[Shaun]

"the cast of housemates were so well selected"... it literally had Glyn, Imogen, Mikey, Michael, Jonathan, Jennie, Jayne, Spiral, Lisa, Dawn, Bonnie and George.

As much as I liked some of the above names, they all sucked as housemates and BB7 really isn't anywhere near 5 or 6. I wouldn't even place it third, it's comfortably a worse series than 1, 3, 13 and 18 at least.

I also think Nikki is vastly overrated (and a pretty ghoulish person during BB7), Grace was a one-note bitch, and Pete being the obvious winner from the start removed any sense of it being an interesting competition. And all of this is without touching on the forum's incandescent hatred of Richard and Sezer, and yo-yoing opinions on Lea, Shahbaz and Susie.

I cannot think of a sole reason why BB7 is so beloved that isn't due to outside factors:
- Summer of 2006 was wonderful
- Peak Big Brother (and people becoming celebrities because of Big Brother), so therefore it was easy to talk about with friends
- And from a nostalgic point of view, because of some Nikki Grahame clips that we've all already seen 1000 times