Sunday, June 15, 2008

The Prize Dig

What a great task. Fill the backyard with a few thousand cubic metres of sand, and get the HMs to dig it all up. The place looks like a disaster area. Will they ever be able to put it back together after this?

The HMs are really banding together. Nobbi is the worst foreman there could be. He is so unorganised. Travis is wearing his duckie pajamas and an orange vest. Most of the HMs are barefoot. Brigitte almost looks like she is naked under her vest.

They have struck water from somehwere and their hole is filling up. The dig area seems to be roughly the shape of the BB03/04 pool which may still be under the ground. Maybe the drainage is not so good and the rain water has been seeping into the sand that was under the turf.

The mood lighting is adding a cool effect to it all. Nobbi also has a camera in his helmet so it will be interesting to see some of that footage mixed in with the House cameras tomorrow night.

How long will it take them to find the clue?

Prize Revealed Tonight

So the ads are saying that tonight the BB grand prize will be revealed. I assume this means to the audience and to the HMs. The rumour also is that the HMs will have to find the prize somewhere in the House itself. Mike Goldman has said "won't the HMs be surprised when they find out it is right under their noses?" and Bree Amer has said it will involve "blood, sweat, and tears".

But the location of the prize probably isn't that much of a mystery. HMs have been locked out of the House all afternoon and told they will not be allowed out until after tonight's eviction. Travis was just saying he heard excavation machinery out there. Bianca said she heard them ripping up the astroturf.

So will it be as simple as that? Will they just walk out and the prize will in some way be on display to them?

Or will it be this week's task? Will there will be something in the backyard and they have to in some way do something to ensure the prize stays as high as possible, involving blood, sweat and tears? I am imagining some kind of Jigsaw-type trap from the Saw movies! But it could be a lot tamer I guess.

The rumour is Kyle will enter the House to tell them about it all. Yet another visitor to take their minds off being isolated. He might as well bring the Sunday paper in with him and leave it for them to have a read. Oh well.

My hopes for the prize: cash! $1m-- like BB04. No fines or crap like that. Or if it is a task and they have to get as much as possible, start it nice and high. Give them something to aim for. Make them want-- or need --to stay. Give them something to get bitchy over. Watch them change, or not, over it.