Big Brother All Stars is down to six master gamesters
Big Brother 7 is down to six master gamesters, all allying with one another and each out to eliminate the rest.
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The logic and logistics are lost on some but then again, are coming to light.
For example, Erika notes in the Diary room that “everybody is in an alliance with everybody else. Yup. And nope. |
Further, on Sunday, August 27, Erika as HoH and Danielle as her closest bud have a chat in Erika’s new paper and cloth burst of flowers room.
Erika is trying to figure out why Janelle would vote James out, and once the two realize it, they see how Will is pulling his puppet’s strings: Erika says, “Will’s got some control over her.” Yup.
Will is getting more egotistical by the minute, if that’s possible. And he complains more, too – probably to keep up the act and nothing more: first he bitches about Erika’s HoH room, saying how “you can get too much of a good thing,” in this case, flowers.
Will approaches Dani in private and apologizes, not for getting rid of James but for Danielle having to suffer the loss of a close friend (in the house, that is). Danielle, who has said to the DR cam that she will destroy Will if James goes, just replies that she understands it’s a game – which Will interprets as her coming after him next. I TOLD you Will was brilliant.
The Double Date disaster that is Will and Janelle and Boogie and Erika is played out for us tonight, with Janelle mock seducing Will in the pool and the two of them discussing flirting and falling in love to the Big Brother cam and with Boogie and Erika getting all close and “intimate” in Erika’s HoH room. You know Chill Town is working them. Boogie works Erika to try to convince her that Danielle is a threat and should be nominated next. He tells Erika that Dani is so dangerous, and that she “runs to the power every time.” Uh. No, YOU do this Boogie.
The food competition involves a bastardized version of the birds and the bees: Dani and Janelle are dressed in bird costumes; Erika is a big flower; and except for George, who is a “bad sunflower,” the boys are bees. They jump in nectar, which is soaked up by their spongy costumes, then run to a massive flower / sifter thing where One bee squeezes the hell out of them, to dump the nectar into designated buckets (each labeled with a food necessity, a luxury, or a slop pass.
The remaining house guests earn a slop pass, which George is ELATED about, Christmas in August, alcohol and meat.
Will amps up the pseudo-egoist angle, making love to the camera. Back in the Diary Room, he says that “at first blush you think I am making love to a camera. But I’m not. It’s to you, America.” And a big fake special effect glint – twinkle appears in his eye.
Nominations come with the not – so easily manipulated Erika (ha, you go girlfriend) putting up George and Janelle and explaining her rationale in the most direct of ways – saying that Janelle is repectable as a power player and George is, she implies, the pawn. Good old George trundles through the house saying he’s the 200 – pound pawn.
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Big Brother All Stars, Thursday, August 24, 2006 is rife bittersweet content, poetic justice, etc., etc..
James and George are on the block. Janelle has questionably won PoV by yanking a clue doll from James in the PoV competition, the doll she runs back to the almighty Tiki with to win. The buzz is whether to do away with James, which most are intending, or to suffer the wrath of Danielle, who vows (in privacy of the DR) to destroy everyone who votes her “only” trustworthy ally out.
Well, it’s not really a buzz. It’s a low, even subliminal, hum. James is a goner; we know that. As mouthpiece of the moment Will says, “This is the decision [we’ll] look back on and say either ‘it kicked me out’ or it helped me get this/so far…”
On the other side of the island, so to speak, or on an actual island that is stunning to viewers but the hell of hells for Big Brother house guests exiled, Marcellas is the first to arrive. He and those now following will be the jury panel for the final two remaining BB houseguests. We hear Marcellas muttering about how miserable this experience is, how humiliating, how maddening. And we hear him muse on who will be the next to arrive on exile island: “…The worst possible scenario would be for Howie to show up,” he snipes.
And camera pans to the outer ring and the walkway: Howie is humpin his luggage up the walk.
Rather than be all fake and welcoming, though, Marcellas drops his head into his hands and wails, “Nonononononooooo….” Later, Howie shows Marcellas the tape of the hours leading up to the eviction and the eviction. He chats up “Marcy,” who now says to him, “Stop calling me Marcy. We’re not in the house anymore and I don’t like you. My name is Marcellas.”
Howie, passive-aggressive prickster, acknowledges, saying, “Okay MarGellas.” Marcellas rolls his eyes.
Back at home in the BB house, the votes are in and of course James is out. The video goodbye messages, while dubious as to their authenticity, are really quite empowering: Will, for example, concedes to feeling “intimidated” by James because he is such a dynamic player, but the double-dipping (James playing more than one side/ally) told Will James was too dangerous to keep around.
And true to form, Will adds that the “teacher” never reveals all the tricks to the student…. And this was Will’s undisclosed lesson/trick.
HoH competition sees, finally, quiet floater Erika as new HoH. Congratulations, Erika. Mix it up even more this week!
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Big Brother Allstars, on Tuesday, August 22, continues to twist and wrench in surprising (if that’s possible) ways.
Janelle feigns brilliant strategizing and faking out of fellow houseguests, but she is more clueless to the clues that others are in fact really good at being really bad (evil). Now she pulls this, “people I thought were my friends aren’t” thing to the Diary Room cam. Oh, puhleese.
Janelle also does this distressed beauty having lost her beast sidekick thing, telling the DR cam that she is faking weakness to trap the others into thinking she has “given up” and therefore will be easy to oust. But she has got to be shakin in her designer boots…ESPECIALLY once HoH competition plays out.
As we should give her props for, Janelle is a strong contender in most HoH competitions. She has been HoH three times—in weeks one (with Jase); in week four; and again in week six. When she has not won the HoH position she has usually made it close to winning. This week is no exception: she plays a true/false game, remaining until the end, one of the last two, with Mike Boogie. The competitors have had their heads inside these cartoon/circus cutouts, and have been answering Julie’s questions. When someone has been wrong, they have been notified they are out by a live gnome (a little person) who slams a pie to the face.
Janelle and Mike Boogie answer a couple of questions correctly, the competition getting more and more heated. Then, however, one question has Mike correct (and the new HoH) and Janelle…with a pie goo mix to the face, which she does not take well. Of course, it not only musses with her golden perfection but it is, as is intended, humiliating. She gives a plosive oh (or eew) and scurries away for Will to fake groom her (instead of congratulating his closest ally).
Boogie is triumphant. Will is reticent. Smartest one in the Big Brother house, he hits the Diary Room and discusses how he wouldn’t WANT the HoH, how he intentionally throws every HoH competition, and how getting the post is not an honor or a boost but a bane to that HoH winner…for, obviously, they subject themselves to the anger, revenge, and spite the following week.
There is little interest in seeing Mike Boogie’s room, but people drag themselves in making rote gestures. Janelle has to be coaxed by Will, who has been propping her up emotionally (or egoistically), telling her how beautiful, fun, and smart she is. (Careful viewers will note he does not say “intelligent”, which is way different in this world.)
Janelle sneaks in to chat up George. She “confides” in him, saying she has been duped and that those she was supposedly in with are all just turning on her. (Uuh-duh, for the supposedly tricky player you think you are Jan, did you think YOU were the only one telling lies? Tsk. Every time. He or she boasts of profound slyness then gripes and cries that he/she has been outfoxed. Sigh.)
Then she falls for it again! George, who is now as duplicitous as the next house guest, makes a secret alliance with Janelle! So, let’s see. He is secretly one-on-one with Erika, whom Janelle has nominated umpteen times; he is friends with “Marcy”. He is cherished by and has a respectable thing with Danielle. He wanted in with Janelle and Howie (and Will and Boogie). Maybe we should be watching for the not the chicken but the phoenix, who has risen from the ashes of the first Big Brother house and is gonna claw the eyes out of everyone he can?
In the meantime, of course, Boogie Man and Evil Weevil Will have been conspiring: Janelle and James go up for eviction; Boogie pretends it is because they are biggest (season sixer) threats to whole house; but everyone gets hypnotized into ousting James, to keep the friction and therefore attention on Janelle versus Dani.
When Will “confides” in Janelle, reporting the “plan”, he of course changes it up to seem like she will be the pawn and the goal is to get James out. But we remember, too, that while Janelle is fierce, James is the king of PoV competitions….
I spoke too soon: the PoV competition, which consists of a Gilligan’s Island kind of Tiki God Statue thing spouting the challenge (whereby players have to retrieve a voodoo doll with the initial of the houseguest/answer to the clue), is a time of reckoning for the supposed best mates in alliance, James and Janelle. In one search for the right answer/doll, Janelle SNATCHES a doll from James, rolls, kicks James in the hand/chest/head, and calls HIM a JERK!!!!
She therefore “wins” and it is not contested or retracted, despite James explaining and complaining to anyone within earshot, despite his discussing the cheat in the DR, or despite the very evidence, the camera/video tape. As James would have it, it is “described as assault in the outside world,” but the issue is not how she assaulted, James!
James sort of gets the big picture, saying to Will and others that Big Brother 7 is “fixed” to help Janelle win (and this consideration is not the first we’ve heard of the possibility that Janelle is getting way ahead in some strange ways).
Will has the last masterful word: “James thinks the show is fixed in Janelle’s favor. Well it is…. I’m the one fixing it, James.” Evil grin, implying not that he wants Janelle to win jack but that he will use her to make it so he wins…of course.
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Sunday’s Big Brother 7 segment was a doozie!
As HoH, Chicken George had nominated Erika and James (within an hour of being named HoH, for it was a double-eviction week). However, Boogie had the Coup d’etat and the PoV competition was coming up: chained to wooden stumps, the few allowed to compete are given an array of odd items to use to fashion some side of hook—for the key to their shackles is just out of reach across the backyard lawn. Howie’s a fumbling, George is a mutterin. And the stalwart James again wins Power of Veto.
This of course sets the others to fretting, for they know not what Chicken Man will do, being as fluid, mercurial, unpredictable as he is. Ever the floating pawnstress, Erika needs assurance, so goes to George in his HoH room, and begs him not to put up Will, which is, she says, “the worst thing [he] could do.”
Erika and George form a mini alliance. But as alliances flip and flop by the hour, we don’t know that George is in all the way with Erika. For along came Mastermind Will, mesmerizing at least temporarily. And along comes Janelle, whom George is in awe of for her, er, playing skills. He tells her everyone wants HER out, but he respects her too much as has too much integrity: If he puts her up for eviction, he says, it would go against everything he believes in.
What does this mean? We didn’t know until just now that he had such a thing for Janelle. Rather, he has ulterior motives we may have underestimated. And he has likely learned his lesson after being the nice guy who got booted so early in the first American Big Brother, season one. He wants in with Janelle’s alliance (which he thinks includes Chill Town). Go, George! A bargain if we ever saw one in the making, an unexpected strategy on your part!
Then Mike Boogie, who has the CD but is not allowed to reveal the fact, implies a threat to George, saying that not only did Will and Mike save his ass last week but that there is a POWER out there that could come back to bite him on that ass.
So George is in with Erika. He is also in with Janelle and Howie. But, hasn’t he been protected by Dani and rescued by Marcellas, too? Hmmm.
Veto Ceremony: James of course takes himself off the chopping block. Then George announces that 1) Boogie and Will saved him, 2) Janelle is too good a player, and 3) implied, Dani is not an option. So he puts Howie up. The baby starts a whimperin, the likes of which we have not seen during a Veto ceremony. Howie is challenging and refuting to no avail. Bye-bye Howie. Try to talk to Boogie, who does his “hos before bros” assuring thing (smirking the whole time). Talk up Will (try and get an authentic promise from this evil genius). But wethinks you be going home.
Yep. Three votes to evict Howie. And again, as he leaves (when almost every guest in the previous six seasons has gracefully exited), he slams Chicken George with how supposedly “good” his word is; knocks off Boogie’s cherished playah hat; and gets in Boogie’s face (literally), like the big but ineffectual oaf/bully he is. He still has to go.
Granted, it hurts to have your fellow Jedi use his saber on your backside when you aint lookin, but so goes the tradition of Big Brother, AllStar season no exception.
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