Is there any originality anymore:
Big Brother 12’s twist: a saboteur (or basically just America’s
Player renamed) Big
Brother 12 » by Andy Dehnart / June 29, 2010, 12:00 PM
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» Big Brother 12’s twist has been
revealed, and it’s a variation of one we’ve seen before. One contestant
will be a saboteur, and will “disrupt the lives of fellow players” based
on viewer suggestions. In other words, they’re bringing back
America’s
Player from season 8, although with two changes: the other
houseguests will know that someone is trying to sabotage them, and that
person won’t be playing the regular game.
A CBS press release says that when they move in, “Houseguests will
discover that one of them is not really there to win the game, but
rather to sabotage their fellow players,” and their “mission will be to
carry out viewer suggestions on how best to disrupt the lives of fellow
players. … The longer the saboteur is able to maintain their anonymity
while carrying out their fan-inspired sabotage, the more financially
rewarding it will be for them.”
Executive producer Allison Grodner, who is in charge of
the
drug-addled monkey, said in a press release that this “will make
life for the Houseguests harder than ever before. This is a twist that
will wreak havoc on the house and the audience will be a part of it.”
Besides recycling something we’ve already seen, this twist borrows
even more from The Mole than America’s
Player did, but Big Brother is no Mole. And I generally find Big Brother’s attempts to fuck with the
contestants’ already fragile heads to be distasteful and stupid at best,
never mind how the producers
manipulated
America’s Player to do their bidding, so this isn’t something I’m
looking forward to.
Source: Reality Blurred
BB is one of my favorite reality shows, but to take a concept from another reality shows seems to tell me the well has been tapped dry. America's player was good the first time it came out and it blew up in A G face when a banner plane blew up Eric's spot up. This is not going to pan out well and there will be fairweather fans that would vote to help pitiful players like jordumb to win.