BB: “The End of All Things”

T R U TH

This is the quietest but hugest disappointment of the season: Angela, the Great, came in as a roaring tiger and left as a lamb. What happened to our powerful Ice Queen?? Why didn’t she cut her weaker mate, Tyler, like a ravenous black widow spider?

I didn’t want Angela’s heart to melt. I wanted it to grow 273.15 degrees colder – on the Celsius scale! Absolute zero! I wanted a second Ice Age, in the BB house! She could have won the whole game! Yet, she threw it away.

Swayleigh – Gone. Faleigh – Gone. Tangela – Soon to be Gone. Go JC. Sam for AFP.

I do not like when players say, ‘I would love to lose to you.’ But do imagine that whoever says this (JC) wants to lose to only the mark (Tyler), and not to anyone else. If sufficiently incensed, JC may make sure Tyler loses to Kaycee, out of spite. People don’t like being humiliated – especially by secret Final 2s, made at the beginning of the game.

Throwing end-of-the-game comps is not unprecedented. Richard Hatch threw an endurance comp, on Day 38, forcing the winner of Immunity to pick whether they wanted to be in the Final Two with Rich, or Rudy. Rich bargained on the Immunity winner taking himself, and he was right. However, it’s not a lock that Tyler is as good as the first Survivor winner, Richard Hatch.

Regardless, the Veto Queen was back. This is Kaycee’s fifth POV win, alone. My ranking for who I hope to win is: 1) JC 2) Kaycee 3) Tyler.

‘No blood on your hands’ =/= best player. As I alluded to, in my dissection of what does a ‘bitter jury’ mean, the best player threads the needle, between being the nice guy, who didn’t upset anyone and being the bloodthirsty, mastermind/”super-fan,” who orchestrated every move and can take credit for every blindside, in the end.

The concept behind being the best player, as with most things in life, is balance. You can’t be the nice guy and win or expect to win when you’ve been carried, to the end – nor can you be completely aggressive and throw jury management (which is a part of good game-play) out the window. The best player plays as his or herself and interweaves all aspects of passive, aggressive and assertive (the Middle Path) game-play, just like in the 48 Laws of Power.

Oh, this is a totally different Final Three than what everyone envisioned. Two of my Final Five are there though: Kaycee and JC.

There was some talk, on Twitter, that Tyler, might be gay but it was totally unconfirmed (Swaggy C is also supposedly gay). Tyler may be bisexual, but even if he is, Tyler doesn’t like JC, that way.

I just don’t understand how or why JC is so in love with Tyler. I thought JC was more street-smart than that. But you can’t control who you love, right? Irrational emotions get in the way of game-play, again.

I mean, I get it: you have to shore up your position. But JC taking credit for everything – while not knowing that 1) Tyler is in Level 6 2) Tyler had a Final 2 with Kaycee and that 3) Angela and Tyler are in a showmance – is becoming insufferable, at this point. JC also didn’t win the second competition that he needed to win, to completely secure his ultimate victory – as I noted last week. Ugh.

I loved BB20 but yes, I am very excited Survivor DvG is starting next week! I say shorter BB seasons, with a larger cast and more double evictions – even earlier double evictions. Even Rob likes 70 days vs. 90 days. Three months is too drawn out. The only upside is segueing right into Survivor.

By the time it hits Labor Day, BB should be wrapping up or already over. Do a big Unofficial-End-of-Summer Finale. There should be no September Big Brother. We shouldn’t be waiting until the actual end of summer. Start Survivor earlier. New Fiscal Year, new blockbuster reality TV show. When the US Open starts, we should be in BB’s Final Three.

#Tangela is boring. When @kaitcoaching left, half of me left the game. Tyler looked like a giant because he was surrounded by ants. Of course, you can run the game against people like Fessy, Bay, Rockstar, Hay, Sam and JC. C’mon!

Bay got a second chance, with her HOH, after Swaggy left but she threw that chance away. That’s the only reason we still have Tyler here, today. I’m over Tyler; he’s overrated.

The true tragedy of the season is that Sam thought Tyler was lying about his secret power app. If only she had shredded that false Final Two and exposed Tyler’s conniving self, sending him packing – the same way Tyler sacked Bay.

thank you JC

Also: Ready for Survivor

First One Out: Bi.

First One Out

Ultimate Sole Survivor: Christian.

Ultimate Sole Survivor

Preliminary Survivor Rankings:

Survivor DvG preliminary rankings

I can also see Alison as the winner. Being a doctor is a huge plus. The nerd king trend is kind of played out, but I am still hanging on to the Cochran.

Lyrsa definitely give me huge First Boot vibes, but every time I see Bi, and her being promoted so hard, I get cold feet. If the tribe is sitting under the shelter, hiding from the rain, Bi’s going to have a ton of pent-up energy/rage – that she could take out on her fellow castaways.

One pair who could be flipped: Dan could be a hidden jerk and Nick might be a cool Big Tom (from Survivor: Africa).

I would put Davie, the “blerd,” higher, but Nicole’s insight into the whole weird ‘sliding into the DMs’ thing, led me to put more people above him.

BB: “Rockslide!”

Sam in the House

Fessy plays the game as well as a sack of rocks. He’s ‘OK’ with Tyler, but wants to get rid of Scottie, one of the last few people in Foutte’s alliance, besides Hay.

Fessy is after Brett and Scottie, the competitors for Hay’s heart. He’s not playing for the $500K. He is playing strictly with his heart. Fessy is ready to let Tyler get away, for another week. At this rate, Tyler is never going to be voted out anytime soon. He’s never been in any real danger.

Scottie’s going home Thursday. I am calling it now. Kaitlyn got rid of Swaggy. Hay let RS go home during her HOH. Fessy is going to take out Scottie, for personal reasons (Scottie’s crush on Hay).

Scottie is still the best thing to ever happen to Foutte. He needs to win the veto and save himself from Foutte’s stupidity. Kaitlyn’s spirit animals are still haunting the house and taking revenge on Foutte, by allowing them to fight each other and destroy one another.

Fessy is going home, the week after the next. Foutte is all going to join each other, one after the other, in the jury house.

Fessy also repeated the great Foutte tradition of making bad strategic decisions from the HOH bathroom, like Hay’s wine-fueled bath tub pitch to Tyler, to use the veto on Rockstar.

Stop with the backdooring; just put people up straightaway.

Foutte wins competitions – but not the ones that matter; Tyler has won multiple POVs, including OTEV.

Sam and Kaycee? I ‘ship’ them, more than any pairing with Sam. They were hugging each other so much, after RS left. Sam returned to her first love.

Brett almost killed Sam, with some seeds she was allergic to, in a dinner he made for her. If that’s not a sign, from the universe, that they shouldn’t be together, I don’t know what is.

Sam was the only vote to save Bay, but this week, suddenly, like the crocodile tears of Hay and Fessy, last week, Sam supposedly ‘just wanted to vote with the house.’ Future HGs should retire this tired excuse forever. As I’ve said before, YOU make your own majority, YOU accumulate your own numbers.

It’s like Rule #3 of the 48 Laws of Power: never tell anyone that you like them. Conceal your true intentions. Bad move Sam. Brett is not the one for her! Sam needs a nurturer and Brett will not be able to deal with Sam’s level of uniqueness.

Sam is the kind of person, who can survive on her own, but she needs just one person, who gets her – one person who is ‘her person.’ Bay is gone, so is RS; so now, Sam’s ‘person’ is Brett, of all people.

The level of commitment, that Sam requires, is too much for Brett to handle. He won’t have the mental bandwidth to cater to Sam. Then she will be hurt and take the whole issue very hard, since Sam already has self-esteem issues. Angela may be traditionally hot, but Sam is the beautiful girl-next-door. I don’t know why she can’t see that in herself and be more confident.

Foutte is committed to the ‘fairness’ of Rockstar, or people like Fessy, being ‘a man of his word.’ No one in Foutte is intellectually dumb. But street smarts would teach Foutte that the only thing that really matters is power – who has the numbers, who has the majority.

Words mean nothing without actions. Pinky promises are made to be broken, at one’s first convenience. Just ask Tyler.  “The 48 Laws of Power,” “The Prince,” and “The Art of War” should be required reading for all HGs, before they enter the BB house.

Rockstar is not legendary, in any sense of the word. The only HG that I am excited to see in Celebrity Big Brother, Survivor and such, is Kaitlyn. Kaitlyn is a Legend.

sip that Tea