As Yogi Berra once said – “It’s Deja Vu all over again” – this is the 4th week in a row that ‘Sixth Sense’ has run the house & have put a backdoor plan into effect. Yes, it was a little different this week as they actually wanted to get rid of the power and have the “other side” get rid of one of their own.
Well, just like so many other plans in the Big Brother house – the target was moved several times before landing on Jason. This got his allies to finally start thinking they need to do something about it. It only took 5 weeks, but now everyone is in game mode. Unless some sort of Special Power comes along Jason will be back in his parents basement by the weekend. But first… lets see who will get bacon and who will get tofu for how they played this week.
Liz Nolan /Julia – 5 strips of Bacon – this was the most crucial week for Liz & Julia. If they could survive this eviction, they would both be able to play as individuals instead of swapping out every couple of days. Even though she was not the number one target (which – duh, she should have been!) – she knew she had to do whatever it took to not go home this week. All she did was pull out a BoB win with very little help from her partner James. Yes – I know plenty of people out here (as well as a couple of people inside the house) are upset that Liz is playing along with Austin’s creepy advances – but before the season starts, fans say “I wanna see people do whatever it takes, lie, cheat, steal, to win” and she is doing just that.
Clay Honeycutt – 4 strips of Bacon – I say it just about every week, but winning the veto and taking yourself off the block is the best feeling in the Big Brother house. It’s taken a while, but Clay is starting to figure out how to play this game, and despite being in a showmance with one of the power players, he still makes his rounds talking to people not in his alliance. This will help him if/when he is on the block next to Shelli and will be able to rally the votes.
Vanessa Rousso – 3 strips of Bacon – despite being the biggest hypocrite in the house, Vanessa’s moves are very calculated & strategic. Yes, she will need someone else to get Austin out of the house. But her getting Austin out this week would have hurt her. As she finally realized keeping him in the house is someone that would both protect her, and be a target ahead of her. Her reasoning for doing these “big moves” is correct – but how she is playing it out is starting to rub some people the wrong way, but it’s still not moving her up on the target list like it should.
Austin Matelson – 2 strips of Bacon – yes Austin’s mouth got him in trouble again this week, and he was the target on Thursday into Friday – but once Jackie was dethroned as HoH, Vanessa realized she needed Austin in the house for many reasons. So why am I giving him Bacon? Once he was clued in on the backdoor plan – he came clean about most of his lies, threw out the Dr. Will strategy of ‘I dont want to win’ and basically helped keep himself safe this week. With Julia set to enter the house next week, he will have another number on his side fighting for him.
John McGuire – 1 strip of Bacon – was he even in the house this week? This was the first time all season he was not on the block – and has started to blend in with the wallpaper. At this point in the game when the line has been drawn in the sand, he is still in good shape straddling that line – and he is on no one’s radar. Normally I would give someone like this tofu – but this is Johnny Mac! I gave him tofu last week.
Jackie Ibarra – 1 strip of Bacon – as I predicted last week, with Jeff out of the house, Jackie will come alive. She ended up winning her first HoH this week and worked well with the other HoH Vanessa to put an elaborate plan to backdoor Austin into effect. Now if only her nominees lost the BoB – this week we would have finally seen the power shift we have been all waiting for. But, once it became clear that she got screwed over by Vanessa, she did not just sit there and say – ‘oh woe is me’ – she marched up to the HoH and went in for the kill. Trying to pull info out of Vanessa. She will not go down without a fight, which is a lot more than most of the other people still left in the house.
Now for the players who earned Tofu:
Steve Moses – 1 strip of Tofu – unlike BB15 winner Andy, whenever Steve walks into a room, people stop talking. People are onto him as being a snitch. As a superfan, he should be aware that he is being used. I knew I was back on BB13 – which is why I still tried to keep open lines of communication with the other side to protect my back. Steve is not doing that with Meg, James, Jackie, John, and Becky. He may end up getting evicted just because he is guilty by association with Vanessa, Clay, & Shelli.
Becky Burgess – 2 strips of Tofu – going up on the block sucks. Going up on the block when you volunteer and ending up still there on Thursday is horrible, but Becky did this to herself. She still does not realize that the Sixth Sense is playing her and using her. Like a lot of others in the house, she was clueless about the big alliance – and now that everyone else sees it, she thinks they want to include her. She has 2 solid allies she can work with in Jackie & John, but she still runs back to Chelli / Vanessa with any info she gets.
Jason Roy – 3 strips of Tofu – 3 weeks ago when Da’Vonne (his Ride or Die) caught on to the twin twist and let Jason know, he could not keep that information to himself – and eventually that was the fodder Shelli needed to take her out. This week when Austin confirmed the twin twist to him, once again, he could not keep his mouth shut. This almost worked by telling Shelli & Vanessa and getting them to start doubting Austin. Unfortunately this also was the excuse that Vanessa needed to put Jason up and out of the house. Its sad when a superfan blows their opportunity of a lifetime. We will miss his cattiness on the feeds & on the CBS show.
Meg Maley – 4 strips of Tofu – last week she did not want to believe there was a big alliance running the house. This week she was pulled into it and then spit back out of it just as quick. She is this season’s black widow. Dont get close to her or you will go home!
Shelli Poole – 5 strips of Tofu – Lord Acton coined the phrase “Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Shelli has been on a power trip since week 2 and has yet to come down off of it. She is getting too big for her britches around the house and is going to be a hot mess if the other side every wins power back from her side. She also gets an extra strip of tofu for yelling at Clay for talking to her without any makeup on. Did she not think that if he was standing next to her the 1001 cameras in the house would not be able to zoom in on her? Sadly, she is playing a good game if you drop the attitude!
That brings us to the Tofurkey of the Week – and this week it goes to James Hueling. James showed us twice this week how bad he is at throwing competitions. The HoH disaster was embarrassing. By not trying to win, he was putting himself & his allies in danger. Then he volunteered to throw the BoB and did such a bad job that Liz ended up winning it by herself. BUT – as we heard on the live feeds, he actually did help Liz, and those couple of seconds were the difference of Jackie staying HoH and backdooring Austin and what we are left with.
He then said on the feeds the other night he “thought playing Big Brother would be easy.” AND to top it all off – he runs up to the HoH room before nominations – not to talk strategy – but to tell Vanessa her (married) mother is hot. James has this Mr. McGoo* thing going on where he is clueless walking through the game and yet keeps staying safe. That will not last much longer as all of his allies are going home and he will have no one left to help / protect him soon.
* – if you do not know who Mr. McGoo is – watch this video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8GTHXTEvIc
Ok – that wraps up another week of my Bacon / Tofu rankings. Let me know in the comments below if you agree or disagree with me and why.
We really need a power shift at some point soon. Hopefully with the twins coming into the house – they will get rid of the Battle of the Block. I sense a Double Eviction coming up next week – and perhaps then there will be some balance of power as a strong player will go home like usual.
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