is it just me or should this show be renamed The Whining, Wailing, Gnashing of Teeth, Fuck You, Get Outta Here Crap-tactular?
This is what you bastards have ben watching for the last half of a year? I think I’ll continue to skip Survivor.
I’ve seen about ten minutes of it in totl while channel hopping. I have a theory - to help me prove it, tell me ChiefScott (& any others) do you like soap operas? (other than the sdmb one of course!) & do you like big brother/survivor/whatever it is called in your country?
I don’t & I find the programme bores me. Everyone that I know that likes it seems to be an avid soap fan, so they are used to following the trivia of other people’s lives.
That Survivor show… Isn’t there one called Castaway? And Shipwrecked? And Stranded? And Lost in the woods? And I’m stuck in a hole? And Waah, I’ve fallen and I can’t get up?
For the record, Survivor is infinately more amusing then Big Brother. The people on Survivor are backstabbing, bloodthirst sons of bitches. The people on Big Brother are apparently all from Wisconsin. (oooooh, yaaaaaa.) Doesn’t make for good drama.
I watch them both.
I now find conventional tv boring. I want REALITY TV!
I’m embarrassingly hooked on Survivor. However, after watching glimpses of Big Brother, I was embarrassed for the hostess and participants. Since it’s live and not able to be edited, they can’t just show us the interesting parts and move on. Instead we get to see the mundane. And, let’s face it, if we wanted mundane, we’d turn off the tube and sit on our front porch.
Nah, for mundane, we come here. 
Survivor’s a lot more interesting than Big Brother. Big Brother is too similiar to Mtv’s The Real World. I watched part of Big Brother last night for the first time and I have a question… what’s up with that chick’s green hair?
Pointless too!
Do these schmucky schlubs win anything if they don’t get evicted?
And what’s the deal with the ostrisized (? Not worried about tracking down a dictionary) member caling back to the house to lament her fate?
Atta girl…me too.
However, I’m ashamed to admitt that I’ve been watching ABC’s"Making the Band" It’s on tonight.
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Hi…my name is Jimmy and I have a problem with REALITY TV.
OUCH! Don’t forget though, Sue (from Survivor) is from Wisconsin.
Otherwise, I agree with you. Survivor is much better than Big Brother.
That Julie Chen is one of the devil’s minions, I am sure of it!
She is EVIL!
And most of Big Brother is edited and compiled for the daily half hour show, only the hour long weekly one is live. I know it isnt wildly exciting, but there is an illicit thrill to watch them, and they dont know for sure if they are on camera at the time. Like Josh rubbing his nipple in the bathroom - YOWSA!
I cant beleive Jimmy watches ‘Making the Band’. Oh my god!
tee hee…
Oh my lord jimmy, tell me it isnt true! you used to be so, so…cool!
Big Brother is painfully boring most of the time, mainly because these dimwits never actually DO anything. The “challenges” the producers have set up are so asenine, and completely antithetical to good television.
Ride a stationary bike for 1000 miles in a week? Is that supposed to be interesting? Whoo boy, after that excitement, I think we all need about five minutes worth of someone washing their face!
You know you’re in trouble when the most exciting thing you have broadcast in the six weeks you’ve been on the air is a bunch of dominoes falling over.
Survivor!, on the other hand, really is compelling. Since all the footage was in the can long before they started broadcasting it, they have been able to manipulate the audience by creating actual “characters” out of the participants. We’ve got the cranky old man, the redneck, the arrogant naked fat guy, etc. We, as an audience used to identifying performances in simple terms due to our overexposure to fiction film and television, can be pulled into the drama, develop rooting interests in the characters, and so forth.
Big Brother, which for the most part is undistilled bilge water sucked up from these people’s daily lives, offers us just a boring collage of conversations we wouldn’t bother to take part in if we were in the room at the time.
Big Brother is mind-numbingly awful, but you MUST read the hilarious summing-up of each episode on http://www.salon.com—makes watching the show worthwhile!
Stupid dashes. Try http://www.salon.com
Big Brother, the people are ordinary, very. Brittanny & her touchy feeling stuff, come on, major upchuck. Josh playing all the girls & he has a girlfriend outside who has to watch him do that touchy feely with Brit, major upchuck.
I can either watch Big Brother or put my finger way to the back of my throat to induce vomiting.
They have the same effect except one takes much less time out of my busy day…
I can not believe how incredibly boring this show is! I couldnt even watch 2 minutes of it, it is so dull!
Can anyone honestly say that they enjoy watching this show?
Actually (as I’ve mentioned before), my wife and I enjoy “Big Brother” to some degree. Not because the people are inherently interesting, or because the challenges are compelling, but because the whole scenario is so freakin’ sadistic, much more so than “Survivor.” Yes, the stuff they do on that tropical island is difficult, and they have to cope with rain and cold and rats and stuff, but that’s all superficial; you don’t have to re-examine yourself to succeed.
The torment on “Big Brother” is much more existential, as the participants are basically laid bare as human beings, their motives and methods and very identities put beneath the microscope. Yes, it’s quite a bit more esoteric than “Survivor,” which is much more accessible because of the very manipulation several posters above have decried, but if you’re a student of human nature, “Big Brother” is more interesting.
On one show, for example, they all randomly drew the name of another housemate, and they had to pretend to be that person. Sounds kind of obvious, I know, but after just a couple of minutes it became obvious what a cruel activity it really was. They all got to see themselves pilloried and satirized, and they couldn’t do anything about it, since they had to keep up their own act. The feedback loop was fascinating, as they all got meaner and meaner about making fun of who they were playing.
Like I said, though, it’s not as easy to get into, and it’s kind of an acquired taste, but it does have its value…