Big Brother Canada - season 1

I make it a personal policy to not blog about TV, but I just had to write this one.

I recently watched the finale of season one of "Big Brother Canada." The show is a little less trashy than its American counterpart, but it's essentially the same show. The one thing that I disliked about the Canadian version is that the producers interfered too much with people exiting the house. Specifically:

1. In week 3, Suzette was nominated against AJ. However, viewers were allowed to vote to veto one of the nominations. Suzette, who was the presumptive choice to go home, was saved. Aneal was nominated in her place and was evicted.
2. In week 9, Gary returned to the house after having spent three "weeks" in the Jury House. As a result, he became part of the final five and made it to the final two. (The American version of "Big Brother" has done this in the past, but normally in the first few weeks of competition when there are more people in the house.)

In the finale, Topaz accidentally voted for Jillian to win, instead of her BFF Gary. Topaz pleaded to have the opportunity to re-vote, but her vote was counted as final. Jillian won 4-3 over Gary. Had Topaz voted as she intended to, Gary would have won.

I'm glad that Jillian won. Not because she was a strong player or particularly likeable, but because Gary did not deserve to be in the final two. He had been duly evicted from the house weeks earlier and was only returned to the house because of interference from the producers.

Jillian may not have been the most deserving player to win the game, but she was the only one in the final two who earned her way there.