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[gardenman]

It's been less than 48 hours and we've had more craziness than in all of season 22. Thank God we got the feeds from day one! Sorting all of this out ten days later would have been impossible. It makes you wonder what we've missed in past seasons.

[gardenman]

We're up to nearly half a house meeting (7 hamsters) in the HOH all confusing the already befuddled Frenchie even more. They're spinning things around to go after Derek X. If we go to a full on house meeting all heck will break loose. We could see the POV used week one to backdoor Derek X. Things are not looking great for Derek X in the very, very near future.

[gardenman]

I feel a great deal of pity for the poor BB editors who have to try and figure out a way to tell everything that's happened in the last 48 hours in a clear and coherent fashion in the 40+ minutes they're allotted for Sunday. Frenchie has had them start over probably ten times so far as he's veered off course. 

I'm not sure what's going on with Xavier at this moment as he's in tears and sniffling away. He's been out of the line of fire and seems safe no matter what this week, but he's having an emotional breakdown of some sort. He's just pacing the floor and crying. You don't really expect to see the big, strong lawyer breaking down into tears 48 hours into a reality show. And he's at no risk. The nominations have been made. He's as safe as it's humanly possible to be. He may need to chat up the BB psychs before the night is done. I wasn't expecting that from him. He's been pretty cool, calm, and collected so far. And we've got the feeds blocked. Maybe BB is checking on him over the intercom or calling him to the DR to find out what's up.

[gardenman]

The speculation on Jokers is that Xavier wasn't mentally prepared for what the show offered. He's a Have-Not this week also and has had nothing but slop for two days. Whatever is eating him has him pretty stressed out. The feeds came back as he was leaving the bathroom and walking towards the DR then they went down again. He could be considering checking out of Hotel Chaos. That could save Derek X from getting backdoored, which is now, once again, for now anyway, the plan. Or it was before the feeds went down again.

Houseguests have a long history of breaking down early in the game. They typically have to talk a couple into staying before the feeds ever come on, so we're in the window where one or more might think seriously about walking. That could be Xavier's issue now. He also could have gotten bad news from home. We've seen that a time or two. The DR gives the houseguests updates on their homes if anything of importance happens. And the feeds keep going down, so something's up.

[gardenman]

Xavier is back in the house and acting normal again, so that's good. The house is relatively calm at this moment. 

[occasionalrain]

Backdooring Derrick  X, considering the recent attacks on Asians, seems ill-advised unless this group wishes to be labeled racist.

[GRANNY77]

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@occasionalrain wrote:

Backdooring Derrick  X, considering the recent attacks on Asians, seems ill-advised unless this group wishes to be labeled racist.

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Not sure how that would go over with Julie..

[Houstonoilers]

Agree backdooring an Asian in this recent political attacks is a bad idea.  I remember when that idiot Christmas put up the only black contestants for eviction in the midst of the Black Lives Matter riots.  

These people lose all perspective when they become HOH.