05/11/06 Unan1mous... thank goodness its over....

The agony is officially over.  If all you want to know is "Who Won?" then read no more....  Tara Smith, handbag designer, won $382,193.

Now for the rest of my thoughts on this 'reality show.'

When the promos for this show came out I was kinda excited.  I envisioned a show similar to Big Brother, my favorite reality show.  I was sadly dissaponted.

Allow me to knock down a few 'reality' walls for you.  

The show was not filmed underground in a secret "bunker."  My guess is it was filmed on a simple sound stage in Burbank decked out to look like a bunker.
 

The show talked about 'no outside contact' - yeah right - Big Brother makes the same claim and yet every year we know that the producers spend A LOT of time talking to the contestants - even if it is only via a speaker most of the time.  Think about it - SOMEONE has to ask these people questions when they were doing their diary sessions. The show probably didn't even take a week to tape.  The initial dollar amount was 1.5 million.  Then it dropped $1 a second for the rest of the show (with the exception of when it was stopped for votes).  So bear with me while I do a little math here.........

1,500,000 - 1,492,296 = 7,704  (seconds) - which translates into 2.14 hours - thats when the first person walked out.  Thats right folks - only two hours after the first vote the first person quit.  Seems like DAYS didn't it??

Then they cut the total in half so we had $746,148 left.  Turn that clock on again and what the heck - lets skip the stoppages and get right to the final total....  $382,193.

746,148 - 382,193 = 363,955 (seconds) - which is roughly 4.2 days.

So if these bozos walked in on a Monday afternoon - the were finished late Friday night.   Ohhh - what torture!!! 

I can promise you there will not be a season two of this show.

Tarah made a heck of a lotta money for one weeks work.  Compare that to Maggie from Big Brother 6 who was in the Big Brother house for over 2 months and only made a bit more than that.

I guess maybe the editors of the show should be given a little credit for getting that many episodes out of 6 days of taping.  On Survivor they generall have 72 hours of real time to cram into one hour - these poor souls had only an average of 12 hour for each 30 minute program.

If for some reason you are still reading this, and liked the show and have never seen Big Brother - then you seriously need to check out season seven which will start in July.  I will shortly be adding a lot of updates to my Big Brother Seven area and, as in previous seasons, will update it daily once the show starts will all kinds of screen caps and spoilers.