BIG BROTHER – 8/10/12

August 10th, 2012 | 6 Comments | Posted in Uncategorized

Let me start off with an apology. I was on facebook, bored, and just looking around when I checked the “Other” tab in my “Messages.” As it turns out, I think I had about 15 “others” in that tab, which were messages from readers. From what I gathered, people have told me that it’s something they sent along with their friend request when they first requested me as a friend. Now, I am apologizing because I never saw them. They never showed up in my Messages tab and who the hell ever clicks on the “Other” tab? Seriously, facebook, just send it as a regular damn message, what is an “other” anyway?!? So, to those people who sent me a quick message and never got a response, I do apologize. I was going to send you quick messages yesterday, but some of these were from January and March and I didn’t want to come off as some crazy stalker type blogger and see my friends go from 306 to 290 by the end of the night! I have always said that I pride myself on responding to everyone who takes the time out of their day to write me, so I failed on that aspect, but just want to say that had I seen your message, I would have responded. So, apology accepted? Thanks. Let’s move on.

So, all this past week, I had turned myself off from spoilers. And, before the episode aired last night, I came to two determinations. One, I was more excited to see the episodes than I normally was because I had no idea what was going on and wanted my Big Brother fix. So, in that sense, I was happy with my decision to not read the spoilers. And, second, I realized just how boring it was NOT to read the spoilers. It gave me something to do during breaks at work, gave me something to talk about on Twitter, gave people a reason to actually follow me on Twitter (other than my asinine tweets about what I hate about people), and basically made me feel like I was in the loop. But, after watching this past episode, I am 100%, fully supportive of NOT reading the spoilers. And, I can’t grasp hold of whether that is because this episode was just good (since it seemed to be the first episode where something REALLY happened) or if it was because I was in the dark about what was going on and seeing it for the first time added excitement to it all. So, I think my final determination is that I’m going to give the no spoilers treatment one more week and make a decision then. That’s just an fyi to all those out there who like to talk to me about the spoilers. Again, I won’t hunt you down and kill you if you do spoil it, but I will find where you park your car at night and dump a bucket full of pigeon sh*t mixed with motor oil and chicken fat on top of it. And then promptly light it on fire.

Now that that is out of the way, we can move on to the episode, right?

We start off with the recap, as always. Danielle nominated Wil and Frank, summoned Wil upstairs to the HOH room and quickly released the tears on him. She told him that he was a pawn and that she never wanted to put him on the block, but he’s the only person she can trust not to go home against Frank, blah blah blabbity blah. Wil, in turn, starts crying because he feels people don’t like him and it’s like a teenage girls slumber party relived in the Big Brother HOH room. Get over yourselves, people. You’re crying like Maggie told Janie that you gave Jimmy, who is Janie’s brother, a hand job under the bleachers after school, even though you were in love with Jimmy’s best friend Timmy, who you secretly had sex with in the backseat of his dad’s pickup truck two days before you were rubbing one out of Jimmy.

Frank and Boogie are sitting in the nomination chairs, talking about how Frank is such a big threat in the house and has been nominated three out of the four times, only being safe the one week he won HOH, which he poignantly points out that was the only competition he has won. And, he’s played in them all. Every HOH, every Veto, and only won the one. This is all a great point, but what he’s forgetting is that this house is all about perception, and a guy with big muscles and bigger hair is always going to be viewed as a threat when the rest of the house is filled with nonathletic women, a gay guy, a worthless cook, and a nerd.

Boogie is upset because he feels that this is the classic textbook backdoor setup. I still find it funny to think that the backdoor option didn’t become existent until Nakomis thought it up way back in whatever season she was in (5 or 6, I think – I’m too lazy to go google it). It’s almost become such a part of this game that you would feel it was introduced by Big Brother staffers at the onset of the show.

6 thoughts on “BIG BROTHER – 8/10/12

  1. Hey – I commented on your last post yesterday that I was wrong before, when I had thought Danielle wasn’t a game changer as HOH – so pipe down there, no need to point it out again…although, well, maybe, that’s what I get for saying it! I guess its your blog…

    And, I know exactly who Keyser Soze – is – great great movie! That would be funny if it was all a persona Ian was acting out…you know, like how Ashley isn’t that ditzy in real life too, right?

  2. Scott, all I can say is even though I know it’s 99 percent no way no how gonna happen, that I LOVE your Usual Suspects theory about Ian. If that were to happen it would be the greatest season ever, and I will think that even if he didn’t win, but it still happened during his exit anytime.

  3. I didn’t see the season(s) with Boogie and/or Janelle, so I’m new to them both. However, as I said in an earlier comment: Boogie is brilliant.
    His manipulations are so subtle, so logical, so compelling that (at least for now) he’s got the Silent Six wrapped around his little finger – errrr …. maybe his middle finger? Watching him work in the After Dark broadcasts, I knew he would be successful in instigating the back-dooring of Janelle. (Sorry, Danielle, you really had very little to do with it.)
    I have to admit that I am beyond thrilled that Janelle was voted out and will not be on the Jury (and I’ll be massively ticked-off if BB somehow contrives to have her return to the game the way they did with Rachel/Brendan in the past).
    Probably some people were put off by Boogie taunting Janelle in his “good bye” message, but I thought it was hilarious – and, frankly, I lost any sympathy at all toward Janelle when she called him a “douchebag” (although BB bleeped it out, you knew what she said).
    Can’t wait until the Expendables are gone (Joe, Jenn, Ashley & Will) and the Silent Six + Ian are going to have to go up against each other, cause that’s when it’s really going to get interesting.
    I’m betting on Boogie, Frank & Ian developing an alliance that’ll bring them to the final 3.
    Scott, despite your avoidance of spoilers (which I think is too bad ’cause I’m sure you’d have extremely funny comments about them), I’m still loving your recaps.
    Cheers to my fellow BB fans.

  4. I think Boogie is determined to win to prove he can do it without Will! And at this point, I think he can win it again. Unless They have Pandoras box again and the penalty for the positive is to bring former houseguests in to replace boring ones….Paging Dr. Will! Wouldn’t that be a twist, get rid of players(using that term loosely) like Jenn and Danielle(yes I know she won HOH and veto but still!) and replace them with Will. Those of you who have never watched season 2 or 7, watch those seasons on YouTube and you will understand why I love him!

  5. Oh FanofSteve you’ve missed out – and cheers to you too! By the sounds of things, you would have loved the season with Chilltown, if you think Boogie is brilliant, you should have seen him with Dr. Will. Same kind of strategy – logicical, compelling brilliance – and honestly even when they were screwing people over it was so hard to be mad at them because they were so fun and funny – both for the viewers and houseguests alike. Hands down, best BB, if not reality show season, I have ever enjoyed. If it would be possible for you to find that season, you should watch it. And I don’t think I would say that about any other reality tv show. It was the first all star season – and so b/c they had all played the game before, it really bumped the strategy up a whole level. It should be all new or all stars though – not this mix of old and new.

    And in janelles season, she really did rule her season and came so close in all stars – she did rely on competitions to save her butt though, she really was amazing at them, as well as stirring up drama as distraction. It’s just that her game doesn’t work so well against Boogie’s – and she’s right, he would only ever want a bro alliance and that I think really ticks her off. I think she stands out as one of the only BB females to ever really make a mark on this game. Her and evil Dick in the same house might have made an interesting season.

    I never saw Boogie/ Will’s first season, I think that was the first season ever of BB. I do remember Nokomis pinoreeing the back door strategy, and I remember at the time thinking how brilliant that was – just brilliant. I don’t think there is another strategy move in BB that compares to when that first happened.

    And I know they keep saying the pawn always goes home as a strategy, but you know, that really hasn’t been true the last couple of seasons. It use to be true, but it hasn’t really happened that much anymore, but everyone keeps thinking it will.

    Anyway, I could keep going, but y’all might get bored!

  6. Keyser Soze!HaHa! This recap was so funny! I love Alf too but do you remember how f*ed up the ending to that show was? Traumatized me for life. Also, did you notice how Julie didn’t interview Danielle privately in the HOH room like she usually does? Even Julie knew that was pointless.

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