h2005 wrote:
James1978 wrote:
why they're picking such bundles of nerves to go on the show I'll never know.
It does make you wonder how someone like Marysia got on at the audition. But it'd be too much if they only had the Tommiis and the Bunneys on the show - some of the quieter people who apply deserve a chance too. This may of course mean that some of the shows could be potentially dull... but it makes the more interesting ones such as Charles' and Clive's seem even more special.
The current 22 at any one time is of course engineered as it's not a coincidence that we always have a fairly equal balance of men / women, young / old, loud / quiet, and there's even a good proportion of those in minority groups in any one 22. Having said that, I bet there are some contestants where even the casting team think after their show - "Why did we let
them on?". But it ultimately has to be remembered that if someone appears differently in their show to how they were at the audition, it's not the fault of the casting team at all.
2 Points well made H.
If only Bunny and Tommii's were on I would run for the hills. I am in fact sick of people who are OTT and interrupt. Charles and Clive are two of my favourite contestants EVER. If the show was of constant wannabes I would turn off in an instant.
Your other quote on whether the production team think whether they should have gone on is valid too, because they looked good at the audition. Just look at all those Big Brother audition tapes where the idiots say when I get in the house I am going to do this that and the other, and they are the most boring people once they go in, because they are really nothing. I think it is great to have a mix. Just look at Marysia, a quiet and quite timid well mannered woman I imagine. She had had a very bad year, and really thought she must get on with life after being in such a long relationship that ended in sadness. She got a new job, and as she said at the end had one of the best experiences of her life being on the show and making so many friends. She deserves a try, and I thought she played brilliantly.
Yet of course people like her don't have the approval of many of the posters here.
I read these posts daily, and often whilst I am watching the game on catch up later, and I Imagine that most of the very verbal posters who say the player should go on, or are wasting their opportunity must be young, and don't work or are students. I am sick of the "I would have done this, I would have done that posts" every day. (Waits for backlash about having an opinion).
What alot of you don't do is look at the player and imagine where they are in their life, what has happened in their life, what they expect out of the rest of their life. Money goes such along way to making questions like that alot easier.
Again with Marysia for example, she all through all the episodes came across shy, and quiet. How do you suddenly expect a woman perhaps 60 plus to go right through to the end with a board such as she had. She showed very little bravado all through the game, worrying about whether to go. Why then suddenly think that she is some confident 25 year old confident alpha male who is "going right thru to the end innit"
Please look at the player in future, try and get into their mindset before posting such bullish responses. Or the other option is
go on the show yourself, play like you say you would, win big, let me know the dates your show goes on in the spoilers, then I can avoid it like the plague.