[Patrick]

Got this idea of DrunkerThanMoses and iRyan, one of them mentioned the eye giving an 80's theme to it, and iRyan said the trailer reminds him of 1984.

Think about it..would be the best theme ever.
Right I kept saying how I would love there to be an 80's feel in the house, because of the eye. And as we all know, the 80's were amazing, so you could have loads of neon around the house, 80's pop culture references, cocaine on the shopping list, and famous 80's music being played in as an alarm every morning.

Now to 1984 - obviously what Big Brother is based on, I remember BB7 went for that approach aswell - just briefly in the titles, with 1984 references, the whole emphasis on the eye watching and stuff like that, and we had a short task in BB6 that mirrored 1984. But I always said how I'd love a BB Series that was actually based on that novel, I mean the early series were of course, but no way would we ever get anything like that now.
Infact I bet the producers don't even know the actual origin of the idea of 'Big Brother' anyway.

Imagine if they had a play on that in the house, for example have the house all 80's Themed, the public and housemates would expect it to be a Summer full of 80's stuff, constant fun etc but have twists and tasks based on 1984, maybe make it abit sinister.
Have four big numbers on the garden wall or something, stating '1984' and posters scattered around the house saying 'Big Brother is Watching YOU.'

It would just be irony in a sense, George Orwell wrote that novel in the 40's, with the assumption that the 80's would be like a cold time where goverments where watching you, controling your every move, the destruction of society etc - funny thing is, 2012 is getting more like that every day.

So yeah, base the series on '1984' but go at it from two different perspectives:

1. How the 80's actually were
2. How George Orwell foretold it

It's an interesting little twist, if you think about it. Would make for a fantastic house design, great tasks and twists, and just a decieving theme of the public and housemates expecting Big Brother to be fun - when he'd be more controlling, evil and manipulating as ever.