Like many others who don’t have access to the live feeds, I was anxiously awaiting Tuesday’s episode to see Scott finally flip out and throw his now infamous hissy fit, and like many others, I was horribly disappointed with the way CBS edited out the majority of important details regarding the situation. Did the producers really think no one would notice? They are aware of the live feeds, aren’t they? We know the truth and they know we know the truth; really the only explanation is that they just don’t care.
Could you really blame them too? Considering the fact that for the week of July 7-13, Big Brother’s Tuesday and Wednesday’s episodes finished 15th and 16th overall in the ratings. Friday’s show didn’t even make the top twenty for the week and finished second in its time-slot, losing to a repeat of America’s Funniest Home Videos. I guess they figured that because last Wednesday more people watched a repeat of Law and Order than their show that there’s no point in even trying anymore?
Maybe they gave up before this season even started, that would explain their casting decisions and their yearly rule changes. This year’s idea to make the show better: make the voting process more like Survivor! It’s still months away and already it sucks, but with this group of houseguests, in the end it probably won’t even matter, I think the few viewers this show will have left will just be happy it’s over.
The one personality worth watching is now gone, and those avoiding the spoilers are still not sure why. It’s not for throwing chairs, I can tell you that much. It’s because it was the easy way out, because CBS doesn’t want anything or anyone to spoil their happy little soap opera they’ve got going. Because real people might take the focus and camera time away from their hand-picked pretty people, and so, Tuesday’s ‘shocking moment that will have America talking’ ended up being little more than an afterthought.
Who would have thought that a crappy hair cut could be so exciting and a psychotic pot head with genital warts snapping and diving head first over the edge of sanity could be such a bore? And God forbid you not get the chance to show us the girls talking about how hot the guys are, again. The only exciting thing to happen this year was edited down to practically nothing, a cruel joke after making us sit through 50 minutes of boring crap.
What happened to Big Brother? How and why did it all go horribly wrong? At one time it was one of the greatest things to happen to reality TV, now just two years later it’s battling it out in the ratings and in content with rest of the bottom feeders to see who can be more average.
Congrats Arnie. You win. |
