BB7 Allstars should be called Big Brother Extreme
BB7 Allstars should be called Big Brother Extreme by Roxanne McDonald
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We may as well start calling Big Brother 7 Big Brother Extreme.
In Thursday nights episode the cutthroat gaming REALLY begins. |
After select recap scenes from Tuesday’s episode, Julie Chen announces they are going to play a full week of games in one hour.
(Why the need to speed up already intense procedures? Why so hasty? Getting squeezed out by incoming football season?)
Anyway, good ol’ cheery Chicken George is in the DR, “thinkin’ it will be the week” they throw him out, he jokingly says. He adds that Julie says there will be chicken and beer waiting for him if that’s the case. Remember, he has been on slop for most of the time he has been in the house.
Now it’s time for Will to educate us on his take and to remind us of his power: he describes the tension between Danielle and Erika, and says it’s hilarious. “I’m the one who did this and no one’s mad at me!” he beams. He then is seen speaking to his allies, saying how they are Chilltown and they are secret ninjas and they are omnipotent, etc., etc..
Janelle is in the DR, clueless about how clued in she is NOT, saying, for example, how no one knows she is “with” Chilltown. “No one. Except Chilltown, of course.” But they don’t even KNOW this, for what they know is that they have TOLD you you are one of them but will be booted faster than you can flip that gorgeous blonde hair back.
Will continues planting the poison, telling George to rest assured it’s “bros before hos”, and feigns inviting George into the mix; George says in DR, “I am an honorary member! Can you imagine me in Chilltown?” And of course we next see the hand-rubbing and whisker spinning continue, as Boogie boasts, “How many honorary memberships have we given this week? How many are we gonna honor?”
Outside over a board game, Diane asks Will, “Are you keeping me?” and Will does this sheepish, well, sheepish in wolfish clothing grinning and chuhhaw-ing, and tells her to relax, saying she is way too wigged out. Diane agrees and succumbs, saying, “I’m cool.” Then, “I aint stupid.”
Of course the next clip is of Will back in the DR laughingly saying he’s not sure if Diane has been watching … but “let me introduce myself …” he jabs.
Voting time. Asked if they have anything to say to the others, George jokes that if they would like to save the biggest competitor they can save him, and Dani is so spent by now she can only add that it has been a roller coaster of a week for her. Once she is told that by a vote of 3 to 0 she has been evicted from the Big Brother house, she makes a most decent exit comment: “I’m voting for the BEST player, so kick butt [everyone].” Again the somewhat authentic final word comes as her being called a “class act right there.”
A strange countenance: Boogie sits sort of hunched in the kitchen / dining room, a morose, exhausted, rueful look on his face. But why? Is it real? Is he feigning regret? Is he running the game’s end through his twisted, manipulative head? Hmmm.
In her exit interview, she tells Julie that she knows she took too much personally. Danielle says, “I know these people. I [came in] as a big fan.” But, she adds, it’s hard knowing you are regarded as one of the best players, for logically you will be voted out. The good-bye videos confirm this: Janelle, Boogie, and Will all say how utterly great a game player Dani is, while George reiterates how great she was helping him through this far — though Erika is still self-absorbed with guilt and talking to Dani about her weepy self and about hopes for forgiveness.
Julie asks Danielle about forgiving Erika and Danielle says that yes, she has already done so; it’s the fact that she had Erika’s back through all of this and Erika turned on her. “If she thinks,” Danielle reminds us all, “that Chilltown or Janelle are gonna have her back, she’s mistaken.”
Finally, the reality of the manipulative, exploitative, almost malevolent C-town is verbalized, is iterated, is articulated … by someone besides Will. Hey, Will, how bout this: you just take the winnings. You are likely to, anyway. But you send half to charities—equally distributed, that is, among the charities of choice of the people you have stung along the way. I mean, this isn’t about need for you, and I suspect it is not really even about greed. You are clearly a brilliant doctor. You have an awesome family, who is not by any stretch needful either. So give up some of the dough. Maybe you can assure yourself a posthumous position as jester to the big HoH in the sky. Unless … Janelle calls you on your crap, keeps her vow to get you back, and keeps on winning the PoVs and HoHs.
Yup. Next HoH, Janelle. Then, by shock or by crock, the PoV goes not to Jan but to … Erika. (It ALMOST went to Will, who has stopped throwing his own success when it comes to HoH competitions, for now is the time, he reasons, to get the post, now that there are no fallout possibilities and at the same time are thousands of reasons to win HoH and be in the final three. Oh, well. You still have your scheming skills.
And use them he does. As soon as Janelle gets HoH, she is told she [supposedly] has only a few minutes to decide who to put up. Will gets to her faster than George gets on real food. After a lot of bated breathing and whispering, and Will doing his mind-controlling repetition and saying, “Me and you or me and Boogie.”
The nomination ceremony commences, and, of course, Janelle puts up Erika and George. As Will had just prompted her to do, Janelle acts all taken off guard and flustered (by the haste with which she must choose), and says in halting fake eenie meenie minee mo reluctance, “George … and … Erika.”
Man, is someone going to be burned once the number is down to four. Hmmm. Given the history of backstabbing, back-dooring, scum-bagging, and backsliding, if the final four are the Chilltowners and their pseudo dates, now just who do you THINK is gonna get sh-t-canned? Bye bye “hos”.
Then, wait. The PoV usually goes to Janelle, and, as I let leak above, this time goes to Erika. After un-knotting herself from a rope that has been tie at one end to her waist and another end to a Veto symbol, and while trying to reach the bell, she returns to unknotting the last bundle to free the Veto – while Will mistakenly, prematurely rings the bell before freeing his symbol.
So with the PoV, she walks into the house as Julie says to her that she has only a few minutes to decide what she is going to do. Uh. I wonder.
Janelle has vowed to get Will, and her putting him up in Erika’s place would be award-winning poetic justice. But, really, we must remember she has been successfully brainwashed by the Chilltown gangsta and while she CLAIMS to be tricking him…well, you know the truth.
She puts up Boogie. There is a weird stilted silence for a minute, the five remaining pretty much deer in headlights. Is Boogie realizing the reality of what Will will succeed in yet again – getting rid of his best bud as a dope fiend gets rid of his grandmother’s jewels in order to get his next fix?
George, however, is the pawn who gets pawned right out the door. As ever, he is humble and cheerful and gets to meet with Julie and get his promised surprise: Colonel Sanders shows up on the set with a bucket of chicken. Okay, so there’s one obvious advertising plug … where’s the beer?
Back in the house, Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice are all self-congratulatory, though they are not all that rowdy about it and are instead likely consumed by what-ifs and how-tos at this point and are looking at the pictures on the wall, considering what’s left considering there are still two weeks to go, and thinking that, as Will suggests (and is so often right that we pay heed), someone will be coming back in to the BB house.
I am champing to see Sunday’s BB7, which is way too far away, if you ask me.
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