Have you ever gotten the feeling you’ve watched a TV episode
before? Not a repeating episode, but an episode that is airing for the first
time? Because that’s all I felt watching
last night’s episode. It didn’t bring anything new to the table and just
continued themes that have been going on for the entire season. You’ll see what
I mean as we jump on in to game talk.
Pre-Veto Game Talk
1 1. The main focus of this episode would be the
disagreement between Paul and Paulie, “PP” as they call themselves, over
whether Zakiyah or Michelle should go home this week. For starters, with an
alliance name that sounds like it was chosen by 5 year old boys, this was
doomed from the start. “PP” really? Next they are going to call themselves “DoDo”.
But, anyway I digress.
King Paulie, having had everything else goes
his way, pretty much demands that Zakiyah stay and Michelle goes. Does he use any
logic to get this to happen? No. He just expects Paul to agree anyway. Paul
gets super skeeved and starts saying how this makes Paulie look selfish after
Paulie had said he would be okay with Zakiyah going. I want to smack him upside
the head. Really, just now you think Paulie is being selfish? Not when he was
controlling every other vote? Only this one??? Man, Paul, that beard must be
blocking your eyes from any gameplay going on. The seeds for discontent in this
relationship have been planted.
2. No other real game talk occurred during the
vote. Michelle was still bawling over Victor’s rude speech for most of the
episode, barely getting enough air in before she lets out that its strange
Victor didn’t put up Paulie. For those who don’t remember, when Paulie was HOH
he pretended to form an alliance with Victor and then back doored him causing
Victor to be evicted. Paulie not going on the block cemented to Michelle that
he must have been doing some manipulating behind the scenes. Michelle suffers from “DaVonne Syndrome”. She
made this very astute observation, but how she presented this information lacked good execution.
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3. The last thing I want to talk about before the
veto is Zakiyah and Paulie. She, still for some reason thinking they are the
real deal, asked him to use the veto on her. After a pause long enough to worry
anyone with a brain, he agrees to if she picks him to play. Zakiyah does. At
first, this angered me at how naive she was to buy into his lies and pick him.
However, once I thought about it more, it’s not like she had any other options. No one else would’ve even remotely tried to
take her off either. Now as for what I think about their relationship… I’ll get
to that in a bit.
The Veto Competition
So this veto comp was basically hide and go seek, but with
veto markers instead of people. The houseguest would hide their marker and try
to find the others. The last veto marker that remained hidden would win, and
the houseguest that hid that marker would get the power of veto. I have issues
with this set up for the competition. It basically means that you could suck during
the finding portion and still win based on luck. In order for it to be more
well-rounded, I think it should be decided by points. You’d get points both for
how long your veto went not found, and whether you found any veto markers. Basically,
Nicole and Victor found all of the markers. Paulie found one. I’m not saying he
shouldn’t have won. But, Nicole should’ve gotten something for being the 2nd
to last to have her veto found and having been one of the few people finding
veto markers.
The “you’re an idiot” moment for this competition goes to……..
JAMES for the second time in a row. This isn’t because he
performed poorly persay, but because he is an idiot. Instead of trying to find vetos,
he spent the time trashing the house. For all you neat freaks out there, I
suggest you skip this paragraph. He was opening shut bags of food and throwing
them on the floor, breaking eggs, throwing pans around, anything he could to
make a mess. The worst part was that he had no game reason for doing it. He
thought he was being “cute” and “funny”. Well guess what buddy? If one of the
girls had won the veto, your small butt would’ve ended up on the block and likely
evicted because you pissed people off.
Post Veto Game Talk
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So this is the segment where I am going to talk
about Paulie and Zakiyah. At this point, I can’t even feel bad for the girl.
She acts surprised when he basically alludes to her that he isn’t going to use
the veto. Because if “the queen” isn’t going home, apparently she should stay
on the front lines to protect “the king”. The sad part is, she doesn’t even
challenge him on this. She just nods her head and probably cuddled with him
less than an hour later. How does she even still tolerate him when he’s done
nothing but show how little she means to him? Even my dad agreed with me that
if you are in Paulie’s shoes and you care about your “queen” you take her off
of the block. Now, I might excuse Zakiyah if this was only the first sign that
he was a scumbag. But, he has given plenty, and each and every time she goes
back to him. I’m not blaming her for how he treats her. But, any woman with self-respect
would’ve dropped him a while ago, and it’s sad that she doesn’t have enough
confidence to see that.
Paulie, as expected, goes on to not use the power of veto.
Michelle indignantly states that she will wreak havoc on Paulie’s game. While I
can’t stand Michelle, I want her to succeed.
Worst Player Of The Episode
Zakiyah, for all of the reasons already stated.
Best Player Of The Episode
Paulie still wins this one by default. However, I can see
that starting to change. My biggest gripe with him, that made me almost give
this to someone else, was him winning the veto. He had absolutely NO reason to
win that veto, which he obviously tried to by putting the veto where he did.
Winning the veto only cemented his status as a threat and caused drama with
Zakiyah that didn’t even need to happen.
Here’s a note to any future Big Brother Players: If there is
no reason for you to win a competition because you are safe regardless, DON’T.
Tonight’s the double eviction and I hope you guys enjoy it. I’ll
have a blog up on it tomorrow afternoon. If you’re enjoying the blogs or want
to see my thoughts on a specific person or thing, don’t hesitate to write up a
comment and let me know. Or if you disagree and think someone else should have gotten best or worst player, I'd love to hear your thoughts as well.
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