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GreatSaltLuke

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  1. The US feeds were free season 1, but not only was that different producers but the first ever BB.

    I'm glad at least Canada gets their feeds free for the first season. I didn't mind at all paying for BB Canada because the feeds are so much better than BB USA (even tho I don't get to watch too much due to work)

    Yeah I don't know what they do to keep the HGs from singing, talking about production, etc. but these Canadians seem much better about following the rules making the feeds much more pleasant. Plus when they are down it's just wonderful sweet silence rather than that godawful maddening music playing over and over. The problem is no flashback. I live for flashback! I would NEVER pay for feeds without flashback and don't see why anyone else would either.

  2. I think the show has been pretty good so far considering it's a first season. The cast of characters is pretty good with nice diversity and lots of strategizing. Most of the people are of course shallow and self-absorbed but no worse than BBUSA. And trust me if they just filled the house with a bunch of down to earth, sweet, polite people you would be bored to tears and wouldn't make it through one episode.

    The grand prize is pretty disappointing. That house looks more expensive than the BBUSA house yet they can't come up with more than 1/5 of the USA prize? I always thought the bigger the prize, the higher the stakes, the more drama there is, the better the ratings will be. 100k and a couple extra fluff prizes is pretty lame...

  3. Oh yes! Our buddy QuirkyDude will be adding the video to his www.bigbrotherarchive.com. Because the live feeds are free, there could very well be clips on YouTube like we had until BB9. And posting YouTube video in our forum is really easy, you just click the little icon on the post format menu, third from the left "Special BBCode" select "Media" and paste in the YouTube video link.

    Morty- Awesome, so glad Quirky Dude is going to do that for us! Thanks for the info! Will definitely watch the show even if I decide not to try and buy the software to get access to the feeds!

  4. Thank you, this is good news, although for me the decision whether to pay for the "free" feeds in this way depends on whether they will have flashback or not. As flashback functionality probably isn't cheap, I'm skeptical that free feeds will offer it and I can't justify paying for feeds when the best stuff is unlikely to happen during the short periods of time I have to watch and there is no way to rewind. If no one knows whether this will be available or not I guess we'll know soon enough.

  5. Thanks Morty! Bummer about it being on at the same time as Survivor, my other favorite show, but I'm guessing/hoping there will be replays available on YouTube. I think I heard that the live feeds are free but do you know if they will also have flashback? That's pretty much a mandatory feature for any serious BB fan!

  6. I don't like the idea of anyone with a vote being able to watch the episodes. The DR sessions are where HGs can entertain us with their private thoughts and trash talking and no one with a future vote has any business being influenced by that. We learned this lesson in BB3.

    You can't really stop people from being bitter but I do think that jury members should be sequestered seperately. I don't like that jury members can influence each other and even lie or exaggerate about the HGs still in the game to get the jury to vote a certain way. Having person after person come to the jury house and rant and rave about what a horrible person Dan is did not help his case. If these people were left alone to make up their own minds and not allowed to hear how everyone else is voting, they wouldn't be able to jump aboard the hate train and their vote wouldn't be the result of peer pressure.

  7. When does BB Canada start? Do they offer the live feeds? How can I watch the show or the feeds? What season is it for Canada?

    Many details are still unknown. It will be on a Canadian channel called Slice Network and begins in either January of February last I heard. It is supposed to have live feeds just like the US. The problem will be, it might not be airing in the US at all so I'm really hoping there will be a website you can watch the episodes at, whether an official or unofficial one like videobrother.com. It will be Canada's first season.

  8. Just because the majority of people on this message board dislike Frank doesn't mean the AC is rigged. This message board represents a tiny population in comparison to the population that watches the show. The majority of people here spend lots of time watching the feeds (or at least reading them) and get intimately familiar with the HGs, which I think causes people get hypersensitive to certain annoying habits just like they would a spouse. The vast majority of viewers just watch the show, which is basically highlights of HGs at their best and these annoying habits aren't apparent unless they do a specific segment about them. Frank was a loud, cocky, sometimes obnoxious guy and I can see him rubbing a lot of people the wrong way and understand some of the distaste for him. But he got a good edit, was a big underdog and was at the center of most of the drama for most of the season so people really got to like him.

    I liked him and voted for him too. I can overlook his annoying qualities for the fact that I think he put more effort into the game than anybody else, including Dan, at least in the first half of the season. He lived on the block and saved himself so many times that it was really fun to watch him try to survive week after week. He played very honest and got backstabbed more than anyone else in the game so I'm sure he got some sympathy for that too. Behind Dan, Frank was the most entertaining player this season IMO and I'm glad he won it since Dan didn't.

  9. Yeah I hate the part 3 HOH because it is mostly random luck. How the heck are the HGs supposed to know what jury people said in some interview or whether BB is trying to trick them by making the wrong answer something that sounds in character for them while the right answer is something out of character? It's just so stupid that they haven't come up with something better. Why not just flip a coin then and save more time for jury questions? That's why I also think it is laughable that Danielle is going along with Dan's plan to try to make Ian throw the competition when it can't be thrown.

  10. Ashley- Ian (Will probably vote with Frank)

    Britney- Ian (Britney proved in BB12 she votes personal)

    Frank- Ian (Seems really bitter at Dan)

    Joe- Wild card (Joe doesn't care for either of them and dislikes Dan more but may have to throw him a vote for his gameplay)

    Jenn- Dan (Interviews after her eviction indicate Dan has her vote)

    Shane- Ian (Shane has had the least amount of time to cool off and I'm not sure Dani can convince him to vote for Dan)

    Danielle- Dan (Even if Dan won HOH and screwed her I still think she would vote for him because they have been through so much together and she hates Ian with a passion)

    Dan better have a hell of a speech if he expects to beat Ian!

  11. agree GSL Ian/Dan F2 - but we all know there is only so much production can do. After all in All Stars Boogie won and the fans wanted Janelle to win.

    I think that is would be a nightmare for BB for Danielle to win on a stupid crapshoot question in the 3rd round.

    Yeah I bet AG's dream scenario would be for Dan to win the final HOH and evict Dani but since Dan isn't likely to do that, the second best scenario would be for Ian to win HOH and take Dan. I wouldn't be surprised to see a part 2 comp tailored to Ian and for both Ian and Dan to get lots of encouragement from the DR to take each other to F2.

  12. I think the reason they (BB) are telling Ian that Dan is hated is that Ian will turn on his F2 deal with him. I think BB thinks Ian will win over Dani much easier than Dan.

    Are you saying you think that BB wants Dan gone before F2? Logically I would think telling Ian that Dan is hated would give him more incentive to take Dan to F2, not less, although Ian often doesn't seem to make logical decisions so he might just want to get out the ultimate villian for the viewers or something.

    In any case, I have a hard time believing BB wants an Ian/Dani F2 rather than the ultimate battle of good and evil that would be an Ian/Dan F2. Although it would be poetic justice for Ian to turn on Dan, it sure would be a shame to see Dan go out that way...

  13. It's pretty clear to me that she has thought her chances of winning are best if she sits next to Dan. She has known this for a long time. What happened last night is exactly what she wanted to happen. It appears to Shane that Dan did the dirty work but lets not forget that Dani had to put him on the block before Dan could evict Shane. IMHO she knew all along what was going to happen. It was a great move on her part to make it look like Dan is the evil one.

    That's not a bad theory but she has been crying her eyes out. Could she be that upset about something she wanted to happen?

  14. I am splitting my vote between Dan and Ian. 5 each

    I have a feeling that Janelle will win because she has a huge huge fan base. She has a huge twitter following and loyal fans.

    Yeah Janelle could easily snatch this up despite having almost zero impact on the season, which is pretty unfair. She could probably be inserted into the vote in a season she didn't even play in and win with her following. Ian probably has a decent shot at it though because he has had such a great edit this season. I can see live feeders not caring for him but I can't see anyone that just watches on TV not liking him.

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