The spoilers question is one we do need to discuss, I think. The title of the thread says “Open Spoilers”, but that very much limits the discussion we can have about the show if a majority of people want to remain spoiler-free. I think we should either keep all discussion about events that haven’t aired yet behind spoiler tags, or we should have two threads each week for the show, one with open spoilers and one with no spoilers at all.
Personally, I would be fine either way. We only see about two shows a week, since we usually go out to eat Tuesday night and miss the show.
With respect, “Open Spoilers” means open spoilers. The reason I started a thread of my own is that I like discussing the show in real time with others who enjoy the same thing. I respect the difference between you and me, and would encourage you to author a thread designed the way you like it best. It doesn’t have to be the case that one of us gets what he wants and the other one doesn’t.
The spoiler issue is tricky with Showtime added in. I’d be open to having one thread a week for Big Brother After Dark and one thread a week for the CBS show. Since it’s technically two different shows I don’t think there’d be a problem with that.
The spoilers don’t bother me at all. I keep up with what’s going on on a daily basis, so I usually know who’s nominated, the POV winner, etc. the day that it happens. But I can also see where other people are coming from. I encounter this issue within my own house, since I watch After Dark and read the live feed recaps, and my husband just watches the CBS shows. Sometimes he will ask me what’s going on, but most of the time he’d rather wait.
I don’t care. I follow the show mostly by reading threads here and by watching the CBS show when it’s convenient. I kinda like it better when news of who’s nominated, etc. is behind spoiler boxes, but since I almost always click on them, it doesn’t really matter.
Unfortunately, the Donatos are talking like they’re dead set on backdooring Jen.
Did anyone see that convo between Amber and Jameka tonight. My God, could anyone be more deluded than Waaamber? She thinks she’s nominated because no one wants to be in F2 with her because she’s so good and honest and beloved. No one thinks they can beat her with the jury. When the show is over, she thinks she can go on “America’s Next Top Model” because she’s so beautiful (“I have the face, I have the body, I have the height”). Not only that but she can be an inspirational speaker because she’s a mom who quit doing crank (she really seems to think that switching to Klonopin and booze for a few months instead of smoking meth is an accomplishment equivalent to developing the polio vaccine).
All of her ramblings are served up in huge, heaping helpings of God talk, but in Amber’s mind, God is a kind of Santa Claus figure who will deliver her HOH and Veto comps if she only prays hard enough. Hilariously, her bombastic disserations about her own holiness are sometimes interrupted with interludes where she excoriates Gangster Jesus for not delivering on the “visions” she keeps claiming she’s having (she had a vision she’d win HOH thise week. didn’t happen. Then she dreamed she was going to win the Veto. Didn’t happen. She’s genuinely puzzled by this. She DREAMED it. Why didn’t God follow through?).
Jameka “mmmhmm’s” a lot to Amber’s drivel and ever so gently tries to steer her in the direction of maybe going to school after BB instead of chasing these inane pipe dreams of hers but Amber is not playing with a full deck. She should not have passed the psych test to get on the show.
Jameka, for her part (aside from a taking a few gratuitous swipes at “unbelievers” last night) has also declared that the other players are “greedy” because they want to win the whole half mil rather than settle for the 50K second place money. In Jameka’s mind, it’s incredibly selfish of them that they don’t just want to hand over the whole prize to one of the “good people” (Jam and Waamber) and settle for second. Jameka’s not as crazy or as stupid or as profoundly narcissistic as Amber is but she’s kind of annoying and santimonious and obliviously hypocritical in her own way and watching the two of them together is morbidly fascinating when it’s not just nauseating.
Thanks, Mod, for the change. But it still needs to say “Open Spoilers” (if not the dates).
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I think backdooring Jen is a mistake. The only unquestionable threat to them right now is Amber. Unless they’re banking on their ability to screw with her head, which is entirely possible.
And yes, her ramberlings on the hammock were other-worldly. We were like “what? what?” not sure we’d heard her right, and wondering who she was talking about since it couldn’t be herself. But it was.
I’d say that Amber has a rude awakening coming when she exits the Big Brother house and finds out what people really think of her, but she’s probably too dim to understand why.
Daniele, on the other hand, was going on and on about how this show is totally going to ruin her life. Aw, poor baby.
I missed the majority of the show but did manage to catch Amber saying something about god telling her she’s going to win. She’s taking a page from Jameka now, or what? Because I don’t remember Amber being all down with god earlier in the season.
Just curious: why is “God” the only proper name you aren’t capitalizing?
The idiot Amber made a deal with Daniele that she wouldn’t put Daniele up and would vote however Daniele wanted her to for the rest of the season. Sworn on her daughter’s life.
Also, the real power in Big Brother is the Vote, not the HoH or the PoV. Amber’s and Jameka’s votes can really throw some wrenches into the schemes, so it’s time to start pruning their numbers.
Period, end-of-story. (Dick sure says that a lot.)
If Jameka had Evil Dr. Will skills, she’d use her ineligibility for HoH towards an under-the-radar strategy.
You know, Liberal, I did ask a question in my post. You could have at least attempted to answer the relevant-to-this-thread portion before concerning yourself with my capitalization. Let’s try again, okay?
Here, I’ll even fix it up, just for you: Has Amber, during the course of this show, always been such a strident believer in the One True God, our Lord, Jesus Christ, or is she faking now for Jameka’s benefit, amen?
Actually, it was Kail who was marketed as the Bible thumper early on. It was a major theme in her introduction footage during the first episode. I think it was the third episode before we saw Amber in that context.
Actually, Amber started that stuff in the first week. It was kind of a forgettable week and the cast was still fairly indistinct so I can see why it wouldn’t stand out, but Amber was nominated along with Carol in week 1. Amber started up with her “God’s plan for me” stuff in that first week but the edits were focused more on the waterworks at that time. It did appear that she was pulling out the God card as a way to appeal to Kail (who was HOH) then, and then kind of eased off it some until she got really tight with Jameka.
