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Originally Posted by y.winter

That's a bit if a defeatist approach. I would like to believe that Jason's winning, for example, had shown that the audience can disagree with C5's "new vibe"...

That makes the assumption that the "change" is purely down to C5 and an agenda. I would counter that, in fact, C5's agenda is simply to cater to the change. The audience is changing... BB is desperately trying to change with them and dragging old fans along for the ride and the effect is fascinating; i.e. Bear winning despite the fact that a large majority of This forum (of long time fans) hate him almost unreasonable amounts.

And WHY do they hate him so much? Is he really as loathsome as they scream? Is he scum? Is he the worst human alive when the world is full of very real sociopaths and "monsters"? No... he's relatively harmless, if slightly immature and mean-spirited. In my opinion, the hatred stems from that very fact that Bear represents a change that many people do not want... And THAT is what they "hate".

For me personally as always I enjoy BB for the psychology, and this show's effect on housemates (Sam, Ricky, Renee, Katie, Frankie and Aubrey standing out especially) has been interesting... But his effect on the public (e.g the forum) has been solid gold. If this series does end up being "the death of BB" (unlikely, as people say that at least once every year) then I'd be fine with that... It will have gone out poetically and closed the loop perfectly.