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wintrygal
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I can't wait till tonight's episode, wish there were more comments to follow. That seemed rather mean letting those girls think Canada hated them, wonder if they let it go on as long as it seemed to,

rjw85
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I feel like getting rid of Zach would've been a better move. He still has an alliance with two other people! The longer he's in that house, the more likely it is he wins.

Fex
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Why does Bruno think he can lie? Does he think he is the last member of jury?

peachmangosteen

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Press release about new sponsorships and whatnot. Fear not though, TwistosTwist is still a thing!
 

This year, a special fan-feed sponsored by returning partner Ramada gives viewers more control over the feeds than ever before, in addition to a custom in-show challenge sponsored by the hotel chain.


This is interesting. Might just be a flashback feature, but that's still pretty good. Hopefully the feeds won't be down for days at a time this season at least.

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peachmangosteen

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Dick from Big Brother US will be streaming the ET Canada eps and all the BBC eps on his site. It hurts me deeply that he is doing something helpful, but it is what it is.

 

The first 6 HGs didn't really leave much of an impression on me except that I already hate the superfan guy.

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peachmangosteen

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Hey, Jordan (the superfan), delivered a backhanded slap across the ugly face of Peter Brown in his pre-show interview. That bodes well.

 

The only good thing about him is he despises Peter. Some of his tweets to Peter are hilarious. They're awful and gross, but if anyone deserves that kind of treatment it's Peter.

 

Hopefully these people are way more interesting in the house. It's gonna be hard to top last season's cast though IMO.

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dolphincorn

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Now there's a guy named Graig to go along with Brittnee. I guess I can't blame them for their parents' creative spelling choices. Still, I hate their guts. I also hate Bruno because he's cited Paul and Adel as his favorite players. PAUL AND ADEL!!! And the oldest contestant so far is 36. Another courageous casting decision by Robyn Kass!

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loki567

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Adel was awesome. I think he was basically a more entertaining version of Zach (BB16) in the sense of being willing to cause drama. Paul was a perfect three week contestant. Did a series of funny/stupid things, then gone before he would get annoying.

 

I wish this show had more activity on the Previously.tv boards. It's hard to convince even American Live Feeders to try it out even though I think it's actually surpassed the quality of the USA version at this point. 

 

The cast looks nice and diverse and I'm really excited to for this season to start. 

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SnideAsides

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I wish this show had more activity on the Previously.tv boards. It's hard to convince even American Live Feeders to try it out even though I think it's actually surpassed the quality of the USA version at this point.

In fairness, a literal burning bag of dog poop is better than BBUS at this point. I don't know how I'd compare BB Canada to the other (real) Big Brother versions around the world, but both BBUK and BB Australia had disastrous seasons last year, so it'd probably be pretty well at the moment, even if it's still not quite as good as those versions' best seasons.

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dolphincorn

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I don't really see a lot of difference between the two shows. Sometimes the cast is golden, and sometimes it's not. The last time I was really into either show was when Elissa and Amanda were having their fight, and that was during one of the worst BBUS seasons ever.

 

I can't get behind Adel. I thought he was a dumb as a box of rocks and not funny at all. Paul was an embarrassment to humankind in general, but especially to anyone over forty. I was rooting for the First Five because that was a strategy that had never been used before. The only person I really liked in the alliance was Sarah. Looking back, she was the only person on last year's BBCAN cast that I liked. For me, all the entertainment value of the season came from Sabrina's ridiculous game play. Otherwise, I had checked out about the time the Twistos Twist ruined the game for the players who were playing hard.

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peachmangosteen

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I loved last season's cast. There were people to hate but not because they were like truly awful human beings, which is usually the case on BBUS. Neda is one of my fave players ever, including the US players. I loved Heather. Adel and Sabirna were hilarious. I hated Sarah and Kenny but they were fun to hate.

 

In fairness, a literal burning bag of dog poop is better than BBUS at this point.

 

STOP! I guffawed!

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loki567

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Otherwise, I had checked out about the time the Twistos Twist ruined the game for the players who were playing hard.

 

I assume you're talking about Canada's HoH, but I got to point out there was about eight HoHs after that and the First Five lost all of them. And by that point, Andrew was in a pretty heavy showmance-haze and wasn't playing that hard.

 

I thought last year was the most likable, intelligent, and funny group ever cast in either Big Brother Canada or USA. And it's still early in the show's history, but Canada seems to cast better to me. Stronger focus on real people or fans of the game. Compared to USA where about 10 of the 16 houseguests are mactors/recruits that have no clue what they're walking into. The difference between BBCAN2 and BB16 was stunning to me.  

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peachmangosteen

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Although, to be fair to the US version, they had much better casting in the early years, too. Let's see how we feel about BBCan in season 16!

 

The Morning Show on Global is doing the house reveal tomorrow. I almost care more about that than the HGs reveal tbh.

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dolphincorn

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Arisa's dress looks like Keith Haring threw up on a four-year-old Mary Katrantzou digital print knockoff. I thought it was kind of funky until I saw what it looked like from the shoulders down.

 

She lives nearby me. I don't know why I've never seen her out in public.

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LuvizBlind

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Anyone from the US having issues getting global tv website to work with HMA?  Thought it might just be a Chrome thing;

 

ETA:  Discovered what was wrong, so deleted most of what I'd posted.  Chrome needed flv player enabled.  Working fine now.

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Evenshorter

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I was at the taping of last night's Eviction and Side Show last night.  We were told to "cheer really hard" for Risha when she came out after being evicted, because she was very upset and tearful. 

 

Yeah, so was I when I saw her boobs in the hot tub.

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bagatelle

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I was at the taping of last night's Eviction and Side Show last night.  We were told to "cheer really hard" for Risha when she came out after being evicted, because she was very upset and tearful. 

 

Yeah, so was I when I saw her boobs in the hot tub.

Yes, it seemed really obvious when the audience stood up for her, I was expecting it, but it was nice that they were told to do so. How awful it must be to be voted out by a country and not your cast-mates.

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ottoDbusdriver

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Sindy is gone ... .finally !! And Kevin is the new HoH.

 

HoH comp was weird -- do Naeha and Godfrey really dislike each other that much ?  Because they kept picking each other -- and because of that no one picked Britnee at all until she was forced to go up.

 

Ashleigh was looking smoking hot at the HoH comp.  Sarah needs to toss out those gold pants -- not a good look.  What's the deal with Graig's green glasses ?

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PreBabylonia

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I assume you're talking about Canada's HoH, but I got to point out there was about eight HoHs after that and the First Five lost all of them. And by that point, Andrew was in a pretty heavy showmance-haze and wasn't playing that hard.

 

I thought last year was the most likable, intelligent, and funny group ever cast in either Big Brother Canada or USA. And it's still early in the show's history, but Canada seems to cast better to me. Stronger focus on real people or fans of the game. Compared to USA where about 10 of the 16 houseguests are mactors/recruits that have no clue what they're walking into. The difference between BBCAN2 and BB16 was stunning to me.  

 

I watched the entire first season of BBC, found it interesting, despite having the world's worst host. Just couldn't get into last year's and this one is even worse. I find the cast to be extremely unoriginal, they've obviously watched the U.S. version over and over again, because I've seen everything they say and do before, although the Canadians are completely exaggerated and over-the-top. I don't know why our versions of international reality shows are always so bad. The hosts/hostesses are always so grating, if we have judges they're even worse and only Project Runway did better. Not with entertainment value, because I thought it was lacking in fun and drama, but I thought the Canadian designers were better and really loved the winner's designs. I would definitely buy his clothes, if I was awash in money. But Big Brother Canada? Can't think of any redeeming qualities. Cox is highly annoying and she wears possibly the worst clothes I have ever seen. I always expect her to fall off her heels too, she just comes across as so ungainly and lacking in grace. Since the show seems to be a success, I'll continue to  check out each season's premiere, but I've pretty much loss hope that it will improve. I much prefer the American version. They may be recruited instead of applicants, but at least you can't always predict that one will try to act excessively ruthless and manipulative, or see the fakest version of storeroom jumping around and screaming. Gah! Just the thought of it makes me sick. Does any show have faker participants than Big Brother Canada?

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liqidclark

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There does seem to be a lot of mugging going on, people doing what they think Big Brother characters do. Did anyone not bust out some lame alliance sign when voting? How did so many of them have what seemed like planned physical banter as they passed in the hallway to/from the voting room? One dude said getting some action on BB was on his bucket list. Kevin and Johnny are pretty much mimicking Zach and Frankie from BBUS. I mean, come on. Are they forced to select all their actions from some "How To Big Brother It Up" handbook? It's kinda cool that they're all such fans of the show, but do these dorks have any originality?

 

At least they're still mostly nowhere near the level of awful assholery we usually get from the BBUS casts. I'd rather have dorks than assholes.

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dolphincorn

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Arisa really has no idea how to stand elegantly in high heels and a dress. There are a lot of things to dislike about her hosting abilities, but that's the thing that bugs me the most.

 

I'm glad that Kevin won HOH. He's really the only one I'm rooting for at the moment because he's sort of plucky, although I like Sarah, too.

 

Can we name the contestant threads? I know that there aren't any so far, but I want Graig's to be called "Graig: The poor-man's Mike Boogie." And Sindy's can be "Sindy with a SSSSo what?"

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Pete Martell

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BBCanada has made the same mistake that destroyed BBUK (which now mostly exists as a novelty show and a gap-filler until they can find more zelebs for the 'celebrity' seasons) and has made BBUS all but unwatchable - they think it's about them, not the public, not the people in the house. That horribly wooden and interminable narration from Arissa Cox going on about the "steampunk" house (how edgy...for 2005) and how everything would be taken from the players because they would know "who's boss." It's pretentious silliness. 

 

They show this lack of interest in creating an organic show by casting the most cookie cutter stereotypes imaginable. They all roll out one by one when introduced - the "hot" dudebro who will charm the ladies and buddy up to the boys (Zach), the "hot" blonde who will use her "assets" to drive the boys wild and make the girls jealous (Ashleigh), the Peter Brown knockoff we're supposed to love to hate, but respect the hell out of (Jordan), the kooky lady who is a breath away from saying, "I'm not like other girls" (Sarah), the self-described mastermind we're supposed to laugh at, rather than respect (Godfrey), the model who will have an "inspirational" story and was likely cast solely for that reason, and because she will probably cry a lot in the DR (Britnee).

 

As soon as I saw these people running down the stage like they thought they were on Price is Right, I realized the casting was now officially in the same rut that has ground the US Big Brother to a halt. And it just kept getting worse.

 

Then there was all the talk of "superfan" with the next contestants, like Johnny and Naeha, who, in the most shocking "twist" EVER, seem to have no real idea what they are doing, just like 98% of people who go on this show bragging about being "superfans." How embarrassing that Johnny goes on and on about what a "superfan" he is while he is actually in there solely to throw himself at a straight man. Pathetic. Pathetic. Pathetic. And the wonders of skeevy Graig, who gets what felt like 5 minutes to talk about how much he loves coaching baseball, which screamed production pet.

 

Then we had more scripted misery with dudebro Bobby, whose most memorable characteristic is stealing Jon Pardy's cap and inane hand gestures, Sindy, a really interesting woman who got more airtime jumping up and down in her bra than she did talking about her life, Zack's twinkier twin, Kevin, the show's second attempt this season to make a new Peter Brown (as we can't get enough Peter Brown), and he's so cute and smart and he reduces women to their breasts, but he's hot so who cares? Of course that's the producers, not him, as the producers then proceeded to reduce a woman (Risha) to nothing more than her breasts and to the "cougar" label that was stomped out of all cultural relevance once that Courtney Cox show got the boot to a fading cable channel. Even the very brief attempt to show what she's gone through in life was undercut by the camera leering at her breasts on the stripper pole. 

 

This is just trash and exploitation. So many of the women being reduced to nothing more than T&A, writhing around, jumping around half-naked, came across that way to me. No wonder the ridiculously rushed "Canada's vote" chose to save Pilar, a woman who has no apparent purpose in the game other than inheriting Rachelle's role of seeming like she was just woken up 2 minutes before appearing oncamera. When viewers are told to treat women as nothing more than objects, they will do as told. 

 

I had expected better from this show to only care about a frathouse porn mentality. I guess when you only care about the most twisted twists of all time, you're admitting you have no interest in developing the people in the house, because that would mean you're not "boss." So instead you cast generic nobodies memorable solely for their breasts or their abdominal muscles. 

 

This is one of the worst BB casts I've ever seen, and it really makes me wonder just how let down the show has been that personalities like Andrew, Kenny, Arlie, Peter Brown, Alec, etc. were never the big fan favorites. It's what they keep coughing back up over and over again.

 

At this point, unless the group magically improves a hundredfold, I'm mostly just glad that the few I enjoyed, like Sindy, got out of the Porkyfest early on.

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dolphincorn

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I agree with everything that you said, although a couple of people cast this season have a little game so far. Kevin has surprised me the most. Sarah shone in tonight's episode, too.

 

It all comes down to the casting. Last season's fan favorite on BBUS was the most unorthodox superfan Robyn Kass has ever put on one of these shows. Do you think that they could learn from that? Noooooo!

 

Anyway, what's really bothering me about this season so far is the sadism of production. I don't watch this show to watch production pull pranks that screw over people's games, and I don't watch to see the contestants tortured. I watch it for what you mentioned already: the organic flow of the game that comes about from letting the contestants play to win. If I was in the house right now I would just throw all caution to the wind and stop playing because it wouldn't hurt my chances anyway. The twists are going to determine the winner.

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Newbietunes

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I like this show.  And I say that agreeing that the casting has been unimaginative, skewed toward youth, and overly dependent on stereotypes, as it has been for BBUS.  But the difference between BBCan and BBUS is night and day, IMO.  I understand the casting people are the same for both versions, so I assume they are reflecting the priorities of the respective producers.  BBCan casts are just less mean.  They have more fun.  They are definitely dorkier.  And that's okay.  Because of the less mean.  Also, they should be having fun.  They are living out their dream (hard as that is for me to understand).

 

Sarah and Brit are my favourites at this point.  But I like Kevin.  I just do.  And Jordan is not as annoying as I anticipated he would be.  The rest...okay, could do with a personality, but that's a different problem.  Here's hoping Naeha or even Sindy come back.

 

 

 

 

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dolphincorn

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I like this season's cast so far. Graig was the only one who I was dying to see eliminated because of his obnoxious personality, but otherwise I'm okay with almost everyone. I wouldn't mind seeing Zach booted because he's a little too self-satisfied. He could use a reality check.

 

My problem isn't with the cast being mean. It's with the sadism of production. The zillions of twists and the cruelty of the challenges so far has been unparalleled. Plus I can't even begin to defend Arisa again. I've given her plenty of chances to impress me and to grow into the role of a competent host. She is the worst. And that dress with the asymmetrical hem that she wore on Wednesday's live show made it look as if she had toilet paper dangling in between her bowed legs. The combination of her, Peter Brown and Gary Glitter has made the Sideshow unwatchable, too.

 

I don't believe that the production company monitors their audience whatsoever. All the forums I read seem to express similar sentiments. For every person who likes what they're doing, there are ten more who wish that they would do it differently.

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ottoDbusdriver

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Plus I can't even begin to defend Arisa again. I've given her plenty of chances to impress me and to grow into the role of a competent host. She is the worst. And that dress with the asymmetrical hem that she wore on Wednesday's live show made it look as if she had toilet paper dangling in between her bowed legs.

 

Plus she needs to ditch those ridiculously high heels since it causes her to stand awkwardly.  I agree with @dolphincorn, her interviewing/hosting skills are pretty terrible yet you would think that they should have improved by now -- and her speaking style just doesn't come across as natural and easy to listen to.

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Fex

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One thing I will say - Arissa gives the impression of actually paying attention to and enjoying the show and feeds! When I watch BBUS, I feel like all of Julie Chen's knowledge of the show comes from an assistant.


But that dress though... yeesh!

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ottoDbusdriver

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One thing I will say - Arissa gives the impression of actually paying attention to and enjoying the show and feeds! When I watch BBUS, I feel like all of Julie Chen's knowledge of the show comes from an assistant.

 

Arissa is leaps and bounds above the Chenbot when it comes to paying attention to what is going on inside the house.

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