The Sunday episode continued the tea party themed HoH competition from Thursday. Far more interesting than those true/false challenges,
this one was a serious endurance competition. Repeating the same motion under those sticky, slippery conditions had to be mind-numbing.
Dick and Zach were the only legitimate contenders, which alarmed Dick because he had had an unpleasant exchange with Zach earlier that day. In typical Dick fashion, he said some ugly things, which brings the total number of houseguests he’s verbally assaulted up to seven—half the house! (Kail, Dustin, Jen, Amber, Eric, Jameka, now Zach).
I was definitely nervous watching the HOH competition unfold, and was relieved when Zach won. It was exciting to see a complete loose canon win this far into the game. Much like last season’s Chicken George, who knew what he’d do?
No one felt safe: it was the least enthusiast response to a HoH victory so far, only rivaled by the apathy toward seeing the HoH bedroom. The only one not scrambling was Daniele. Further proving she’s the smartest player, Daniele was rewarded for treating Zach kindly over the past few weeks. If only Dick would let his daughter do all the strategizing for them.
Due to his America’s Player instructions, Eric was angling for a Jameka nomination. I bet Zach received the most votes but was taken out of the running by winning HoH. Whether or not Eric had any influence, Zach nominated Jameka…and Jessica.
In my opinion, these were not the smartest nominations. Zach needs to recognize that Jameka, as the only other person without a close ally, could be his best asset. Perhaps he can rebuild their relationship next week, because if the nominees stay as they are now, Jessica is going home. Dick and Daniele can’t pass up the chance to get rid of their biggest threat.
What I foresee is Dick and Daniele in the final two and everyone in the jury house thinking, ‘why didn’t we get rid of them when we had the chance?’ Allowing Jen to yell, “I told you so!”
Other thoughts:
+ I thought Eric should have given the phone call to Jameka, but hearing about Jessica’s brother returning from Iraq caused me to reconsider. I was touched.
+ Eric finally came clean about the mystery votes of what seems like a million years ago. Luckily enough time has passed for Jessica to more or less shrug it off. But if Dick and Daniele—who still harbor feelings toward Nick— found out, I’m not sure they’d be so forgiving.
3 comments:
I like Jameka, but it's her time to go. I mean, does she really deserve to win? Not that Evel does either, but it's time to get rid of the floaters.
Zach might not have made enemies with his nominations, but if he was smart he would have put up either Dani or Evel Dick, if not both. Maybe they'll get backdoored.
Well, I would love to see a back door this week, but I just don't see it happening. I think they want to eliminate Jameka because of her wildcard loyalty status. It's the same reason that the blogger thinks that Zach was probably the highest vote getter from the America's Player challenge. At this point in the game, people don't like other people who don't make their loyalties known. It's better to deal with the devil you do know, than the devil you don't!
I believe they will use this opportunity to get rid of Jess, breaking up the only other alliance other than D&D. If this happens all I can say to all the posters who have called Eric a weasel is that he had more integrity at the end than D&D. I will say that I don't think Eric has been trying to win HOH because of being America's player and he had better try for HOH this week. It is do or die time
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