As always, we pick up where we left off at the end of the previous episode, with the houseguests’ coming back inside from Gronk’s foam party with Austin being dethroned and Vanessa being the lone HoH. And both of them are pleased with the result as they’re both targeting the same players for eviction and feel as if they’ll have each others’ best interests in mind this entire week, making it acceptable that they aren’t completely safe for the week since they’re not HoH. Vanessa expresses that she’s worried about coming up with a plan to get the entire house to back her plan to get either Jeff or James out this week, rather than house pest Audrey. She’s worried that everyone has wanted her out for the past two weeks and if she doesn’t put her up for eviction, she’ll become a target as it may seem she’s either working with her or she’s just plain out not playing the game everyone else wants her to play and to do the house’s bidding for them. Personally, I think she’s thinking too much into it at this point and that there’s an entire week left for her to persuade everyone that she has the alliance’s best interest at heart, and believes that keeping the big target in the house is the best move for them as they won’t be targets each week because at some point, Audrey will have to go.
Bobcat G actually thought that James may have been throwing the Battle of the Block. I get it that with this Battle of the Block being two seasons old, it seems that every week someone has been throwing the competition (just another reason to get rid of the stupid thing), so I hear him on that but for what reason would James have to throw it? Especially if he, Bobcat G, was already throwing it and working with the HoH’s to do so? So, did the two HoH’s go behind his back and tell Country Asian to throw it as well, not thinking the annoying voiced one would throw it? Or, even more stupid, did he think that James was working solo to throw the competition so that he could REMAIN ON THE BLOCK?!? I’m not so sure Johnny Wack thought this one out all that much before he mentioned it. James may believe that this week is all about getting Audrey out, but he still doesn’t want to be on the block. Thank goodness we didn’t have to put up with a diary room yell fest about it!
Up in HoHLand, Vanessa, still worried about what it would look like logistically to get someone else out other than Audrey, considers keeping the nominations the same so she doesn’t have to ruffle too many feathers in the house by taking John off and putting up Jeff. So, the original plan of getting Jeff out is now out the window as she’s pulling for the nominations to stay the same so that they can vote James out this week, so that she doesn’t have to show anyone else in the house that she’s against them and gunning for them. Solid plan, but we all know how well solid plans work out in the Big Brother house. I’m sure this scene wasn’t foreshadowing at all to a later scene where she’d have to put some additional blood on her hands. And again, these players worry so much about putting blood on their hands this early in the game. If you’re going to get blood on your hands, get it on your hands now when the people whose blood you’re spattering all over the wall are going home and not to jury to bitterly vote against you. Plus, it’s so early and alliances aren’t solidified that it would be much easier to talk your way back into good graces with the people who were aligned with the person you sent home. And, lastly, you’re in an alliance yourself with people you unfortunately have to trust to have your back and hope to pull out a win the following week so you can’t get revenge-evicted the following week. It’s a risky move, sure, but no matter what you do as HoH, you’re getting blood on your hands, so you may as well make a ballsy move and take out someone you deem as a future threat, rather than an obvious choice that, at this point in the game, nobody would vote to win over you. These people always play like p*ssies now, and it’s getting kind of annoying. We need a season with ten or twelve players who aren’t afraid to be cutthroat from the very start. Everyone just seems so gullible these days and easily swayed into doing what everyone else wants and to “keep the peace” in the house more than trying to win $500,000. I blame this on Russell losing his first season of Survivor after playing one of the most perfect games anyone has ever played in reality television. Now, people are all worried that the people on the jury are going to be bitter b!tches and just vote based on social game and such. Everyone needs to calm down, grab their sack and start competing against each other rather than complementing each other’s games.
If ever we need a light moment in the show, just let us listen to Liz and Julia talk to each other. Those two have to know someone affiliated with the show or had to have done their auditions completely naked with just the male casting staff in the room, because I can’t imagine they enlightened casting enough with their dialect and personalities to get booked for the show. And yes I say booked because they’re models. I really feel as if this show finds less “real” people and just does favors for friends of the show by letting their friends on the show. And then they show their appreciation by spending the entire time in the house sunbathing and sleeping. Kudos, casting. But anyway, these two talking to each other and Body 1 telling Body 2 that a) she has greasy hair so she needs to tie hers up, b) isn’t happy about her getting a cold sore, c) to stop being a lazy b!tch and start showing more personality, and d) cover up that dead @ss tooth was the best part of the night. Body 2 hit Body 1 back with some low blows telling her to stop being such a dumb blonde and to stop acting so bubbly, b!tch. Quality back-and-forth there, proving that even sisters spending just 15 minutes with each other in a room once every 4 days is too much for them to put up with. And people wonder why an all-girls alliance will never happen in ANY situation, let alone a reality television show where the casting agents find the REAL crazy b!tches to chuck into a house they’re not allowed to walk out of for 90some days…good luck, girls.
Each season, some of my favorite moments are watching the houseguests’ (mostly just the girls) get all dolled up for certain events in the house, like the Nomination ceremony, the live shows of course, certain competitions, yet don’t get ready for other obvious moments that are definitely going to air, like when they pick players for the Veto, the Veto meeting, and just about any other moment in the house because, guess what, YOU’RE ON LIVE F*CKING FEEDS 24/7 AND PEOPLE PAY MONEY TO WATCH YOU!!!!! Kills me every year.
Also, why the hell would anyone worry about Audrey being chosen for the Veto competition? Has Audrey shown ANY inkling of being someone who can win at anything? The girl doesn’t change out of her pajamas, never puts on a bathing suit even when she’s swimming, sleeps even when she’s awake, and even when she is awake and not asleep, you’d assume she’s asleep because she has pajamas on, sunglasses on, and a blanket covering her face. If anything, James should be applauding her being chosen, because that’s one less person he needs to worry about winning. If Audrey wins a competition that involves more than 3 players playing, I’ll eat dog food and post a video of it to YouTube. Mark that down. Actually, don’t. If it happens, I’m just going to get something that looks like a Beggin’ Strip and tell you it’s a dog treat…
After Audrey is chosen to play, she goes into the HoH room to talk to Vanessa about it being the best case scenario for her to win. I’ll revert to my previous paragraph and add to it that even the way Audrey was speaking about winning didn’t come off as truly believable, just showing that she doesn’t even have confidence in herself to win anything, because if you haven’t noticed, she’s not that great. Another thing she’s not great at is catching a hint when softly lobbed at her, then lobbed at her again, and then chucked straight at her forehead. Look Audrey, if someone is telling you that you shouldn’t be seen talking to each other, they’re politely telling you to get the hell out of the room right at that moment and don’t come back until one of you are dead.
At the actual Veto competition, we get a recycled game from just last season. Running out of ideas there, Big Brother?!? Gronk was such a huge fan of Devon and his go at rolling the human dice that he wanted to see this season’s cast do it, too? They couldn’t do something football related? I mean, the guy only plays football for a living. That and banging porn stars, but I’d imagine CBS might frown upon that type of action during prime time hours.
In the end, Bobcat G solidifies himself as this season’s Veto King, pulling out another win this week as he did last week. Let’s see if Vanessa tries to ask him to NOT use it on himself so that she can keep the nominations the same and not get more blood on her hands. That seems to be the way things would go this season, so I don’t doubt that thought isn’t running through her head…
After the competition is over, and we heard Austin himself say that he threw it to Johnny, Vanessa is SUPER pissed at him because she’s not stupid and could tell that he was throwing it, even though he only lost by a few seconds as he was flipping his die onto the podium at just about the same moment Johnny was. I can understand why she was upset with him because his excuse to her was pathetic (that when it was he and Johnny in the end, he didn’t know if he should still win or let him win – even though they all agreed to win it so that the noms could stay the same), but at the same time didn’t Vanessa just get done throwing the competition to Audrey, of all people?!? The person everyone else wants out of the house and believes is being backdoored this week? I’m not so sure you have any room to be so upset here, Vanessa, because if you want things done your way, you need to handle them on your own. You can’t go trusting everyone else to be playing the same game you want to play.
And that leads me to one of the main reasons why I would hate playing Big Brother – and that’s the fact that it’s so easy for people to get pissed off at you and want you out of the house. You can go from allies one minute to being up for eviction the next just because you’re not willing to play the same game someone else wants to play. Vanessa could literally put Austin on the block if she was truly that upset at him (I know she wouldn’t this early, but later on it would be possible) and that just sucks to think that your game could end so abruptly just because someone else is such an idiot and feels that you should be the one doing everything they want you to do in the game. I can only imagine the amount of stress people go through inside that house. Maybe people like Jackie, Meg, and Jiz have the right idea by going into the house just to get a vacation out of it and hopefully gain some type of celebrity status out of it enough that they don’t have to have a “real” job anymore. Maybe they’re onto something and the real suckers are the ones who come into the house, play the game so hard so fast and get voted out so soon. Hmm…
Jeff has a quick chat with Vanessa to see “where her brain is at” and like in true form this season, she sticks her foot right in her mouth, telling Jeff that her target is his best friend in the game, James. Smooth move there, because I’m sure he’s not going to go run to James and not tell him ANY of that! Geez…where did they find these people?!? Everyone of them are making the same “rookie” mistake every single day. If you’re planning on voting someone out, or voting out one of their closest allies, don’t tell them that 5 days before the eviction happens. Good grief. I can’t talk anymore about this because I feel like a broken record with these blogs since everyone does the same stupid stuff every episode.
And of course, Jeff goes and tells Jason and James what’s going on (and Clay is there, too). Austin rolls up on the conversation and he tried his best acting moves with the news that Vanessa now wanted James out instead of Audrey, but Jason was on to him and told Jeff that he was lying and that him and Vanessa were probably working together the whole time. Oh really?!? Good call, Sherlock! I mean, they were only HoH’s together and made nominations together, so I’d have to imagine they probably orchestrated who to get out with those nominations at all. But I guess I shouldn’t make fun of him because he seems to be the only one to put the pieces together here. So good call, Sherlock. I’ll give you a virtual high five for that one.
And then what does Jeff do? He goes and tells Clay all about Austin and how they need to get him out and such. Yet Jeff was just talking to Austin about how he can’t trust Clay, so of course Clay then relays everything Jeff said to Austin and what we get next is the reason Jeff will be going home this week…
Austin confronts Jeff in front of Clay and Shelli, and later Vanessa, as well as the rest of the house being within earshot of the conversation. They basically call Jeff a liar, which in the game of Big Brother is stupid because they’re ALL lying to each other and saying one thing to one person and the same thing about that person to another person and so on and so forth. So, this whole fabricated plot is just pointless and I’m sure the only person who bought into it was Vanessa herself since she just needed to have it happen so she could have a speech to speak at the Veto ceremony to justify why she was putting Jeff up on the block. Smart, maybe, but at the same time her argument is moot since everyone in the house is a damn liar.
If the episode wasn’t already crazy enough, can anyone explain to me what in the actual f*ck happened with that cruise competition? Why were there only five people playing? And what was the competition – just drink the drink and whoever has the chip in the cup wins? How is that even a competition – you won just by standing behind the cup with the chip in it. I’m at a loss for that poor editing job, because I’m pretty certain there was more to it than that, but congrats to Meg and her boobs, which I’m sure will be motorboated by that grimy Gronk bastard. Although, Meg winning may be a great thing for me and my sports hatred for all things Boston, considering she’s a psychopath serial killer who may just get pissed off on that cruise and murder everyone in sight…
And, in the least surprising move of the episode, Bobcat pulls himself off the block and Jeff goes up. We can sum up Jeff’s tenure on the show with two simple words, Bye Felicia!
I read Vanessa’s HOH blog and it was more interesting than those I saw for past seasons. She mapped out her view of the alliances, sub alliances, and intersecting alliances. She did not believe Austin’s lie about not throwing the veto. Split vote was better than boring unanimous votes of the past. I liked Meg and Liz not going with their alliances for their own games (even if you dispute their “logic”). Liz is one of those girls who always looks like she just smelled something bad.