Another point to contemplate: people paid $200 for XL season passes with the promise of additional exclusive camera feeds, now all of those feeds are defunct and there's basically one cell phone tier camera feed at a time out of four that are publicly accessible by all. $200 for absolutely nothing the past week and a half, two weeks of the season.
I feel like they could've mitigated a lot of the hate/disappointment now if Sam Hyde/Jet just had the stream on them in the confession booth or whatever and said some shit to the audience like:
"things haven't panned out exactly as we had hoped, so we're faced with a decision on whether to stay in the house and you know, we have a few things planned for that and we believe we could still make it interesting for you guys... or, we had this other idea to do something else completely different ("take the show on the road") - we have some plans for that too, but it might not be super smooth. A lot of the stuff we do here is pretty spontaneous and the last thing we want to do is disappoint you guys, we know you've all been watching the show for weeks now and we see your messages and tweets and fan art and it's fantastic to see that kind of stuff and we of course still really want to deliver a captivating last 2 weeks of this season but we're a bit divided on what direction to go. We've never really taken the show on the road before so there's a lot of risks with that - you know, it might not work out great or it could be a complete failure. Anyway, we had a chat internally and we decided the best way to move forward would be to let you guys have a say in it. We're going to just take a break for an hour or two and then we'll put up a poll - it's up to you guys whether you want the red pill or the blue pill here"
Then if the fans voted to "take it on the road" and it was a fuckup they could at least be a bit empathetic. The gaslight of whether the show was truly over or not was pretty great, it is just really sad that they didn't manage to deliver anything meaningful after it. I feel like they could've done something more interesting than whatever this is - the whole point of the show is "you control the action" so they should've put this to the audience to decide and take some ownership of.
Instead, they just runned and gunned it. Like, I do respect their ambition and willingness to take risks, but the RV/Las Vegas shit clearly wasn't planned out at all. They had ample time to organize permits while they were on the way there, and even a retard equipped with Google could figure out that you need permits.
And yeah, I very much doubt Sam Hyde or Jet Neptune would be capable of delivering a speech/decision like that because they're too post-meta-ironic, arrogant or whatever. But they could've
easily gotten Luke to do it - he is pretty sincere and really well respected almost universally by the audience. They wouldn't have even had to give out specific details - just put it as a decision to either stay in the house or take a giant risk. 99% chance the audience would vote to take the risk and see where it goes - and if it ended up being the total fuckup that it appears to be right now, then the audience would at least be a bit sympathetic about it because they were the ones who got behind taking the risk.
