Here I am. Partly distracted by Moz-worship, and partly finding Big Brother a bit dull in the wake of Kitten's departure, and the apparent cooling of bi-urges all around (at least half of 'em are supposedly bi, but the odd narcissistic buttock-baring and cynical snog aside, there's not been a great deal of same-sex interest, has there?) Michelle and High IQ Stu's passive-aggressive "romance" (he passive, she aggressive) has alternated between pathetic and repellent, interesting only for Victor's rather sad (and distinctly non-alpha) attempts to hang around the pair of them, in the apparent hope that a) he can somehow take 'credit' for being the benevolent Daddy-figure who brought them together (he could've 'ad 'er if he'd wanted, y'know), and b) their alpha-partnership might break up, and he can line up as the next beta-male for Michelle's slithery grip. In fact, he comes across as a seedy, voyeuristic gooseberry. Sloppy seconds?
The bedsit was a stroke of absolute genius, though, eh? Particularly with the Mollusc, whose bunny-boiling tendency has been stoked to the point where she'd happily fling the entire cast of Watership Down into a superheated geyser, if they so much as twitched their snuffly little whiskers in the vague direction of her barely-animate mannequin, Chicken Stu ('Chiquin Stu'?)
Evictions generally seem to have brought about some laugh-out-loud consequences: Ahmed running queenily ahmok with the crockery, and destabilising generally; and Marco, becoming temporarily less fagbanglesome (although having imported 300 cigarettes in order to buy (female) friendships lends the epithet an extra dimension) and managing to have a semi-meaningful conversation with Dan (Marco only recently came out to his parents - who are both, one presumes, deaf-blind halfwits) - only to devolve into amusingly snarly Diary Room hate (vocally, I imagine, like Marilyn Monroe busting the swearbox). He strikes me as one of those men who've identified as gay not because they're attracted to men (can anyone imagine him ever having had sex - or even a significant relationship of any sort - with a man) but because they're afraid of men, and are happier being Everywoman's shiny, clattery fagbangle. The eunuch in charge of the harem.
Having said which, it doesn't take a great deal of surface-scratching to reveal his misogynistic side, when the girlies in question won't do that whole Gay Best Friend screechy-screechy thing (Vanessa).
Despite (still) harbouring a rumbling-but-intense dislike for Chiquin Stu, I'd really like to see him develop some fun, flirty relationships with some of the non-mollusc housemates - simply in order that 'Chelle can slowly self-destruct like a salted slug... |
