S26.E01: Big Brother: Premiere Night 2

[North of Eden]

I kept waiting for someone to start an NON live chat thread but hours  later nothing so I guess I will have to.

We had a discussion on either TAR or SURVIVOR boards about the need for two threads and finally two did win out but with the low response here maybe we just need  one...I don't know what every one thinks. So far it doesn't seem like people are following along that much live as the episode airs.

Anyway as far as the episode goes....

This second crop of characters were slightly more interesting.

I hope Matt is the nice guy he appears to be.

Lisa-my god...she looks like one more sunrise away from skin melanoma. That was very distracting.

I really want to expect the unexpected if we get to see Quinn (aka discount Macrae) to be in a wild showmance with a completly unexpected partner like maybe one of the hotties.

T'Kor ? Her parents must have been a Star Trek fan. Live long and prosper.

Show me a picture of the blonde dating a sloppy fat guy and I will believe she's a "chubby chaser" not buying it.

I feel like I should have more but so many hours have gone by since the airing I may have forgotten.

Edited July 19 by North of Eden

[Tachi Rocinante]

Good God, this season could be a train wreck.

Questionable stunt casting:
-Filipino girl/guy with a Filipino Mom
-Guy who wants tall girl/volleyball player with illiterate parents
-Multiple college athletes
-Several military/law enforcement
-Several hopeless singles

Also:
-Chubby chaser underwear maker (read: I like control and they won't dump me)
-Obnoxious wine mom
-T'Pau's accent is all over the place.  I thought she was hearing impaired.
 

The AI/Cortana ripoff looks like a 2010s PC character. 

I would've given anything for the voiceover guy to say "That's MY line" after the girl did the BB catchphrase.

[Gregg247]

The producers have really failed with Ainsley.  I can't believe they finally decided to have a robot-type character on this show and went with such a generic presentation. 

They should have created a character who looks and talks like Julie and called her Chenbot, of course!  The entire summer, Chenbot could function as Julie's "co-host" and maybe they could even have a little feud mid-season when Chenbot starts trying a "BB Takeover" of the hosting duties.  It could have been fun, but instead, we get a bland blue pixel lady robot with a voice straight out of an AI training tool tutorial.  Oh well.

Of the new contestants:

Quinn - Could be fun; seems like he may be willing to give us some funny asides throughout the season.  The self-depreciation so far is welcome.

T'Kor - Kind of an odd accent (saying she lived in London for 8 years didn't help nail it down at all!) and as for her crochet....well, it's not bad - for crochet!

Undercover cop - The Marine figured out he was either military or a cop immediately! LOL  Maybe the criminals in his city are really dumb and didn't notice his American flag tattoo.  Credit to the young Marine for I.D.'ing this right away.  They could make a pretty good alliance.

Pretty blonde - She's an entreprenuer and cocktail waitress who likes chubby men.  Sure, that's all believable.  I guess Option 2 for her was "I'm really just a video game nerd who likes geeks despite how hot I am.  Aren't I relatable and fun?"

I wish they'd spent more time showing everyone interacting at the end more.  I like when everyone first meets and starts sizing each other up.  What's the over/under for when the first attempt at an all-female alliance is brought up?

[30 Helens]

2 hours ago, North of Eden said:

Lisa-my god...she looks like one more sunrise away from skin melanoma.

You mean Leatherface? Give her a chainsaw and let her go to town.

I simply cannot with T’Kor’s accent. One part Chicago, one part London, three parts pretentious bullshit making-it-up-as-she-goes. She HAS to go early or I may not make it. I barely made it through this episode because of her. Oh, and she can take Cedric right along with her.

[Katesus7]

The only thing worse than a premiere with over the top, obnoxious "personalities" being shoved in my face, stupid twists, and boring competitions for who knows what powers/punishments is a SECOND premiere with the exact. same. thing. happening.  I don't care if the people were new and the comps are different.  It was boring as all hell, and I finished in 20 minutes.  At least the punishment doesn't sound TOO awful, but I'm worried about what the powers are going to be.  

I will say, if I was in that house I'd be staring at that moving sculpture for hours.  I was  obsessed.  Not so much with the stupid AI robot. 

[iMonrey]

The stupid AI thing doesn't make any sense. Nobody actually believes AI is controlling the game. The low-tech animation is just another excuse to screw with the game. Like it needs more twists and gimmicks. It has already long surpassed Survivor in terms of screwing up the game to the point where it becomes little more than a crapshoot who ends up winning.

I did like splitting the premier up in two episodes because it was easier to get a handle on who's who. But basically repeating the format in the second episode did feel tedious. 

I asked this over in the live thread, but what was their plan if a majority had voted "Yes" to Ainsley coming into the game? Maybe the exact same thing, just presented differently. Like "thanks for voting me in, now let me tell you what I really am and how I'll be in the game with you."

Lisa is billed as a "celebrity chef" - has anyone ever heard of her before?

I kind of cracked up when Brooklyn said her mother is full-blooded Apache and Cherokee. I don't think she knows what "full-blooded" means. I get what she was going for but it came off like "my mother is full-blooded French and German."

[Sir RaiderDuck OMS]

26 minutes ago, iMonrey said:

Lisa is billed as a "celebrity chef" - has anyone ever heard of her before?

I asked a real AI (Perplexity Pro powered by Claude 3.5 Sonnet) about Lisa. It said she was a celebrity chef because she was on social media but hadn't appeared on any TV shows it could find. I asked how exactly she was a "celebrity," and the AI admitted that in Lisa's case, "'Celebrity Chef' may be more of a generous title than an accurate description."

Edited July 19 by Sir RaiderDuck OMS

[tinkerbell]

So, could "celebrity chef" mean she was once a private chef to a celebrity?

[peachmangosteen]

That’s what it normally means.

[Wandering Snark]

3 hours ago, 30 Helens said:

You mean Leatherface? Give her a chainsaw and let her go to town.

Indeed. Girl, it's called SPF, look into it.

5 hours ago, Tachi Rocinante said:

T'Pau's accent is all over the place.  I thought she was hearing impaired.

It's a little bit heart and a little bit of soul.

[Fostersmom]

9 hours ago, Sir RaiderDuck OMS said:

I asked a real AI (Perplexity Pro powered by Claude 3.5 Sonnet) about Lisa. It said she was a celebrity chef because she was on social media but hadn't appeared on any TV shows it could find. I asked how exactly she was a "celebrity," and the AI admitted that in Lisa's case, "'Celebrity Chef' may be more of a generous title than an accurate description."

So real AI was throwing shade at her. 

[mertensia]

8 hours ago, Wandering Snark said:

Indeed. Girl, it's called SPF, look into it.

It's a little bit heart and a little bit of soul.

Those random red strips in her hair really bring out how sunburned/wind burned her skin is.  Plus she stands like a doll. Uncanny valley.

[Nashville]

Every time I see Lisa I can’t help but think she wants to be Bridget Fonda so bad it makes her teeth hurt - so if you catch me making any references to BVSWF (Best Value Single White Female), that’s who I’m talking about.

[Neveragain]

I’m sad to say it but between the death rattles of this forum and the ridiculous horror that this premiere was for me, I think my longtime guilty pleasure Big Brother watching may be coming to an end.  I have watched this show since season one episode one, and I hate to give it up,  but I’m not having fun.  This may have been the worst twist ever and it just started.  I was so bored and shut if off early, came back to it on day two.   Give us a chance to get to know the people for a minute, would you, Show?  You’ve ruined many seasons with dumb twists but it’s too soon, let me ease into it.  
 

I enjoy this forum, been on it since Twop.  I missed it when it was gone.  But it’s sad how it’s fallen off, and I miss some of the very familiar and clever regulars.  Maybe we can all jump in the Rabbit Hole together. I’m willing to give it a try. 

[Tachi Rocinante]

13 hours ago, Nashville said:

Every time I see Lisa I can’t help but think she wants to be Bridget Fonda so bad it makes her teeth hurt.

I was thinking more like Fake Gwyneth Paltrow.

[fishcakes]

5 hours ago, Tachi Rocinante said:

I was thinking more like Fake Gwyneth Paltrow.

I was thinking Person Who Thinks She Looks Like Jennifer Aniston.

I have questions about Cedric because how can a 21-year-old be a former Marine? You have to be 18 to enlist and the shortest active duty commitment is 4 years. Also his claim to be a Marine Intelligence Analyst is pretty questionable since he'd have had to have been an officer and that's just not possible for someone his age who enlisted straight out of high school. There could be an explanation for all this, but right now I'm going with ... liar?

[30 Helens]

Maybe Cedric was kicked out of the Marines for… pretending to be an Intelligence officer?

Or maybe he worked on a marina and is just confused.

[Tachi Rocinante]

He could have been an intelligence analyst, which I believe is entry-level.

[choclatechip45]

Eh this AI twist sucks. Premiere episodes are always weak.

[Stats Queen]

On 7/20/2024 at 1:23 PM, Tachi Rocinante said:

I was thinking more like Fake Gwyneth Paltrow.

Or Gwyneth Paltrow