Meg Maley – 1 strip of Tofu – Sadly Meg’s Black Widow status keeps going up. She saw another one of her closest allies, Jackie, go home during the Double Eviction. She started to get close to Becky & John, now one of them is going home. Only James has figured out a way to be immune to Meg’s poison. But if Meg is sitting next to you on eviction night, don’t even wait for Julie to announce the votes, just walk out.
Julia Nolan – 2 strips of Tofu – Yes, Julia is still in the game, you do not have to adjust your TV’s because it looks like there are 2 Liz’s. I really don’t have much else for her.
John McGuire – 3 strips of Tofu – even though it looks like Johnny Mac will be staying this week – he has not set himself up well for the rest of the game. He did win his 3rd POV during the Double Eviction last week and chose not to use it. That could come back to haunt him later as he did it to save Becky, who is now sitting next to him on the block. I was happy to see him & Steve starting to team up, but he’s basically doing what Steve wants. Early in the game he did what Shelli & Clay wanted. Until he starts playing a game that is truly his, I gotta give my boy Johnny Mac tofu!
That brings us to the Tofurkey of the week – Becky Burgess. She took a big shot last week at Vanessa but it came up short and her pompous attitude is part of the reason she finds herself as the more likely candidate to go to jury this week. Becky fell victim to HoHitis last week – and was unable to use the knowledge that other people shared with her while sitting atop her throne to protect her this week.
Becky dodged a bullet when Steve won HoH during the DE as we have all seen his lack of love for her. Perhaps if she solidified an alliance with Johnny Mac earlier and they were able to bring Steve in – they could have been a power trio running the house. Instead her double agent skills (or lack thereof) in the first few weeks has now bit her on the butt. If she does go, expect her to fight hard when the jurors have the chance to win their way back into the game.
Despite it being a slow game week – the HGs have stepped up their fun levels by doing some silly stuff for the feedsters & After Dark viewers with their “Chopped” challenge & BB Court. James continues to be the prankster keeping the HG’s laughing. I love that kind of stuff. Yes – we love to see the hardcore gaming, but too much gaming gets boring after a while too.
Let me know what you think of my rankings this week – who do you think deserved bacon / tofu? Please respond in the comment section below.
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Agreed that James is the reason the house flipped to keep Vanessa, not Vanessa herself.
But Vanessa is the one who planted the seeds that ultimately got James to flip.
What Vanessa said was just an excuse for James. He would have flipped anyway bc of that stupid shirt thing.
And kudos to James for realizing that he would be Shelli’s #1 target and for getting the house to flip, all for him. If it bought him a week, good for him. If it bought him more time, even better. At that time, he had to look at short term consequences and made a decision based on that. He did do what was in his best interest, all others be doomed.
Seriously, Becky made the biggest move of the game so far and put Shelli and Vanessa on the hot seat at the same time. She deserves 3 strips of bacon for that move alone. It did not work out at all because James, Jackie and Meg flipped. John needs to focus on his game alone until, hopefully, Becky is able to rejoin him in the Big Brother House!
She made the biggest mistake that can be made on BB and/or on any of they reality-type shows, when she told Vanessa last week that … She is going play solo from now on and not make any deals, moving forward … Now, in hindsight, sure bit her in her @$$, eh !!
Even if Becky did not tell Vanessa, she would still be her target because she put her on the block. Hindsight is 100% after the fact. Like you can tell what is on people’s minds?
Before you make a big move like that – you have to make sure you have the support of the rest of the house. She just did it “assuming” she had their support. Thats why she got the Tofurkey this week. Did you read last week’s column? It’s a week by week ranking system.
She did have the Goblins support until Vanessa got to Jame’s head and told him about Becky being the snitch.
IDK. That contributed but I think the onus for James was that Shelli was coming after him more than anything else. :)
Well, Becky had the Goblins support until, they flipped because Vanessa got into their heads and gullible little fools they are, they believed her! They managed to blow up their games as well as that of Becky and Johnny Mac.
I commend Becky for trying to take Vanessa out, but she stopped playing after that. She relaxed. (not Van) A good player should have anticipated and neutralized the vote flipping.
They didn’t flip because she got in their head. They flipped because James realized that getting Vanessa out doesn’t help him as much as getting Shelli out does.
James/Jackie/Meg were the people (other than Vanessa) to benefit from getting Shelli out. She was going for James’ head the next time she won HOH, and if not James then she would have gone for Jackie.
And that was definitely a mistake for them, wasn’t it? Jackie is gone and James might have bought himself a week or two, but that’s it.
Meg is utterly useless in competitions, even Victoria won more comps than her. If James wins an HOH, he can’t compete in the next one and he has to rely on winning POV EVERY SINGLE TIME.
If they had eliminated Vanessa, Steve would have most likely turned to them for an alliance – he couldn’t have blamed Jackie’s eviction on Vanessa! Austwins wouldn’t have had the numbers to evict Becky, who would have been a valuable alliance member for J/J/M.
Shelli was far less dangerous for them than Vanessa was. Now Austwins can dominate the game with Vanessa and Steve and JMac and James will be going unless they win HOH every week now.
I disagree that Steve would have turned to them. He would have likely turned to the Austwins, just as he is now. I don’t think anyone other than Becky/John were really considering being aligned with the Goblins.
However Shelli was vocally an enemy.
James just got lucky. It could have been him and Meg on the block and he would have been sent to the jury house which would have made evicting Shelli, not really a smart move. He saved maybe, one or two weeks but, destroyed his game and his allies in addition to Becky and John. He is going to be on the block if Vanessa’s alliance wins the next HOH.
She had their support. They all discussed it. Then they flipped.
I like Becky, but she has a big responsibility to control her people. (we know they’re gullible) Three days is a long time. Vote can flip just like that. She got too comfortable, don’t you think?
Yep I agree. She’s starting to get on my nerves watching her on the feeds. She goes on and on and it’s all about her. I need some drama because the feeds have been booooring. Only time they’re okay is after HOH when everyone is scheming and after nominations before the POV.
lol I know when to watch the “feeds” and this not time.
At this very moment..Liz is clipping Austin’s fingernails..I can’t..I just cant!!! Feeds are off!
pork-centric (lol) – Adam, you’re such a ‘ham’ (lol)
Oh bbadboy..that was bad…bad to the (pork chop) bone.
Hee heee hee hee, My, my, my, Sharona – Bad to the Bone!
We are bad today! :)
Sigh. I want to disagree with you, Adam, but I can’t. Wa-wahhh.
Tomorrow night is going to be exciting. Tonight is a reminder of that.
The next HoH is VERY interesting:
If James wins…
If Julia wins…
Very different targets.
If Meg wins…
Wake up, you’re late for work! Ha ha ha ha J/K
The only comp Meg could win is a random one, like launch this ball into somthing, or roll this ball down the hill lol.
Even Grandma can win something, like Bingo.
Only thing I disagree with you on is Steve. He’s nowhere close to Ian. Ian had a strategy and made moves. Steve is setting himself up to be the fifth, fourth, or third wheel in an alliance that will cut him out in a heartbeat. Going after James and Meg at this point in the game when there’s a solid 3 person alliance? Idiotic. Also, for a supposed superfan, he gets a lot of details wrong.
Pennypacker is not impressed with Steve.
I think Steve is lying if he says James and Meg are targets. He might use them as pawns, not even sure about that at this point. He lies to the cameras as much as he lies to the HGs.
Ah, but isn’t it the lying that works best for the HG’s in this game? Granted, NO ONE in this cast is as adept at lying as Dan Gheesling was. I’ll never forget his funeral. But, lying is paramount in Big Brother.
Of course, and Steve is one of the best. He has everyone fooled. He had to have practiced a lot before the show to be so good at it. I envision him at home pre-game rehearsing in front of a camera he purchased for that reason.
You’re making the assumption that Steve sees himself in that alliance with Austwins. I would argue that he’s pretending to be in that alliance to be kept safe if one of those 3 win HoH, but if he wins, he’ll put up Liz and Austwin.
If Steve wins HoH and puts up two of the Austwins I will recant my statement. Until then he, and the rest of the houseguests are setting themselves up to be outnumbered.
I believe what I said to be true, but of course I’m speculating. If Steve wins HoH and nominates James and Meg, I too will recant my statement. Steve’s a smart guy. I think he knows they have to target the Austwins next.
I hope you’re right and he does. Seeing Liz and Julia on the block together would make for an entertaining week of feeds. Like oh my gawwduuhh. It would so greaatttuuh.
Can’t disagree with your assessment Adam. This had to be a hard week to try to figure out how to award the bacon and tofu though!
The hardest one so far this season. Usually the players separate themselves a little more.
Oh, Adam…I know it kills you to give Jmac 3 (count ’em–three) strips of tofurkey this week…but I’m loving it. Yeah, he’ll be safe this week, but like you said, he needs to start playing his own game. In the meantime, my boy Steve is starting to play HIS game. I’d never liken him to Ian, but I like where he’s going.
PreVeto James said that he preferred Shelli to leave BUT he would do what Becky wanted to keep her happy. They were not going to go against Beckys wishes.
Right after Veto Ceremony Vanessa exposed Becky as the rat she is. This gave James a reason to go against Beckys wishes. Later that night they decided to keep Vanessa.
Vanessa DID help save herself. They were going to do what Becky wanted until Vanessa gave them a reason not to.
It was when Shelli played the emotional card regarding the sweater that James realized he would be her target. It was more about who was trusted the least at that time, Vanessa or Shelli, and for James, Shelli turned changed that target to herself.
That is speculation. According to James’ DR he said Vanessa did help change his mind.
It is my opinion, that Shelli would still be there if she had not have made a big deal of the sweater. She made a huge mistake and paid the price for it.
I agree with KSJB. James was already talking to Meg & Jackie about trying to keep Van before Van went to talk to him. All Van’s talk did was give James the fodder for his plan.
Yes they were talking about it, but said they wouldn’t do it because they wanted to keep Becky happy.
It was more that they didn’t have enough ammunition. Shelli going through James’ belongings to get the shirt + Van’s talk was the ammunition that James needed to convince Meg & Jackie. Once he had them on board, he could test Austin. My point was that James was planning it BEFORE Van talked to him. She didn’t convince him.
Steve is sort of like Andy. He has no real loyalties (a floater), both of his final 2 deals are fake and he turned on his Amanda( Vanessa). Everyone thinks he would keep them safe if he’s HOH, even James and Meg when he nominated Meg and Jackie for eviction when he was HOH. He’s starting to manipulate people to do what he wants. He’s even playing Vanessa who played him for weeks and it looks like it’s working. If he keeps the mind games up and doesn’t make anymore mistakes he could and deserves to win
I must be blind. I don’t see Steve playing the game at all. I see him being lucky. He likes anybody that shows an interest in him, now he is enjoying Vanessa. Is that gameplay? No. He’s just stumbling along blindly. He actually DIDN’T know who to put up when he was HOH. He just put up who JMac told him.
No; he put up who Vanessa told him to put up.
Seems like James, Vanessa and Steve should go after the Austwins