The new season is off to a pretty good start. We've got some interesting characters (Justin, Shelby, Cornbread) and some divisions now forming. For the first few hours everyone was friendly and got along very well and just seemed like a large cohesive group. Then the divisions started.
Monte, Shane, Scott and Cornbread quickly decided to create an alliance of four. Initially they decided that Justin and Danielle, an early showmance, would be their first target. Knowing they were outnumbered by the girls they decided to recruit a few girls into their group to give them numbers that they could cut later. Alex and Whitney were quickly added with Morgan and possibly Shelby also in tow. Alex and Whitney wanted Jason out.
The target soon shifted to the late night crew of Jason, Kryssie and Neeley who were all getting very close. Jason scares them knowing that the fans vote for the winner and they don't want a pre-existing fan favorite in the end, so they now feel that Jason has to go.
The first HOH comp soon started. The house guests were all locked outside then ordered into the living room where they found a bottle of blue fizzy drink with a note stating "Only One May Drink" then in small print "Expect the unexpected." They sat around waiting for Julie to appear to tell them something, but nothing happened. Someone dared Shane to drink the drink so he gulped it down which triggered an alarm and Shane was informed that he was infected and to report to the DR.
He emerged a bit later wearing a new t-shirt with a red bug on it and a necklace that was a giant bug. He then informed the house that he was infected and would pass the bug to another house guest when the alarm next sounded. That house guest would repeat the action the next time the alarm sounded. House guests couldn't refuse the bug. This would continue for 24 hours until only one house guest remained uninfected and that house guest would then become the HOH.
Scheming then ensued to try and make sure the bug got passed to the right people. As of this minute the only ones not infected are Monte, Alex, Whitney, Cornbread and Jason. With Jason the target of the other four, he will almost certainly become infected soon. Jason's side of the house (Neeley, Kryssie, Justin, maybe Danielle, maybe Shelby, maybe Scott who is sitting with the rest of them silently listening as they scheme.) I think Scott is just gathering intelligence he can report back to his alliance, and Shelby may be doing the same, but she seems really into this group now.
Jason considers Whitney, Alex and Morgan to be the "plastics." Scott may be trying to play both sides. He's offering some advice to Jason and his alliance on how to swing Alex to their side. Shelby's planning to have a girls' day with Morgan, Danielle and Whitney to try and keep them on her side and maybe pull in Alex. There's lots and lots of scheming going on. Jason's group wants the "abs" (Monte/Shane) gone first. They think they may be able to pull it off.
Jason's alliance just decided on calling their alliance the "OTT Jamboree." (At this moment we've got Jason, Kryssie, Shelby, Scott and Justin talking together and calling themselves that.) They think they have to sneak off to bed separately so no one knows they were all together. Cornbread just walked out on his way back from the bathroom, so their meeting won't be a secret any longer.
It's pretty neat watching all of the alliance building that goes on in this first week. We've heard some very interesting stories, mostly from Justin who's got some whoppers. Shelby has largely dumped the dumb "Valley Girl" act she was doing on first entering the house and is pretty entertaining.
At 10:30 PM tonight we get the first live DR sessions so we'll hopefully know more about what each house guest is truly thinking. (We saw some of their "normal" DR's in the 10 PM update last night.) Is Scott playing both sides and trying to stay in the middle? Is Shelby doing the same? Where do true loyalties lie at this early stage of the game? It's been a pretty fun season so far with a pretty good cast. I think BB may be onto something here with the new format. I like it.
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