Well, that was a bit crazy. Yesterday morning saw the houseguests all pretty much in line with Sam (truck driver) using the POV on Cliff (older guy) with Kemi (black girl) going up and being voted out. Then Christie (new age, nose-ring, HOH) had a talk with Kathryn (crazy, fast-talking Texan) about how she wasn't sure she could trust Jack (Aquaman) because she saw Jack and Kemi talking and she didn't know what they were saying.
Kathryn, being Kathryn couldn't keep that conversation to herself and mentioned it to Jackson (GI Joe/Rock-Em Sock-Em Robot guy) who immediately told Jack about it. Jack and Jackson then played the role of Robert Mueller to find out who said what when, where and why. Kathryn was cornered in the HOH room and interrogated/bullied by Jack and Jackson to tell them exactly what Christie had said. (The big point of contention was did Christie say Jack called in Kemi or did Kemi call in Jack.) At this point Kathryn was largely reduced to a babbling fool, more so than normal anyway, and was just saying anything to try and escape.They could have asked her if she shot JFK and she'd probably have admitted she did even though she hadn't been born yet.
Jack, not the smartest fish in the pond, decided he could no longer trust Christie. (Basing anything on what Kathryn babbles is a really bad idea.) Christie then showed up and got interrogated and tried to patch things up with some success. Everyone but Kathryn then left the HOH and Kathryn went off in search of Holly (wine expert and safari guide and Kathryn's closest ally at this time besides Jackson.) They met in the back bedroom and Kathryn babbled her story to Holly who assured her everything would be okay. Nick (tattooed therapist) then found them in the room and asked what they were talking about. Kathryn said they were having their periods. Nick reminded them that they were having their periods ten days ago when they entered the house producing a fresh stream of unintelligible babble from Kathryn that eventually drove Nick away. (Who knew Nick was tracking the periods of the houseguests?)
After repeated efforts by pretty much everyone to assure Kathryn she was safe, things seemed to calm down a bit then Christie went into crying breakdown mode over not wanting to put up Kemi (the Diary Room may have just casually mentioned it would look bad if the first two evictees were the black houseguests, even though David was evicted by their comp and not the houseguests.) Christie then kidnapped Sam to the HOH room and did her crying, "I don't know what to do, so why don't you just pocket the veto and we'll keep the noms the same" routine with him. Sam wasn't thrilled with this idea having already promised Cliff he'd use the POV on him and also promising Kathryn she'd be safe no matter what.
After what seemed like a decade of discussion they decided the smart move was to use the POV to save Cliff and put up Ovi in Cliff's place and vote out Ovi, saving Kathryn. They think this will be the least messy way to go. (The DR probably isn't thrilled that they replaced the black girl with the brown guy, but we'll see if they intervene again to save Ovi.)
Meanwhile, back on the babbling lunatic front, Kathryn wants to walk away from the game, but BB won't let her. (Or so she says. They will let you, but you have to insist and they won't pay your stipend and you have to reimburse them for the costs, plus they just leave you on the sidewalk outside the studio with your bags. They really don't want houseguests just wandering off. If you're going to quit, they make you pay.)
So, at this moment, and it can change at any time, Sam will use the veto to save Cliff. Ovi will go up in Cliff's place and Ovi will be evicted Wednesday.
Pretty much everyone in the house wants Jack gone and hates Jack at this time. That probably has Alison Grodner pulling her hair out. Her Aquaman look-alike, who's really her preferred type of houseguest, possibly leaving in the near future? YIkes! They'll figure out a way to get him back in the house though if he does get voted out.
It looks like the long, long week one will end with no Have Nots as that didn't happen yesterday. We'll find out on tonight's show more about the Whacktivity comp and who won that. I think Cliff, Isabella (Chinese girl) and two others participated in it week one. The belief is that Isabella won it. Christie wouldn't mind putting up Nick, but thinks Isabella may have a power to save him if she did then she'd have to put up someone else and she doesn't want too much blood on her hands. (Nick and Jack's name came up as options to put up as replacements.)
Tonight's show should be the last show where we see stuff that we didn't see on the feeds, so the surprises should pretty much end tonight. From here on out we'll know more of what's really happening all the time.
Alliances are all over the place. There's the six, eight and ten person alliances featuring Jack and nearly everyone else. There's one, maybe two all girl alliances, possibly more. There are final two and final three deals all over the place. We have half the house stressing out and going slowly insane despite being in multiple alliances. It's a very messy season where half the people in alliances don't know who else is in their alliance. (Isabella seems especially confused as to who she's allied with. "Wait, who's in this alliance?") Oh, for the good old days of Foutte versus Level Six. Two clearcut alliances competing against one another makes life so much easier for all involved.
Don't forget we have the show tonight. We'll finally see what the heck the Whacktivity comp is all about. We'll see the nominations. We'll see some more of the stuff that happened before the feeds went live. We'll have to see how they edit the show to see who's getting the hero edit and who's getting the villain edit. (The house thinks Jack's the villain right now. I'm not so sure production agrees with that.) I suspect Grodner wil be more inclined to give Jack the hero edit, despite him largely being a zero. It should be an interesting show tonight.
The feeds today should be relatively calm. They might do the POV ceremony today, but they typically do it Mondays. Ovi going up and Cliff coming down really shouldn't surprise anyone too much. WIth the slight exception of Ovi. He thinks he's probably safe. The first three days of the live feeds have been pretty darn interesting. I htink much of what we see from Christie is a show. She seems most honest with Holly and Analyse. You don't get the fake tears and "What'll I do?" from her around them. Then she's more cold and calculating and plotting things out with the other two girls. The Diary Room segments tonight could be entertaining and informative. Here's hoping they mute Sam's microphone in the DR. His shouting in there gets a little tiresome. The one's Tuesday and Wednesday may be even more informative.
Lots of houseguests are giving other houseguests lots of information to use against them down the road. Nick told Sam and Isabella that he's been lying to pretty much everyone. Christie's told way too much to too many people that she'll have to explain away down the road. There's lots of very messy game play this year that can be used to get people out.
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