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The My Two Bits editorial for August, 2005 is titled : "Big Brother," Kaysar, and The Value of a Game...
------------------------------------------------------------------- If you were wondering why so many reality TV buffs are mad these days, it's because on August 18th, a likeable contestant was booted from a reality TV series. Yeah I know: so what? I mean, you'd think alliances and backstabs and the "nice person losing" was something totally new to reality television. Here's the catch: Kaysar is being evicted from Big Brother 6...again. What led to a contestant booted August 4th, returning August 11th, only to be leaving again August 18th? Well, it mostly involves a game show breaking the rules just to please public demand, but...oh, just read on. Let's first be clear: Big Brother is a game show. There are no flashy lights or buxom co-hosts or men behind a podium with quiz questions, but yes, it is a game show. Some people take reality TV too personally, because it involves "real people." It's still a game show. When (first) evicted, Kaysar's fans had little to complain about. He lost because it was a game and...he lost. Even the long-winded story takes a single breath of air. Eric was friends with Maggie, and Kaysar was friends with Michael, so when Eric evicted Michael Kaysar retaliated by evicting Eric, only to have Maggie evict Kaysar. It's like a game of chess, really...and Kaysar lost the game, right? Right...?
Not so fast. See, one of the reasons Kaysar was evicted from the house was in retaliation against Kaysar's game plan; a game plan best called "Veto Nomination Doesn't Count." See; Kaysar made a deal with Eric when Eric was "Head of Household," that if Eric didn't nominate Kaysar for eviction, Kaysar wouldn't nominate Eric as HOH, the very next week. The joke was on Eric when one of the nominees for eviction was able to win "veto," allowing Kaysar to choose a third nominee for eviction. He chose Eric. Why? Because, to hear Kaysar's female fans explain it, the promise not to nominate Eric didn't include a veto of the original nominees. There are other excuses but this is the only viable one. No, Kaysar couldn't break a promise because Eric was shorter. No, Kaysar couldn't break a promise because Eric wasn't as "cute." No, Kaysar shouldn't have broken any promises. Period. When you play a game like that, you reap what you sow. Enter Jennifer, who upon Kaysar's return to the house, was his only competition in the latest game challenge. This challenge was crucial in that the winner decided who was nominated next for eviction. Jennifer, being a good game player yet not totally honest, swore on her life that she would do what Kaysar would do as HOH. Uh huh; sure. Do what Kaysar would do; yep! Kaysar quit the challenge, thinking Jennifer would indeed do as he would do. Well, guess what? She waits until the next veto ceremony, and as soon as the veto holder tells Jennifer to choose another candidate, she chooses Kaysar. She broke her promise...or did she? As you said yourself Kaysar; veto doesn't count. It's a little late to call this maneuver the act of "cowards" when you did the same game strategy yourself, just three short weeks earlier. As you'd expect, Kaysar fans disagree. In fact; they're outright furious. When Kaysar broke his word, he wound up smelling like a rose. Yet when that same rose is in another hand, we are suddenly alerted to the thorns. "[Jennifer] stabbed Kaysar in the back" claims one online fan's blog. "I hate those idiots!" insists another. "Jennifer must go down in flames!" cries another. Some people have even said that this is the biggest backstab that has ever occurred in any series. Have these people watched any reality TV for the past 5 years? Survivor...? Hello...? I'm just asking. There's even a petition online, to break the rules again so Kaysar can stay. You broke the rules once to bring him back in the house, CBS; can't you do it again? The answer to that question depends on how much "reality" you want in reality TV. It's a game kids. Take away too many rules and it's not a game. If anything it's a sitcom. D'oh! Gilligan got in trouble again! Time for the Skipper and the Professor to bail him out again. Silly old Gilligan! There's a bigger reason why Kaysar doesn't deserve a third chance, however. Let me shoot it straight. If Kaysar wanted even a second chance, he should've shown more determination than to quit his first new game challenge. Did millions of viewers vote so that Jennifer could win a challenge? No. Yet Kaysar quit that challenge so she would. Fans say he was simply being kind, by giving Jennifer a chance to get a photo from home if she won. I don't care if he was giving her a Ferrari with Brad Pitt as chauffeur. You don't "give" away a game when four million Americans voted so you could have a second chance. Come on now. At its core, Big Brother is a game show. It's about playing a game where the only rules are the rules of the game. It's about accepting the fact that some people are not you, and if that means they aren't as honest, live with it. It's about good strategy and game rules and how far you can bend those rules before they're broken. It was one thing for CBS to bend the rules so that Kaysar had a second chance. If Kaysar was to be kept in this game any longer, it wouldn't be a game anymore. He lost. Let it go. As Always: I'm Techtite,
and these are My Two Bits...
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This is where things get controversial. To hear
ladies tell it, Kaysar is a handsome guy. To lose
Kaysar was to lose ratings. Gee, CBS; what to do? Hey, let's break the rules for one
week. Yeah! Have a viewer's
vote for who gets to play the game again, that's offered on the very day
Kaysar is evicted. Read that again: they very coincidentally throw a
"surprise" vote for who should get a second chance in the game, on the very day
Kaysar is evicted. Here's Kaysar, the latest evictee, interviewed on every
CBS talk show, whose interview is always followed with a blurb for
which house guest (wink, wink) viewers want back in the house. Two guesses if he won the vote. Girls could care less
if breaking the original rules ruined the whole integrity of the game: they only saw this as
a way to get their
cutie back in the house. Kaysar returned! Huzzah!