BB: “4 Days Late”

July 29, 2018August 2, 2018 ~ Piece, of the Sky

I tried to write this many times, but I am still reeling from the loss of Kaitlyn. I thought no one was going home this week – and production did too! #BBApocalypse #7StagesofGrief

The one thing about the natural disaster-level whirl of karma, that removed Kaitlyn, is that after the dust settled, we began to see what’s important and what’s not…

JC is running this game. Level 6 was all set to bounce RS, and JC said “No.” Sam, the HOH, who can fish for her dinner, weld, and purportedly ‘stomp mudholes’ in people’s chests, wanted to put JC on the block. JC said “No.” Sam caved and cried and hugged JC afterward.

JC is independent of Level 6. He is independent of Tyler. Tyler can womanize Bay, Hay, Kaitlyn, Sam, Kaycee (even though she is gay!) and everyone, everywhere – except JC. JC sees through him. He sees him for who he truly is (so does Scottie, but more on Scottie later).

On Twitter, there are pictures of Tyler, dressed as a rich man, in his real life. He’s not a “surfer.” He doesn’t need the money – but he has the intelligence to win it.

The Kaitlyn vote showed me that the house will listen to JC, over Tyler. If Level 6 doesn’t have JC’s swing vote, they will literally break camp and vote the other way. JC is the bellwether, the canary in the coal mine.

When JC voted to evict RS, every BB fan, myself included, thought RS was toast. But that was just a joke vote – and who was that poison barb aimed at? Tyler.

JC’s long game is to destroy Tyler, because only Tyler stands in the way of him winning $500K. The rest are irrelevant. It’s a game between JC and Tyler and the rest of them are just chess pieces, that those two move around. And it’s JC‘s game to lose.

Invisibility is power. If you’re not on the TV right now, that’s a good thing. Based on this rubric, the Final Five are: JC, Scottie, Angela, Rachel and Kaycee. Most casual watchers regard these HGs as “furniture,” but they are the real ones running the game.

RS is weak. Hay and Fessy are fighting now. Brett, Tyler and Sam are all way too exposed. Bay has a chance, but she has contracted HOH-itis, like Kaitlyn and Sam. Absolute power, corrupts absolutely.

Bay has also told Rachel about her power app. Who has she not told? A fake showmance with Tyler, is the last thing she needs right now (4 Days Late?! C’mon Bay! That’s your whole career and life on the line! You’re a professional model!).

Bay deserves to go home, if she too falls for Tyler’s wiles. Everyone is Faust, to Tyler’s fallen angel, Mephistopheles (look what happened to Kaitlyn!). He’s a jinx. He’s the spirit in “Death Note.” Avoid him Bay.

Scottie is still the best HOH, and he didn’t suffer an iota for it! Meanwhile, Brett is back on the block! The bros are going home.

Being HOH, gives you a chance to step out of the current fight and create a way-ahead. An airtight, post-HOH game is the sign of skillful player. Since he left the HOH suite, no one has heard from Scottie. #OutToLunch #OnBreak

BB: Busted Faysal Love Triangle

July 21, 2018July 26, 2018 ~ Piece, of the Sky ~ 1 Comment

Inconvenient truths: Winston looked like the next Patrick Bateman on his eviction night, and Bay was completely taking JC’s examples out of context.

Speaking of villains, like Bateman, Kaitlyn is in for a rude awakening, when she gets out of the house. Jessica Graf was totally in the clear. After #BB20, Kaitlyn will have no choice but to come back for Celebrity BB or BB’s versions of Heroes vs. Villains (Christine?).

How have Tyler (and Kaitlyn) gotten away with it, for a whole month and Foute is only finding out now? Foute is one of the worst alliances in BB history: no one paid for Steve going home, until last week; one of their own becomes HOH and backdoors another member, and this week, again, another one of Foute will be voted out (even if an app resurrects them). No power. At all.

Stray electrons, but still important:

1) CBS aired a discussion on minorities and didn’t air the actual incriminating remarks from Rachel and Angela. Editing them out, only gave these moments more power. Since this is reality TV, CBS should have aired the real bones of contention and let America decide for itself. The disclaimer card they showed, from the jump, was a complete red herring for the remarks they did show. Kudos to Bay for (finally) hugging it out and not getting unnecessarily upset about a hypothetical discussion.

2) HOH Sam is the complete reverse of HOH Scottie. With Scottie, I went in with abysmally low expectations and was spectacularly surprised. With Sam, I went in thinking she was a saint and came out realizing she’s hypocritical (how is what Kaitlyn and Haleigh are doing, any worse than what Rachel and Angela do every day?) and bitter (we all have our gifts in this world: gentleness, beauty, intelligence, etc. – you can’t attack people just because they have a larger helping of one trait, instead of you). Lumping Haleigh in with Kaitlyn, was also a poor choice.

The 48 Laws of Power cannot lie: look at what people do, and not the rationalizations for what they do. If Kaitlyn and Haleigh were on the wrong side of the house, i.e. not in Level 6, just say that, instead of doing this awful Salem witch trials imitation. What part of ‘not getting blood on your hands’ does Sam not understand?

I am so disappointed in Sam, and I am not the only one. No wonder Sam is stuck in the middle, went up on the block Week 1, became a robot and despite having a ton of social capital and goodwill (which this week squandered) still has no true allies (lock everyone out of the HOH room? no one-on-ones? What is that?).

Why would Sam want to be HOH the week her power comes into play? Wouldn’t she want to get as far away, as possible? Tyler got off easy, because he has no target on his back for being HOH twice – however, he is at the bottom of the Level 6 alliance, so when the game starts being played, ‘for real’ – his days are numbered. Sam looked so strong at the end of that HOH comp, but then she threw a month of arduous work away.