[Cal.]

Originally Posted by Mariah_Carey

The early series can't be appreciated this long after by watching the highlights shows on youtube.

It's why I don't get how people can watch the show for the first time on youtube. Especially the early years.

Much of the BB viewing experience encompassed the live feed, the spin off shows, watching it live and as it happens, as it unfolds. Seeing the evictee all over the TV, newspapers passing comment on what was happening after they left etc.

So someone coming along who was in nappies at the time it aired, watching a half hour highlights on youtube and saying "It was dull" because it's 16 years old and completely different to what the show is now doesn't really mean much.

As for "overrated" I don't see how so? Where are the legions of people hailing it as the best thing ever?

The highest rated seasons on this site tend to be 6, 7, 10, 13 and ones like that.

Sorry Gramps!

[Mystic Mock]

I only watched a couple of weeks of the series and I remember liking certain things about it but not others as much.

I liked Narinder, I thought that Brian could be amusing, I found Penny amusing and was quite pissed off when she was the first voted off as she was quite crazy.

I also controversially didn't mind Amma, but I know that she didn't seem to be that well liked.

Personally I found Helen and Paul to be quite dull and was only getting footage because of their romance (which fair enough wasn't a Showmance) and I personally couldn't watch Bubble any longer as he really irritated the **** out of me, and I also found Elizabeth to be incredibly dull.

[reece(:]

Narinder, Brian, Amma and Penny were the only ones worth watching

[Cal.]

Oh yeah Amma and Penny were great too.