Len_Brennan |
21-07-2009 10:40 PM |
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Originally posted by RCW1945
Marcus has been more entertaining than all the others put together.
He is also the first HM in 10 years to recognise how the game works and challenge some of the basic assumptions, but not opt out.
By the way, I don't particularly LIKE him.
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That's pretty much how I feel about him also. Unbelievable & unjustified self confidence in so many competitive situations and yet he's an insecure little boy much of the time despite his 35 years (no hearing aids though).
He's very funny & very watchable when it's not all about Noirin. No arguements, he's downright dodgy when he wanders into that territory. However, I do believe he wants to be around her & hold/hug/kiss/massage etc. her out of genuine feelings of love (or what can be regarded as love in the house after a few weeks) rather than some sort of pervy desire. His comments to Sophie & other sexist remarks are not appropriate, and come across very badly when broadcast. I just wonder if he has any idea that it is offensive to some or if any of the housemates have challenged him on it? Surely Kris, or Sophie herself, should have called him on it when he referred to her as "Tit bird" and asked him not to do it again?
He will be a legend to me in there for two major reasons though.
1. He was the first to spot Lisa for what she is, a selfish bully - when she berated the guys for trading a token for beer and said that she was going to use one for herself, despite the fact that about 6 others hadn't looked to use the first token either. He then stood up to her in the bedroom when she had a go at Freddie - again the first to do so. She had to back off because she knew he had her number, but of course she started to turn her gang against him then.
2. How he responded to Big Brother when they suggested at possible rascism against Sree. He was brilliant and cut BB to shreads like nobody else has before. John McCririck may think he was the first & only one to take on BB & win - well he can stick his bottle of coca cola up his ass, because Marcus was the man, in a potentially dreadful situation (I do believe that he could have been painted as a rascist had he not stood up for himself there) to take them on & deal with the very real issue of when over-political correctness makes a mockery of everything it is supposed to represent. I doff my cap to him for that.
He is still a ridiculous characature of a man, with some very questionable views, but he has been great tv in a house full of quite boring and/or more nasty types. Keep him in there.
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