[Mokka]

Canadian too, and while I can agree that BBUS Season 6 was good, it has really been all down hill from there.
I far Far FAR prefer UK over US. US has become too predictable with alliances from day one setting the stage for the outcome every time.
What I like best about UK is the people's vote ( that I wish I could be apart of b/c if I had Harry would not have left), the not discussing nominations (which didn't apply this year), and the after shows. The only thing US beats UK in is challenges are more intense.
One last note, with UK I am addicted from the beginning, but once it gets down too the final 5, it becomes boring. With US, I can usually skip the first half of the season and still get everything I need from it for entertainment out of the last 1/3 b/c that's when it ramps up.

[Liberty4eva]

Originally Posted by Mokkajava

Canadian too, and while I can agree that BBUS Season 6 was good, it has really been all down hill from there.
I far Far FAR prefer UK over US. US has become too predictable with alliances from day one setting the stage for the outcome every time.
What I like best about UK is the people's vote ( that I wish I could be apart of b/c if I had Harry would not have left), the not discussing nominations (which didn't apply this year), and the after shows. The only thing US beats UK in is challenges are more intense.
One last note, with UK I am addicted from the beginning, but once it gets down too the final 5, it becomes boring. With US, I can usually skip the first half of the season and still get everything I need from it for entertainment out of the last 1/3 b/c that's when it ramps up.

The only season that I would call too predictable was season 12 with the brigade. Last year there were no close votes. This season there were many close votes and there was more fighting. Who could have predicted Shelly would backstab her favorite houseguest ever, Jeff? Who could have predicted she would vote for Rachel to win Big Brother and be the swing vote to do so? Rachel making it to the final 2 is almost a miracle.

[Mokka]

Originally Posted by Liberty4eva

The only season that I would call too predictable was season 12 with the brigade. Last year there were no close votes. This season there were many close votes and there was more fighting. Who could have predicted Shelly would backstab her favorite houseguest ever, Jeff? Who could have predicted she would vote for Rachel to win Big Brother and be the swing vote to do so? Rachel making it to the final 2 is almost a miracle.

Shelly backstabbing = predictable. Did you not see her in the diary room and how sneakily she played the "double agent" to make it look like she was helping someone other than her self

Rachel winning = predictable, since BB practically manipulated the whole game to make it happen. (Brendon coming back, pandora's box). No miracle here, just great production.

All of the events were apart of the BBUS cookie cutter show

[Liberty4eva]

Originally Posted by Mokkajava

Shelly backstabbing = predictable. Did you not see her in the diary room and how sneakily she played the "double agent" to make it look like she was helping someone other than her self

Rachel winning = predictable, since BB practically manipulated the whole game to make it happen. (Brendon coming back, pandora's box). No miracle here, just great production.

All of the events were apart of the BBUS cookie cutter show

NO ONE could have predicted Shelly would put her key in for Rachel, especially after the nasty goodbye message Rachel left her. Unless you're going to speculate that BB forced her to do that or bribed her, you'll have to back off your claim that Rachel winning was predictable. NO ONE could have predicted Jeff would have thrown his clown shoe out of the box resulting in his own eviction. If Jeff had won that POV (which it seemed set up for) then Rachel would have been the one to go. The only key juncture in the game where I may agree with you was Pandora's Box. Yet Rachel still would have won POV, and her ally Jordan would have needed just one vote (Kalia's or Shelly's) to stay in the game. Kalia had a deal with Jordan the entire game that they wouldn't vote each other out and Shelly may have decided to keep Jordan, her favorite HG ever, and evict Adam, whose loyalties were suspect. Jordan still probably would have left but it wasn't a done deal at all.

They weren't planning on bringing Brendon back because they kept the other houseguests in sequester so they were planning on bringing back an evicted HG the whole time. Jeff and Jordan fans voted Brendon back in because he was an ally of Jeff and they knew he was a bigger target than Jeff.

[Macie Lightfoot]

Originally Posted by Liberty4eva

They weren't planning on bringing Brendon back because they kept the other houseguests in sequester so they were planning on bringing back an evicted HG the whole time. Jeff and Jordan fans voted Brendon back in because he was an ally of Jeff and they knew he was a bigger target than Jeff.

When the America's Choice is usually Week 3 and it gets pushed back to Week 4 this year, obviously it was to bring a veteran back into the game.