed it at the end to them.
So in Michael's case, after 8 weeks or so you gather everyone round, call Michael to the diary room and play them a VT of all the instances over the series when the housemates have talked about their being a mole, people being actors (if other housemates names apart from Michael are used include those clips too) etc etc and then at the end play them the creepy VT we got of actor Michael on launch night, all the different tasks he's been asked to do in the diary room, times he's appeared on BOTS, the interviews he did before going in...all that kind of stuff. And THEN watch their reaction when he's become part of the group, formed bonds and friendships with them (tbh he should try and become really close with some of them and then break their hearts when he reveals he's an actor...now THAT is evil Big Brother, not the CBBC version we've had the last few years). You could even have a twist where they announce there's been an actor living amongst them and housemates have to take a vote each on who the actor is and if they get it right the prize fund is doubled, get it wrong and it's halved or something along those lines, idk...just be inventive.
Making it this blatantly obvious and putting so much attention on him this week only to then end it before it's even got going and we've had a chance to see numerous evicted housemate's reactions when they come out and find the truth is going to be so laughably pathetic I can't even put it into words. It won't be exciting, it'll go out with a whimper because 90% of them suspect it anyway. Let him settle in, fade into the background, form bonds and THEN reveal him two months in. Not now. Otherwise the producers of this show really are just useless, incompetent and uninventive.
I'll first start by commending them at least for trying something different, I'd rather this than another one of their 'let's shove an earpiece in the token fat housemates ear and make them ask to see another housemate's cock'. Whilst I believe it's copied from an international version of Big Brother, it is at least very different from the kind of thing they'd usually do, so for that I was initially pretty impressed.
But they have totally gone the wrong way about it and it has really pissed me off this week. They started off fine (although the suitcase thing was pretty unbelievable really) but they have just shoved him in the other housemates faces too much. What ruined it really was their obsession with letting the other housemates watch him in the diary room...now while that's all very good at stirring stuff up, they have drawn far too much attention to him and made it so obvious. Why they couldn't have just let him take a bit of a backseat I don't know. He's not actually done that bad a job and he has deflected quite a few things this week pretty well until the shoddy production team behind this have only gone and ruined it for him, and that brings me on to the worst part of this all...
If this twist ends on Friday, then what. the. ****. was the point in it? Seriously? They promoted the hell out of '#whatsthesecret' and whilst I know they'll be other secrets and lies twists (and hope there is too), this is the main one and for them to make such a big deal out of it and then end it this early would be a ****ing joke and just another one of their ****ty little twists that ends after a week, what is their problem with being committed to something and actually pulling it off properly?
If it ends on Friday barely any of them are going to be surprised and what do they expect when they've royally ****ed things up this week? It'll be just another one of the standard calling Michael to the diary room, he goes on the plasma and then 'Michael...as you know, you are not a postman, you are an actor...etc etc'...BORING. Their reactions will be 'haha I knew it'. YAWN. How about letting him actually settle in, keeping the Head Housemate title going and giving it to someone else every week for the next few weeks (so he's no longer centre stage) and let him control things in a more discrete manner. We should be getting options like telling him which housemate's stuff to steal and who else to plant it on (i.e. steal Gina's stuff and plant it on Sallie), that'd be much better and a few weeks down the line I don't think they'd suspect him. If they let him become part of the group and stop drawing attention to him their suspicions may fade away. He doesn't have to take over the show either so I'm not buying that argument from some people, there's been plenty of other action this week so it's been a fair balance and that could continue if he stayed.
He should stay till around week 8, and then this is how he should be revealed:
34wjPxl1DAE
Just a bit of context...C4 trained a load of people to become astronauts and they believed they actually flew into space but really they were just in a simulator and it was one big hoax and it was kind of like Big Brother in a way, and this is how they revealed it at the end to them.
So in Michael's case, after 8 weeks or so you gather everyone round, call Michael to the diary room and play them a VT of all the instances over the series when the housemates have talked about their being a mole, people being actors (if other housemates names apart from Michael are used include those clips too) etc etc and then at the end play them the creepy VT we got of actor Michael on launch night, all the different tasks he's been asked to do in the diary room, times he's appeared on BOTS, the interviews he did before going in...all that kind of stuff. And THEN watch their reaction when he's become part of the group, formed bonds and friendships with them (tbh he should try and become really close with some of them and then break their hearts when he reveals he's an actor...now THAT is evil Big Brother, not the CBBC version we've had the last few years). You could even have a twist where they announce there's been an actor living amongst them and housemates have to take a vote each on who the actor is and if they get it right the prize fund is doubled, get it wrong and it's halved or something along those lines, idk...just be inventive.
Making it this blatantly obvious and putting so much attention on him this week only to then end it before it's even got going and we've had a chance to see numerous evicted housemate's reactions when they come out and find the truth is going to be so laughably pathetic I can't even put it into words. It won't be exciting, it'll go out with a whimper because 90% of them suspect it anyway. Let him settle in, fade into the background, form bonds and THEN reveal him two months in. Not now. Otherwise the producers of this show really are just useless, incompetent and uninventive.