Back to Real Life
Oh, thank God. Yesterday, after 110 days of addiction, distorted life and ignoring of other people outside Big Brother house, the second Big Brother season came to an end. I know I said I won’t watch it like I did in the first season, but I can’t help it. I get attached to those people. It wasn’t as emotional as the first season, and the battle of good vs. bad wasn’t as meaningful as that on the first season. But there was an obnoxious fella who should not have won, and somehow [evil gamblers] he managed to reach the 2nd place. However, the GOOD guy won.
Eliraz Sade, Israeli Big Brother 2 winner
Everyone I know are now relieved. For the season’s end, and for the sweet winner. Wow I’m looking at the ratings of the night, 36% share. What other show gets these ratings?! Everyone in this little country was either watching the finale or watching the basketball game where Maccabi Tel Aviv won 97:82 with 43 (!) points in the last quarter. I’m sad I missed that!! Either way, big big joy.
However, this little blondie did not reach the place she deserved, in “only” 3rd place.
Alin Levi
She entered the house under the stereotype of a dumb blonde model, but even though she had her silly under-educated moments, she was very funny and good hearted. More than that, she just reminded me of myself. Not by looks of course (yeah right) but other than the fact she always had a SHOCK expression on her face, she was also very shy, emotional, and underestimated. Almost everyone degraded her and took her for granted, but she showed them she’s more than long, long legs. She was very bad with people, and it took them a while to realize she’s not a snob, just insecure and bad communicator. I don’t know how someone like that can live in a house with cameras all over the place and millions of people analyzing every little thing she does. Kudos to her!
Finally (and after I took THAT out of my system) now, after I’ll finish the paparazzi surveillance of how the finalists got back to earth, I can return exclusively to my university papers. Who doesn’t like academic articles, eh?
Big Brother, here we go again
The countdown has started to the second season of Big Brother Israel, and now stands on 1 hour, 40 minutes. It’s not my sick head, it’s the channel’s craziness that reminds me on every commercial break. I don’t know if I’ll watch this season, but for some reason I’m actually excited about the big opening. I watched the first season online [and more on that later] since my satellite company didn’t show it on tv. Then there was a quick VIP season, this time on tv, with a special fee [plus 2 main edited episodes on a free channel]. I wasn’t really hooked on that season. The people were lame [and most of them were singers of the same "clique"] and the house design was the same as that of the 1st season. I just kept thinking of the original housemates and their “hold” of the bed or couch. Yes it’s pathetic, but it was hard watching someone else sleeping in Leon’s bed.
First season was amazing. And horrible. Touching. Disgusting. Sad. Shocking. Aggravating. Funny. But most of all, addictive. I first watched it to see what the fuss was about. Then I watched to see how the friendships and romances evolve. Then there were fun parts. Then I felt close to these people. When the people I disliked gossiped and made fun of my favorites, I wanted to punch them and go tell my favorites they should think carefully who to befriend with and trust.
When it became a group of the “good people” [if it was a movie they'd all be wearing white hats] against the group of bad people [black hats] I watched through the bad people parts just so I won’t miss my good people. If it meant waiting until 2am when they’ll have alone-time in the backyard, I waited. They could be pretty quiet and I’d still stare at them. But mostly they had conversations, the kinds I never have so it’s nice to hear other people do them. When they lost their friends one by one [by evil votes] it was really sad, and my people seemed like poor sad puppies. They cried, and I cried. The pressure on them was too much, and the closed house with people who hate them for 3 and a half months was making them extra nut and depressed. It actually made ME depressed. The hate in that house was like nothing I’ve ever seen. Outside of it also, amongst viewers as bullies as the ones on screen. Considering it was the most watched show in Israel, and Israel is a small country, I always encountered people who dissed my white-hat people and it felt like they were hurting my friends. Or myself.
There was no getting away from it. It became the most talked about subject in the university as well. It was mentioned in almost every course, if not them all. Either the main subject of the lesson [it happens on tv & film studies] or as a quick note in other lessons. And the talks were mostly about the “funny” guy who became the biggest tv star ever, and happened to be my most hated character in the house. Since he was evil. Not funny. Just an evil bully. And I have no sympathy for those…
So, this addiction made me stay up almost all night [not good before an 8am class], made me upset for my “friends” being humiliated and bashed all over the country, made me depressed thinking of the way the people in my country seemed to prefer the disgusting bullies, got me too active online to defend my white hats [hence caused another addiction to posting comments on forums and blogs] and pretty much took a chunk of 100+ days of my life. I couldn’t leave my computer. When they ate, I ate with them. When they laughed, I laughed with them. When they slept I said thank heavens and finally went to sleep. Who wants to miss the action, and then be left out?..
However, one by one of the white hats got kicked off, until one remained. And she eventually won against all odds, with double of the votes the “biggest star” got, and most votes to ever cast on Israeli tv. It was a sweet win. Eventually I can say none other reality show got me so involved [physically and emotionally] and this one was insane, insane, insane. It made me hate the production also, and understand the power editing has over the main big-rated shows.
Yeah, that been said.. I don’t think I’ll watch this season. Sucks the life out of you really.
