You have NO idea. Natalie and Lydia are the Krystle and Alexis of this show. Although John Forsythe should sue me for even hinting that Jessie is his counterpart. Seriously, if the rule weren’t “No hitting”, those two would be catfighting like it’s 1985.
Ok, I had to stop reading the recaps of the live feed because I was spending all day at work doing so, and most of the posters (bless their lifeless hearts) write in a manner that makes me want to scratch my own eyes out. So, before we get to the show tonight, any bombshells that can be discussed without spoiling the POV? Any more big fights or change of alliances? C’mon people, I can’t wait another 127 minutes!!
Which recaps were you reading?
Hamstertime.
Ok, so what the hell was Kevin thinking? He burns the only real ally he has in the house because he’s afraid everyone will be pissed at him for taking Lydia off? It’s not like it’s a secret that they are (or at least were) BFFs. No one would have been surprised if had done so. He just put himself in an incredibly vulnerable position, because now everybody knows he can’t be trusted.
And regardless, the moment Kevin is put on the block he’ll be kicked out on a near unanimous vote, because he sucks at the game (the POV is the only competition he’s won, or for that matter, even done well at).
Chima is the most annoying hypocrite, especially with her piercing cackle. The PoV should respect the HoH’s decision? Somehow I doubt she would have felt the same way in week 1 if Russell had taken her off the block instead of Lydia. She calls out Braden for being a racist but then turns around and calls Russell a terrorist? Note that she was calling Russell a terrorist without qualification for several days. He’s Lebanese, and of course everyone from the Middle East is a terrorist. (He grew up there.) After other houseguests gently let her know that wasn’t cool, she slapped on the “because you’re terrorizing people in the house” justification. Hey Chima, that’s a bully, not a terrorist. Plus her big girl power diatribe – repeated ad naeusem – that Russell would never talk like that to the guys, only the women. Hey, I know Ronnie was a pussy, but he was no woman.
Kevin is a weasel. That Green Room conversation with Lydia went on for an hour, and he revealed himself to be a total prick. One of the recappers nailed that dynamic, from page 21 of the live feed thread on Hamstertime:[spoiler]Back in the green room. Lydia is still trying to defend her talking to Russell. He says that she forgives people who fuck her in the ass. She talks to Russell. She points out he’s talking to Chima after Chima was on the other side, but hey now, this isn’t about Kevin being an idiot, this is all about Lydia making small talk with Russell. He keeps saying she’s talking game with Russell and she says she doesn’t. The only thing she told Russell is that Kevin said he wasn’t going to use the POV. Wow, Kevin would make a great abusive boyfriend, all of his actions are her fault and she’s made him do everything to her because she’s not doing things right. It’s actually quite twisted.
Again, Russell tried to screw her game, but Chima just called her a whore (forget about that nom again). This is still all about how Lydia is wrong and Kevin is right. Lydia is still making really good points, but he makes this all her fault. She says it’s scary to be up the third time and all she wants is for him to understand. She says she’s made mistakes, she’s sorry. He pulls out another great abusive line about how this isn’t all about making her see her mistakes, implying that she’s made them, but he’s just looking out for her. What happened to the great Kevin that was yelling at Ronnie day ago? This one sucks. He’s being very emotionally manipulative with her, it’s all her fault that others are mean to her because she didn’t play right, reality be damned. He’s just looking out for her best interest.
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Oh, it’s the abusive relationship again. Now Kevin is saying that Chima is looking out for Lydia’s mental wellness. Uh, huh? Put the kool-aid down Kevin, you’ve had enough. She says that Kevin needs to talk to Chima then, she can’t talk to her. He says he’s all about the group think. She’s obviously not, that’s why she looks the way she does. He piles on some crap that she’s so used to being alienated that she doesn’t know when people are trying to be nice… like by calling her a whore and nominating her.[/spoiler]
Any clue on how long the POV competition took last night? I would have totally frustrated trying to inch that egg up the chicken wire.
I think I read somewhere that the POV competition took just over two hours.
I loved that Natalie got to play for the POV and sucked, after her whole, “I’m a competitor, too” comment to Chima. It would have been fun to watch Jessie try to do the egg thing as well. I’m sure there would have been much whining. Instead, we just got to see him pout on the sidelines because he didn’t get to play and that’s not fair! Wah! I hope that when Jeff told Jordan he’d like to see Natalie and Jessie go up against each other that he was telling us that’s what he’s going to do tomorrow. I can’t wait!
There’s another thing that would make me insane if I were in that house…two-to-three-or-four-hour competitions, some of which I wouldn’t be playing in but still be on outside lockdown for. Can’t go in the pool. Can’t go do what you want to do because they’re filming the comp for the broadcast. There have been times when the 3 or 4 minute comp segments that they actually edit down and show have bored me to tears. I can’t even imagine having to watch the entire thing, from the initial rehearsal down to the final reshoots.
I’m with you yellowval. I’m hoping beyond hope that Jeff uses the “wizard power” to put Jesse and Natalie up. The looks on their faces will be pure gold. I just hope Jeff doesn’t weasel out and not use the power at all - that would be very boring.
Ellis Dee you’re comments about Chima’s hypocrisy are exactly what I was thinking last night - the only reason she’s blabbing on about “respecting the HOH’s nominations” is because they’re HER nominations. If one of her alliance people was on the block, you can bet she’d use the POV on them in a heartbeat. And I’m also hating the girl power thing - I’ve never liked it when they divide into guys vs girls.
I don’t hate it when they divide into guys and girls. For example, I thought the girl power season of Survivor was pretty good. And not just because the lone guy hung on and won against something like a half dozen girls, but the actual dynamics of it were interesting. If it were a bunch of guys and one lone girl it wouldn’t be nearly so interesting, IMO, but seeing a bunch of girls trying to band together and then be forced to fracture apart is fascinating. At least to me. Guys tend to separate competition from personal issues more easily, and thus it is less interesting to watch them band together and fracture apart.
More hypocrisy from Chima is her constant refrain about how women are better than men, and how the world would be a better place if women ran it. She’s the biggest misandrist I’ve ever seen on television, yet is the first person to shout misogyny. Even funnier is her insistence that she doesn’t get personal in her fights with Russell. Not only does she claim this, but she repeats it ad nauseum as she mounts her high horse. Doesn’t get personal? Are you fucking kidding? Short dick, cauliflower ear, terrorist, alcoholic aren’t personal attacks?
She’s recently started bashing Jeff for never taking any risks. This is while she rants about how he better not change her nominations. Her brain may not be wired in a way that is able to understand the total disconnect of so many of her claims and positions.
I just noticed last night on BBAD that when she does her ear-piercing cackle, her face contorts into a truly heinous visage. Apart from the freaky lips she’s actually kind of an attractive girl, but holy fuck she turn into Medusa on a dime. I’ve never hated any reality show contestant with anywhere near the passion I hate Chima. If I was offered to have Chima go home tomorrow but it meant Jeff & Jordan had to go home at the same time, I’d probably take that offer and stop watching after a week. She is that unwatchable to me. And Natalie isn’t all that far behind. My god I hate those two beyond description. Hell, Jessie is a great guy by comparison.
Yay!
Michele, Jeff and Jordan have been bonding pretty well for a while now, including last night, so hopefully this coming week will be safe harbor for them. Russell, however, is almost certainly toast unless he wins PoV, as I can’t really imagine Michele NOT nominating him and, I guess, Natalie.
The double eviction isn’t looking good; I am assuming the two to get evicted next Thursday will be Rusell and Jeff. Jeff and Jordan better get in lots of cuddle time this coming week, because next week’s challenges pretty much have to be mental. There just won’t be enough time to do an eviction, HoH, PoV, eviction, and another HoH in one live episode if they do anything physical.
That was about the best it could possibly have gone. Chima is a bitch…oh, she’s not bitter or anything. Her little muttering strut about somebody saying that Jeff kept his word which (to her) meant that he’d told someone about the CDE, so Chima was going to have a little talk with the producers. Um…she IS aware that they are ALL under 24 hour surveillance, right? There’s no way Jeff told anyone anything without the crew hearing it and (more importantly) recording it. So he would already have lost it if he’d told someone. Shut up, Chima.
There was hinkiness going on with timing, too…live feed recappers were saying that (not a spoiler now) people who had tickets to be in the audience tonight had been notified (TODAY) to come 3 hours earlier than they were supposed to, which makes me think tonight was NOT live. I wonder if Chima actually DID go off and they edited it out?
Jordan’s expression when Jeff stood up was classic. She was absolutely gobsmacked! I love that girl, and she’s got great intuition, but she’s really not very smart in a logical sense…
That was about the best television I’ve seen in a long, long time. Perfect, just perfect. What a tool Jesse is too.
According to the EW website, tonight was taped, not live – speculation is that they were afraid of what Chima would get up to.
Well, the man, the myth, the legend is gone.
Did Jesse really have a picture of himself on that T-shirt?
Yeah, looks like Chima’s repeated threats to swear up a storm if the CDE got used forced production to do tonight’s show on tape delay. Notice how the word “Live” was never used on tonight’s broadcast.
That fight between Russell and Jessie in the splish splash room was last night during BBAD. It ended with both of them laughing and having a grand old time shooting the shit. Russell ended it by making a ocmpelling case for Jessie to vote for him to stay, but lunkhead Jessie couldn’t swallow his pride. Moot with the CDE anyway, but they totally called it that the fight would get shown while the makeup would not.
Their edit of Chima was a disgrace. Am I correct that they never showed her throw water on Russell? No regrets indeed. In addition to all the shit I’ve flung her way upthread, I was reminded by recappers that the first few days she was calling Russell a terrorist her stated justification for using that term was – and I shit you not – “America hates Middle Easterners.”
Later she went on to voice a plan to spit on Russell, which would make him hit her so she could send him to jail to get raped. Yes, that really was the rape survivor’s (fantasy) plan, which she voiced multiple times. I’ve seen some women’s/rape survivor groups already come out and publicly distance themselves from her.
I liked how hard her her best friend had to work to not paint Chima as a misandrist, and she still didn’t quite succeed.
Oh, this is too rich to not post about. It’s from the live feeds, so I’ll spoiler it, but it’s delicious.
Apparently, Chima, Natalie and Lydia have gone to the Diary Room and tried to quit. Production apparently talked them out of it, but they were serious. Jessie’s gone! Boo-hoo!
Oh, and get this!
Chima, Natalie and Lydia are throwing Russel/Jeff/Jordan’s stuff all over the place. I think they all had to pack, just in case, and the Witches of Eastwick just emptied those three people’s suitcases/bags out and made a huge mess.
What a bunch of spoiled-ass losers.
Yeah, I’m refreshing the recap thread like a mental patient. It really is too good.
Can I post live feed info that happens before Thursday once the Thursday broadcast ends? Seems to me like it “resets” and becomes unspoilery at that point. Playing it safe until I get a ruling, something worth noting about Kevin and Lydia:[spoiler]They are both gung ho to get Jeff and Jordan out as soon as possible. I haven’t heard anything in the recaps since tonight’s show, but yesterday in the HoH room they were clear that their next targets were Jeff and Jordan, followed by Michele. Fuckers!
And judging by her river of tears after Jessie left, I doubt Lydia will ever forgive Jeff for ousting her beloved Pinhead.[/spoiler]