3 posts tagged “big brother”
I couldn't think of a theme for a new post, but then I realized that the year's about to end. Of course it's time to hand out some awards!
Music
Best music discovery - F.I.R., a Taiwanese rock band with beautiful female vocals and strong ballads
Best music rediscovery - Yaida Hitomi, a Japanese female artist with joyful pop-rock songs and a unique voice
Best new group of the year - So Nyuh Shi Dae, a Korean pop girlgroup with 9 talented and crazy members
Best SNSD member of the year - Jessica (I only made this category so that I'd get to name her, so nevermind me. Any Asian pop idol who can quote Shakespeare deserves an award)
Hello! Project
Best Hello! Project single - Egao YES! Nude. Restored my faith in Morning Musume's singles; a catchy tune with sexy lyrics and a sexy video (even if not all the members are sexy)
Best new Hello! Project group - Ongaku Gatas, a group that combines past talent and cuteness with future talent and cuteness, in members such as Ishikawa Rika and Mano Erina. This group makes me smile
Best Hello! Project Egg - Ogawa Saki. She isn't my favourite Egg, but has convinced me/changed my opinion about her the most during the year. At the beginning of the year I thought she was a cute kid, but nothing special; now I know that she's a pretty good singer (in H!P terms) and performer for such a young little girl, and incredibly cute. She's charming and definitely someone to pay attention to, if she chooses to stay in this business
Best Berryz Kobo member - Natsuyaki Miyabi. Again, not my favourite member (my favourite is Momoko), but Miyabi is the member I started liking more than before the most, if that makes sense. Suddenly she was more charismatic to me than before (even if some people have said the opposite), and I became more interested in her
Best Morning Musume member - Kusumi Koharu. I'm feeling her miracle power, and she's the only Morning Musume member who has really fascinated me during the past year. I wanted Linlin to be that, but since I haven't watched any Momusu videos at all (except for some PVs and performances), it's hard for me to get to know the new members.
Best DVD release of the year - The shinjin kouen DVD, featuring Momusu 8th gen, Kanna, THE Possible and H!P Eggs. I'm a H!P Egg fan, so naturally this was something I was really excited to see, and I've actually watched this concert more than once (I usually don't do that).
Movies
*these aren't movies that were released this year, since I don't go to movies
Best psychological thriller - A Tale of Two Sisters. A Korean mindfuck movie, which I recommend to anyone who likes the genre
Best action movie - Infernal Affairs - actually, I don't know if this counts as an action movie, but it's a great movie in any case. Chinese, made me fall for Tony Leung
Best drama movie - Mezon do Himiko. Not too serious, has some hilarious moments, as well... But still touching, and has Shibasaki Kou
Television
Best new series (in Finland) - Dexter. A delightfully disturbing series about a serial killer who works for the police. Every episode was brilliant to me, which can't be said for every series I watch
Best continuing series (in Finland) - Lost. Yes, I be loyal to a series that I can say I'm a real fan of, since I've actually even bought the seasons on DVD. Every new season of Lost is at first difficult for me to follow, but after a few episodes the show starts to feel just as exciting as ever.
Best finished series (in Finland) - HBO's OZ. Yup, I watched the whole series as late Monday night reruns on Finnish TV, and it finished some time this fall. Hands down one of the best series I've ever seen. Great cast, great storylines, never a boring episode. There were some events in the show that I didn't like, but it just made me think "well, it's Oz. Shit happens." I'm happy that not everybody I liked died. lol
Best hospital series - Grey's Anatomy (3rd season). Just because it's the hospital series I watched the most. I think some of the storylines are a bit... Out there (like Meredith's afterlife experiences), but it's still an enjoyable series with some fun moments and good drama. I love Addison! I hope her spin-off series will be aired here, too. I've heard some bad things about Grey's 4th season, anyway.
Best new TV actress crush - Elizabeth Mitchell/Juliet from Lost. I was so convinced that I wouldn't fall for her, but I did. She's amazing.
Best new TV actor crush - Henry Ian Cusick/Desmond from Lost. He's hot (especially the accent).
Best reality series - Survivor: China. Actually, I haven't finished watching it, but I know who won and all. Some great casting and the most likeable final two ever (at least in my opinion). A pretty good season of Survivor, if I may say.
Best Survivor contestant - Courtney. Not because she 'played the best', but because she had the shiniest personality. She was absolutely hilarious and I just hope that I'll see her again one day in something. It's weird how she seemed to be both bitchy and loveable. Brutally honest, but in a funny way. Oh and she's very cute ^__^
Best Big Brother contestant - Nicky from BBUK. Not that many choices this year, to be honest, what a crappy year for Big Brother. Anyway, Nicky because she was so serious and unfunny that it actually made her funny. I found her rather adorable because of it, too. I don't think she deserved the boos that she got when she left the house. Then again, those vile beasts boo at anyone these days, it's just not special anymore.
Best America's Next Top Model contestant - Heather, both for looks and entertainment. I love her type of beauty, I love it that she's a geek, I love it that she's socially awkward but takes gorgeous pictures. But she also offered some of the funniest confessionals/narrational parts in the show. So shamelessly Heather, I love her. Heather was the star of Cycle 9 for me, no doubt.
Idols, celebrities
Best gravure discovery - Sugimoto Yumi. Cute dimples, gorgeous face, great body, needs more bum shots
Hottest Korean pretty boy of the year - G-Dragon from Big Bang, though maybe it's unfair to give an award to someone I first saw in late November (or was it early December) this year...
Most beautiful Japanese actress - Shibasaki Kou, and yes, I only made this category for her
Most beautiful western actress - Evangeline Lilly; love her eyes, freckles and smile
Best personality in a western actress - Kristen Bell. I've found out that she's a lot of fun and kind of crazy. Loving it. It makes me want to see more of her, in acting, behind the screen, photos, anything
Entertainment
Most addictive PC game - The Sims 2. See the family tree of my favourite family below
Most addictive PS2 game - Final Fantasy X. Yes, I'm late...
Best novel - The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot; I have to say this one because it made me cry twice, heh.
I would've added more pictures, but this post is already long and it would take a LOT of time.. Spare me...
This morning I decided to stop watching Big Brother US. The simple reason is that I just can't keep watching and supporting a show where the houseguests are so vile, nasty and horrible to each other.
They say that Survivor brings out the worst in people, but the Survivors that I have seen have nothing on this season of BBUS. I haven't watched the previous seasons so I don't know if all seasons are like this - if they are, I'm glad I haven't wasted more of my time with this show...
BBUS isn't like the other Big Brother shows. The format of BBUS is closer to "Survivor in a house" than any other Big Brother. In BBUS the housemates are allowed to discuss nominations (it's necessary, actually) and who to vote out, since in BBUS the housemates vote each other out and the viewing public has little to no control. Because of this the house is full of manipulation, scheming, backstabbing, lying, hypocrisy, arguments... I thought it'd be interesting to watch, but to me BBUS has crossed the line when it comes to personal insults, racist remarks, and dissing other religions... I should've already stopped watching when Dick poured that glass of iced tea on Jen's head.
These people get away with so much stuff that would get one removed from the Big Brother UK house, or at least majorly boo'd after getting evicted. I think I prefer my Big Brother with RULES against certain kind of language and behaviour.
People actually argue on BBUK all the time, but they argue about things like the food situation, hair straighteners, and someone kicking a ball over the fence. The fights aren't as personal as the ones on BBUS. For example, on BBUS someone would've probably found a way to turn Chanelle's past (about being adopted and her real mom being a prostitute who got murdered) against her and used that in an argument, which is just disgusting, but I could seriously see it happening. Also, usually the people who get involved in an argument on BBUK have someone to turn to when they're upset: even Charley had Nicky and Tracey, or the twins. On BBUS, however, it's quite possible for the houseguests to turn against one person and make them a nervous wreck. I always think it's cowardly to form a group against one person, especially when they haven't really done anything that bad, but whatever.
Big Brother US is just depressing and horrible and I'll probably never watch it again. I just can't enjoy watching a show where thoroughly nasty people are not only welcome, but able to have all the power and put down others. It's just disgusting.
A reality TV post for a change...
I have been watching Big Brother UK and US this summer and I'd like to just mention some reasons why some housemates (or houseguests) are dislikeable to me. Basically "ugly inside".
Hate
Pretty much everybody hated Charley in this year's BBUK, but in the end the hate of other housemates ended up making me dislike them more than Charley herself. Gerry and Chanelle in particular, but I'll focus on Gerry since I'll talk about Chanelle later.
Gerry was actually even my favourite housemate for a while. He was goofy, cute and funny, and I even thought he was kind of good-looking. But then one day he snapped and started "defending himself", which basically meant arguing with people, at times aggravating people more and more on purpose (that's what it looked like to me). Often his target was Charley. I'm not going to really defend Charley because everybody knows she's very argumentative, but it does take two to tango. There were some fights between the two when I took Charley's side, since I did think that Gerry was trying to annoy her on purpose and his holier than thou attitude was starting to get really old. Even outside fights he had turned into a miserable complainer and wasn't pleasing to watch or listen to in any way. He became my most hated housemate besides Ziggy.
Then Charley was evicted, and after her eviction Gerry cried and said something along the lines of "don't get me wrong, I wanted her to go, but I didn't want her to have to face those boos". And I thought, wow... Is Gerry really likeable again? I hope now that Charley and Chanelle are gone he will talk about others behind their backs less and be less miserable.
The second example is from BBUS. Among others there are a middle-aged rocker man "Evel Dick" and a 23-year-old model/nanny Jen. At the beginning Dick was like a breath of fresh air to me as a reality tv personality, since he'd keep everything out in the open, bust people lying, tell everyone exactly what he thought about them and so on. However, he's turned out to be quite a bully, and I finally started to dislike him after reading about how he poured a glass of iced tea on Jen's head.
See, he really hates Jen for whatever reason. On week two Jen won the HoH and nominated Dick and his daughter Daniele for eviction, but there's more to it than that. Honestly, I don't really even know anymore why Dick dislikes her so much, because he calls her absolutely anything and everything possible you can think of. It's ridiculous, really. But every time Dick starts a verbal attack against Jen, she just smiles and says "cool" or "thank you for your honesty". She is handling the situation in such a cool and mature manner that Dick ends up looking like an idiot. Maybe he realizes that and that's why Jen annoys him even more. Well, since he's not able to intimidate Jen by calling her names, he has now gone low enough to start physical intimidation. His lack of respect for other people makes him very ugly and horrendous in my eyes and I can only hope that he won't last long in the game. Too bad it seems like CBS is giving him a good edit, so most of the United States isn't getting a truthful image about what a bully this person is.
I think that's enough about hate. But yes, hate does make a person ugly!
Showmance
When the BBUK season started, Chanelle had so much potential to be a great housemate and to even win. But then came Ziggy. These two seemed to get glued to each other after knowing each other for 5 seconds and that ended up ruining Chanelle's time in the house. It's not just that showmances in general are damn boring to me (because mostly the lovebirds just cuddle together somewhere whispering stuff, zzzzz), but Ziggy and Chanelle's showmance ended up being a very frustrating on-off-on-off-on-off story with endless fights and jealousy. It was just painful to watch and it's too bad that Chanelle had to literally walk out to end it. I'd rather have seen Ziggy walk...
See, when Chanelle was without Ziggy she was still that same funny, weird girl that she was before Ziggy came into the picture. Her diary room entries were hilarious, and when Big Brother's birthday party locked Ziggy away from her for 10 hours, she was so entertaining and full of life - completely different from the boring cuddling/fighting with Ziggy. I wish Ziggy had never come into the house, I honestly believe the season would've been a hundred times more entertaining without him. I'm not going to blame the whole relationship stuff on him, but goddamnit. When there's a 19-year-old girl and a 26-year-old man, anyone can see who should have the balls to end the relationship when it gets bad, whether it's on TV or not.
I've heard Ziggy say the words "I care for you" so many times that I think it's absolute bullshit. Which leads us to...
Camera-consciousness
Ziggy. The guy doesn't seem to forget for a second that he is on a TV show and it shows in everything he does. He didn't want to break up with Chanelle at first most likely because he thought that the audience would hate him if he did that. Well little did he realize that viewers like me would hate him even more for not having the balls to call it quits, but let the damn thing drag on and on and on. One moment he'd be kissing Chanelle and whispering sweet things into her ear, the next moment he'd be complaining to other housemates how Chanelle is so young and immature. Such a false person.
It's really because Ziggy constantly has a "good guy" act on. He's trying to please everyone to be "the likeable guy", but it's so easy to see through it. He could say nice things to even Charley in one-on-one chats, but then the next moment be taking it all back in an argument or while talking to Chanelle. He is incredibly two-faced. His falseness and "camera-consciousness" also become clear in the diary room where he chooses his words very carefully - always pauses for a long time before answering. He just tries to choose the perfect words to appeal to whoever is listening to him, but once again, it's so easy to see through. All he says are cliches and worn-out words because he tries to kiss the audience's ass by trying to be harmless. It's so aggravating. Ziggy is just incredibly dislikeable to me.
I think that's it for now...
