re: Official Big Brother 17 Season Long Thread (Spoilers/Live Feeders/Maybe NSFW)

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The biggest turn off for me is the perception at least that production is dabbling. When they do obvious twist to keep a player in the game even though it may be a good player it screws up the game for me.

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Agree 100%. I understand that there's going to be some interference, but I hate when production does something crazy to truly affect the game (most evident in Jeff's Coup d'etat in season 11). Sure, I hated Chima but that was just wrong.

I'll admit that I just watched season 1 of Canada and tried to start season 2 but couldn't take it. Just seems like production is constantly meddling. Sometimes it would be humorous. For instance, I saw a clip from season two where one house guest got the choice of keeping $5k or letting her housemates get letters from the outside. She took the $5k but didn't realize that the houseguests were watching her deliberation the whole time. That was funny and for all intents and purposes had zero effect on the game as best I could tell.

Awarding in-game powers out of nowhere has never been that interesting to me unless it's something that everyone can compete for in the house. If it's a secret power, then it just seems arbitrary (even if voted on by "America.")