Big Brother 10 -- First Episode Impressions

Gotta hand it to CBS/Big Brother. After several seasons of populating the cast almost exclusively with 20 or 25 year-old model wannabes with severe personality disorders, they decided to pick a cast of people old enough to remember life without the internet who actually seem sane and nice. Granted, its early. Having just watched the first episode, here are my thoughts on Big Brother 10.

The House

The house got a MUCH needed renovation, adding some creativity and set design to the bland rooms of years past. While I'm sure these will blend into the background, it is nice that they finally decided to decorate the house with something other than crap they found at K-Mart.

The Initial "Twist" -- Head of Household

Big Brother made the houseguests vote for a Head Of Household before they even went inside the house. This is another lame Big Brother twist that will prove to have no impact one way or another on what happens in the game. It would have been better to have some sort of lame competition or random chance game to choose the winner. Was anyone really shocked that the house guests picked the oldest person as their first HOH?

First Food Competition

After 7 or 8 years, Big Brother finally realized that the umpteenth variation of writing a number on a chalkboard was a boring method of competing. So they finally started getting a little creative in staging more elaborate games for the contestants to play. Tonight's upside down VW bug game was inspired, and making the house guests choose early whether to be greedy or work for the good of their team was a smart game for the first round. If I were BB, I would have let the team that finished second play it through and let the last person in THAT car win the vintage Mustang.

Julie Chen

My wife said that it looked like she was wearing a red girdle. It's good to see that after 10 years, Les Moonves' woman has yet to get implants. Personality implants, that is. I've often wondered how this woman feels to know that most people feel that the biggest asset she brings to the show is her robotic nature. I'd love to see a competition.

Thoughts on the House Guests