The Last Mon Standing

I’ve been reading the newly constructed Slovenian Big Brother English website and I went to the forum.

I noticed that one of the hottest issue in the forum was about if Bruce would have sex inside the Slovenian house… if you’ll read the posted entries (which was written by the way mostly by Filipinos) they contain mostly of how Big Brother Philippines is different from the Slovenian, how “modesty” is carried out inside the Philippines and how proud we Filipinos are in having such a sensitive house and a morally upright TV program.

However, is this really the case?

I mean, when ABS-CBN first launched Pinoy Big Brother, did they really plan it to be this… this… uhm… should we say reserved compare to other foreign Big Brother houses?

(Phot taken from www.grabeh.com/forum)

During the first season, the very first episodes of Pinoy Big Brother ran mostly on how the new housemates get undressed and dressed. Shower times were also aired. ABS CBN I should say followed the “liberated” trend of other houses around the globe that it even raved in the commercials about the controversial kissing scenes of Sam and Chx prior to its airing. They were in fact too excited to have the luau party (where the incident happened) aired. And I even remember that Big Brother even gave the housemates two bottles of red wine to get drunk and of course to start getting nasty. But after the suspension given by the MTRCB and the public cry for a cleaner primetime show, they started cleaning up their show and Big Brother became outright strict about what is appropriate and not, and they also started doing those charity tasks.

(Phot taken from http://www.chikadora.com)

This sudden image change was even seen in Pinoy Big Brother’s use of its logos, the Big Brother logo and the “Eye”.

Besides the famous blue, oblong logo with the phrase “Big Brother” (Gran Hermano in Spanish Speaking countries) each Big Brother program sports its distinct eye logo. The eye I guess represents the no-privacy nature of each house… in short it symbolizes VOYEURISM.

As Pinoy Big Brother tries to clean up its image, Kuya also thought that the logo has to go. They almost have it deleted during the Celebrity edition and was not even seen during the Teen edition. And yeah, I only saw it last Saturday night when Tina entered the house. She stepped on it on the stage when the co-hosts, Bianca and Mariel, ushered her to Toni. They removed it even on their website. You cannot even fiind by Yahoo!.

It is like clearing out the eye for a cleaner view.