Angela’s so glad you could attend. Look inside, look inside.
She’s there, behind the glass. A righteous pain in the ass.
Step quietly as you pass. Move along, move along.
Makensy needs Angela to lose so she can get revenge for
Matt. (1 point for “Shown on camera in gray” to Carol!). Quinn and
Brooklyn recognize that they’re #4 and 5 in the Pentagon alliance, and Quinn
tells us of all the other alliances he’s part of. We’ve got “The Andersons”, named by Tucker (3
points for “Name an alliance” to Brian!) which consists of Quinn, Tucker,
Kimo and Cam. (3 points each for “Be part of a formal alliance” to Demi and Brian!),
(6 points for “Be part of a formal alliance” to Tessa!). Quinn’s also in
the Visionaries alliance (3 points for “Name an alliance” to Demi!) which consists of Kimo, T’Kor, and Quinn. (3
points each for Tessa, Joe and Demi!). Even
though this is his preferred alliance, he knows being in so many can blow up in
his face.
Lisa flat out tells Chelsie she’s going to win the veto. It’s a threat, and not more threatening than how
Matt set Angela off, but Chelsie keeps her cool and tells her she’s not the
target. She is, but Lisa buys the lie.
In the backyard, T’Kor, Cam, Cedric and Chelsie feel confident
and setup to go far. T’kor says it’ll be
the Cookout 2.0 (5 points for “Mention a previous season’s player” to Joe!),
(1 point for “Mention ‘in this game’” to Joe!) but she’s concerned that all
the black people sitting together might give everyone else the impression that
there is another Cookout.
And that’s exactly what happens, as Angela sees them outside.
She immediately pulls Quinn over saying that’s the group she and Quinn need to
worry about. Normally, that’d be fine as Quinn is her Final Two, but after last
week’s blowup, he developed a better working relationship with T’Kor. He sees
Angela as an alliance destroyer much like Godzilla.
Normally, I do the nicknames, but Quinn nailed this
one right on the head. Henceforth,
Angela shall be known as Godzilla!
After Quinn tells Joseph, Kimo and T’Kor about Godzilla’s
comments, T’Kor tells Cedric and this is how the fuse is lit. We’ll get the explosion later.
In the meantime, Brooklyn and Joseph are both picked to play
Veto (1 point each for “Picked for Veto via random draw” to Viviana and Evan!).
Godzilla knows she’s the main target,
so she has to win (1 point for “Mention ‘I need to win << comp name>>”
to Brian!). The comp is to build a tower high enough to be hit by a laser and
it’s difficult. I’d have no chance at
this one. Kenney begins making progress by treating it like a house of cards,
but Godzilla, Lisa and Brooklyn can’t do it at all, and Tucker actively roots for
Lisa to lose. In the end, the old man
pulls out the win with no one else being anywhere close! (4 points for “Win
Veto” to Teresa!).
Remember that fuse we lit a paragraph or two ago? It goes off right after the Veto competition when Cedric tells Chelise what the Alliance Stomper said. Chelsie goes straight to the source and twists and turns what she said as “I meant these are people we need to work with”. To borrow a phrase from Sherman T. Potter...
Then, everything explodes.
Godzilla accuses Quinn of betraying her trust. T’Kor wants to get to the bottom of it and
Angela tries the waterwork “I was misunderstood” guilt trip but no one buys it…right?
(1 point for “Shown on camera crying”
to Brian!). She says Quinn shouldn’t
have said anything that wasn’t in her best interest, but T’Kor isn’t having it.
She bats Godzilla around as if she were King Ghidorah before the mighty Lizard’s
final powerups (Google it, non-Monsterverse-nerds!) saying “She’s mad at Quinn
for what she said”.
Mostly correct, T’Kor. She’s mad that Quinn spread it around, because she broke Rule #4: Know Your Audience. Not content when T’Kor finally walks out, Godzilla stomps into the kitchen to try her guilt trip on Cedric. She’s so ridiculously over the top I find it difficult to believe it’s a genuine acting job. Put me in the “She’s a CBS Plant” camp. I love a good conspiracy story! Angela can’t believe Quinn treated her like a child. She’s undecided on whether to expose his power to the house. This is why STFU is Rule #1. Her diatribe ends with a whimper and virtually guarantees her swift exit.
Meanwhile, Tucker volunteers to go up as a replacement because a) it endears him to Chelsie and b) he’s confident he can beat Lisa and Angela in any competition. (3 points for “Agree to go up as a pawn” to Brian!). He thinks Makensy has an upgrade power because she’s just too comfortable (1 point for “Mention ‘in this game’” to Brian!). After some CIA level probing techniques, Makensy breaks Rule #1 and tells him she has a power, but not what it is.
At the veto ceremony, Kenney uses the power on himself, and
Tucker takes his place on the block (3 points for “Nominated for eviction”
to Brian!). In the wrapup, Godzilla
says she didn’t reveal Quinn’s power because she’s not a snake….but she will if
it will help her game. Soooo…she’s ok
being a snake if it helps her game? Then
she’s a snake!
On Thursday, we open with (who else?) Godzilla (2 points for “Speak in opening vignette” to Brian!). Chelsie doesn’t really care if it’s Angela or Lisa who goes, while Tucker who’s decided this is a good look
He is “Risking it for the biscuit” whatever that means. In the DR, Godzilla cries because rooms clear when she enters. Maybe she should shower more? Just a thought. (1 point for “Shown on camera crying” to Brian!). Having successfully determined Makensy as the owner of one power, Tucker uses his CIA skills to push Lisa into admitting she voted for Matt, and she has the other power. She denies both but is lying about the Matt vote (1 point for “Shown on camera in gray” to Carol!). Lisa denies, denies, denies but Tucker is convinced he’s right and tells Lisa he’s studied with the CIA to go undercover.
Confidently incorrect, Tucker also tells Chelsie, Brookyln,
T’Kor and Joseph that Lisa has the power.
When he tells Godzilla, she says she thinks Quinn has it. She’s quite selling her Final Two out, but
not defending him either. Quinn walks in
on the conversation and tells us in his DR session that she’s extorting his
secrets to stay in the game (1 point for “Mention ‘in this game” to Demi!).
She listens at the door while Tucker tells Rubina, Lisa and
Joseph that he thinks she’s about to blow a gasket, and Joseph says she’s just
lying to save herself. Seeing he was caught talking about her, Tucker tells
Godzilla “You can be as mad as you want” at him. Attaboy!
Still pissed at Tucker, Godzilla gets put over the top by how Lisa sashays around the house. As the two pass each other, she prances past Lisa in 100% mockery. As the two get their new clothes, both bring a bag to Tucker who’s showering. Lisa brings the wrong bag, leading Godzilla to call Lisa “a little twit”
Lisa wants Godzilla to stop bullying her, to which Godzilla takes offense. Lisa wants her to stop calling her a twit, to which Godzilla says “Well, you are and I’m only saying what everyone else thinks”. Unfortunately, the confrontation ends there as Lisa retreats to the pantry and through her tears reminds us that she’s a magical goddess (1 point for “Shown on camera crying” to Demi!). Lisa definitely feels bullied, and Angela is definitely a bully.
Personally, I hate bullies and am now hoping Angela steps on
a bunch of Legos. It’s a credit to Lisa
that she didn’t say the things to Godzilla that I said about her, which I won’t
repeat here. If you know me, you have a pretty good idea what it was.
At the AI comp, Lisa, Angela and Tucker have to complete a
layered puzzle….and Tucker is already done.
No, really. It was that fast. Despite his stupid haircut, he DESTROYED that
puzzle and took himself off the block doing so! (4 points for “Win special
comp” to Brian!). The old saying in sports is “When you win, act
as if you’ve been there before. Act classy”.
Tucker is the opposite of that. He totally pimps out his win, stopping
just short of rubbing it in Lisa’s face.
In the moments after the AI comp winner is announced, the remaining
nominees get to speak to the other houseguests. Julie keeps prompting them to
take people into side rooms to have conversations but no one’s doing that. It’s an awkward time and CBS should fix it.
At the vote, Godzilla’s
speech is, unsurprisingly, completely over the top (1 point for “Mention ‘in
this game’” to Brian!) and both houseguests thank CBS for choosing
them? That’s weird.
In a normal world, Godzilla’s antics would have her gone. At the vote, however, it’s going the other
way and when Quinn says “I vote to evict Lisa, for some reason I don’t know” I
have to wonder how “on-the-level” Angela remaining in the house is. Like I said earlier, put me in the “She’s a
plant to stir up chaos” camp.
Lisa is evicted by an 11-1 vote and she’s SHOCKED. (1
point for “Received vote against” to Brian!), (11 points for “Received vote against”
to Demi!) and (-2 points for “Evicted” against Demi!).
She totally believed that Godzilla was the real target, and
she stomps out of the house without a word. Then we get a minute of Godzilla
giving the remaining houseguests a thank you speech? I don’t remember ever seeing that
before. It’s always “Evicted, say
goodbye, talk to Julie”. Why are we
getting more Godzilla?
Lisa gets a few moments with Julie where she tells us how authentic she was (1 point for “Mention ‘in this game’” to Demi!) and they took her transparency and personality as too much of a threat. No lessons learned here. She has no idea how annoying a person she is. Does anyone know if Rubina is playing this game? Right now, her score is the only thing smaller than she is!
What does that mean for our scores?
Thanks to Lisa’s 11-point eviction, Demi rockets into first
place with a 3-point lead over Brian who moves into 2nd thanks to Tucker’s
special comp win and Godzilla’s omnipresence. Carol drops to 3rd,
Tessa moves up to 4th and Viviana drops to 5th while the
bottom three of Teresa, Evan and Joe remain in place.
- Demi 53
- Brian 50
- Carol 39
- Tessa 33
- Viviana 30
- Theresa 27
- Joe 22
- Evan 11
What do you think? Is
she a plant?
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