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by JJ Hawkins, posted Aug 6th 2007 12:14AM
(S08E14) In case you can't make it out in the screencap above, the banner reads, "We heart Nick! Amber & Eric are liars. LNC (late night crew) is the nerd herd."
This banner flew across the sky during the HoH competition and caused quite a bit of commotion among the house guests in tonight's episode.
In all honesty, I'm absolutely flabbergasted by this turn of events and in a way it really pisses me off. How pathetic do you have to be to go through the trouble of hiring a biplane to try and influence the results of a reality show?
If I were going to rank this move on a "someone-needs-to-get-a-life-o-meter" it would rest somewhere above sending yourself flowers on Valentine's Day and below purchasing a life-size animatronic doll of the opposite gender - but just barely.
The thing is, with the exception of the "hearting Nick" portion of the banner, I completely agree with statements on the banner.
Despite that and regardless of how I feel about Eric or Amber, I would never try and influence the dynamics of the Big Brother house. Not only was it stupid - it was completely self-serving and unfair to the viewing audience.
In addition, Eric was forced into the vermin role. To attempt to penalize him for the way he's playing the game is completely indefensible.
I would very much like to punch the face of the party responsible for sending the biplane banner, especially if that party ends up being the Big Brother producers!
If I find out that Big Brother was responsible for this sequence of events, I will personally squat on Jon De Mol's front porch and give him a visual representation of what I think about him. Sure, the act would become the de facto highest level on the aforementioned get-a-life-o-meter but it's a sacrifice I'm more than willing to make.
PoV Competition - Continued
I have a feeling a lot of the loyal readers of this recap also read Jackie's livefeed recaps and already knew who won the HoH competition.
I've been able to fight the temptation all season long and was thankfully completely in the dark on the results.
It played out like this:
- Amber fell after six minutes.
- Eric was disqualified after nine minutes for making his body parallel with the bar which was against the rules.
- Jameka gave up at the 10 minute mark. She was "fathomed" at how long everyone else stayed on the perch, whatever the hell that meant.
- Around this time the biplane flew past which called Eric and Amber out on their deceptiveness.
- Zach fell off 32 minutes into the competition. I honestly forgot Zach was still in the house.
- Jameka hollers to Dick, "ED, you're an inspiration to all smokers!" This would have made more sense if he was performing some type of sustained aerobic activity and not hanging from a friggin' perch. Jameka is starting to bug me. It also ended up hexing Dick because he bit the dust at the 44 minute mark.
- Amber yells out, "Come on Daniele, do it for Nick!" This wailing banshee needs to get gone as well. As much as I hate the whole banner situation, at least Amber was called out as a liar on it.
- Jessica slipped off at the 59 minute mark.
- At this point it was down to Jen, Kail, and Daniele. Dick is out the competition and decides to utilize his skills of torment by yelling out, "Kail you're an inspiration to Christians everywhere. Lie, cheat, and back stab." Jameka thinks bringing up Christianity is way off base. Never mind that God made her defend Jen a week ago.
- In a cut scene, Daniele mentions that she doesn't know if her dad's strategy is working but it makes him happy. This just validates my calling Dick a sadist last week.
- Jen mentions that she "almost just wants to get off so she can see Daniele's letter from her boyfriend and all her pictures." She says this because she thinks Daniele is wrong for "cheating" on her boyfriend. As much as I like Daniele, I think Jen kind of has a point with her comment. Despite that, it sets off a maelstrom and a slew of negativity flies from the peanut gallery in defense of Daniele. Eric ends up defending Daniele the most fervently, an obvious move of desperation since he realizes that thanks to the banner, there is now a ginormous target painted across his little, weasel-like face.
- Jen gets a charley horse and falls off at 1 hour and 31 minutes into the competition.
- Daniele and Kail finally strike up a deal where Daniele promises Kail that she won't send her home should Kail get off the perch and give her the HoH. Kail obliges and Daniele is the new head of household at the 1 hour and 36 minute mark. I was absolutely "fathomed" that they stayed up so long.
After the drama of the HoH competition finished playing out Daniele and Daddy Evel shared a moment where Dick repeatedly expressed how proud and happy he was that Daniele won HoH.
He pointed out that Daniele has won two PoV competitions and now one HoH competition. It's starting to look like we've stumbled upon an heir apparent to Janelle - the original badass Big Brother competitor.
Although Daniele is in a happy place, the victory is bitter sweet because she's 100% sure someone is trying to set her up. She immediately tries to determine who cast the second vote in favor of keeping Nick in the house during the last Eviction Ceremony.
Her own intuition has pointed her to Eric as the culprit. The biplane and its message ended up being the camel that broke the straws back. Both she and her dad say that they know Eric cast the contrarian votes against Kail and Nick. Eric is doomed.
America's Player - Pick Eric's Partner
This America's player thing has kind of been a mixed bag this season, hasn't it? If America's not picking some inane task for Eric to accomplish, they've ended putting him in a compromising position by making him vote to evict people in direct conflict with the consensus of his alliance.
This week America will be choosing which of the house mates Eric will promise to take to the final two should he make it that far. Although America will be picking who he takes, Eric will ultimately decide if he wants to adhere to that promise.
So, America is voting on an event that may or may not happen, and the choice they end up making may or may not be adhered to by America's Player?
Please, please, please kill this America's player thing. It was interesting for a while, and it had the potential to be entertaining, but I've come to the point where I'm tired of it.
This week America also voted to have Eric target Jen as the person to be evicted. Eric approached his alliance about getting rid of Jen, but it ended up turning into a huge argument between Dick and Eric where the two of them had a violent screaming match. The LNC entente is on the verge of breaking down ladies and gentlemen. Things are about to get nasty.
Nomination Ceremony
Daniele pulls Dustin pulls Eric pulls Jameka pulls Amber pulls Dick pulls Jessica pulls Zach.
Jen and Kail are nominated for a back breaking third week in a row, but Daniele admits that neither of them are her true target this go around.
What are Daniele's true intentions? Who will Dick verbally skewer next week? Can Kail become any more useless? What menial event will cause Amber to have a physical break down? Will Eric mend his ruptured relationship with LNC? What asinine phrase will Jameka utter next? How effortlessly will Zach blend into the background? Will Dustin wear a V-neck shirt that extends all the way down to his navel? Will Jessica's nasally speaking voice cause one of the house guest's eardrums to explode?
All this and more will be revealed come Tuesday. See you then.
| It was brilliant! I'm glad Amber and Eric were exposed. | |
|---|---|
| It pissed me off bad! How dare someone mess with my season of Big Brother! | |
| I'm indifferent. I don't think it's going to influence much either way. | |
| I'm just angry that it gave Amber another reason to cry. |
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