Hi y’all:

I just finished watching Friday’s recap episode and I’m just going to say it:

That was, without a doubt, the worst episode of Big Brother that I’ve ever seen.

Recap episodes are always kinda rough but this recap episode was seriously beyond bad.  Some of that’s because these aren’t exactly the most interesting houseguests in the history of the game but even more of it is because the stuff that everyone watching the show is talking about is not necessarily the stuff that production wants to highlight.  For instance, every showmance got a segment except for Matt and Raven.  Ramses crush on Matt got a segment.  Matt’s cereal obsession got a segment.  Raven got nothing, largely because she’s become the least popular houseguest in the history of Big Brother and I think production would rather pretend that she’s not in the house.

We also didn’t see much of Paul, which I found surprising.

We did get Josh beating the pots and pans, which was just annoying.  And we got some super long segments with Cody and Jessia and Mark and Elena.  But nothing extremely interesting.

Before Derrick arrived, it was a little interesting watching Paul and Mark go at it.  My favorite part was when Josh started to speak and both Christmas and Paul yelled at him at the same time.  If you ever needed evidence of how the houseguests view Josh, that was it right there.

Otherwise, I can’t believe the live feeds were down for this.  Even worse, this episode ended without showing us who the new HoH is!

The online rumor, by the way, is that Christmas is the new HoH.  I guess we’ll find out for sure at midnight, when the feeds come back.

Lisa Marie

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Hi, y’all!

Okay, so I’m not really great when it comes to keep track of time zones and stuff so I’ll just say this: If you have NOT seen tonight’s double eviction episode and you do not want to have the results spoiled , read no further!

Traditionally, double eviction episodes are always a bit anti-climatic.  For me, the worst double eviction was during Big Brother 15, when Judd was voted out for absolutely no good reason.  The best double eviction was … well, to be honest, I can’t think of one.  Sorry.

Tonight’s episode was pretty much what I expected.  Two people were voted out.  Both times, it was by an overwhelming majority.  And, both times, it was pretty much what Paul wanted.  First off, Cody was voted out.  No surprise there.  Everyone in the house voted to evict him.  Before he left, Cody told a lot of lies about everyone in the house plotting to get rid of Raven and Paul.  Jason and Alex gave him a literal thumbs down on his speech, which made them look pretty childish.  (Then again, it’s not difficult to make Jason and Alex look childish.)  When Cody was voted out, he didn’t waste any time shaking hands or pretending like he liked anyone in the house.  Instead, he stood up, walked over the table, and left the house.  Good for him,  I always hate all that fake “we’ll miss you” stuff.

As far as the HoH comp went, Jason won and nominated Mark and Elena for eviction.  Jason gave a really long and rambling nomination speech.  He said that he didn’t have a target, despite the fact that everyone knows that Mark was the target.  Josh made that clear when he started taunting Mark by going, “Bye!” after Jason won the HoH.

But then Mark won the veto.  I have to admit that I was worried that Mark would actually be stupid enough to use the veto on Elena.  Instead, he used it for himself.  Matt cheerfully volunteered to be the other nominee,  Mark voted to evict Matt.  Everyone else voted to evict Elena.  While Mark may have been the target, I think everyone was just happy to vote for Elena.  At least she got to leave the house with Alex’s $5,0000.

And now, we have our first two jurors!  Cody and Elena will be alone in the jury house for at least week.  It’ll be funny if they end up falling in love and then when the season ends, they’re like, “We’re getting married!  Jessica, Mark — you’re invited to the wedding!”

The feeds are going to be down until BBAD starts tomorrow so we won’t know what’s going on inside the house.  There will also be a special Friday episode.  I think the majority of the episode is just going to be the “flashback” episode.  They had a backyard party to celebrate making it halfway through the season last week so the majority of Friday’s show will probably be made up of that.  (I wouldn’t be surprised if they do some fancy editing to disguise the fact that Elena, Cody, and Jessica were all at that party.  It shouldn’t be too hard with Cody and Jessica, since they always tended to keep to themselves, anyway.)  We’ll probably also get to see the HoH comp.

Julie teased that Derrick from BB16 will be making an appearance.  I imagine he’ll probably be hosting the HoH comp but it would be really funny if he went in the house and started yelling at Matt for being stupid enough to actually use the veto on someone other than himself.

We’ll see what happens!

Lisa Marie

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Hi, everyone!

It’s time to open up the diary room!

Do you vote to evict…

CODY, the Marine

ELENA, the social media mogul

or

MATT, the furniture?

Cast your vote below or in the poll over on the right side of the page!

And then, let us know in the comments who you hope will the second person sent to the jury during Thursday’s double eviction episode!

And then be sure to watch Big Brother on Thursday night to see what happens!

Happy voting!

Lisa Marie

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Hi y’all!

Well, since Tuesday night, the Big Brother House has been dominated by people fighting.  The majority of the fights have been between Mark and Josh.  Remember how Mark and Josh seemed to finally be getting along after all of their fights over the past few weeks?  Well, that’s pretty much over.

On Tuesday night, Josh and Mark got into it in the backyard.  Mark has been open about wanting to evict either Paul or Christmas if he wins HoH and Paul is not very happy about it.  As soon as Cody was nominated at the veto ceremony, Paul started to tell everyone that Mark was acting like he was upset about it.  He also complained that neither Mark nor Elena were shunning Cody as much as Paul felt that they should.  Last night, Josh called Mark out on it, which led to a shouting match in the back yard.  After a few minutes of the two of them yelling, the feeds went down and, when they came back, Mark and Josh were in separate parts of the house.

Today, Josh and Mark have continued to argue, with Mark telling Josh that Josh is now his target for eviction.  However, Mark is not the only person that Josh has been yelling at.  Today, both he and Alex decided to gang up on Elena, yelling at her for always complaining about being the pawn.  Elena’s been arguing that she gave up her job to come into the house and that she is literally broke.  Alex screamed at Elena, demanding to know what type of car Elena drives.  When Elena replied that she drove an Audi, Alex claimed this proved that Elena is not actually broke.

The feeds promptly went down and, when they came back, things had calmed down a bit.  Elena was outside talking to Cody, which led to Alex, Josh, and Paul complaining about her breaking their “no one is allowed to talk to Cody” rule.

Normally, all of this fighting would be good for Cody but he’s not really doing much to take advantage of it.  He’s said that he’s happy to see the rest of the house imploding but he’s still not really campaigning.  In fact, he’s been telling everyone that he’s prepared to leave on Thursday.

Of course, it’s also not going to help Cody that he got into an argument with Alex today, as well.  Alex was upset because she felt that Cody has been eating all of her cereal.  It was a pretty stupid argument but Alex — who is convinced that she’s going to win America’s Favorite Player — seemed to really worked up over it.

As for Paul, he’s been scurrying around the house, trying to keep everyone focused on voting out Cody.  He’s assured everyone that all they have to do is vote out Cody and all of the fighting in the house will stop.

We’ll probably see if that’s true on Thursday!

Lisa Marie

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Hi y’all!

Everyone’s probably already heard the news but let’s just make it official:

They had the veto ceremony earlier today.  Matt is not only on the block but he also has the veto.  So, of course, he used the veto to … SAVE JASON!

During any other season, this would probably be a contender for the dumbest move in the history of Big Brother.  However, Paul is obsessed with getting Cody out and, since Paul is running Alex’s HoH, Alex replaced Jason with Cody.  And just about everyone in the house is planning on voting for Cody to be evicted.  Paul has been saying that someone should vote to evict Elena, just to make Elena nervous.  Otherwise, it appears that Cody is going to be evicted on either a 7-0 or a 6-1 vote.

Even though Matt probably won’t suffer for not using the veto on himself, it still just feel wrong.  It doesn’t feel like Big Brother.  If you’re on the block, you should always save yourself.  That’s just common sense.  Instead, Matt saved someone else and is apparently still whining about Mark using the veto on himself last week.

Speaking of Mark, he and Elena are a bit angry right now.  They thought that Matt was going to use the veto on Elena.  Alex assured Elena that she was just going up as a pawn and that she would be taken down and replaced by Cody.  Instead, Matt and Elena are now realizing that, as soon as Cody goes, they’ll be the next two targets.

Paul and Alex, meanwhile, are both growing more and more angry with Kevin.  They’re upset because Kevin has been talking to Cody.  Paul ordered the entire house to not to talk to Cody.  Jason has warned Kevin that Paul doesn’t like him talking to Cody.  Kevin, however, has said that he doesn’t like being told who he can and can not talk to.

Just a reminder: Thursday is double eviction!  It’s a 99.9% certainty that Cody will be voted out first.  After that, it depends on who wins HoH.  Mark has actually said that he might go after Paul is he wins HoH.  (However, he’s also said that he might go after Christmas.)  If Mark or Elena don’t win HoH, one of them will probably the 2nd to leave the house on Thursday night.

We’ll see what happens!

Lisa Marie

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Hi, y’all!

Okay, so briefly, it looked like something unexpected might happen in the house.  Matt had won the veto and, if he used it on himself, that would mean that Alex would not get to name a replacement.  So, to backdoor Cody, it would be necessary for Matt to actually use the veto on someone other than himself.  That’s a lot to ask of someone when he’s on the block.  Even Paul acknowledged that.

Plus, Alex was furious at Elena because Elena won $5,000 at the veto comp.  For once, I can’t wait to see the comp for myself on Wednesday because I’m still a little bit confused as to how it all went down.  I think that they wanted Elena to win the veto because she could then use it on herself and then they could put Cody on the block.  But it turned out that the veto comp was that thing where the competitors had the option of taking someone else’s prize or punishment.  And Elena took the $5,000 over the veto and, apparently, this led to Alex getting a punishment where she had to cook a huge number of hot dogs for the house.

And Alex was absolutely furious about this.  Eventually, she did say that she enjoyed making the hot dogs but she’s still mad at Elena for putting her in the position of having to do it.

So, for a brief while, Alex and Paul were talking about actually getting rid of Elena and then going after Cody.  However, Matt has now let them know that he has no problem using his veto on Jason and staying on the block.  So, we’re back to the old plan.  Cody will be backdoored.

I’m actually kind of shocked at Matt.  Who wins a veto and then uses it on someone other than themselves?  That’s just stupid.  Matt says that he want to show everyone that he can be trusted and that he can trust them but just imagine if Matt makes it to the final two.

“Matt, what was your biggest move in the house?”

“Remember when I won the veto and, instead of saving myself, I saved someone that I really don’t like because Paul told me to?  That was my biggest move in the house.”

Oh well!  Right, now it looks like Cody will be heading to the jury house on Thursday.  Since it’s a double eviction episode, it appears that either Elena or Mark will be the second target.  Apparently, they actually want Elena out more than Mark, despite the fact that Mark has actually won two comps whereas Elena hasn’t won any.

It’s a strange year but, as always, we’ll see what happens!

Lisa Marie

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Hi, everyone!

Here’s the current situation in the house:

Alex is the HoH.

Jason and Elena are on the block.  Jason volunteered to be nominated.  Elena did not.

As a result of the temptation comp, Mark is safe and Matt is the third nominee.

So, they had the veto comp earlier today and Cody’s chip was not selected.  Since the plan was to backdoor Cody, that would make it seem that everything’s going according to plan, right?

Well, here’s where things get complicated:

Matt won the veto.  If Matt uses the veto on himself, no one will go up as a replacement nominee.  In order to backdoor Cody, Matt has to be convinced to not only not use the veto on himself but to also use the veto on either Jason or Elena.  It all comes down to how much Matt trusts the rest of the house.  Matt has said that he absolutely trusts Paul but still, it’s a lot to ask someone to stay on the block.

(Then again, Matt was pretty angry when Mark used the veto on himself last week.  Matt thought that showed that Mark couldn’t be trusted.  So, who knows?  Matt may be willing to stay on the block.)

However, because of something that happened at the veto competition, everyone is really angry at Elena.  Apparently, it was one of those comps where everyone won a prize.  Elena ended up with $5,000 and Paul and Alex are not happy with her about it.  And, in the HoH room, they were also talking about maybe going ahead and voting out Elena.

(They’ve figured out that a double eviction is probably going to happen on Thursday so the attitude is that they can get rid of Elena and then get rid of Cody right afterward.)

Now, it might not amount to much.  Still, if the target does switch from Cody to Elena, it will at least be something unexpected.  Otherwise, this week is going to be pretty predictable.

We’ll see what happens!

Lisa Marie

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Hi y’all!

Well, it looks like its time for a new page so let me just tell you what the current situation in the house is.

The plan, obviously, is to backdoor Cody.  I think originally Alex was planning on nominating Mark and Elena as pawns and then trying to backdoor Cody.

However, they just played the temptation comp.  Mark won.  So, Mark cannot be nominated this week.  Matt came in last so Matt automatically becomes the third nominee.

When last I checked, Alex and Jason were talking about who to nominate as pawns.  Alex suggested that maybe she should nominate Elena and Paul.  (She thinks that Paul is a challenge beast, even though Jason just told her that the only reason Paul has won any comps in the house is because the other houseguests threw it to him.)  Anyway, when Alex said that she might put up Paul, Jason told her, “No, then everyone might flip on Paul!  I’ll go up!”

And that is pretty much this season in a nutshell.  Jason just volunteered to go on the block and run the risk of getting voted out because he doesn’t want anyone to flip on Paul.  I don’t understand it, myself.  Now would be exactly the right time to flip on Paul.  In fact, I’d probably even want to take Cody to the final two with me, specifically because he has so many enemies in the house that there’s no way anyone would vote to give him the money.  Instead, Jason is more concerned with keeping Paul in the house than with keeping himself in the house.

Now, I do think that Jason’s thought process is that, even if Cody wins the veto and the noms remain the same, everyone would vote out Elena before they voted out him.  He’s probably right.  Jason really hasn’t made any enemies in the house, whereas no one like Elena.  But still, volunteering to potentially sacrifice $500,000 just to keep someone else safe?  Isn’t that what everyone ridiculed Jessica for doing last week?

And really, there’s a lot you can say about Paul.  To me, it’s perfectly legitimate to call him a bully.  I personally wish he hadn’t been brought back to the game because I think it made the show boring.  But, if the houseguests are stupid enough to literally hand Paul $500,000, I can’t condemn him for taking it.

Well, we’ll see what happens.  I doubt Paul will be nominated, even as a pawn.  He’s already said that he’s not willing to do that.  Nominations should happen today and, regardless of who is put up as a pawn, the target remains Cody.

Lisa Marie

P.S. The majority of the houseguests have figured out that there’s a double eviction next week.  It sounds like they’re hoping to take out Cody first and then either Mark or Elena.

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Hi, everyone!

So, there really weren’t many surprises tonight.  To be honest, from the minute that Mark won the veto, Jessica’s fate was pretty much assured.  Josh may have taunted Jessica by saying that Elena was originally his target but, even if that hadn’t changed, I doubt Josh could have swung enough votes to get Elena out.  Paul wanted Jessica out and he never lost focus on that.  I imagine that, in this upcoming week, his focus will be on getting Cody out of the house.  If Cody doesn’t win the temptation or the veto, his time in the house is probably up.

For the record, the final vote was

Jessica — 7

Raven — 1

Elena — 0

I didn’t really follow Elena’s pre-vote speech.  It was obvious that she had rehearsed it several times but that didn’t make it any easier to follow.

As for what happened when Jessica left … I could have done without a lot of it.  Josh doing the circus music and continuing to shout that she had given up $500,000 for Cody was a bit overboard.  The goodbye messages showed a similar lack of class.  (I imagine that Jessica’s goodbye message would have been just as rude if she had gotten Josh out of the house.  Kevin’s pretty much the only person in the house with any class.)  Even Evel Dick was usually a nice guy in his goodbye messages, reminding the people he had just evicted that “it’s just a game.”

People in this house take things very, very personally.  Once Cody is either evicted or has immunity, it’s going to be a bloodbath in the house as everyone turns on each other.  There’s a lot of anger and resentment within Paul’s gigantic alliance and, once they can no longer focus all their negativity of Cody, things are going to get crazy.

At least, I hope it will.

For now, Alex is the new HoH and Cody’s the number one target.  (Assuming that he doesn’t win the temptation and they don’t attempt to backdoor him, I wouldn’t be surprised to see him and Mark on the block together.  Paul does not trust Mark.)

We’ll see what happens!

Lisa Marie

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