Wednesday, May 28, 2008

BB Lays Down Law, Forgets to Tell Viewers

In tonight's Daily Show, BB called HMs to the Diary Room and told them from now on breaches of House rules will incur a strike against them, and 3 strikes evcits them from the House. This seemed to be brought on by Rory having a bit of a go at Brigitte. It was nothing harmless, but possibly just the straw that broke the camel's back. Or maybe BB just needed some more Daily Show filler.

He went on to say that 2 weeks ago, he had introduced spot fines for rule breaches, and the HMs had already earned themselves $82,000 in fines. Hold on. When did this happen? And what do they have to lose money from? So far the only "money" we have heard of is the $60,000 Corey earned them with his parting task. It was never referred to as prize money though. We have not heard anything else about money-earning tasks. So the housemates have lost $82,000 of their $60,000? Doesn't make sense.

I'm sure regular viewers of the show were surprised to hear HMs were losing money for rule breaches. It's just another aspect of the show BB is inexplicably hiding from viewers this year. It seems this year the HMs that are cut off from the outside world actually know more about the running of the show than the viewers do. Even having watched a lot of live streaming I have not heard anything about HMs winning or losing money this year.

It's time BB came clean and let us in on what the grand prize is this year, how they win it, and how it can be taken away.

Travis Too Possimistic

Can the HMs do anything to Travis to crack his positive (possimistic) view of the world? Brigitte was told by BB to wear rose-coloured glasses as a task, but it seems Travis has rose-coloured corneas or something. Nothing fazes the guy!

Even Nobbi completely shambolicising Trav's hair yesterday could not break the barrier. He basically cut bald patches into his head, and Travis loved the outcome, even with the entire House-load laughing at him. I shouldn't be too surprised though. This is the guy that requested Renee wax (she ended up shaving) just one of his legs.

And how bold is Nobbi to do something like that to someone.

And surprisingly, even though they are on national TV, it kind of seems like just about anything goes in the House. It's as if there are no social repercussions for what they do except amongst themselves. Even looking on from outside it seems less of a deal. If Travis had to go out shopping with that haircut it would be far more mortifying than to be broadcast into 900,000 homes like that every night. Weird.

"I Want To Go Home"

We have heard this plea (or threat) more times than ever before this year, and it's only Week 5!

Rebecca, Dixie and Brigitte have been most vocal on the subject, requesting an early departure every time something doesn't go their way. From the way it seems, BB is pretty much ignoring these requests, asking them to sleep on it, or just to leave the Diary Room. The requests for voluntary eviction seem half-hearted, so there is probably no reason to go further into it.

Obviously the BB production has spent a lot of time, effort, and money on the HM selection and the last thing they want it to see one of them actually walk out over something petty. Not to mention that the HM would probably regret it after not very long at all. But you have to wonder if BB opened the Diary Room doors to the House and to the "outside", which one would they walk through?

Are they just trying to get BB to back down on his punishments? (Both Dixie and Brigitte have received hand grenades they are not fond of.) Are there emotions just getting the better of them? And how serious would they have to be before BB took these requests seriously? Will we see one of them actually leave before their time comes?