>Season for season it has been so much better.

I agree.

>But they have
>a huge advantage with an established world. Characters that
>people already love and stories that have already been told.
>All they gotta do is show the journey on how they got there.

I think they deserve more credit than "all they gotta do is show the journey..." though it's pretty clear that the way your statement is written, and what you actually mean, aren't the same thing.

I don't necessarily disagree that the show has a sort of built-in advantage in having the established, beloved BB guys as the main players, but to give too much credence to that is to short-sell the brilliance of the writing and acting, and the overall attention to detail thus far in BCS.

Obviously there's no possible way for me to ever know this for sure but I can be all but certain that if BB didn't exist, I'd still love BCS.