Episode BBAU 2020 - Episode 9 Discussion (23 June)

[sav0001]

Well... I suppose it's good to get Zoe out, because she keeps winning challenges and putting up Marissa, and Kieran, also one of Angela's allies... But far out, I would have zoomphed Mat first shot, while I had the chance, if I was them.

Exactly. Its the halfway mark, they should really be thinking who is a threat to win with the public. Zoe was not it.

 

[Melore]

Any group that's dominant in a reality show is technically an Alpha group. Plus on social media they refer to themselves as the alpha cult.

Yech.

 

[timmy]

Also Angela voting for Zoe instead of Mat, WTF.

Maybe her personal feelings got ahead of her game brain there I think.

 

[Abby]

Didn't see Casey at the eviction ?

 

[Affable]

If this happened, Mat would've had the most votes.

Just as bad as the 175 + 50 = 215 joke by Shane...

 

[Meglos]

I'm fine with Zoe going, but from the housemates perspective, they did exactly what they didn't want to do - shoot and miss their target.

Interesting that tonight was the first we've really seen of Sophie and Chad, and they chose to show her as a bit of a brat, while he came out of it looking like a friendly doofus. Could they be separated soon?

 

[Fuzz]

Yech.

Eh? So an underpowered non afl group becomes dominant thru their strategy are they not alpha group then ?
Labels. And some players and viewers being committed to such limit their bigger picture view.

 

[mikidiki]

Didn't see Casey at the eviction ?

She was there

 

[D Space]

If I hear the phrase " dead man walking" one more time...

Even Survivor players have more sophistication / tact than that... We have 4 more weeks of such lines to deal with. God help me.

 

[D Space]

Nah, he's definitely an eBayer.

No way, I can definitely see him walking out of best&less with a bag & a chuffed smile on his face.

 

[beeb-jr]

I understand why Kieran, Ange and Marissa voted Zoe. She been very vocal against the three of them, and she's proven a challenge threat. She was the short term threat.

Mat is an end-game threat, and at least the seed has been planted. The opportunity might prove rare to nominate him, but at least it's something that they can circle back to.

 

[mebe]

New shopping ppl needed now that Zoey and Garth are gone …..

 

[Gayspie]

Ho hum. Zoe's done.

 

[up_all_night]

 

[D Space]

It would have been very interesting had Kieran ended up voting Mat, resulting in a tie.

It wouldn’t tie though, Mat would have had 6 & Zoey 5. Kieran was the decider. If little miss sunshine hadn’t been traipsing off in the garden while everyone was talking strategy, then perhaps there could have been a tie which would have been fun.

 

[the Theorist]

It wouldn’t tie though, Mat would have had 6 & Zoey 5. Kieran was the decider.

Oh true. This is why I don’t do math.

 

[WhyAMIWatchingTHis?]

Is BB just going to pretend that Garth salty comment didn’t happen last night? Like give us drama, not people who make running seem easy

OH DAMN IT! They DID forget that! I am so pissed and disapointed

 

[It’s Not]

LOVED this moment! Hilarious! Was hoping someone would gif it.

 

[Brekkie]

Garth leaves and exclaims "I was in the bunker!" and we see not one housemate deduce anything from that? Surely there would have been discussions about Angela working with Garth in the bunker to get Ian out. They showed Garth saying it at the beginning of this episode, and that was that. How is there not a target on Angela's back now, from Dan at a minimum? No discussion, no mention? What the? Nah, I don't believe that. It was not shown. Selective editing. Ummm.

Exactly. They even left it in the "Previously" bit but not a single mention of it. It's as if producers forgot to remind the housemates of it when they came back to the set to film the next episode.

Shane's getting a lot of airtime this week...

Pretty sure this years housemates are being paid on a per-episode basis - and only if they get a speaking part.

Chad and Sophie are a love story like no other.

Except every series of Big Brother ever.

Im genuinely at a loss. How did Kieran get casted let alone highlighted?
It must be an in-joke. Or a plant. Or has incriminating photos of the producers taken on his mobile phone whilst driving badly.

One of the great mysteries of our time. He just doesn't interact with the house at all - we see two seconds of him reacting to another housemate saying something and then just see him speaking in the diary room.

And then in the eviction tribal it's:
"Marissa won the challenge today - Kieran, what do you think about that?"
"Mat is nominated for the first time - how do you think he feels Kieran?"
"Shane tried to flip the vote. Whats your thoughts Kieran?"

Did we even here Xavier speak during that section? And given how the vote went a question of Sarah might have been revealing.

But if it were a tied 6 to 6 vote, she'll get the final say, right?

They've never confirmed what happens in a tie breaker. It is the logical tie breaker and how it is done in the US, but with these producers I suspect they have scenarios in order to save their favourites. Kieran probably gets the casting vote.

I had an absurd dream last night that my Mickey undies avatar was DELETED and replaced with an image filled with fire.

Why?

I'm sure us mods used to be able to change members avatars.


Anyhow, the week in summary and I'm happy the strategy talk has now become more central to the episodes, but finding the manipulation and editing around basically three housemates (Kieran, Dan and Angela) very tiresome. Challenges on the whole have been good, but on the whole it's more of a chore than a pleasure. If it wasn't for still being stuck at home most of the time I think I'd have given up.

 

[Mooseface]

If Marissa had put up Mat, the alphas would have had no choice but to vote for each other to save their own game and one would have been eliminated. Eliminating Zoe was stupid.

It might have been necessary in that they may have murdered Zoe so as not to have had to hear her speak ever again. Maybe the producers stepped in to prevent a crime of passion.