[JayBlaze]

#Tears4Dexterfans

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by Roy Mars III

Sam had an okay story and was actually funny, they had no way of knowing that he would sleep 20 hours a day

But that's the thing he didn't ,BB prefered to show the showmance and the Hazel and Daley thing,I actually saw the others in bed much more than Sam ,most nights he was in the pool or chatting to others in the garden,but BB were so desperate to get the showmance some of the others were left behind.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Roy Mars III

no surprise there

Wonderful

[Northern Monkey]

There will always be "big characters" in there who just wanna show off on TV wether they win or not.People always want to show off their "talents" and eccentricities to us.They all think they're gonna be the next Jade Goody and make a million.You won't ever get a house full of nice people.BB deliberately select a fair share of idiots to keep us entertained.This is a total non issue.
Edit-Infact this needs its own thread

[Jimrod]

I think people just overestimate the importance of their own views, just because you like someone it doesn't mean everyone else is wrong as seems to be the case in many of these recent threads. ie: "Real fans don't vote for Sympathy Sam" etc. also note that putting derogatory remark before contestant name doesn't win help your argument. (This happens in all anti-Callum/Sam threads constantly but less often with Anti-Dexter ones, says something about the fan type I guess)

Nothing to do with dull vs controversial housemates either - I wanted Aaron to win and I also wanted Sam to win, I, like many rational people who vote on BB (rather than spend all day ranting/promoting/slagging off on forums) choose who to support based on my own opinion rather than having a "type" and getting swept up with hype.

[Pincho Paxton]

a controversial and entertaining housemate has never really won Big Brother

...On Channel 5. And that is because there hasn't been any.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Pincho Paxton

...On Channel 5. And that is because there hasn't been any.

Aaron was and has done

[pcro]

Originally Posted by Roy Mars III

Besides Aaron (and that was mostly due to facebook voting tbh) a controversial and entertaining housemate has never really won Big Brother, at least not in recent years. This is a major problem because if people want to win the 100k they have to play a similar game to what Sam, Luke A, etc have played and remain uncontroversial *cough* boring *cough*. If you were an upcoming housemate with any general knowledge of past shows, you would know this as well. So it is actually smarter for them to play low radar and not cause any conflict/entertainment. This leads to a more boring show, but you can hardly blame the housemates for it since they most likely went on the show to win the money.

Is there any way to fix this problem, or are you happy that a 'good' person usually wins at the end, no matter if they appeared on HL shows an average of 2 mins per episode.

And what does it mean for future seasons when this type of gameplay is rewarded every single year?

Aaron won becasue of vote to save. Without it he would have been out week early on. Luke A made it through because of the particular dynamics of that series plus the vote to save. The complete and utter split in the house between the insiders and outsiders and the public siding overwhelmingly with the outsiders. And, like Gina this year, Deanna wore out her welcome in the late running last year.

Crap ending this year but good series over all. And to be fair, Sam was very nearly out on Friday which would have set up a magnificent ending. In the final, he was aided by the fact that Gina and Dexter votes were split.

The fix is simple. Vote to Save with at least three housemantes up. Its not fool proof. But its a big step.

[Scream]

What's the difference between FB voting and normal voting btw?

[Northern Monkey]

Originally Posted by Scream

What's the difference between FB voting and normal voting btw?

Easier to rig the results with FB voting,Prob why they got rid of it.One big community spamming millions of votes at one person.

[Tregard]

Originally Posted by Scream

What's the difference between FB voting and normal voting btw?

Cheaper, could vote numberous times in one go at a cheaper price.

Did allow people to monopolise the voting, I won't deny that, but it gave Aaron the win so it did good in the end.

[Patrick]

Originally Posted by EyeballPaul

Easier to rig the results with FB voting,Prob why they got rid of it.One big community spamming millions of votes at one person.

Hardly.

Originally Posted by Scream

What's the difference between FB voting and normal voting btw?

Far cheaper, you use to get 7 votes for the price of 1 - it was alot easier, and faster too. It was just better in every way.

[MeMyselfAndI]

Vote to win lines throughout the whole series that carry over? But as well as the usual vote to evict for nominated housemates, so once their evicted tough luck

[pcro]

Originally Posted by Karl

i'd LOVE to see them do the US format for even just a year

Just NO.

That isnt Big Brother. It is Survivor in a House. And it is BEYOND manipulated. BBUK highlight shows is a paragon of reality comapred to what goes on with BBUS or BBCanada.

[uniquedude]

Its been a while but I just saw this thread. I was thinking this. Instead of the usual first nimainations or whatever that usual gets rid of a hated but interesting housemate such as Sallie. Why not there be a 'who is the most boring' poll and that person gets booted first. I think that would be brilliant. Or right at the end the poll is done so that one person gets booted out then that is boring.

[ahopkins]

Make votes to save and nominations to save! It might be boring in the short-term but better results in the long term.