First, remember the producer stating that they made the rules up as they went along? That makes a lot of sense when you’re steering the game in a given direction…

We don’t have time to get feedback from America to see what they would want the AP to do with the veto is about as lame an excuse as the dog ate my homework… The producers knew exactly what would have happened had Eric used the veto… Dani would have been gone and Dick would have gone nuts and followed shortly thereafter… This would have put Eric and Jess as strong possibilities for the F2, although Zach still had the potential to be in the money… and of course that’s not what the producers had envisioned for the F2…

I find it sad that they would manipulate the game to that degree. I have no problem with them tweaking things as they go along, but the implement a major move in a critical part of the game by denying the use of the veto… a move that changed the entire outcome of the game… I think goes over the line and is just as bad as giving a HG the answers to questions to insure they get HoH or POV…

But all of that is just my humble opinion… oh, would CBS please fire the producer!!!

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Trevor: “Now one of the biggest tactical moves of the entire game was Eric not taking the opportunity to backdoor Dick and Daniele down the stretch. I think that actually cost you, may well have cost you, the game because if he backdoors Dick and Daniele one of them will go home and I had you getting to the final two in that scenario. What was your thoughts on that, like looking back on it what do you think of that whole situation?”

Jessica: “Well, ummm I’m gonna, on the chat we had earlier, Eric explained he wasn’t allowed to use the veto that week. The producers said that America wasn’t given enough time to decide who he should use it on if he was going to so that just flat out told him he is not allowed to use the veto at all - nominations had to stay the same. Which is why Eric didn’t use the veto. I think that’s because they knew if he used the veto I was going to put up one of the Donatos, Dick or Daniele, and so they just said you know you can’t do it. I didn’t know it at the time. I said, ‘What? What is going through your head? This is the perfect opportunity to get one of the big dogs out of here’ and he wouldn’t do it but I went along with him because I had to. He had the power that week. He was my ally.”

Trevor: “Wait a sec. I’d never even heard that. So the producers actually told Eric he wasn’t allowed to use the Power of Veto like he told you this beforehand why he didn’t use it?”

Jessica: “No, he couldn’t tell me in the house that he wasn’t allowed to use it but afterward he said they said ‘Do not use it. You don’t have a choice. You are to keep nominations the same.”

Rob: “So did you pressure him a lot that week to use the veto or?”

Jessica: “I did. I wanted him to. I didn’t pressure him but I talked to him about it saying we have an amazing opportunity right now. I put up two people that were were just kinda like, so we have the opportunity to get somebody out that is huge in the game and I wanted to but because he was told that he couldn’t he had to keep arguing to me ‘No no no. We have the right people up. Trust in the alliance it’s all going to be good’ and I had to go along with it because I didn’t have a choice.”

Rob: “Did you trust the alliance?”

Jessica: “I doubted the alliance probably more than anybody. I doubted it to Eric and I never tried to let Dick and Daniele know that I doubted it because I felt like they would use that against me if they did. Eric had to talk to me every day because I said ‘We’re making the wrong decision, we’re making the wrong decision, I can’t do this with them, I don’t trust them’ but he couldn’t do anything about it. His hands were tied the entire season.”

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There’s a lot more to the interview located at: http://www.bb8spoiler.com/

Anyone have some thoughts on this???