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ProjectWeirdo · 08-02-2008, 10:51 AM

Hey there.

Sorry to be a pain of the butt, but I was just wondering... in loads of posts about how BB9 should be, I've seen people post things lik - 'the format should be completely different, like in BB5.'

I wasn't a Big Brother fan at the time, so I didn't watch any of it. So could somebody please explain to me what this 'format' for BB5 was that made it so great?

Thanks!!

officialleafan · 08-02-2008, 01:05 PM

I think it was more the housemates than the format really. I (personally) prefered Big Brother 7. But Big Brother 5 is my second fav. The housemates were entertaining and everything was different. From BB1-BB4 the house style remaind similar in some ways. (roof was higher, it wasn't as claustrophobic etc). But BB5 introduced the new 'theme', the housemates had hardly any space, it was claustrophobic and it seemed to be a very small space. That's the way i've looked at it.

Jack · 08-02-2008, 01:09 PM

It was the first series where Big Brother had "attitude". It's the best way I can describe it. Before then Big Brother wasn't really seen as the bad guy to them. They just set nice tasks and chatted in the Diary Room, rather pleasant really. In BB5 they were a lot harsher on the housemates. The twists were more evil, the tasks were bigger and better and actually pushed the housemates to their limits. They had to fight for their prize fund in saturday live tasks, they were woken up each morning by an alarm and the house was very small and uncomfortable to live in (e.g. the glass wall in the toilet and no lock on the door). These things sound quite simple and taken for granted now but at the time it was a big step forward.

Captain.Remy · 08-02-2008, 02:15 PM

It instaured the evil theme: nasty tasks, a new kind of twists (secret housemates and secret room) and the most controversial binch of housemates as the transexual etc...
The house plays its part with the smaller so far, no privacy at all.

BB6, BB7 and BB8 have been created from BB5 with secret missions, controversial housemates, the secret rooms (Secret garden, HND, Halfaway House) and the tasks.

ProjectWeirdo · 08-02-2008, 02:18 PM

Awww, it sounds really good... I wish i'd been into Big Brother back then.

Hopefully BB9 will be similar, except with newer ideas... I don't want anymore secret rooms or houses next door. They've gotten boring and predictable.

Captain.Remy · 08-02-2008, 02:21 PM

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Message original : ProjectWeirdo
Awww, it sounds really good... I wish i'd been into Big Brother back then.

Hopefully BB9 will be similar, except with newer ideas... I don't want anymore secret rooms or houses next door. They've gotten boring and predictable.

That's why you read "BB5 has to be the next BB5" because in terms of involvment, it's been such an amazing series and BB needs some fresh new ideas like BB5 did instaure.

ProjectWeirdo · 08-02-2008, 02:24 PM

Hehe, well, fingers crossed.

Seriously, though... they should consider letting some of us on Tibb be the producers and stuff. I've seen a few amazing ideas here...