(S04E10) I've always though Janelle was a shrewd player and that her buxom blonde exterior hid the heart of a warrior and a shrewd and calculating mind. I'm beginning to revise that theory for one reason. She's falling for Dr. Will. Now I'll admit that Will is easy on the eyes (if a bit shiny) and charming when he's not complaining about the living conditions and saying he hates everyone, but Janie, haven't you ever heard the story of the scorpion and the snake?One of the best things about Janelle as HoH is that her room is Barbie pink. This week's strategy meetings take place on big fuchsia fuzzy chairs and across a huge pink bed. It's quite funny to watch James and Kaysar be super serious in this setting. Kaysar and Janelle seem to be veering away from nominating Chilltown which infuriates James. Meanwhile Howie, Janelle's SeaSick partner, seems to have become obsessed with getting rid of Chilltown. Gone are those first few puppyish weeks when he doted on Will.
And what of James? He's definitely starting to get ready to make the leap from the SeaSick alliance and into his own cabal. Why he would pick Diane as part of his secret crew is beyond me but he and Danielle make a great duo. The only problem here is that his frustration with other people's stupidity often gets him into trouble. Check out his HoH diary from last week to know just how bothered by this he really is. He could learn a few things from Danielle about swallowing anger.
As if he wasn't enough of a puppet master already, Will puts on a puppet show with rubber ducks in the bathtub as a way of letting Janelle know she should not put him up for eviction. Kaysar looks bored spitless at Will's display. He and James are far too serious for the wackier style of gameplay that Chilltown indulges in.
The food competition also allows people to put other people on slop this week. Yet another way to promote ill will in the house. Boogie puts Marcellas on slop, Howie puts Will on slop even though he had promised he wouldn't before the game. Yup, the bloom is definitely off the Howie/Will romance. James puts Diane on slop. Danielle happily saves herself from slop put says that she doesn't mind putting Erika on slop since she hardly eats anyway.
And of course, Chilltown offers a deal to Howie and Janelle, yet another "floater" pitch. Later Will begs Janelle to put him up but she refuses and gets all coy about it. He says it's because she likes him and she coyly denies it. Is he really so irresistible? I can't help but think she's playing with fire.
Janelle eventually puts up Boogie and Eric. She tells Boogie that she is going after him because she doesn't like him and that she put Erika up because everyone loves her. Will seems content enough that she at least put up one floater.
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7-31-2006 @ 9:05AM
LC said...
At least Janelle put one of them up, but she would be a fool to campaign against Erica to keep Boogie. James seems to be the only season sixer to actually be thinking strategy for the group. At least Howie is listening, but Kaysar and Janelle seem hell bent on taking out the floaters. They pressured James to put George up last week, but at least James came to his senses after George got POV and put up Jase, who was a threat to his alliance and a physical threat.
James said it perfect when he stated that if you put up two floaters, it would mobilize the other floaters to join with Chilltown to boot the sixers out.
Will, as usual was extremely entertaining to watch. His last minute powow with Janelle was hysterical. I love how he was telling Janelle how James and Kaysar both had parachutes with Diane and Erica and that Howie just jumped off the plane without a chute.
I think Will may have screwed up in the parachute example when he called James and Kaysar snakes. I can understand him saying that about James because of last season, but from what I understand, Kaysar and Janelle are really tight and he may have alienated her with that comment.
Hopefully James, Kaysar and Howie will all vote Boggie out. Now I am thinking James can get Diane to vote with him as a thank you for giving her a heads up on Janelles plan. I think Danielle will support Boogie and Will is a given. The only one up in the air would be Marcellas. Now If Janelle really likes Will, she may ask Marcellas to vote Erica out. That would result in a tie and Janelle would then save him.
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7-31-2006 @ 9:08AM
LC said...
I forgot to mention George. I think he will stay with Chilltown which is where I came up with my tie scenario.
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7-31-2006 @ 9:37AM
John Howard said...
You think she's falling for Will? Did you miss the parts where she clearly stated her strategy to flirt with him?
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7-31-2006 @ 10:43AM
Kai said...
You people who don't watch live feeds are missing so much. The show misrepresents everything. For example:
1. Diane has said several times that she's after Janelle.
2. James has a side alliance with Danielle/Diane, and are rallying her against him. They even said that they are going after her first week in sequester.
3. James is just a complete and total snake.
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7-31-2006 @ 12:06PM
LC said...
I always knew that the show could air what they wanted to change peoples perceptions of the houseguests. It is always evidenced by the way they make it look like an almost certain evictee had a chance, when the results usually turned out to be predictable.
If what Kai says is true, then I give James credit. Snake or not, Big Brother is not a team sport and he would have to be an idiot to put all of his eggs in one nest. He is at the bottom of the season six alliance and will be the first to go, so it would be incredibly stupid for him to not network on to some of the floaters.
I was actually worrying that he was putting feelings ahead of strategy. The bottom line is that most of these people almost never talk to each other after the show ends and feel stupid that maintaining a 3 month "friendship" cost them a million dollars.
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7-31-2006 @ 1:03PM
MrsEldubya said...
The Evil Dr Will is at it again. I really do like watching him play everyone in the house. Now I remember how I go stuck on this show in the first place... Dr Will/season 2. I also thought Janelle is smarter than she's acting right now. Maybe it's because no one has really pissed her off this season like they did last year. It was a simple us against them last year and I think that's why they want the floaters to take side. When they like everyone it's too confusing for them.
I want Diane to go because I'm tired of her "poor, pitiful me" routine. I never did like Mike Boogie but Will needs someone to play off of for a while. George deserves to stay for a couple more weeks at least. James is just too pissy so he can go. He complains about everything and everything is just so unfair for James. Would love to see Danielle and Will as the final two. :)
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7-31-2006 @ 2:57PM
Gordy said...
Boogie can go. After his 'spanky' session in the storage box outside of the pool, he is dead to me.
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7-31-2006 @ 3:55PM
Shelby said...
The story is called "The Scorpion and The Frog" (not "The Scorpion and The Snake." Although I thought the slip was highly appropriate. Janelle is definetly the frog, and Dr. Will is the scorpion, but if you want to call anyone a snake, it would be James (who I love!). He is competing with Dr. Will for the best player. And his complaining is irrelevant. At least he complains about things actually relating to the game (as opposed to Dr. Will, who complains about EVERYTHING!).
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