[MorganLamia]

Continuing on others' discussion on censorship/editing manipulation -

Obviously things have to be cut down to fit the edit, but these parts are pretty strongly indicative of Jenkin's disgusting and very horrible personality (Tom and Olivia too since they approve of his actions). None of this made the main show, just the live feed.

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I've seen many people on socials complaining about it, saying that the show is intentionally manipulating the edit to make him mainly come across as just cheeky and funny in an attempt to skew the public's opinion. I personally wouldn't go that far (it's not like he's got any chance of winning in my eyes), but I do believe that things like the above should be in the main episodes as it does show his strong character, and viewers should know that when it's in such a negative aspect of him that affects the other housemates.


Those feelings are probably made worse by a lot of the reactions to last week's eviction of Paul and Dylan, as many, myself included, strongly felt the AJ and Will treated them too softly in their interviews.
Of course they weren't going to tear them apart, but other than one or two incredibly light mentions of their very negative behaviour throughout the entire series, they were treated overly nicely in a quite hollow way. For example, Paul seemingly was a pretty bad guy that seemed to spend most of his time being horrible to the other housemates. In the interview? A video compilation of his farts as he laughs hysterically at himself.
It's one of the few things about this series that I've disliked. I was a big fan of the show from episode #1 of the original Channel 4 series, and closely followed it for a short while into the Channel 5 era, which I then dropped out because of how much the show leaning into a strong Love Island flavour with the choice of housemates, the editing, the music etc.

I'm glad that this series seems to have dialled the Love Island-ishness down quite a bit, but I still miss the Channel 4 and early Channel 5 days where they (seemed) to get across people's personalities in the main show, Big Brother's Little Brother, and the eviction shows when Davina and Emma would show the housemate their bad behaviour, and push them on it to give them a chance to explain their actions and reflect on it. It just felt more genuine and interesting than a generic outpouring of love for them as soon as they leave the house, with just a very, very light hint of "You were naughty!" jokes at the most.