Sunday night’s episode of Big Brother 17 found Austin in power, but once again he turned to someone else to call the shots. Am I talking about Judas or Vanessa?
The episode jumps off in the middle of the Head of Household competition. Meg had already been eliminated during Thursday’s episode. Julia is the next person eliminated after moving her hand, causing a false start. Vanessa is the next person out, also by a false start.
Finally an actual race happens and John is the last one to make it to the finish line, so he is eliminated. Austin, James and Steve remain. And then Steve lets go and is eliminated. So it’s down to Austin and James. So Austin can throw this to James like he said.
But wait. He would rather have another week in the HOH room with Liz. So Austin works for it, and in a close race, he beats James to become the new Head of Household. Or is Judas the new HOH? Or will this be another week that VANESSA runs the HOH from the backseat? We shall see.
After the competition, everyone is feeling good that Austin won HOH because Austin has a deal with everyone. So what exactly is Austin going to do? He chooses to be true to Meg and James. So his only options for nominees this week are Vanessa, James and Johnny Mac.
Austin tells Liz and Julia that he’s going with Steve and John or Vanessa and John. But wait, Vanessa comes in with HER idea. She wants to set up a situation so John will throw the veto so that he can’t be saved this week.
Vanessa also thinks that Steve needs to go up next to John because they have a final two. And it backfires on her. Austin thinks since she’s just now telling him this could mean she’s lying or keeping things from him.
So what do Austin and the twins have to say to the alliance Austin is actually planning to be loyal to? I’m talking about Meg and James. Meg is pushing for Vanessa to go. So they start running scenarios that include how to get Vanessa out. But Austin is having doubts because he truly thinks she’s on his side.
But Austin still really likes the idea of being the one to pull the trigger on Vanessa. So he talks a big game about making that move. And since there’s no other competition to feature during this episode, we are going to go in circles about who Austin is going to put up.
So to summarize, Austin goes back and forth a lot and Vanessa wants John to go up. John wants Vanessa to go up. Vanessa wants Steve to go up as a pawn. Steve doesn’t want to be a pawn. Basically Austin should’ve thrown the HOH because he had very little to worry about this week.
The best part of the episode is when Austin and Steve have a talk about Vanessa and how she has been playing the game. And Steve tells Austin how many times Vanessa has wronged him. And then Vanessa comes back in and tells Steve he needs to be a pawn and they all need to be a pawn yet she is also refusing to be a pawn. And here comes Vanessa retelling that she damaged her game so much to save Austin. She’s guilting him like she always does. Yet Austin is still hesitant to nominate her.
So I’m tired of writing in circles, so we’re going to get to the nomination ceremony. Austin completely chickens out and once again lets Vanessa run his HOH and he nominates Johnny Mac and Steve.