Faust – Page 3 – A Piece, of the Sky

The initial anger, surrounding the backdoor is wearing off, and sadness is beginning to set in. Thanks Bay. #7StagesOfGrief

It’s been fun. (Not.)

July 26th: “Last call for Swayleigh” (This was before Kaitlyn had even left the house.)

… a war has been raging among the dedicated disciples of Bay: those who claim to be the true acolytes and those who rightly recognize that they can love Bay and deeply dislike her strategy.

Bay couldn’t win HOH to save her life [She did win the HOH – but she completely changed her personality and her game, in the process. If she hadn’t won that HOH, would she still be going home on Thursday?].

A ‘power app’ means nothing, if you don’t…command respect. [Kaycee has won zero comps, zero power apps and zero HOHs – and she’s still living large.]

So many holes in Bay running after Level 6…

Tyler doesn’t like Bay. Week 1, he…considered putting Bay herself up on the block (that was the day when she went crying back to him, in the HOH room, after Swaggy tried to quietly tell her). My mind cannot compute why she would ever tell Tyler, of all people, about her secret power…

If Tyler – and JC, Sam and even, Kaycee and ~~Rachel~~ – are at the bottom of Level 6, Bay isn’t even in Level 6. They will use Bay as a number and then discard her.

…Only Rockstar has been 100% loyal to Swayleigh, yet Bay [was] determined to send RS home. [And then Bay wanted to send home Scottie; Scottie is now working for Level 4.]

– End Flashback –

Bay is going the way of Kaitlyn, and she wasn’t even as fantastically bad and as cool as Kaitlyn! I knew Bay shouldn’t have trusted Tyler; now, she too, has become Faust.

Sam was even trying to be nice to Bay and cheer her up – but Bay kept subtly kicking Sam’s game, in the teeth. And then there was all that yelling at RS. Poor Sam. Poor Rockstar.

Bay, why didn’t you 1) put Tyler and Brett up, when you were HOH? 2) keep your power app a secret from Rachel, Tyler, Angela and the rest of Level 6? 3) use your power this week? Five minutes after the Veto ceremony, Bay was packing – five minutes.

Lest we forget Angela, the Cowardly Lion, Richard III (played expertly by Sherlock‘s Benedict Cumberbatch) was a great villain and had scoliosis. The poor guy was ugly, but he stood by his positions; he died on that hill. If a platform is so strong, stand behind it.

Tyler has a track record: Kaitlyn, Rachel, Bay (soon), and later Angela. All of the HGs believe they are invincible; they never see their blindside coming.

Hope: I am hearing there will indeed be a double eviction – and a battle back (!) – since Kaitlyn didn’t make it back on to the show, using Sam’s Power App.

This doesn’t fit the exact definition, but Swaggy: JODY’s got your girl! A comparison could be made to when Hay spent five hours, at night, hanging out with Brett in the hammock, enraging Fessy.

I have never seen such a bad case of the mist. After the eviction, Bay ran to Tyler, like he was her one port, in the storm. She told him everything about the power, including that she can only change the noms before the HOH nominates people and that her power isn’t just good for this week, but until the final eight! That was a ton of strategic information.

Tyler and Angela are both trying to not spook Bay, so that she doesn’t use her power, and so that she can eventually be backdoored. Bay, Level 6 and the independent people don’t like you. Be cordial, but don’t give out strategic information to these people!

Bay’s rationale for not telling her alliance (except for Fessy) was because she wanted to use the power on herself, and not on any of her alliance members (selfish, I know). But by that very definition, it means that she would use the power on Tyler (and Rachel, if she were still here). What is she doing?

As every superfan has beaten to death, only four votes could come from Foutte – Scottie, Hay, Fessy and RS, and only two votes could come from what’s left of Level 6 – Angela, and Kaycee (since the nominees, Brett and Rachel, couldn’t vote).

So, that leaves three votes unaccounted for, and what do you know – just by magic, there are three independent people left in the house – Tyler, Sam, and JC.

Tyler already claimed his vote, to keep Brett – but then these two other votes just magically happened to be there, for him to fall in with, like there had been a plan ahead of time, or something.

However, for Bay and for Foutte, those two rogue votes couldn’t have come from the two independents left. No, oh no – it must be Scottie, Hay or RS. So dumb.

Bay wants to fit in so much with the pretty people, of Level 6, that she is willing to trust Brett, Tyler, JC and Angela, over RS, Scottie, Hay, common sense and even statistical evidence (The numbers just don’t add up, to fit your hypothesis, Bay!)

Meanwhile,

The Winner of the Hacker Comp can:

1) change one of the noms before veto comp

2) pick a replacement nom before the veto comp

3) pick someone to play in the veto comp

4) on eviction night, he or she can eliminate one vote

The downside is that the HOH can pick the hacker as a replacement nom, after the POV, if someone comes down from the block, or change the Hacker’s noms back to what they were originally.

Angela, the Terminator, as expected, put up Scottie and RS – two members of Foutte – with a plan, with Tyler and Level 6, to backdoor Bay.

Bay didn’t use her power, before the noms, because she was lured into a false sense of security, by Tyler and Angela. Once again, so dumb.

But then, Hay won the hacking comp!

And better yet, she put Tyler up!

I REPEAT: Hay put Tyler up! And removed Scottie from the block!

Tyler couldn’t use his cloud power app, because the hacker ceremony was neither the HOH ceremony, nor the POV ceremony!

If the noms stay the same, and Tyler is still up there, next to RS, come eviction night, common sense will take over, and the HGs will realize Tyler is way more of a threat, than RS, who doesn’t even know what 30 times 60 is. Vote out Tyler!

Of course, all of this can still be reversed, by the vicissitudes of the powers, the hacker powers and most importantly, the POV comp and ceremony. However, I am happy to see someone finally take a shot at Tyler. The vampire isn’t immune! I have newfound faith in the game. Don’t write out a check, to Tyler, for $500K, just yet.