You can fast forward through a lot of it.
“See, I can move my pecs. Can you move your pecs? You can move your pecs. Look at me moving my pecs. Hey, you can move your pecs too. Pecs pecs pecs.”
I hope America’s houseguest is up for anything we tell him to do.
Can someone please explain the Big Brother draw? I recently left a 3rd shift job, so I’m finally watching prime time tv. Sorry, I don’t understand the big deal about So you Think You can Dance, America’s Got Talent, or Big Brother. (I confess I watched America Idol, because LaKeisha’s a local girl). But can someone explain why this genre is hot right now?
Thanks.
Schadenfreude. We revel in the fact that we’re not stupid enough to go on these shows and some other poor sucker is. This does not hold, btw, for something like Idol or the Amazing Race, which actually require SOME talent and/or skill other than schmoozing or being a ho.
Oh, and DRAMA! Especially for “put a bunch of strangers in a couple thousand square feet for 3 months with not a single other human being” type shows…
Pretty good start, I thought.
The “enemies” twist is kinda lame, though. You’ve got a girl who owes another girl $5 since high school (is that the best they could come up with?), the estranged father and daughter (possibilities) and Joe DramaQueen and his ex. I wasn’t sure which one I was going to favor until JDQ stood up in front of a group of total strangers and screamed “HE GAVE ME GONORRHEA!!!” That kind of blunt honesty deserves a very quick eviction.
Jessica has taken the “most annoying voice in BB history” award away from Diane big time!
The “America’s Puppet” guy was one of the few I liked right away. Hope he stays for awhile.
And let me the first in this thread to proclaim:
EVIL DICK ROCKS!!!
Yes, that’s what I said. I’ll root for anyone in this game who doesn’t look like he/she just stepped out of an Abercrombie and Fitch print ad. And we still don’t know who’s at fault in this estrangement; it could very well be the daughter.
Was it just the dress or does Julie the Robot look a little on the anorexic side this season?
I support the “wait and see” approach to Dick, and I suspect it’s at least a 50/50 situation with the daughter.
I also noticed that Julie Clone looked a little “rode hard and put up wet” in that first installmant. Maybe Les is hard on her? 
You misspelled “second”. 
She did not say that. She said, “I’m not used to being around all these white people”.
That doesn’t make her racist, just sheltered. There are lots of black people who are just as equally provincial, and they’re always the first ones snapped up by reality TV shows.
I was exaggerating, Monstro, drawing a caricature of her just like I was with all the rest of the gang.
I propose that we just have one thread per week, instead of having to begin three different threads every week. So this one would be the Week 1 thread instead of the 7-5 thread. Agreement? Problem?
Jessica bugs. Just. Bugs. And Jen! WTF? That picture wasn’t even close to BAD and she’s going off the deep end like someone had photoshopped her decapitated with a machete or something! And the whole thing about Dick not being allowed to touch them…I mean, he’s not my favorite person in the house, but that whole tirade on Jen’s part was completely stupid. I’ll concede that maybe there was a bit of dirty-old-man interplay we didn’t get shown, but still…
Amber bugs a little bit. She’s a too teary for me, even if I do sympathize with her about her family.
So…the Mrs. Robinson Alliance, eh?
Yes, when the blonde, still-in-high-school-mentality, cartoon-voice girl who looks down on someone for using a curling iron thinks you’re too shallow, it’s time to re-examine your place in life, Jen.
I’m really liking America’s boy less and less and less. On the Showtime feeds, he is an extraordinary yapper, talking ceasely. I think he has trained himself to end his sentences while inhaling so that he doesn’t pause before the next one. He rattles monotonously for fifteen minutes without saying anything coherent. Maybe that’s his “strategy” or whatever, but it is terribly off-putting. And that’s not to mention his stupid nipple rings. That is one affectation that I just cannot understand.
He also whines about everything.
My favorites so far are:
Dick
Nick
Daniele
Dustin
Jameka
Can’t stand:
Jen
Don’t care for:
Joe
Jessica
Amber
Eric
Meh:
Everyone else
As long as Nick and Jameka are still in the game, I’ll keep watching. The rest of them, I don’t even care what order they leave in, as long as they leave. This group is the least interesting so far. They could all be played by mannequins. Not a soul in the group.
Eh. I think it’s too early to tell. It’s only the second ep, after all. It’s WAY too early to be seeing most of their actual personalities…there are just too many people yet. Few of them have had enough screen time to actually become individuals to us.
You could be right. I do seem to have this same basic attitude at the start of each new season. And it does take a few behind-the-scenes encounters and a few exceptional efforts in the challenges before I warm to anybody well enough to pull for them. But this crowd makes it tough. I genuinely dislike all but maybe four of them and that’s giving two of them a break.
Except for Nick, the Alliance Of Four is comedy. The pairs involved in the “enemies sector” are insipid at best. Jen is plastic. What’s left?
As a reality TV junkie that had never watched Big Brother and was really curious. I must say that this show sucks. I am sure I will watch a few more episodes, but I just don’t see myself falling for it.
Explain the draw of it again? For the perspective of someone who is already into reality TV. How is this different or better than the rest? FTR, I liked The Real World, so I am not so far from this.
Well, there’s your problem. You’re looking for someone to like. Realize before you even start that even if you find someone on this show to like, they’re not going to win, or probably even make it to the Final Three. The last three seasons have proved this to me.
And even if you find someone to like, if they do the next All-Stars season you’ll just hate them even worse than you hate the people you hate this season. Trust me. Janelle and whats’ername…Mike Boogie’s patsy, from All-Stars proved that to me.
It’s like a roller-coaster. The first 2 minutes are just a long, boring trip up to the top of the first drop. About the first two weeks of this show are like that. Then, when alliances really start popping out of the woodwork and backs start getting stabbed…that’s the drop. That’s when it gets good.