Eye on Big Brother has been keeping a very close eye indeed on the confected narrative of “Corey Worthington (or Delaney) redeems himself as a house guest”, most recently looking at how this narrative has only been maintained with difficulty because of “Nanna” Terri refusing to play the role cast for her, and Bianca’s far too loud condemnation of Corey in his persona of “just an average seventeen year old kid”, and how their refusal or inability to perform as expected has led to the narrative turning on them, in predictable misogynistic mode.
If Rima Haditchi has just decided to leave (rather than retiring hurt), as now seems increasingly obvious, she would seem to have made a sensible decision.
…It’s interesting, in this context, to see how Saxon the UFO lover failed in his own quest for redemption. Although apparently he got some kudos from the eviction night crowd for overcoming his admitted racism and homophobia by cuddling up to Nobbi (aptly named, as has been said before) and the bizarre though rather likeable Travis, the screen time given to his aggressive defence of what seems core to his sense of self - his belief in a conspiracy that hides the evidence of aliens from the rest of us (”the truth is out there”, one imagines) - surely doomed him. Saxon was actually displaying one of the key fracture lines in the postmodern personality of surfaces, and the culture of individualism as it affects civility - on one hand trying to defend his “passionate” “beliefs” with reference to protocols of truth and evidence, and when called on it, falling back on the default position of “how dare you diss me - my strange beliefs are myself?”… But what he didn’t realise was that Franz Kafka might have been writing about him when he said:
There’s infinite hope, but none at all for us.
