These house guests are really making me cranky. Derrick especially is making me all grumbly. I'm seriously crumbly. Or maybe I am granky. It's hard to tell when my mind is scrambled by house guests who stay up all night so that I can wake up to this fresh nonsense that's going on in the house this morning. Nicole is pleading for her life but nobody is listening. Well, Zach hears her but is quickly debriefed by Derrick and Cody. Ugh!
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Truly good game play is pretty much impossible when there is such a large alliance in the house. Doesn't matter how raggedy-ass that alliance is, they stick together for the numbers. This is a situation we don't like because the other side of the house rarely gets a chance to really play in the game.
This years twisty twist of the two HOH and the BOB just makes it worse. It only serves to double the opportunity for the alliance to muck things up. On top of all that we have the Team America twist. The chance for every hg to play to their full potential goes down the drain.
Which makes it all the more ironic that it's Derrick's great game play that is pissing me off. Derrick has to protect himself, the Bomb Squad, The Detonators, the Hit Men, Team America, and Victoria, who is his goat for the F2. And he is doing it!! Plus, he's doing it so skillfully he is locking down jury votes right and left!!!
I should be thrilled to pieces with Derrick right now. He is playing an amazing game. Working day and night to cover every detail. He has successfully maneuvered so many of his own twists that I have lost count. Even when an alliance plan goes horribly wrong, Derrick just moves right on to his plan B. He doesn't even skip a beat. He just goes to work and gets things done.
But when I see Donny and Nicole spend an hour going over every scenario they can imagine and deciding they are doomed, I get all granky. Here we have two players with good game potential and they are being sacrificed to protect a screwball alliance. And in that alliance we have Frankie. And we all know by now that Frankie is production's pet project. Even Derrick knows that. And yet he does the dirty work that must be done to keep Frankie safe.
It really makes me crumbly when the BB twists make me hate the best player in the house. Derrick's great game is going to ensure that Frankie gets farther in this game than he should. Usually I don't care about production manipulation conspiracy theories. It's Big Brother, interference and manipulation are written into the contracts the cast signs before they enter the house. Why get all upset over a basic ingredient of the game?
But my philosophy only applies to the live feeders. I want the players to rebel against any and all production interference, real or imagined. I want them crazy with outrage and out for revenge. I want hunger strikes and mass rebellion! I demand they fight the good fight even though it's a lost cause. I want Allison Grodner to get a little granky herself because her perfect plans might be torn asunder! I demand a BB revolution!
Last season's shenanigans with Elissa and the MVP pushed us all over the edge. Who could have imagined that any production favorite could top Elissa for reeking of entitlement? Elissa used the Brenchel Army's voting power as a threat in an effort to manipulate the game. That was disgusting enough. Frankie is using his sisters fan base as a choke hold on his fellow house guests. He has even made threats about how it will affect them outside the house if they step out of line. His line. That he drew. With the stick he borrowed from production. Ugh!
It's one thing to not want Rachel Reilly on your case inside, or outside, the big brother house. It's totally different to live in fear of a mythical mega-superstar-media-beast like Frankie's sister coming after you with a horde of twitter fans riding Segways provided by Justin Bieber.
And that's why I am all cranky and grumbly about Derrick this morning. He seems to have decided to work with production rather than against them. Nothing Nicole can say, no matter how well thought out and potentially good for his game it might be, can sway him. She must be sacrificed because Frankie must be protected at all costs. He makes it seem like its a good alliance move, but I suspect that Team America and Frankie's value to production are his real concern. I think he will try to keep Frankie as long as he possibly can so that he can keep on the good side of production. And that means some potentially good players will be sent packing.
Yes, Nicole is a whining crybaby much of the time. And Donny might appear to be a lazy country boy that is blowing in the wind. But they are smart and could kick some BB butt if they had half a chance.. Well, I guess they had half a chance when they were HOH together. But between the giant hulk of an alliance, Team America, and the Frankie Grande show, it was a half-ass half a chance. Add Derrick in the mix, working his crew 24/7, and there is no hope for anyone else.
Remember the good old days, when this dorky blog was filled with laughter and good times? Alas, today I am cranky to the max. I can only hope that all of my fears and worries are for naught. Maybe Derrick will come to his senses. Maybe unicorns are real.
While these silly-heads sleep all the livelong day, I will be praying to St. Lawon of The Magical Delusions, for a secret power to be unleashed upon the house that will cause Frankie to be spirited away by teenage mutant ninja superfans. Amen!
Have a Dorky Day!
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