Okay. I've caught up on the flashbacks. Let's start with some background. As we know, Bayleigh and Da'Vonne were put up on the block by Christmas. Both girls were unhappy about this for obvious reasons, among the reasons being that they thought Christmas was an ally. They'd shared a room together, were all in an alliance together, and had talked game on multiple occasions. Christmas had "won" the HOH by edging out Da'Vonne who'd been picked five times to play by the big alliance in the house. Christmas "won" simply because Da'Vonne answered incorrectly on the final question. Christmas was not a target for either Da'Vonne or Bayleigh.
When Da'Vonne and Bayleigh found themselves on the block they handled it well despite Christmas's allegations that Bayleigh would stab her in the eye with a fork, stab her in the chest, or shoot her. Instead, they took the nominations in stride. They lost the POV and Christmas won the POV giving her the power to save one of them.
Tyler then decided to leave the game, but to do so in a way that would allow him not to be bankrupted by BB. He could DOR (drop out request) but doing so would cost him the full $40,000 plus the costs of casting him which would include the two weeks for the Air BNB they'd put him in for sequester, the airfare, and all of the testing (psych, Covid-19, etc.) Instead of paying all of that, he asked Christmas to put him up as the replacement nominee and then he'd call a house meeting to encourage the house to vote him out. This would save both Da'Vonne and Bayleigh, and let Tyler go home without being bankrupted. Christmas, Daniele, and Nicole then made a deal for a new alliance with Da'Vonne. Tyler told his plan to Da'Vonne and Christmas and said he was doing it due to his belief in BLM and equality. (Bad move by Tyler.)
So, the POV meeting took place and Christmas chose not to use the POV despite Tyler wanting to leave. Tyler then was happy go lucky Tyler afterwards and seen joking and laughing. Da'Vonne and Bayleigh thought they'd been played. (Not unreasonable as much of BB nation felt Tyler used the BLM movement and then betrayed Da'Vonne and Bayleigh.) Tensions were running a tick high.
On to the fight. Christmas came into the bathroom and asked Da'Vonne if Bayleigh was okay. Da'vonne explained how Bayleigh felt hurt and betrayed in that she'd trusted Christmas and she couldn't understand why Christmas didn't put up Tyler. Christmas said she couldn't guarantee that Tyler would call the house meeting he'd promised Da'Vonne and Bayleigh to ask to be evicted. Da'Vonne explained that Bayleigh felt that Christmas had the opening to keep Bayleigh and opted not to.
Da'Vonne then explained that Bayleigh had felt very close to Christmas and considered her an equal in terms of friend to Da'Vonne and for Christmas to do this to her felt like Da'Vonne doing it to Bayleigh. Christmas and Da'Vonne kept going back and forth whether stuff was personal, game-related, or personal game related. Da'Vonne stayed pretty calm most of the time while Christmas got more and more heated. Da'Vonne said Bayleigh trusted Christmas and told her stuff and Christmas took it and used it against her. Christmas kept turning up the heat until things reached a boiling point. Da'Vonne then said she was walking away and Christmas said good night, then Da'Vonne said don't good night me as she stomped off. About then Bayleigh meandered into the bathroom from the DR and stumbled into things. Bayleigh tried to explain things and calm the situation down.
Bayleigh explained that she kept assuring Da'Vonne that Christmas was good with them and not to worry only to be betrayed. Bayleigh explains that opening up to Christmas on a personal level and then have her come after her hurts. Christmas then escalates the shouting again when Bayleigh says Christmas was trying to play the victim game. Things then heated up still more and Da'Vonne jumped back in and assured Bayleigh she did nothing wrong but that Christmas had betrayed Bayleigh and felt guilty about it. Christmas said something about being dragged through the mud for winning HOH and POV.
Not the worst fight I've seen on BB. Kevin worked to calm Christmas back down afterwards. Christmas has a wee bit of a temper issue. When she found out her baby daddy was seeing another woman she ambushed the other woman, confronted her and then rammed her car in the parking lot. Yeah. Not necessarily the calmest person in the world. Kevin did a nice job of talking her down last night though. Suffice to say tensions will be a tick high in the old BB house through the rest of the week.
Bayleigh was largely an innocent bystander who stumbled into the fight midway through and tried to deescalate things, but Christmas wasn't into deescalating. Some door slamming followed the fight and things stayed a bit tense. (To put it mildly.)
The good news for Kevin is that he's now slipped a notch in the eviction order. He was queued up to go out next, but now Da'Vonne has jumped him in the eviction order.
So, reputations this week are getting destroyed. Tyler, who was AFP is now viewed by many as a manipulative jerk. Christmas who had been fairly calm and controlled through the show, showed the explosive side of her personality last night and is now trying to pin Da'Vonne as the bully while she's the good person. (Uh, not really.) Da'Vonne blowing up doesn't help her reputation. Kevin may be improving his reputation, but don't worry, he'll do something stupid soon to destroy any gains. Bayleigh's stayed pretty calm and controlled through the whole thing which was unexpected.
So, the outcome is the same as it was before. Bayleigh is still the target this week. Da'Vonne has leapfrogged Kevin as the target for next week. It's not that big of a jump anyway as she was close to him in line before this. Ian and David have likely been given an extra week in the house as a result. Tyler is likely to hang around for quite a bit longer. I'm not sure if that's good or bad for him. The Twitterverse is gunning for him a bit, so staying in the house and letting things calm down for a bit might be best for him.
All in all, yesterday was a day BB production probably wanted. It'll help the ratings on Thursday's show. They'll tease the big fight on Wednesday and air it on Thursday. It probably won't be enough to get BB past the NFL ratings-wise on Thursday, but it might get them close. Production is probably happy as it gives them a lot of good footage to use. Tyler's getting killed which is horrible for him. He really didn't do a lot wrong and when stuck in the house decided to make the best of it. He was a bit stupid tieing his wanting to go to BLM and equality. Safe to say he's unlikely to win AFP this year. Cody, Nicole, and Daniele, who are largely running the house get to skate by for weeks more with no one really gunning for them as Da'Vonne would be more likely to target Christmas and vice versa.
Things should calm down a bit today. The DR has likely had long, long chats with all involved. There will be an indoor lockdown starting soon to get the yard ready for the next HOH comp so everyone should just retreat to a quiet corner and lay low for a bit.
As this game goes on expect things to get more and more heated. Cody's a bit of a hothead as is Daniele. Should they end up on the block you can expect more fireworks. Odds are when Da'Vonne goes on the block whoever puts her on the block will put David alongside of her which will open up the racism can of worms again. The "We all love one another" phase of the game is ending and the "I'll kill you you bleeping bleep!" phase of the game is starting. I'm not sure if that's good or bad, but it's more entertaining than what we've been watching.
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