August 21, 2009
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‘Big Brother’: Team Jeff being stupid. Again.
"Big Brother" house guest Russell
I cannot root for these imbeciles anymore. I thought we were past this last night on the live “Big Brother” show when Jordan chose not to use the Power of Veto and they evicted Lydia. But no. They are being stupid again.
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Russell and Michele are loyal to Jeff and Jordan, at least until Final Four (which I reiterate is all you can really ask of a pair you’re going to Final Four with). Jeff can’t play for the next Head of Household, so if he gets rid of one of them this week it leaves Natalie, Kevin, Jordan and whomever is left to play. If that person is still loyal, that’s 2-2. If that person is pissed because his or her buddy got ousted, that’s 3-1. Those aren’t great odds.
Jeff has confimed on the live feeds today that he is going to nominate Kevin and Natalie with the plan to backdoor Russell or Michele. Not only is that a terrible idea (see above), but he’s going about the wrong way! The whole concept of backdooring is that the person getting ousted doesn’t get to play in the Power of Veto competition. Except this week there are six people left, which means everybody plays. So now there are two people NOT on the block who can play for POV and surely will not use it.
What he SHOULD have done is nominate one of them and keep the other one off. That way he’s guaranteed one of them goes home because either someone wins and doesn’t use it and he still has his original nominee on the block or that person wins and takes himself off but Jeff then still has the back-up person to put in his place.
Seriously, Jeff and Jordan are kinda doofy sometimes. What are they thinking?!?! They can’t keep Natalie and Kevin around, they CANNOT beat them in Final Two with jury votes. The only chance they have is against Michele and Russell. In fact, I don’t think Jeff can beat Jordan so I wonder what he’ll do if it comes down to it.
Interesting.
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August 22nd, 2009 at 12:58 am
I could not disagree more with your knocking of Jeff’s noms. It pretty much sets him up perfectly for whatever he wants to do. Even Nat and Kevin, while obviously not thrilled about it, get the strategy behind it. While it doesn’t fit the definition of a traditional backdoor, since everyone will play POV, it avoids Jeff’s worst nightmare of breaking his deal with Russ and not getting him out of the house. Russ is guaranteed to play in the POV comp this week and if he wins, whether he was nominated or not, he obviously isn’t going home. There is no need to give him more motivation to win or more importantly officially kill the final 4 pact just to have him win POV followed by HOH and be in the right to come after you in return. Jeff and Jordan have been going back and forth on whether to go after Russ and Mich or continue taking out the other side all week and these are the perfect buy-some-more-time-to-think-about-it noms since they’re the ones everyone expected. He followed it up nicely by telling Nat and Kev they were both pawns and as long as Russ didn’t win the veto he would go up and out which if thats what happens good he kept his word and if not you had no alliance with them and there will only be one of them left to come after you anyway. If Russ, Nat or Kevin win the veto then he has all the way till Thurs night to decide between Nat-Kevin, Russ-Kevin, Russ-Nat. The time limit obviously moves up to the Mon veto ceremony if him, Jordan or Mich win with Mich obviously being the trickiest since it isn’t a guarantee she would take one off to get rid of Russ. Depending on the structure of the POV comp it would be wise to get together with Jordan and Mich and say to throw it in a scenario where Russ was already eliminated ideally to Nat since I believe Kevin is the target of the two.
August 23rd, 2009 at 7:24 pm
And I thought War and Peace was complicated
August 23rd, 2009 at 7:25 pm
I thought War and Peace was complicated
August 24th, 2009 at 11:48 am
The only reason he is going to back door Russell is because he believed Kevin. If Russ really gets backdoored this underdog Kevin has made a very crucial move where he could potentially win. It does happen, underdogs do win, and it could happen here. However, I feel that the people who have won competitions and played hard have more of a right to win over Kevin and Nat who have just glided through. We’ll see what the Jury house decides. I wonder if Jeff is just affraid to play agains Russ in the final 4, he might think it’s just easier to play against 2 people who have not won ANYTHING.
January 25th, 2010 at 12:19 am
Good post, I look forward to the rest