not so random thoughts in a slightly different format
- Sonia: dressed almost seriously tonight, wondering if that was part of the somber Tahlia-dumping-Tully mood. She's still an awful host. She read the figures like she didn't know they were percentages (what r these, numbers? teehee *twirl hair*), and her attempts at serious questions with Caleb were duds - she didn't followup and half the time she spoon fed him options to answer. Ugh, please, give me anyone with half a brain, if we have to have a host
- The eviction: really, you left tim to the end, even though we all knew he was safe. Rather than complain, though, I'm going to hope this is a new leaf BB is turning over where he priortises fucking with the HMs over creating some momentary drama on a show that consistently runs 20 mins over.
- Next nominations for strategy: lame. it sucked last year, it will suck this year. most of them don't know what strategy is, so it does nothing to change the game - they just do what they always do. the only guarantee is that tim will be up again.
- Caleb: couldn't happen to a nicer bloke. No secret I wanted Tully gone, but breaking up the meatheads is a good booby prize, and Mr. Vanilla was right there too. My favourite thing about it is that it shakes up the HMs, who largely have no idea how Australia views them. That said, if Ed had gone home, I think Caleb's dumping of Lucy for teamTahan would have sealed his fate. He never had a hope of winning this show.
- Matt: although he seemed to put the hard question to Tully and Drew about Tully's outside relationship, he's getting an invisible edit. That's probably in his favour given his last significant coverage showed him to be so disrespectful of women. I'll be curious if he can reinvent himself in the house or if he'll go the same way as so many recent meathead trios and just fade away in the middle game.
- Ed: he's still doing nothing to save himself. I doubt he even understands he's on a game show. But whatever, the less we see of him, the sooner he'll go. in fact, the most interesting role he could possibly play at this point is leaving so we can see jade's story evolve
- Heidi: Could you possibly be an uglier person? It didn't come through as much on tonight's show, but every other live update lately has revealed her to really not understand the difference between manipulation and outright meanness.
- Drew: his relationship with Tully has completely sunk his chances, but the edits are also revealing him to be really two-faced. so much for the neutral Ph 7.0 drew we thought we had. he's become blinded by his tully obsession. if he has a hope, it might be that he and tully are a true forever-romance, made for each other, ride off into the sunset and hope that somehow that overcomes how unpalatable you both are as people
- Tully: i know why you were saved, but you really have no clue - it's because you're a hot mess. if you make it past more evictions it will be purely because voters want to see how far you can wreck your life.
- Tahan: your bitchiness and aggressiveness will keep you a while, but as the players dwindle, your lack of dynamism will be your downfall.
- Ben: I actually sense a whole lot of discomfort from Ben with what's happening in the house. His reactions are always magnified, but there was some genuine horror to his view of the HMs reactions. This could help him evolve beyond a mere caricature to someone with staying power
- Sisters: although there have been cracks of something fake to their shtick, I suspect what's beneath the perpetual-positive-veneer is actually more interesting. let's hope we see more of it - but they're going to have to avoid the Tahan-laid-traps
- Mikayla: her edit has evened out quite a bit, and I think her intention in helping tahan with Pool-gate was light hearted and playful. If she can solidify an alliance with Jade, the Sisters and Tim, they could wind up being both powerful and entertaining
- Jade: really great to see so much advancement in her edit. she comes across as genuine with no real guile - I'm not even sure she knows how to "play the game". her relationship history and explaining her feelings for and actions with regard to drew went a long way towards helping people understand her. and that's translating into votes. she could go a long way
- Tim: he has a more intuitive understanding of the voters than anyone else in the house, but don't rush to give him too much credit. He wasn't targeting caleb all along, he wasn't trying to save tully all along - he's as much surprised at the result as anyone. But on the other hand, surviving may just give him the moxy to keep up with his agenda (which is to sow chaos) rather than ease off because he was in the final 2. That said, he does have to be careful about letting his emotional reactions to the HMs retaliation get the better of him. He needs to take the high ground. Interesting that they finally found something he cares about: that damn jacket. lol
It's so much better with the thread as well, it's more entertaining than the actual show sometimes ._.''
