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Day 16 - Friday 7/3

Unofficial Fast Forward

Day 15 - Thursday 7/2

There will be blood

Pep squad

Ratings - Getting to Know You edition

Ups for the cast are neutralized by the unncecessary twists that are going to clog everything up worse than the hair in the hamsters' shower. If I'm reading it right, this is indeed an All-Star season but a return to 16 seasons' worth of twists rather than rerun faces. We've already got switching twins from 5 and BOB from 16, representing the best and the worst twists respectively, and I figure we'll be getting America's Player, saboteur, fortune teller, Team America (fuck yeah) and all the rest as we go. Maybe Jeff & Jackie qualify as exes, maybe they'll take viewer votes to evict sometime, and maybe they'll make them play as pairs for a week. I guess it's not an awful idea in theory but the bottom line is with this cast, they don't need any of it to make a bang-up season that people will love on CBS as well as those of us on feeds who are already cheering.
VTE Jackie She's the #1 reason this first week of feeds has been so stellar. Sure she can be exhausting to keep up with, but that's the price we pay for this level of entertainment. Most of them knew she was allied with everyone else, but most of them believed they were her real 'ride or die'. That's BB brilliance right there, except for the fact she did it all too hard and too soon. It worked out well for us anyway, and how: the blowup and anti-Audrey movement were solid gold feeds. If history has taught us anything, she's a shoe-in to win HOH this week.	VTE Jace He's starting out with a subtle and savvy game style by selecting second-tier hamsters to coach and do his bidding, and he made a very smooth transition from Jace to Lizia as his main 'sidepiece' when Jace proved too volatile to be much use. I love that he wants to rally the 'extras' to form Nerd Herd 2.0 and plow through the louder power players rather than being open about being one of those himself. I hope his revolution happens, but some of those loud power players already have him on their sketchy/don't trust lists. Also, I like that he pegged James as the leader of the anti-Audrey moment - so did I.
VTE Jace HOH #2 - DEPOSED Yes, her apparent obliviousness to what's been going on around her is comical, but I find it more endearing than many who have played a summer camp non-game in the past. Maybe it's because the things she talks about instead of game are so very random, or maybe it's just because I've got a soft spot for her because of her train story. Either way, I'm Team Trainwreck Becky all the way.	VTE Jace He was appropriately named. So far he's been putty in Shelli's, Audrey's, Jeff's, and Austin's hands and probably more, and he probably thinks he comes up with everything on his own. He's also talked all about his football playing after he said he wouldn't. That was a dumb plan to start with, but no lie is a useful lie in BB, once it's outted. In short, he's a font of unintentional comedy and I'm all for that.
VTE Jace NOMINATED So far I like everythng about her. She's good at laying low and good at playing hard, and she can be quite funny. She's also volatile, and best of all, she has proven she'll follow up on threats to call people out. Rallying and leading a parade through the habitat to confront Audrey was fabulous in every way, topped only by her pointing to them one by one to verify stories. Also, she hasn't harped about missing her daughter although I'm sure she does. #DaVonneHasADaughter as a hashtag was too good to be true (but it's still early).	No vote (nominee) Laying low as a nominee is what a pawn should do but she's turned that into an art form. We haven't seen her not on the block yet but I have to admit I'm not hopeful for anything different. So far all she's brought to the table is bikinis.
No vote (HOH) I'm looking forward to seeing him as a regular citizen, but have to admit he handled his HOH extremely well, especially considering everything that went on. Lesser hamster HOHs would have cracked (and many have). I've got him as one of my top tier power players on spec, largely because I believe he's the one who sent Jeff out to whip up the anti-Audrey army, and then sat back to watch it come to fruition. I wasn't sure if I was giving James too much credit for that or not, but then Austin mentioned his suspicion that James was behind it all too, so I'm sticking with it for now. Unfortunately, James' blog and tweets gave us no insight at all.	VTE Jace NOMINATED by Becky - WON BOB He describes himself as a 'BB historian' and he does have the facts and figures, but that doesn't necessarily mean he has the skills to put in practice. For a 'superfan' he should definitely know better than to run a rant loop for hours on end like he did about Audrey. He was headed for a plate of ooey-gooey cookies in his future but Shelli shamed him and others into ending their Audrey shun, causing Jason to apologize to Audrey late Tuesday night. Having one's bad behavior pointed out, and acknowledging it, at this early stage is also not the sign of being self- and game-aware enough to go the distance.
VTE Jace Just no.	VTE Jace NOMINATED - WON VETO He won me over pre-season when I saw his superb guitar and bass videos, because they were such an unexpected counterpoint to his shouty random interviews, on top of being a dentist which obviously takes some smarts. That's a very rare combination of left & right brain abilities that I find fascinating. How that will translate to BB, if at all, remains to be seen. For now he's a pleasant addition to the feeds when he's awake, and I'm looking forward to seeing more of him come out as their numbers start to dwindle.
VTE Jace Game-wise they're keeping a low profile and seem to be taking Austin's direction much better than Jace did, and better than anyone else's students are. I don't have much else on them yet but major kudos for pulling off the switches so far - can you imagine? With all this activity? By the way, they haven't switched nearly as often as many twin trackers think.	VTE Jace She's got a strong personality, and a fun one, but I think she's a second tier player here. She's been in on a lot of gaming but not at the forefront and definitely not in the driver's seat - which is just fine at this point. The only time I've seen her get worked up was about Audrey laying around 'giving up' and being shunned. Meg was almost angry about it, saying it's Big Brother, suck it up, etc. Valid, but I think she may fail to see that a) it's strategy for Audrey and b) Audrey does as much gaming from her bed as she does making her rounds.
VTE Jace HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD She seems to fancy herself a top tier power player - I don't, but I could be wrong. She's been working hard to solidify herself with Clay of course, and with Audrey, but Clay's proven to be a runaway puppy and Audrey's game went boom. On the entertainment side of things, I'm always amused by the hissy fitters, and she had a good one when she escorted Audrey to the shower and scolded everyone for shunning her. That resulted in apologies, so Shelli's hissy fit was effective - that's rare.	VTE Jace NOMINATED by Becky - WON BOB See John. Steve has that same rare blend of left/right brain talents with music and engineering, and he's already changed up his social strategy to adapt to his poor start, and it's working. The BB interwebs went ballistic when Jace harassed him Tuesday night but I think Steve is fine. He rallied well afterward and he accepted Jace's apology gracefully. He's not out of the woods yet because they're all afraid of his smarts, and Austin and Jason have been vocal about that. He'll have to tread lightly for awhile to keep himself on our feeds, but I think he can do it.
VTE Jace She talks a lot about herself, and her 'former' gambling, and her music, and her girlfriend, and her life trials, but she hasn't talked about her mansion or pricey cars yet at least. She ended up in the center of Audrey vs Da'Vonne and I'm not sure how that happened, but it's definitely not over yet. I think she'll stick around til mid-season but I don't think she'll last to the end.	EVICTED 12-1 Won: Nothing He was like a parody of all the former surf boys we've had, with all the worst qualities of asshat hamsters past rolled into one. He verbally beat up on Steve a few times but the primetime version earned him viewer loathing, even if his actoring was lousy. He ranted, streaked, flipped us off, and mostly talked about himself, but he promised to save us all someday through music.

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