[Lostie!]

I feel exactly the same.

I have no problem with Marcus, I just think C5 overuse him. He used to be the narrator, now he introduces the host, does the eviction countdown and does the eviction message thing too. And it makes no sense, it should be Big Brother telling the housemate to leave.

I loved how it used to be done in a cold, emotionless voice. The way Marcus booms into the house strips away so much atmosphere from the eviction. His narration is getting over-the-top, too, complete with one-liners sometimes. I stopped watching BB14 around Week 5, but saw some of that Nemesis task in Week 7, and just remember Marcus doing some (I assume intentionally) comical commentary, in the style of a wrestling announcer. I really don't think it's needed.

BB, please have Marcus go back to just doing simple narration and stop trying to fix things that aren't broken for the sake of changing things.

But, you know what? Even though the instances of OTT narration irritate me, I'd be able to still handle it just fine if they went back to having one of the various BB voices doing the eviction announcement. It might seem like a simple thing, but it makes a world of difference to the atmosphere of the evictions for me.

But in general, I think they've stripped atmosphere from evictions nowadays. There's too much production involved now, with the music, the explosion noises, etc. Less is more.