Big Brother: Over the Top Thursday Afternoon Feeds
Good morning everyone. It’s the first official day inside the Big Brother house, and more details are coming in for the season, so I’ll get to that in a minute.
#butfirst, last night’s “episode” was weird. Julie Chen began with a pre-recorded segment showing the typical 1-2 minute intro for each houseguest, talked a little about the show, and then boom.. we were live. The cameras aimed at the front door, and in comes Scott – alone. He walked around the house (luckily) narrating everything he did before Morgan joined, then Shane, then a new person every 6-10 minutes until there were all 13 (with Jason not surprisingly being last).
Everyone did the ‘get to know you’ small talk with Scott getting quieter each person who entered the house (I can totally relate – that would be me, minus the WalMart employee outfit).
Once they were settled in, Julie came on with another pre-recorded segment to the house telling them a little of the show. She told them no jury (so no people just fighting to make jury), America will choose the winner, and will have an impact in nominations and evictions. This is stuff we knew already, but the house was fairly surprised, especially considering a pretty large portion of the cast seemed fairly familiar with the show. I bet a solid half of them are “Meech-level” superfans with Scott possibly being a “Steve-level”, and all but 2-3 at least knowing about the show and how things are. That is a big change from recent seasons where Michelle was considered to be the ‘superfan’ (and we heard many, many, many times).
I will say it was fun but a little weird to watch the people enter the house and do the inspection and getting to know you stuff. That typically happens a week prior to the first episode even airing on TV, and only bits of it are shown during the premiere episode. All the awkward jokes, many attempts to remember names, and nervous chatter all night long.
If you’re wondering, Alex and Morgan didn’t reveal to the house they were sisters, but during the night, Jason was staring at the wall and did notice a resemblance between the two. I don’t think it will be that long before that secret is out. Depending on America’s level of involvement in nominations and evictions, they may not even care.
Alright, so we have an HoH competition in about 3.5 hours, so I’ll live blog now, start a new thread for that, then a post-comp thread
Updates:
- 10:40am – The house was woken up at 10am and nobody can sleep until 10pm. This is a daily thing, so everyone will be awake for the next 11ish hours. It also means they’ll probably all finally sleep at normal times, which allows me to sleep when they sleep!
- Everyone is sitting around the kitchen chatting and eating
- Note – during the interviews, Whitney’s accent was grinding. Listening to her talk on the feeds, it has grown on me already. Still not sure about Shelby yet
- 10:55pm – By having the backyard open more this season, I have a feeling we’re going to be seeing a lot of this
- Hopefully production stocked up on sunscreen
- Alex has a little smirk on her face. She seems to be really enjoying the possible 2 month vacation in LA
- 11:15pm – Kryssie is in the bathroom joking with Jason how she needs her gay friend this season
- 11:45pm – I’m pretty sure this is the most people I’ve seen in the pool at the same time
- 12:00pm – One hour until HoH time. I am very curious to see this comp considering the back yard is completely open still
- Shane is rocking the man bun
- 12:20pm – The house calls for an outdoor lockdown. 40 minutes to set up a comp inside? Interesting
- 12:45pm – I’m going to start a new thread for the HoH competition now