[Ammi]

Originally Posted by jet

James is a pompous twat but I guess I'm just tired of coming on here and seeing over half the threads going on about James James James James James did this...did that...over and over and over.
It's reached the point where every little thing he does is picked up on and talked about to death and some of the others behaviour towards Gary is sometimes overlooked or given lip service in the midst of the James hate fest (and I can't blame anyone for hating him by the way, but really!.)
I am more interested in the dynamics of the relationship between Gary and James - why James is fascinated with him yet so frustrated and angry with him etc. and why Gary still hangs out with him, asks him to do some things for him, and tolerates him. I tried to talk about this earlier on in the series but just got the 'James is horrible' stuff. So it's pointless really.

I wish James was up for eviction this week and gone Wednesday because him and his twatness (is that a word?) is dominating the forum and it's personally boring me to distraction. JMO.

..it's a good word and fairly much covers his personality so it's now officially a BB word anyway.....hmmmm, I understand what you're saying..I think BB with the HL shows create much less of a balance than they used to so there is more of a 'villain and victim' type thing/storyline and James in this show is being portrayed as the 'villain' and will endlessly be talked about...?....I don't think Gary is a 'victim' though as such but just being subjected to a general group intolerance thing and being treated meanly, almost as if he's 'less than'/not respected at all as a person..?....I think that might be because there are things about him that are extremely annoying to live with as well which I understand but with someone else, another housemate, they would maybe have been handled with more patience and tolerance because Gary is just not liked or 'popular'...I find that interesting..(and worrying..)..that empathy is lost for someone if it's someone who is quite unpopular..?...


..I'm not sure James is fascinated with Gary, I don't see any interest there in him at all...he isn't interested in anything Gary has to say or any of his thoughts/beliefs etc...I think James has to feel 'important' ..has to prove himself somehow and it's interesting that the two people he has clashed with most in the house are the most 'vulnerable' with Gary and his impairment which causes him to become frustrating to the other housemates..?..so someone James can easily very much feel importance over by 'feeding' the dislike of the other housemates by constantly criticising Gary because he knows his actions and words will have 'popularity' with the others..therefore enforcing his feeling of 'Alpha' by treating Gary badly but yet also being the one to occasionally do things for him, which he constantly then points out so all are aware including Gary himself...

..and then there is also Audley, who is very much an 'Alpha' figure and by his size as well as his personality so James has 'preened his feathers' there and told him quite early on how he's not scared of him......(he will be really otherwise he would be dumb/have you seen the size of Audley...)..but he has to 'prove' outwardly to the others (and viewers..) that he isn't...it's so important for him to be the 'leader'/the Alpha...?...he has to tell us all and the housemates that he's intelligent/top of his game etc a real leader..?......interesting....also very insecure because he's the least comfortable with who he is than any of them I think...also interesting that (I think), he was fine with Kellie until more and more of Kellie's 'male' emerged in her aggression as well...maybe then started seeing her as a challenge to his 'Alpha'...?....

..maybe his relationship with Gary also started the way it did because he originally saw Gary is an Alpha but then it wasn't so, so he became the 'old alpha' that Gary didn't have much respect for but had to throw scraps of kindness to now and again....


..I'm making it up as I go along.....