BB05 The T(win)s

Big Brother 2005 has been won by Twins. The Twins win.
I'm not sure I agree with the voting public - although it was apparently quite close at one point during the evening before votes closed.
The winner (The Logans - Greg and David) walked away with a large novelty cheque for $836k. The prize money had originally been $1 million but for this round, the contestants were fined $5k for each "misdemeanour". The housemates had won some of their lost money back - but there were still well short of the million. But I gues $836k between two isn't bad.
I was a little disappointed that Big Brother didn't award the other $164k to Tim, the runner-up. He was amazingly gracious in defeat - watching that large novelty cheque slip from his grasp! Especially as he didn't seem to get any more prizes than the other contestants, some of whom had lasted only a week.
Another new feature this year was a catch-up on the major news items that had happened over the 100 days contestants had been in the house - it was fairly superficial as a news bulletin, but it served to remind that life does go on, and it did, and there were some fairly horrific things that happened. I don't think any good news items got a guernsey at all.
But back to the twins. I posited to Suzanne, as we made our way to the bus stop on the morning after the final, that it had been unfair to have twins as housemates - it allowed a very real splitting of "good" and "evil". It allowed you to think of one as nicer than the other: "classic Kleinian theory" Sooz reminded me as I ranted on the way to the bus stop. So, if you wanted to keep the one you liked in, you had to vote to keep them both in. Hardly fair.