After a week that has been quite frankly draining for the long term Big Brother viewer the show finally got the shot in the arm that was required tonight. In a mid week eviction special Davina turned up to oversee the final extractions from House 2.0 and to see Aisleyn reintroduced to the original set who had “evicted” her the week before.
Michael and Jennie had already as good as volunteered themselves to face the wrath of Big Brother and take their chances on their fate earlier that day making Aisleyn’s task easier. Remember they couldn’t predict with any cast iron certainty what their fate would be once they entered the diary room. As it happened their risk paid off and they got to enter the original house. This of course left only Jonathan and Spiral at the tender mercy of Aisleyn. One of them would leave Big Brother without ever seeing the main house.
It was all decidedly dramatic and in fairness made for the best viewing this week as Aisleyn collapsed in fits of theatrical whimpering (and that was before she even made her decision). Eventually under much duress she chose Jonathan as the man to go home, basing her decision on his capacity to take an early bath better than anyone else. And in fairness his “inner calm” served him relatively well in the post eviction interview. Alas the downside is we are now stuck with the annoying Spiral as a relatively permanent fixture.
With Jonathan out of the way it was time for Aisleyn to make her grand entrance back into the house. And how grand it was, herds of cows have been milked less at any one time. She virtually staggered into the house racked with sobs that put an Oscar acceptance speech winner to shame and dramatically swanned off to the bedroom with her new shining knight Spiral by her side.
The new housemates swept to her side leaving the originals looking somewhat bemused by everything that had gone on. It was a big night for them as well you understand, they were just discovering the truth about the “house next door” and the plots within.
Lea meanwhile looked a tad disappointed that for once all the attention wasn’t on her. Nikki was basically shitting herself, the prospect of gangsta vengeance being brought to her door perhaps (and the sudden influx of housemates means she loses one of her beds…ah bless).
The dust will take a while to clear on this one and there could be some serious divides built up before it does. Shame we lose one of the house big guns this Friday (who do you think should go?). Leaving any potential excitement provision to the likes of Imogen and Susie instils little confidence, in fact watching grass grow would remain a more invigorating prospect than these radar dodgers.
Technically with Big Brother over the last couple of weeks there has been what appears to be timing issues that might have caused the show to lose impetus. The “milk drain” task was apparently intended to run for a couple of days, yet due to housemate ineptitude and the machinations of dull Imogen the whole task was over within a couple of hours. Then there is a whole hype machine built around the presence of the second house. A house that after less than a week is now seemingly redundant. Unless the show has further plans for the new pad (somewhere to stick housemates if any fighting starts a la “fight night” a couple of years ago).
We’ll have to wait and see, but for now…
…Know yourself.
