Big Brother: Rose Garden Or Road Kill?
Commentary from Big Sister
July 7, 2008
It's so close I can smell it. But not yet close enough for me to decide if I am smelling a rose garden or road kill. Big Brother 10 is less that a week away. Next Sunday night at 8pm we will see thehamsters scurry into the house and the game will begin.
Producer Alison Grodner needs a winner this season. Badly. The last two season's have seen the ratings go down hill and if she wants this show to continue she has got to deliver a winner this season. And maybe, just maybe she will. There are some early indications that she has learned her lesson and has quit trying to manipulate the game for a particular story line. The little birds say she is going old school. Back to what worked in the beginning before Big Brother screwed it all up. Were talking a diverse cast of strangers. All ages. Live audience for the evictions.
But there are also indications that she is playing God again. Oh well.
Here is what we know so far.
There will be 13 hamsters this season. Although we are scheduled to meet them on tomorrow morning's early show we have learned a little about them. They are said to be very diverse, in fact chosen to be opposites. There appears to be a liberal vs. conservative bent to the choices. Not surprising considering we are into the election season. But it smacks of meddling. I will give it some time. Twists are effective but Big Brother gets too heavy handed with them.
Anyway, look for the wealthy and the poor, black and white, male and female, young and old, gay and straight, conservative and liberal. A very diverse group of house guests and that sounds like fun to me. Oh, and the best part of all, nobody knows anybody. That's right, they are strangers, no pre-existing relationships of any kind. Like I said, old school. Back to the basics.
Here's what we have discovered about this season's hamsters. Producer Alison Grodner says
“As far as the cast is concerned, rest assured they are all strangers. We have a wide range of ages this year. There’s young, there’s old, there’s in between, there’s parents, there’s students, there’s people with white collar jobs, blue collar jobs. It’s all very different.”
Sounds good.
We will have a divorced Korean-American tomboy.
A 35 year old gay rodeo cowboy.
A 25 year old who says he is not a bartender. Whatever that means.
A preacher's son, maybe the token virgin.
A 53 year old New Orleans socialite, I wonder how much social life there is in New Orleans now days.
A 24 year old all boys Catholic school teacher, who claims he would have left the country if Hilary became President. I remember Barbara Streisand making the same claim about Bush becoming the Prez. She's still around. I suspect the political leanings could influence the eviction votes....but they could also make for some interesting hidden alliances.
A 31 year old black mother of three who supports Obama. Consider her and the Catholic school teacher in a secret alliance. That would be fascinating.
A 75 year old named Jerry who claims to be the world's biggest Big Brother fan. I like him already.
Of course we have the obligatory blond bimbo. This season it is Kessha who works at Hooters.
Here are the names we have seen:
Renny
Dan
Steven
Michelle
Libra
Jesse or Jessie, 22 and mentioned as a possible first target.
Ollie
Jerry, 75
Memphis
Keesha, 29, The Hooters girl.
Angie
April
Brian
There are a lot of rumors that something will have happened before they enter the house, perhaps in sequester at the hotel prior to the game beginning. Does this mean they will have met each other before entering the house? Or since they actually enter the house a few days prior to the shows premiere will something happen then? Does someone walk out? Does someone get an early eviction? Does the bimbo turn out to have intelligence. Do the conservatives have a a heart? What is it? And will they show us during the first episode or tease us with it?
We'll know more soon and when we do I'll pass it on. In the meantime get yourself signed up for the live feeds. Got to pay the bills and every time some one signs up I get a pizza. Life can be good.
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