I nearly pissed myself laughing at Britney’s DR session during Rachel’s HoH room reveal. Funniest shit ever.
EDIT: Real quick before the edit window expires, I found it interesting that Matt hid his Brigade alliance nicely by randomizing the key order during his nomination ceremony, while Rachel put her keys in an obvious pecking order of who she likes best first. There was good intel in her key order.
Hey gang, it’s not just the contestants who are dumber than a truckload of posts.
Just think- its someone’s job to add that “schwing” sound in post production when the keys get pulled out of the round box. And I thought Vanna White had the stupidest job in television. And speaking of that box, could they make it any more uselessly bigger and heavier?
Oh, and HOH, make sure to put the nominee’s keys in the velvet bag with the drawstring pulled tight AND put that into the wooden box with the latch. Hey, maybe just to play it safe, put the wooden box into ANOTHER wooden box and lock the whole thing in a chest of drawers and then padlock the room the chest of drawers is in. 'Cause you never know.
It’s just all so stupid that I can’t miss a single episode.
Britney is my favorite player. Loved the gesturing of hanging herself in the DR talking about seeing the HOH room. Like Courtney in Survivor, I want Britney to stick around a long long time for her commentary.
Not sure if it was posted here, but they sent Annie, Monet and Andrew home. Originally they were keeping everyone in sequester, one assumes so that they could bring someone back. My personal opinion is that Julie Chen fucked everything up by letting Andrew in on Matt’s lie about his wife. I could be wrong, of course, but the second she told that to Andrew I thought “FIX!” If anyone comes back the well will have been poisoned against Matt. Thankfully that’s now a non-issue.
As a newbie, I’m curious how impressive the Brigade is compared to alliances from other seasons. Not in the stuff they’ve accomplished, which is actually rather little, but rather in the social aspect of it.
They formed a four-person alliance before the first episode aired, and thus even before the live feeds started. They got all four to the jury house without anybody else having the remotest clue their alliance even existed. Plus three of the four managed to get tight with one other non-alliance member, such that the Brigade member is that person’s closest actual ally. (Matt & Ragan, Hayden & Kristen, Lane & Britney.) And despite these close 1-on-1s, it appears that all four really do have first loyalty to the Brigade.
All of these points are impressive to me, none more so than keeping it secret so effectively. Has any other alliance in previous seasons managed to stay hidden so well? Or managed to pull in satellite resources like the Brigade has in Ragan, Kristen and Britney?
Dr. Will and Mike Boogie were/are the best BB alliance I’ve seen. It’s certainly easier with 2 people, so I will give the Brigade credit for that. But what happens to the Brigade when they realize someone’s not going to the Final 3? Will the wheels fall off?
That is always the question. What’s funny is that the only 4-person alliance I ever remember making it to final 4 was the first season of Survivor. Which of course was the first “weekly eviction” show ever. It worked great right out of the gate and then never again.
From my impression during the first couple weeks, I believe the thought process for Lane, Enzo and Hayden is that they don’t feel threatened by Matt at all and assume he’ll be the first one out after final four. By contrast, I think Matt feels the three big lummoxes will carry him to final four and then he can pick them off with his massive Mensa brain.
At this point I’m rooting for Lane. He seems to be a pretty good guy, at least in the CBS edits.
Just saw a great illustration of DR manipulation over on Hamstertime. This happened last night after BBAD, and will almost certainly be the focus of Wednesday’s “what will happen?!” edit about will the PoV get used or not and if so on whom. So this is an actual spoiler, though I personally consider it irrelevant pablum of the kind that goes on all day every day in the BB house.
EDIT: Note that it also reveals who wins PoV this week. I forget that that is a spoiler.[spoiler]Hayden’s plan to save Kristen is to form a 4-person alliance with both showmances. Stupid, right? The only way it works is if Rachel asks Britney to pull Hayden off the block and Rachel puts up Kathy instead. Britney has said both those terms are required; anything less is a dealbreaker.
So Hayden and Kristen go to HoH to convince Rachel and Brendan of this incredibly stupid (for Rachel and Brendan) plan. Rachel starts buying into it. The guys leave and Kristen convinces Rachel even more. Britney enters, and after a bit Rachel is sold. She goes to find Hayden and tells him it’s a done deal.
The next recapper post is this, verbatim:
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Although it seems Brendan is missing his.
Ragan trades $5000 for a veto pass…WTF? I guess he doesn’t want a 5G bullseye on his back. Does that mean there might be 7 players in next weeks VETO competition? If he is not on the block and he doesn’t get randomly picked?
Funny that the two “bad” prizes were picked last. If Rachel had ended up with Solitary Confinement, would Brendan ended up with Blue Balls? Would she spend 24 hours in the “have not” room while she was an HOH.
Maybe solitary confinement is not such a bad prize. 24 hours of not having to hear Rachel’s annoying laugh sounds pretty good to me [pun intended].
Heh. When the guys won the prize of seeing “The Other Guys” with Rachel, I was thinking how watching a *comedy *sitting next to Rachel would one of the worst tortures BB could impose on the houseguests.
The picks weren’t random. At one point, Brendon said something like, “Rachel, pick up prize #3”…they were in the order they went out. So the veto was first deliberately (what good is a suspenseful “prize stealing” competition if the big prize doesn’t show up until last by random chance?), and the two bad ones were last deliberately.
Unfortunately, it seemed that the solitary confinement room wasn’t soundproof.
Yeah, I didn’t get the point of that.
In my estimation the “point” to this season is tits and shrill laughter and inanity. I refuse to go beyond the broadcast version for meaning and logic, but please tell me that at least one other houseguest beside Rachel and Brendon has done something worth showing instead of their prepubescent smooching.
Not really. The most exciting bit of almost-intelligent gameplay so far has been the plan last night to join up the showmances and replace Hayden with Kathy.
When I watch an episode like Wednesday night’s and follow the back and forth scheming, the inner thoughts in the Diary Room, the deal making, the secret meetings, the Power of Veto competition and then the POV winner chooses not to use the POV leaving everything exactly the same as it was before the episode started, I kinda’ feel like I’ve wasted an hour.
But then I realize, no more so than usual.
Agreed. It’s really too bad that production decided to put the kibosh* on that deal, since I think it would have made the game far more interesting. And it’s not like production still thinks B&R are this year’s J&J, at least judging buy the edit they’ve gotten this week, so I don’t know what they’re thinking. Maybe that everyone loves to hate Rachel?
The most interesting thing all week has been the houseguests’ new favorite pasttime, which is playing “trapped.” The idea is that most of the houseguests will be hanging out, and then the douchiness of Brendan shows up. Houseguests now subtly leave the room one by one (regrouping elsewhere) until only one person is left with Brendan, so they are now “trapped.” They are getting quite a bit of mileage out of this game, and it cracks me up every time. Enzo was bragging about his trap, when Brendan actually gave him an alliance offer. Now that’s a trap!
*If you skipped it before, the spoiler in my previous post explains this and is no longer a spoiler.
Rachel did it again! That’s at least 3 times she’s done the “don’t get between me and my man” speech. Too funny. Also, the footage of Kristin’s boyfriend back home was priceless. I could see the BB production crew positioning him among all the other girls while they taped him reacting to Kristin and Hayden.
Poor Kristen. Production must have hated her for the edit she got. Then to not only bring in her scorned ex, but to go so far as to bring in Hayden’s mom to rag on her? Ouch. I couldn’t help but contrast that to Jeff and Jordan’s moms gushing about how cute their kids would be.
HoH contest early spoiler:[spoiler]Early? These schmoes didn’t even last an hour. Repeat of surfboard challenge, with Matt & Ragan being the last two with Ragan then taking himself out. I believe without any deals this time, since Ragan has already distanced himself from the toxic twosome.
Brendan went out early and has been nonstop complaining yet again about how the contest favors smaller people. He doesn’t seem to grasp that Hayden and Lane both kicked his ass. Though in fairness, Britney lasted almost as long as Hayden, who was last to drop before Ragan bailed. And Matt could have gone all night. So even if he has a point, he’s such a whiny bitch about it that it’s fun to mock him.[/spoiler]