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The My Two Bits editorial for August 2006 is titled : What Is Big Brother All Stars Minus "Six"...?
------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm reminded of a classic Seinfeld episode. George is taught by Jerry to always leave the audience wanting more. If you don't know when to leave the stage, you're bound to screw up at some point, and then you're leaving the stage on a sour note, not a high one. So the trick is to know when you've had your finest moment...and leave them with that. If only those four former members of "Big Brother Six" had remembered Seinfeld's lesson. Then Big Brother All Stars would've been far less embarrassing for them. Sorry, but you know what I'm talking about, right? Right...!
Right...? The answer may surprise you. As I type this, Kaysar is long gone, with Howie shortly behind him, and James following soon after. Mind you; right up to the finale, these guys' favoritism rating at CBS' official site ranked them high in the sky: Kaysar was at 91 percent, Howie at 87, and even if James was at a lower 59, he was still in the top five most favorite people in the house. Yet as I type this editorial near the end of August, their ratings are far lower, with Kaysar at a lowly 39, Howie at a dead bottom 8 percent, and James at 4...and that's out of 100. What happened here? The answer is just like that Seinfeld quip. Simply put, Season Six's "Sovereign Six" should've left us wanting more. It was one thing when they were the power players who lost the game simply because of a more powerful alliance in-house. They were bamboozled...or so fans of theirs felt. Yet what could've gone so wrong, as to make their popularity plummet so? Maybe it's how CBS slanted this "all star" competition so grotesquely in favor of the returning "sovereign" alliance. Aside from the season six-ers, everyone asked to return was not an all star as much as a villain that fans loved to hate. Where was Brittany from season one? Drew from season five? Here's a short encapsulation of what I'm talking about here:
Suffice to say: everyone on the right column was asked back, with nobody from the right column returning at all. Sure, you want all attention to be for the four guys from season six, but what do they have to work with? Exactly. They were asked to work against the biggest backstabbers in BB history. Quite frankly they had no chance. Or did they...? That's the rub, wasn't it? No sooner did we see these supposed "sovereign" players for a few more weeks, then the light shone a bit brighter this time. It was one thing when they lost to a so-called "nerd herd," because as we all know, nerds are supposed to lose in pop culture, and they didn't, which is "wrong," so boo-hoo for the sovereigns. Yet against all-stars, even deceitful all-stars, you would think that the so-called sovereigns would've looked as sovereign as they always did, Right? Right...? WRONG. As Seinfeld would put it, "Yadda Yadda Yadda"...Kaysar allies with the most deceitful alliance in the house, just to try and keep the target off his alliance's back. The rest of the house sees through this scheme and starts plotting against Kaysar's alliance. Kaysar's alliance sees the writing on the wall and starts plotting against one another as to which of its own alliance should be targeted first...perhaps James? No; he already made another alliance, against Kaysar's alliance. Bye-bye Kaysar. Bye-bye Howie. Bye-bye reputation of the former "Sovereigns"! One might think CBS is upset about all this. After all; they had this all-star season, quite obviously, for the sole reason to bring back the most popular members of season six. Yet in the end it would appear to have worked even better than planned. People have had their fill of Kaysar, Howie, Janelle, and James, for good. No more need to bring them back. No more need for old "stars" to return to a show, which relies on new faces each season. Yet there's no denying that the people who were most badly affected by this All-Star season were the season six "sovereigns." In the end; all the wanted to do is give the audience what they wanted. They should've just left the stage a bit early, and left them wanting more. As Always: I'm Techtite,
and these are My Two Bits...
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Almost a year ago to the
day as I type
this, the so-called "Sovereign six" alliance in Big Brother
(6) seemed to do no wrong. One of them won a visit to the set of Two and a
Half Men; a second one was given a short role in an afternoon soap
opera. Their most popular member, Kaysar, had such a strong following, his
popularity rating was still at 91 percent, even five weeks after his
elimination from the show. It was understandable that CBS would follow up
such a season of popular Big Brother house guests, with an "All Star"
season, bringing most of them back. After all; it's less than
one year later. People are bound to still love 'em, right?