Michael

[CaptainWacky]

Not terrible. But annoyingly positive?

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Deer in the headlights. Low self-esteem. May end up the humble hero of the season, or a bitter wimp who gets eviscerated on the Net for saying something horrible while upset.

 

[Fuddlemiff]

He'll have a mental breakdown like Freddie IMO.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Aw, spit. He's the plant.

This could be interesting.

 

[The Tomtrek]

DUN DUN DA

 

[CaptainWacky]

He had me fooled!

 

[Fuddlemiff]

Ooooh. That's a genuinely good first night twist.

And I usually hate first night twists!

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Definitely better than the "put an earpiece in some daft woman's ear and tell her to say silly things" twist.

 

[Fuddlemiff]

Yeah. They've done that so many times and it's always been excruciating.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Wait -- they're going to make Michael do something right away that makes the others hate him? That's kind of gutting the twist right off the bat, isn't it?

So he'll be up for eviction every time, and never go home for weeks...

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Why is he still acting in the Diary Room?

AH, they're going to watch him, that's why!

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Erm...not that great an actor.

 

[CaptainWacky]

If he was a real housemate he should win for that!

 

[Fuddlemiff]

Yeah, well he's got a lot of pressure on him. I imagine they got someone from Ireland so there was less chance of any housemates recognising him, but the producers were still in the position of trying to find someone who was good and relatively unknown.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Of course they all knew the suitcases were obviously empty.

 

[The Tomtrek]

Him trying to push the suspicion onto Gina is pretty fantastic.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Yes. And the "box of sweets" challenge was pretty good too, since he was able to screw the house over and not seem like the villain for once. If they make him utterly hated too quickly, the whole twist will crumble.

 

[CaptainWacky]

It's a shame that he's the best housemate and he's not actually a housemate (and he does look like Mister Tumnus.)

 

[The Tomtrek]

I love this guy.

 

[CaptainWacky]

When he leaves they should send him back in and claim it's his identical twin brother and he's a real housemate now.