JokersUpdates.com: BB In-Depth - This may be worthy of my 2800th post, but I hate to repeat myself so often in the same season.

I think you might consider the opinions of others.

1st, learn to use the search box at the bottom of the page. Reposting the same tired whiney sound bites that have no gravitas is a burden to others here.

2nd, I’ll repeat for you, the only rigging in BB holds up lights and the competition devices in the backyard.

Your claims of “scripted” episodes is utter nonsense. There are writers, sure, who try to make the broadcast shows into some cohesive form, but that is far from scripting the show. You can’t make the HGs do anything you want. You can entice them, you can challenge or threaten them, but you have no way to make them do what you say. They are all, allegedly, adults and can make decisions for themselves.

Even the DRs, where they edit together to make the commercials and the broadcast show seem to have twists and turns (read as making the viewer think a vote might be close or go another way than it will) to add dramatic tension are not proof of scripting or tampering or rigging. By the 13th season of any show the potential HG pool is usually educated to what they’re going to be up against. Let me digress briefly to explain that I liked the 1st season of Survivor, but by the second it was more of the exposure of the castaways than the game and I stopped watching. Now they have the same three or four people on most seasons, it would seem from the commercials, and they’re proud of it.

I’ve said, much earlier this season, that maybe I’m just not cynical enough for all this. I will admit I don’t think Janelle got a fair shake at the end of AS, but other than that it’s the choices the HGs make more than some production or outside force that steers the game. Maybe it’s my history that makes me question things and not just accept anything and everything I’m told or I read (my paternal grandmother would add half of what I see).

I’ve always been a person who watched other people. I had to do that to survive when I was younger, but now I can size most people up immediately. And I read all the posts in In Depth to parse the comments and decide for myself if they’re useful or hurtful. I’m still here after all these years becase there is meaningful dialog there. It’s my opinion that clams of rigging usually come from posters who don’t feel things are going the way of the HG they most want to win.

And I have to stand behind Sizzle. If it truly is as bad as some of us make it seem, we should seek other avenues. I’ve been personally attacked twice this season (in 2 forums). I don’t seek that out, but I understand at least they’re listening. Like Frasier Crane, I’m listening.

I went all-in on the twitchy man-boy, and the man-boy pulled it off!