[Jack_]

Big Brother is about watching a bunch of people live in a secluded house and how they react (BBUK and AUS) and/or the ins and outs of a social and strategic game (BBCA and US). The 'big moments' are just peaks of that, that isn't just what the show is about - there's more to it than that.

So you don't like/don't watch the feeds because you don't get to see their immediate reactions and facial expressions in the first five minutes when a 'big moment happens in a comp or ceremony? That makes no sense to me. Those reactions are what gets shown on the episodes anyway, the hours and hours and hours of fallout and reactions which do often last for a long time after the feeds return are much more important to understanding the shape of the game and are actually better to watch because you know what's really going on day to day. No strategy talks are 'irrelevant', they're all relevant. That's what this entire game is about, not seeing them standing on ice blocks for hours on end. The results are what matters, not the comps. Not the ceremonies themselves. Just the results. The results are what determines the ways the discussions are going to go over the week and naturally you don't see nearly as much as those on the episodes as you do on the feeds.

I already think they work enough in conjunction with each other, I see the episodes as consolidating the stuff I've already learnt from the feeds and seeing the comps and ceremonies that I already know the results to (that doesn't bother me, I would rather know them ten minutes after they're finished than three days - your logic isn't adding up on this one, you want to see the results live but because you can't you'll wait three days rather than just tune in to the feeds to find out a little while after the comp is finished?)

As I've already said I totally get the annoyance at feed downtime, we all wish they could be up constantly as well, no one's denying that. But they aren't and we have to make do with what we're given, why you would starve yourself of basically the entire weeks genuine game progress just so you can find out who won a spelling competition is beyond me. The episodes are almost always unrepresentative of what's actually happened and on the subject of 'big moments', Allison's drunken meltdown before last weeks PoV ceremony as she realised she was about to be backdoored and is the inadvertent reason Arlie was the new target instead was shown on the feeds but wasn't on the episode...so...