Big Brother has come back onto the UK screens on Wednesday for the last ever time which means the televisions in my house will be filled with nothing but Big Brother whether it’s the main show, the live feed, highlights, Big Mouth or Little brother, it’ll probably be on somewhere in the house. I personally have mixed views about this show but I’ll be sure to watch the last series when I can, probably the highlights or something seeing as I only have terrestrial television.
Now my first problem with the thing is the amount of people who hate the show and the people who watch it with great intensity. Why is that a problem? Because it’s similar to when people extremely hate things like Twilight and Justin Bieber. Yes, around this time I hear people have complete and utter disdain for an individual and the people who watch it and when asked (or not) why they don’t like it, they might say something like it’s utter crap and the people who watch it are saddos that lie on their sofa watching others lie on a sofa on television or watch them sleep and that’s just borderline voyeuristic eck sect ter ra, eck sect ter ra.
While the show might not be to everyone’s tastes, there’s no logic really in attacking the people who watch it and so on and genuinely believing in what you say.
I watched the show when it started and back then it was more or a social experiment rather than a reality show and it was quite interesting and simple but turned out to be a good insight into the way certain people reacted with others…especially when they’ve been caught lying and scheming (If anything he should of been given a medal for playing the game so well).
As the show went on it sort of adapted to what the viewers wanted and what they thought viewers wanted, plus a combination of other factors such as viewers and contestants being clued into the system and knowing what to expect, people seeking fame and so on. It all led to the show as someone put it being about ‘getting the weirdest and most eccentric people to put in the house in order to create conflict and you end up not being able to relate to any of them’ or something along those lines, which for me started to make the show more reality television orientated and became slightly less believable for me.
This year I watched the launch show to ascertain what the show might be like because I have a habit of watching the launch show and then giving it a miss for the next few weeks and then coming back to it at a later stage when all the relations have been established as I find it cringe worthy watching people meet for the first time and are getting used to each other so they won’t really relax and be themselves as they are still apprehensive of each other. Anyway, I might try and just watch the whole thing but it’s probably not going to be pleasant.
While watching the launch show I couldn’t help but be annoyed by the ignorant and the quick judgement exhibited by the the crowd there. Booing someone after they’ve seen a HEAVILY edited minute clip of them. Seriously. They asked someone if they loved themselves and they replied yes which lead to the crowd booing them and I think well what the hell are they supposed to say? ‘No, I absolutely hate myself?’ They’d probably be then booed for being a self pitying loser or whatever, you just cannot win and that was what I don’t like about society in general, the importance of first impressions. I’ve heard that people will judge you within the first 15 seconds of meeting you but from what I saw on that show the figure looks closer to be 3 seconds. People are so quick to judge every little action you do that Shabby…oh deary me, Shabby, ladies and gentlemen was a female who had an enthusiastic reaction in finding out she was selected to go into the house and the moment she got onto the walkway everyone booed her. No, just no. It seems there is a ‘proper’ way to act when you have been selected for an opportunity like that…and ugh, don’t get me started on the guy who sounded a bit posh and the audience reaction to him.
Anyway in conclusion, watching that show reminded me of how disgusting society can be, it wasn’t just on the show I observed that but on forums too, with the rampant discussing on how ‘ugly’ and ‘annoying’ some of the housemates were, I genuinely felt sick that we live in a society like this. Not to sound preachy or anything but really? Why is it even needed or does it even make one bit of sense? That I’m afraid is an answer I’ll never get to the bottom of.
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