[Yuki Maru Hoshi]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

Especially his comments towards Jojo would've been borderline on if he would've been allowed to stay in the house tbh.

It was wrong to cast him in the first place knowing he was going to be ejected shortly after because it denied us a proper show. I can see that part being scammy, but it's his own behavior in the end that caused his ejection. Plus he apologized.

His comments to Jojo and saying he would've gone off the rails on her "in the past" was the only red flag needed to say this is probably not worth letting pass if they cared for others feeling safe. But they didn't actually care about any of that I think as they likely wanted to give more rope to get him to breach contract with the benefit of higher ratings.

I don't think it bodes well that the biggest character of the house they could find was such an obvious ejection risk from the start. Really, what is the point of that? Either cast characters production can stand behind that will provide the needed balance, or, if they can't do that without doing a proper show without legal notices and trigger warnings, then maybe it is time to retire the format.

I can't see the hugbox formula working out for the longterm. Even when people clash and we get drama, they are often quick to deny what they actually meant or hide behind whatever comfortable words might spare them a struggle session, since even in the house wording matters enough to shift the competitive to attack whatever might cause even slight offense.

BB has made it really simple to figure out how to play up things with their chronic warnings on wording. It's painful viewing and terribly predictable gameplay. And it takes away potential for us to see the differences play out... Ella or even other HMs could've chewed Mickey out at a later time, it would've been great TV. But BB does all that for them.

Mickey might have been used to being coddled by productions and you could maybe tell by his sheepish apologies, which gave different reasons each time and weren't really reasons as much as they were excuses.