[Mickey2009]

Okay, if you were Big Brother, who would you want to go tonight?

You're the producer. You've got ten characters up for eviction, and there are four weeks left. Instead of running the normal eviction, which would have meant Marcus v Bea v Siavash ( with the latter autmoatically up for refusing to nominate ), which in turn would have almost certainly meant that Bea was going, you cooked the books to save Bea. You put everybody up. Which means you want to save Bea, right? And in saving Bea, you're prepared to lose Lisa. It's the price you pay.

Not necessarily.

That was Tuesday, and two days is a long time in The Big Brother editing suite. Consider the evidence. Last night's show was a masterpiece in editing, and the editing was all about saving Lisa.

First, we had Freddie complacently predicting that Lisa would go. He's usually spot on in his predictions, but this sort of clip is bound to get the Lisa lovers - if there are any - phoning in to save their girl.

Lisa ate the eyeballs. They didn't show everyone in the task, and Lisa is usually the first to give up on them. This time she carried on with the task, and she did it. More votes to save! Then, later when she and David were in the diary room, they were shown saying only nice things about the others. Hardly a fair reflection of Lisa's attitude to Marcus, Freddie and the rest. But there is a reason they showed this.

The point is, it's vote to save, and they want to save Lisa. It's because of the big row with Freddie which was caused, ironically enough, by the eviction announcement. Until then Lisa was more or less a spent force. With only David for company, she'd stopped being the BB baddie. Bea had taken on that role. But now, quite unwittingly, she's back in the game.

The crucial thing, though, is getting shown. Beinazir didn't make the show because of bad stuff or because of good stuff. She just didn't get shown doing any stuff.

Watch the nine o'clock show tonight. Which ever out of Bea, David, and Hira is the one they show the least is the one they want to go.

Although she's now the favourite to go, Bea is still good value. She now knows she's unpopular, and watching her try and claw things back would be good for at least another week. But if she goes, that sends a big message to Freddie that he mustn't be quite so cocky. That too makes good telly.

David is expendable. But given that BB has decided Lisa is staying, she needs her support. Again, keeping David will undermine the the Marcus-Freddie-Siavash powerbase. And he has started to stand up for himself. Again, this is good telly.



The most expendable therefore, sadly, is the lovely Hira. She's led a blameless life, and has powered into the betting. A week ago she was 100-1 to win. Now she's 22-1. If she survives tonight she has a very good and growing chance of winning. BB might even like her to win. To come from nowhere and win on a Rachel-like cloud of niceness would be a good, fairy tale ending to a ragged BB. But if she goes tonight the house dynamics don't really change.

Further, the HMs don't know it's vote to save. Hira going will mystify them. None of them will have thought Hira would be unpopular. BB will like that. On the other hand, if Hira goes, it'll be one of the least watched eviction interviews ever. Who wants to see the unknown housemate being picked apart by Davina and the panel?

I hope it's Bea who goes, leaving a mystified and worried Freddie. It goes against natural justice for David or Hira to go when neither were nominated. And BB seriously wants to save Lisa. Face it, if you were BB, who would you want out that door?

http://blogs.notw.co.uk/bb/2009/08/get-bea-out.html

[charmingmissc]

i would want lisa out

[Blueisthecolour]

He makes some good points there.

It does show how much the editing can change the perception of a housemate.

[Shasown]

If I was BB I would prefer either Hira, Rodrigo or Sophie out, leave the pantomine villains in, if only for entertainment value.

Siavash is left in as a sort of wild card, there is no saying next week he wont pull the same stunt with the nominations, thinking the public will tire of his tricks and evict him.

This in turn gives BB the chance to rake even more money with another vote to save or some other gimmick to increase the amount of revenue taken on the phone lines.

[Mickey2009]

It does make you wonder how Davina is going to go with Hira when she does go. She seems very vunrable if she crys over a little thing like Rod writing a letter to the Queen but then she did show she can cry when asked as BB proved when asked her to cry for them. But then she may have been thinking of the near 6 hours she spent on the cake, i would cry too.

[BB22]

I hope it's Bea who goes, leaving a mystified and worried Freddie. It goes against natural justice for David or Hira to go when neither were nominated. And BB seriously wants to save Lisa. Face it, if you were BB, who would you want out that door?

If it is natural justice this fellow is interested in then he should be hoping Lisa goes. It seems his concern for natural justice only stretches so far.

[=-Incognito-=]

There's some good points there regarding the telly 'goodness', the major downside being the ruin of the show from then-onwards. The problem is that by keeping Lisa and David in sticks us right back to those first five weeks where the characters were systematically put up against eachother to the detriment of the show; forcing BB to intervene. Lisa still has majority power as evidenced by this week's nominations and that needs to be equalised to keep things interesting.

[BB22]

Originally posted by =-Incognito-=
There's some good points there regarding the telly 'goodness', the major downside being the ruin of the show from then-onwards. The problem is that by keeping Lisa and David in sticks us right back to those first five weeks where the characters were systematically put up against eachother to the detriment of the show; forcing BB to intervene. Lisa still has majority power as evidenced by this week's nominations and that needs to be equalised to keep things interesting.

If Bea goes instead of Lisa it could be disastrous. The thought of watching Housemates getting picked off by Lisa's gang... it is just horrible.

*shudders*

[dnt1234]

HOPE BEA GOES. am voting for david, hira and lisa. then beas a goner