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Big Brother: Memphis Makes His Move
Commentary by Viking Bear
July 17, 2008
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When it's Julie doing a live show with no safety net, we've learned to not expect much. She is no Jeff Probst at Tribal Council with the luxury of editing 2 hours of Tribal Council down to ten minutes. Julie is just Julie, bless her heart. That said, we had some very interesting hints come our way this evening.
As I type this, I am watching the live feed, and they are sitting down to dinner. As they pray before starting to eat, Keesha sure does remind me of Danielle from Big Brother 8! Thanks to Danielle, I can actually tell the blondes apart! It looks like only 7 are eating together.
The show began with another nod to this year's apparent nostalgia theme. We have the 1950s diner style kitchen, the 1960s bedroom, and so on. Julie announced on the opening episode that, for the first time since Season 3, there are no pre-existing relationships inside the house. Remember last season? Julie said there was one more unannounced relationship, and that immediately turned the house against Sheila. Turns out she was referring to the hamsters. They were brother and sister. So... I have to assume not even the fish or the ants are related to each other. Yeah, right.
Today she announced that they were following the Season 1 custom of having a live audience of Big Brother fanatics outside the Big Brother house. (Hey! I'll be in Hollywood next month! I wonder...!) I like this trend... more on that in a moment. First let me remind Julie that there was more interaction in Season 1. If I remember correctly, the families of the nominated house guests were part of the audience, and there was actual interaction with the audience.
About that trend... I think the casting this season is vastly improved. Last winter was surely the low point of all Big Brother Seasons... but, other than All Stars, it's been following a slippery slope to boredom for years. As I suggested in my previous essay, Game of Pawns, the cast in recent years have been uninteresting, superficial, cookie-cutter copies of each other. That wasn't always the case! Remember Jack the FBI agent? Chicken George? Cowboy, who lost the final vote by snubbing his own sister? Chill Town?
Years ago, the Big Brother that I fell in love with cast real people rather than the modern plastic facimiles. I have great hopes that the producers finally "get it," and we'll have a more interesting season with twists and turns and shifting alliances.
Tonight was about Brian and Memphis.....
VikingBear is a 49 year old technical writer who lives in Minnesota. He became addicted to Survivor when Rupert played the pirate in the Pearl Islands, and now avidly watches the strategy unfold. You can find all of VikingBear's commentaries at OnSurvivor.com.
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