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'Big Brother 12' Season 12, Episode 25 Recap
by Jackie Schnoop, posted Sep 3rd 2010 2:15AM
[Big Brother 12 - 'Live Eviction #9, HoH #10] Another summer of 'Big Brother' is wrapping up as tonight's show gets us down to the final four hamsters. Who would have thought that the final five would be the Brigade minus one, Britney and Ragan?It's time for all those remaining in the house to step up their game. In the Brigade, the guys have basically jumped in to win -- once they were up against the ropes. Well, now they're all up against the ropes and each one should be thinking of their own end game, not their friendships. That is, if they want to win the half-million.
Once the inevitable recap ended, Ragan showed some moxie trying to wriggle his way into the final four against all odds. It took him a while, but he finally decided that the "boys" were indeed in an alliance. Since he and Britney are peripherals not in the alliance, it does make sense that they could team up. Only Britney and Enzo voted this week, with Lane standing by to decide a tie if it happened. If only Ragan could sway Britney to his side and Lane went along, all would be hunky-dory ... for his own game, as well as theirs.
He tried. He really did. He made some great points with Britney -- she wouldn't be able to beat the boys in the jury vote as they all played better social games and had fewer enemies; Lane would lose to either Hayden or Enzo in the final two as they schmoozed better than he did and this would be the opportunity to pull a power play, removing the big threat of Hayden. Of course, Ragan had no idea that Lane wanted to go into the final two with Britney rather than either of his Brigade boys. Naturally, she didn't tell him.
The showing of the jury house was definitely the most interesting part of the episode. Sure, Rachel welcomed Kathy. Then came Matt and all were hugging like they never hated each other in the first place. Then came Brendon. Did you catch Rachel's reaction? With all of her talk, including twice saying "don't get between me and my man" within a couple of minutes, she didn't run and hug him. Could the magic be gone along with the lost half-million?
But the best part of the jury house segment was when Matt admitted his lie about his wife's illness. Now, I personally think it's reprehensible, but others have made similar lies before (Dr. Will, Jonny Fairplay on 'Survivor'). Perhaps Kathy had a right to be very upset as someone who trusted him and a cancer survivor. But what was with Rachel being all dramatic about it? Or Brendon? "You'll burn in hell!" Oh my. Now they all hate him again. The world is as it should be.
Back at the house, they did a cute bit showing the hamsters how they looked in the dancing punishment. Again, kudos go out to the person who came up with that idea for the show! It's a marked improvement in the brevity factor. Those kudos are rescinded if the same person thought of wearing out the welcome of the Pandora's Box this season.
The last few weeks of the show could have been truly great had Ragan's case to Lane and Britney not been clouded by the good ol' boys network. Lane is going to get to the point where he's going to have to publicly decide Britney and cast the guys aside or be cast aside himself. It didn't happen this week. You can't really blame Britney. Her final two possibilities with Lane are much stronger than she might have with Ragan. Enzo wouldn't vote out his boy. So, once again, we're talking a unanimous vote to evict ... Ragan.
The final four are three Brigade Boys and a Blonde, an unlikely quartet. Lane and Enzo's performance on competitions has been dismal until very recently. Hayden isn't all that much better. Britney is definitely overpowered on a physical level by the guys. This might not be too pretty.
The show ended with the Head of Household partially in progress. The three competing had to work Christmas ornaments up on one side of a chain link or widely-spaced chicken wire fence and place them on a tree. Each had their own tree and were looking to get 18 ornaments, plus the top star, placed. When the show cut away, Britney seemed to be doing the worst as she broke almost every ornament she touched. The action went on to the live feeds after the episode ended. The new Head of Household will be announced on Sunday's show. Please don't post spoilers in the comments here.
'Big Brother 12' airs on Sundays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8PM ET on CBS.
| Britney | |
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| Enzo | |
| Hayden | |
| Lane |
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