[Merry Mockmas]

Originally Posted by Osjama

So I just finished catching up with bb18 and I absolutely adored it. One of my fave c5 series and it rivals some c4 series. Started off slow but as soon as it found its footing was extremely entertaining and provoked all sorts of emotions for all sorts of characters. But there's one thing I never quite understood when I've read about this before watching.

Why does everyone adore Raph?

Raph was only involved in 4 notable storylines throughout the whole series imo

- Chanelle and Ralph's friendship: the time where I enjoyed seeing Raph most on screen. The bond was cute af and it was nice to see two people from completely different backgrounds coming together.

- Joe vs Raph: lasted for a bit ig but the highlight of it didn't even involve him lmao (Andrew standing up to Joe)

- Pranks: again the highlight of these didn't involve him. The egg prank had the most impact and was the most entertaining and he had no involvement with it. Chanelle and Isabelle's pranks were the better ones, while Ralph's were kinda forced and awkward and never went right, for example in the last few days Raph plays a prank with Chilli powder or smth, the house gets moody, Andrew hides his ducks and Raph gets really pissy.

- pandering finalist edits: nobody likes these

Character wise he's ok I guess. He's sweet enough but I feel like he's quite comparable to charlotte, yet everyone hated her and he placed second? I don't really understand the support for him and why he had such a backing where I feel more people were deserving and had more impact.

In a year that was filled with arguments and Showmances, Raph was kind of a reminder of the good old Ch4 days of a slightly socially awkward guy who was a BB fan who was trying to have fun and enjoy himself, he also tried to play the game in a way that I can respect which is hard to say nowadays on Ch5 BB.

Where as Charlotte didn't really do much other than attack Chanelle and Raph's friendship which I personally didn't like her doing that. Don't get me wrong she wasn't particularly nasty, but she was too biased towards her own clique, and the highlights never showed her doing much which I know wasn't really her fault, but you do have to judge on what you see.

[BBUK-Fan]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

In a year that was filled with arguments and Showmances, Raph was kind of a reminder of the good old Ch4 days of a slightly socially awkward guy who was a BB fan who was trying to have fun and enjoy himself, he also tried to play the game in a way that I can respect which is hard to say nowadays on Ch5 BB.

Where as Charlotte didn't really do much other than attack Chanelle and Raph's friendship which I personally didn't like her doing that. Don't get me wrong she wasn't particularly nasty, but she was too biased towards her own clique, and the highlights never showed her doing much which I know wasn't really her fault, but you do have to judge on what you see.

This is 100% correct