Ah, the final four. Notice in the picture to the right who is on the top of the little pyramid formation of the final four: the Sovereign One, Janelle, the only remaining HouseGuest (imho) who deserves to win. Let's look at the evidence...
Janelle has won every America's Choice (of the ones that were catered for non-evicted HouseGuests), and the one that she didn't qualify for was won by one of her strongest allies, Kaysar. I haven't seen her openly lie to anyone in the game. She's honest, and brutally so, and this is why the dim-witted nerd herd misjudges her as a bad-hearted person: because she calls them out on all their little hypocrisies to which they are largely blind. I think last night's episode really clarified things for everyone watching this show, and I think when the Jury house sees the tape from this weeks episode, little lightbulbs may just go off over the heads of every evicted member of the "Friendship" as they see how completely un-sportsmanship-like and whining their team comes off as. My wife, who had sort of been leaning towards wanting Maggie to win, changed her mind last night when Janelle won America's Choice yet again and we received a lot of footage of Maggie, Ivette, and April sitting around complaining about it, complaining about America, and trying to convince themselves they were good people. If they were good people, they wouldn't be sitting around vilifying others all day long, as they were doing with Janelle, and whenever they did criticize, they would at least have the fortitude to be honest about it to themselves as well as to others. I loved the scene where April proclaimed that she had never said that she hated anyone in the game, only to have the wonderful BB6 producers, directors, and editors follow that comment up with a montage of multiple times where she vehemently proclaimed how she hated x, y, and z in the game.
There was also a wonderful segment where Ivette and Janelle talked about how they both wanted kids, and Janelle's confessional was rather honest, saying that she enjoyed the conversation but that she didn't consider Ivette a friend, while Ivette's confessional was more like she had just discovered that she has the same taste in clothing as Hitler. She was completely dumb-founded to find that this "evil" HouseGuest also wanted kids like she did. This is the main flaw of the entire Nerd Herd: they made very extreme judgments on everyone else in the house, very caricaturist judgments that never hold up in reality. The stereo-type of bitchy Barbie doll doesn't really hold true of Janelle (it probably doesn't hold true of any real person in the real world) and you could see Ivette's total lack of the ability to process that discrepancy between reality and the version of reality she had constructed in her head.
Janelle also did a masterful move of trying to turn the nerd herd against one another by only asking April to talk to her pre-nominations and putting up Maggie and Ivette. Now, whoever April evicts will most likely thing that April had betrayed the moral code of the Friendship by striking a deal with Janelle to evict that person. Of course, there's always the chance of a veto putting April up on the block and saving one of the others. I really would like to see April gone from the game, as I hate hearing her talk and complain and whine week after week. However, I think her verses Janelle at the end will be Janelle's chance to win at the end.
So anyway, the flip side of the Nerd Herd's grousing about losing America's Choice was that Janelle got to leave the house and visit the set of Two and a Half Men, where some of the old people in the audience said "We love you, Janey!" She relayed this info to the Nerd Herd who all rolled their eyes in disbelief at America.
Veto ceremony and eviction are coming up on Tuesday. I hope Janelle can secure HoH for a 3rd time and ensure her place in the final two. Otherwise she's most likely gone. Now that we're this late in the game, it is rather clear to me that neither of these teams were particularly strong. The nerd herd won out because of their numbers and the large number of mistakes that the other team made (beginning with Kaysar showing his hand when he nominated Eric and Maggie). The biggest mistake of the game: Howie targetting James and Sarah when he should have been focused on trimming down the Nerd Herd. Second biggest mistake: Kaysar letting go of that button. If these two mistakes had been avoided, the final game would now be James verses the Sovereign and a more worthy set of opponents. But as is, the jury house is again numbered to favor the Friendship. How do you guys think this is all going to play out?
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9-11-2005 @ 12:43PM
Brent McKee said...
The Nerd Herd is full of cats, making catty remarks - tha whole line of BS about them having "real" jobs while Janelle just talks about booze and sex and drugs to the point where you'd think she was a drug dealing alcoholic whore. That's why she and her friends are America's preference. I've said it elsewhere but I do think that Janelle is probably the best player of this year. She's certainly smarter than all of the remaining Nerd Herd combined.
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9-11-2005 @ 1:28PM
tr said...
janelle is great, and everyone in america knows it. she plays the game, and talks the talk, and only those who are completely enamored with themselves (i.e. the nerd herd) don't understand why she is such a good player.
it kills me how hypocritical the nerd herd is whenever they talk trash about janelle. my favorite was in saturday's episode when april stated she never said she "hated" anyone, then big brother showed a video montage of all the times april said she hated people. james was right, when he said at the sequester house "america hates you, april"
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9-11-2005 @ 3:28PM
sblmnl said...
I'm convinced that if Ivette gets evicted by April, she & Bo would vote against April in the end. It cracked me up how incredulous the Nerd Herd was that America doesn't like them. "But we're honest, caring people with substantial jobs!" Isn't Ivette a waitress, too? Did you notice Maggie telling April to "watch what you say (about America's choice)" when the 3 were bitching in the diary room?
I'm predicting an endurance game with the final 3, and hoping that America will have a vote in the end.
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9-11-2005 @ 8:50PM
Linda Alloway said...
I would love to be there when the "nerd herd" find out how much AMERICA loathes them and loves JANELLE. I am too through with ivette and april. Maggie seems to have gotten it. We, AMERICA, loves JANELLE.
I hope she wins, she deserves it, JANELLE of course.
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9-11-2005 @ 8:53PM
Linda Alloway said...
I repeat, I would love to be there when the nerd herd finds out that America loves Janelle best and thinks the worst of the "Friendship". Please.
Between april and ivette, I don't know who I'd like to slap first.
LA
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9-11-2005 @ 8:53PM
Linda Alloway said...
okay
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9-11-2005 @ 9:45PM
LC said...
I think Janelles best bet would be to take April with her to the end. If she or April win veto, Maggie should be voted out. As we all know, the final three usually wind up in an endurance competition. I think Maggie would be the stronger one in that competition. Ivette, no matter how resolute on winning, would make a misatke and let go or whatever thing it is that knocks her out.
April would not take a chance going up against Ivette in the end. She would know that Ivette would have James vote as well as Beau's. So if April would win the endurance HoH she would vote off Ivette. It is not a garauntee that she would beat Janelle, but her chances would be a lot better.
Janelle's best shot is going up against April in the final two. Especially if it is April who boots Ivette. Ivette may hate Janelle, but she would be unforgiving if April broke the alliance and kicked her and hers and Beau's votes would go to Janelle.
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9-12-2005 @ 9:24AM
Guido said...
Your point on Ivette weakness is something to consider - but she's the only one that i think is a 100% lock to win the money if she makes it to the final 2 and that's just way too dangerous to keep around.
She'll cry and plead her way to the money.
Nobody in the history of this game has played it as well as Janelle from beginning to the end. She's outplayed her own team and the other team to this point. She used April to perfection on this episode.
The nerd herd is just so dumb and simply have no self-esteem for themselves. Who cares if America votes for Janelle ? But because they think so little of themselves they attempt to rip her apart - which is ironic because it makes us love her more and hate them.
Maggie seems to be the only one with a little class out of those 3, not that it's saying very much.
The funny thing is that if Ivette switched "teams" with Janelle, they would be loving Janelle and hating Ivette .. the funny thing is that they can't see that for themselves.
They also show their shallowness when it takes them all of 5 secs to attack April for talking to Janelle.
I think Janelle's a lock for the final 2 .. simply because I think she'll win the final competition. She's gotten this far and I don't see her blowing it in the final endurance showdown. As a huge BB historian you know she's well aware of the final challenge.
The best case situation for her is have April can Ivette - pissing off Ivette (and most likely Beau as a by-product) and then make the final 2 of Janelle and April, which may give the money to Janelle.
To look at the flipside, Ivette turns on April may turn April and Jennifer's votes to Janelle. Maggie-Janelle is the worst case situation.
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9-12-2005 @ 2:06PM
KJW said...
I agree with everything said here, but you have to hand it to Maggie: what did she do to the Nerd Herd to make them worship her so? If they had the chance, I bet any one of them would have taken themselves out of the game to save her. Don't get me wrong, I think she's a hypocritical witch who uses her teamates' emotion weaknesses to manipulate them, but you have to admire how's she's doing it.
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9-12-2005 @ 3:28PM
jean said...
missed last Sat. episode..very frustrated..April should have been gone long ago..so happy Jan is final three...worried that not enough votes from Jury..we r all hoping that April is not final two...can hardly wait for Tues..
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9-17-2005 @ 10:08AM
Danielle said...
Janelle is so wicked that you have no choice but to love her. She is the only one in that house right now that hasn't cried and whined her way through this game. Sure she's a teeny bit two faced, sure she's out for herself alone, but...newsflash...THIS IS A GAME!! There is a half million at stake here. BB final three is about how smart you are and how much you can take. Janelle IS your Big Brother 6 Champion.
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9-14-2005 @ 12:55AM
SARAH said...
I think tonight's show confirmed the fact that Maggie is the best player in the BB6! Janelle is a great player, especially when it comes to physical competitions, but I think Maggie has thought out the game much more than anyone else while remaining under the radar. The fact that she always 'listens' and never takes sides is genius when dealing with most of the people in the house who obviously aren't the worlds most intelligent people. I think everyone, includung Janelle, has been two-faced and have back stabbed other people, so thats why it's not a factor in who the champion should be! The perfect scenario would be Maggie and Janelle at the end!!
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