MrGaryy
01-06-2009, 05:58 AM
The Ten Biggest BB Moments that never made the highlights
Getting rid of the live feed will prove to be one big mistake.
Why? After all, hardly anyone watches it. Sure, hardly anyone watches county cricket. Hardly anyone visits the House of Commons. But if they didn't exist, then we'd know. ( well, maybe the last one isn't a good example. )
The point is, someone is watching, and if he/she sees something interesting, something different, happening, soon others get to hear about it. Especially if it doesn't make the highlights. How so? Well, consider this:
1. Craig, the loveable scouser. The story of BB1 was straightforward, honest, working class lad takes on devious upper class scoundrel Nasty Nick. Actually, those with a good internet server and who had seen the live footage knew that Craig was part of Nick’s dastardly conspiracies weeks earlier. He only got upset about them when he realised Nick had been conspiring against him as well.
2. Josh wasn’t boring. BB2 only had room for one interesting gay guy, and then role went to Brian Dowling. To make sure he won, BB didn’t show any footage of Brian strolling around telling the others he was going to win. They also cut down on the way Josh jollied things up. The tennis tournament? That was his idea. We’d never have known without the live feed. Dean, who came third, said Josh was the liveliest person in the whole show. Didn't look like it on the highlights
3. Team Handsome. One boring night in BB5, pretty boy Stuart is telling the rest of the gang about his mates and their nickname Team Handsome. Jungle Cat Victor improvises a fantasy about them that leaves everyone in hysterics. Just this clip alone explained why so many of us rated Victor as perhaps the best housemate ever. Never shown.
4. Imogen going to Australia. Okay, it wasn’t the funniest prank anyone ever pulled, but BB persisted in showing Imogen up as the dull Welsh beauty who was as thick as she was beautiful. Live Feed viewers knew different.
5. Grace is the word. If you only saw the highlights you might have thought that Grace was a sourfaced, bitter little madam who didn’t have a good word to say about anyone. Which was true. But the other side of her was her energy. Glyn, for example, didn’t have a bad word to say about her. When people said they wanted to quit, she was the first to tell them to pull their socks up.
6. The sheer dreadfulness of Carole. If she wasn’t whingeing about the state of the bathroom she was moaning about the lack of bread. Instead, BB wanted us to think of her as a loveable old leftie with horrible hair who joined in with da kids.
7. The Kat Conspiracy. She was never part of the Whisper Club, but she did her fair share of Sunday night pre-nominations talking. BB wanted us to think she was all cuddly and cute with her cookies and her quaint way of speaking. There was more to her than that. It wasn't all pretty.
8. The appalling self-pity of Darnell. In the same series, albino rapper Darnell was also one of the faves. But, boy was he boring. Relentlessly morbid, given to long rambling monologues about how tough his life was. We didn’t see much of this. Lucky us, you might say - self-pity isn’t fun. But it’s all part of the true picture of the guy.
9. The Thursday bedtime adventure. From Michelle jumping on top of Stu, to Shabnam jumping into bed with Seany in BB8, there is a grand tradition of people up for eviction, doing something silly on the last night as some crazy desperate attempt to persuade viewers that they are actually interesting people. This seldom makes the highlights, be it naked running around the garden at midnight or smooching in bed, because it’s too naughty for the Friday highlights, which have often been on at 8.30. But live feed viewers know all about it.
10. Rachel takes down Jen and Bex. Last year, Rachel was designated the “Boring One”. Early proof that this wasn’t quite the case were legion. She was one of the few to confront Alex the loudmouth for a start. But she also took down both Jennifer and Rebecca over the Happy House issue. Going into the bedroom alone, with Jen, Bex, Luke and Dale all lolling about, Rachel told them she though their attitude was “pathetic”. This was a critical turning point in the public’s attitude to the Welsh girl. You’d have thought a BB producer would have pounced on it too. How different, how out of character. Wouldn’t that make interesting television? Didn’t make the highlights.
Remember too the things they have tried to cover up, even with the live feed. In BB5, they all knew about the bedsit. In BB7, they all knew about the house next door. Remember how, last year, they stopped mentioning Spitgate a week after it happened. Davina NEVER mentioned it in interviews, with any of them. If Spitgate happens in BB10, at one o’clock on a blazing hot afternoon, producer Sharon Powers could amble onto the set, tell everyone to chill out, and give someone a warning, then hand out some pizzas.
We’d never even know.
Source, NOTW (http://blogs.notw.co.uk/bb/2009/05/the-ten-biggest-bb-moments-that-never-made-the-highlights.html)
aah Team Handsome. Good times. Nice to see a newspaper commenting on the live feed issue also.
Getting rid of the live feed will prove to be one big mistake.
Why? After all, hardly anyone watches it. Sure, hardly anyone watches county cricket. Hardly anyone visits the House of Commons. But if they didn't exist, then we'd know. ( well, maybe the last one isn't a good example. )
The point is, someone is watching, and if he/she sees something interesting, something different, happening, soon others get to hear about it. Especially if it doesn't make the highlights. How so? Well, consider this:
1. Craig, the loveable scouser. The story of BB1 was straightforward, honest, working class lad takes on devious upper class scoundrel Nasty Nick. Actually, those with a good internet server and who had seen the live footage knew that Craig was part of Nick’s dastardly conspiracies weeks earlier. He only got upset about them when he realised Nick had been conspiring against him as well.
2. Josh wasn’t boring. BB2 only had room for one interesting gay guy, and then role went to Brian Dowling. To make sure he won, BB didn’t show any footage of Brian strolling around telling the others he was going to win. They also cut down on the way Josh jollied things up. The tennis tournament? That was his idea. We’d never have known without the live feed. Dean, who came third, said Josh was the liveliest person in the whole show. Didn't look like it on the highlights
3. Team Handsome. One boring night in BB5, pretty boy Stuart is telling the rest of the gang about his mates and their nickname Team Handsome. Jungle Cat Victor improvises a fantasy about them that leaves everyone in hysterics. Just this clip alone explained why so many of us rated Victor as perhaps the best housemate ever. Never shown.
4. Imogen going to Australia. Okay, it wasn’t the funniest prank anyone ever pulled, but BB persisted in showing Imogen up as the dull Welsh beauty who was as thick as she was beautiful. Live Feed viewers knew different.
5. Grace is the word. If you only saw the highlights you might have thought that Grace was a sourfaced, bitter little madam who didn’t have a good word to say about anyone. Which was true. But the other side of her was her energy. Glyn, for example, didn’t have a bad word to say about her. When people said they wanted to quit, she was the first to tell them to pull their socks up.
6. The sheer dreadfulness of Carole. If she wasn’t whingeing about the state of the bathroom she was moaning about the lack of bread. Instead, BB wanted us to think of her as a loveable old leftie with horrible hair who joined in with da kids.
7. The Kat Conspiracy. She was never part of the Whisper Club, but she did her fair share of Sunday night pre-nominations talking. BB wanted us to think she was all cuddly and cute with her cookies and her quaint way of speaking. There was more to her than that. It wasn't all pretty.
8. The appalling self-pity of Darnell. In the same series, albino rapper Darnell was also one of the faves. But, boy was he boring. Relentlessly morbid, given to long rambling monologues about how tough his life was. We didn’t see much of this. Lucky us, you might say - self-pity isn’t fun. But it’s all part of the true picture of the guy.
9. The Thursday bedtime adventure. From Michelle jumping on top of Stu, to Shabnam jumping into bed with Seany in BB8, there is a grand tradition of people up for eviction, doing something silly on the last night as some crazy desperate attempt to persuade viewers that they are actually interesting people. This seldom makes the highlights, be it naked running around the garden at midnight or smooching in bed, because it’s too naughty for the Friday highlights, which have often been on at 8.30. But live feed viewers know all about it.
10. Rachel takes down Jen and Bex. Last year, Rachel was designated the “Boring One”. Early proof that this wasn’t quite the case were legion. She was one of the few to confront Alex the loudmouth for a start. But she also took down both Jennifer and Rebecca over the Happy House issue. Going into the bedroom alone, with Jen, Bex, Luke and Dale all lolling about, Rachel told them she though their attitude was “pathetic”. This was a critical turning point in the public’s attitude to the Welsh girl. You’d have thought a BB producer would have pounced on it too. How different, how out of character. Wouldn’t that make interesting television? Didn’t make the highlights.
Remember too the things they have tried to cover up, even with the live feed. In BB5, they all knew about the bedsit. In BB7, they all knew about the house next door. Remember how, last year, they stopped mentioning Spitgate a week after it happened. Davina NEVER mentioned it in interviews, with any of them. If Spitgate happens in BB10, at one o’clock on a blazing hot afternoon, producer Sharon Powers could amble onto the set, tell everyone to chill out, and give someone a warning, then hand out some pizzas.
We’d never even know.
Source, NOTW (http://blogs.notw.co.uk/bb/2009/05/the-ten-biggest-bb-moments-that-never-made-the-highlights.html)
aah Team Handsome. Good times. Nice to see a newspaper commenting on the live feed issue also.