You’d almost forget the double dose of opportunities presented to the Big Brother 17 Houseguests this week to take a swing at splitting up the Austwins as Vanessa and John are busy debating the best ways to take them out down the road.
Vanessa will be the outgoing HoH this week which gives her the perfect reason for why she won’t be able to get a twin out in the next round. As for this week, she’s sticking to the threat of them going up against a pawn like Meg for why it couldn’t happen yet. Now Vanessa is looking to John and maybe even Steve to cut the twins, but Steve is making Vanessa a little nervous.
Over the past two days we’ve watched Vanessa discuss with John some ideas of the best ways to get out the twins and whether or not their third ally, Steve, will be up to the task. Flashback first to 2:45 PM BBT on Monday (8/31) as John and Vanessa talk alone in the HoH room.
Along with confirming to one another they’re each other’s F2 deal (I think Vanessa will be the first to collect them all!) Vanessa is pushing for the best way to get Liz out. John says with Liz gone they can try a 3-point plan of each pairing up with another player. Vanessa can go to Julia, Steve can get Austin, and he’ll work with James.
John throws out a scenario where Julia could end up going home if Liz or Austin wins the Veto and saves the other. Vanessa doesn’t care for that much and redirects John toward the idea of putting up Liz and James as James is a strong competitor for the Veto which would reduce Liz’s chances of escaping the Block.
Here we also get a brief mention of how Vanessa is questioning whether or not Steve will be willing to pull the trigger on this plan. Vanessa says that if something happens during the Double Eviction, which they think is another week out, then she’s willing to do it herself and deal with the consequences later. Unfortunately we won’t get a chance to see if that’s true or not.
Then on Monday John brought up that 3-HG plan to Vanessa and how it’d nearly let them lockdown the rest of the season, as he sees it. Flashback to 12:12 PM BBT 9/1 as John and Vanessa sit down in the backyard to briefly discuss.
John says this next HoH is critical for him or Steve to win. What they don’t know is it’ll be the first of two on Thursday, so for their sake they’ll want to bring Steve up to speed before too long. Speaking of Steve, Vanessa tells John she’s still a little nervous about whether or not Steve is on board.
“Do you really believe Steve will do it? I feel like if he knows we’re behind him 100%. I know you’ll do it. I’d do it. I’d love to believe [Steve] will,” says Vanessa. John thinks that Steve knows deep down it needs to be done, but admits Steve is probably closer to the Austwins which could be a problem.
Vanessa says Steve may be tempted to go for taking out James instead, but John points out what seems even more likely, “or will he throw this HoH and let you, me, or James go home?” Well, it won’t be Vanessa if the Austwins get the HoH throne again. It’ll be John or James going up.
I’m not totally convinced Steve will be so bold as to target the Austwins in this DE if he pulls off the HoH win there again and may want to throw it. Then again, this could be part of Vanessa’s strategy may be to make John nervous enough of Steve bailing that he’s working twice as hard to compensate and protect them.
What do you think? Would Steve dare throw an HoH this late and if he does win it would he go after the Austwins or take the easy way out against James? He’d still have to put someone up against James though and the votes will be out of his hands. Thursday should be very interesting.