Question time. Why are there still (the same) 20 people in the Villa?
This is too many islanders. The show knows it, because it treats a lot of them as if they do not exist. The islanders know it too, and are mostly treating those people as if they don’t exist. Some of them are in presumably strong couples of which we know nothing. Others are not, but we still know nothing.
I suspect the producers have a serious problem, which is that they know the public and the islanders do not understand what makes good television, and likely wouldn’t play along, so they can’t do the kind of votes they want to trim the numbers down.
As in, at this point, you do still want Taylor and Clarke, and Huda and Chris, and you could easily get put in a bad spot with no clear way out. Huda in particular needs to be protected, and it seems unlikely the other islanders would save her. You could try to force them, but I don’t think you want to do that. So, and this is speculation, they seem like they’ve been stalling, and accepting a much bigger cast, which results in things like the heart rate challenge not getting to be shown properly.
What’s the solution? There’s no clean options, and time is running out. I think at this point they do have to hold a vote tonight for top couples, and hope it works out. I would absolutely be willing to manipulate the number of cuts and how much choice you give the islanders, to maximize the chance you get what you want after seeing how the votes fall, but you have to do it, especially so that you can have room for the last few bombshells.
I heard Dark Lord Maddux say that a big reason for doing Casa the new way was to prevent bullying and vilification during Casa. I sympathize, but I don’t think the new method works that well for this? The more we see how things played out, the more I would go back to the old methods (although I have not directly seen them, I’ve only seen this season and season 1 of USA, which had no Casa Amor).
Epsiode 25 Update
Question time. Why are there still (the same) 20 people in the Villa?
This is too many islanders. The show knows it, because it treats a lot of them as if they do not exist. The islanders know it too, and are mostly treating those people as if they don’t exist. Some of them are in presumably strong couples of which we know nothing. Others are not, but we still know nothing.
I suspect the producers have a serious problem, which is that they know the public and the islanders do not understand what makes good television, and likely wouldn’t play along, so they can’t do the kind of votes they want to trim the numbers down.
As in, at this point, you do still want Taylor and Clarke, and Huda and Chris, and you could easily get put in a bad spot with no clear way out. Huda in particular needs to be protected, and it seems unlikely the other islanders would save her. You could try to force them, but I don’t think you want to do that. So, and this is speculation, they seem like they’ve been stalling, and accepting a much bigger cast, which results in things like the heart rate challenge not getting to be shown properly.
What’s the solution? There’s no clean options, and time is running out. I think at this point they do have to hold a vote tonight for top couples, and hope it works out. I would absolutely be willing to manipulate the number of cuts and how much choice you give the islanders, to maximize the chance you get what you want after seeing how the votes fall, but you have to do it, especially so that you can have room for the last few bombshells.
I heard Dark Lord Maddux say that a big reason for doing Casa the new way was to prevent bullying and vilification during Casa. I sympathize, but I don’t think the new method works that well for this? The more we see how things played out, the more I would go back to the old methods (although I have not directly seen them, I’ve only seen this season and season 1 of USA, which had no Casa Amor).