First week Head of Household competitions are always difficult. On the one hand, the HoH is the only person (or people as was the case this year) who was assured not to leave the house. On the other hand, being the first to nominate anybody will put a huge target on your back, and in a house full of master schemers, you have to think that eventually somebody is going to hit the bulls eye and get you voted off of the house. Being completely honest, you can't blame Jase or Janelle for their nominations. Alison and Danielle were clearly the people who were gunning for them, and you never want to set the precedent that you are a weak HoH. Alison and Danielle deserved to be nominated.

Now just because I may agree with a strategy doesn't meant that everybody else is going to agree. Danielle barely knew what do. In all of her time in the Big Brother house, she was never on the chopping block. It's sort of like going through survivor and never hearing your name during tribal council; a little luck and a lot of savvy can get you a long way. Stuck in this unfamiliar position, Danielle said that she is going to wait for Alison's mouth to get her in trouble. Luckily for Danielle, Alison was more than happy to oblige.

Alison decided that she wanted to go up to the HoH room and find out right away why the two of them were targeted. This is always a good idea, because you get to have chance to discuss things with the people who nominated, but Alison probably hurt both of them by having Danielle tag along. It doesn't take a lot for people to assume that you have an alliance in Big Brother, and if Danielle is up in the HoH demanding justice for the nominations with Alison by her side, of course the two of them are going to look like partners.

In the HoH room, Janelle and Jase explained that they were looking at getting rid of Chicken George first, but when they learned that Alison and Danielle were trying to break things up so the two HoH's would be on the block, Jase and Janelle turned the tables and placed the blame on them.

Danielle's whole strategy is to sit back and let others do the dirty work. Unfortunately, the first people she told her strategy to is Alison. When Danielle first tried this strategy with her partner Jason in Big Brother 3, he was able to take her instructions and the two of them were able to wreak havoc in the house without anybody knowing. In Alison, Danielle finds herself with a partner that has no subtlety to her game, even when she's sleeping around with people to get her way.

Anyway, Danielle tried to say that she was only throwing out scenarios for the game, and the only person she told as Alison, so she doesn't know how this rumor could have spread around the house. Alison says that the only people she told were Mike Boogie and James. Now, replays showed that Alison was already lying because she told almost everybody in the house, including JASE, the person who was nominated. Alison was so sure that Jase would be up for the plan, she assumed he would go along because she assumed everybody was gunning for the sixth season cast members.

Alison and Danielle are about to leave, when Danielle awkwardly sticks around. For a person who only a few minutes ago said she admired Alison and thought she was a good player, Danielle sure looked ready to throw her under the bus, and that's exactly what she did. Danielle said she talked about that scenario only to see which way people were leaning, and not because she wanted to target anybody. She said that it was Alison who wanted her to choose sides, and although replays showed that Danielle was correct, it looked to be a case of somebody desperately trying to cover her tracks.

While that may have sealed the fate for some people, Danielle is going up against Alison, and if I haven't reminded you enough already, she forgot about the whole speak softly part of carrying a big stick around with you. When Alison was first in the house, she didn't really have a great strategy, but was willing to sleep around and backstab to get her way. Unfortunately, this time around she seems like she is not so willing to get busy, and any strategy she has left is washed out by her utter and complete hatred of Janelle. As soon as she was nominated, she said that she was going to inflict complete and utter misery on Janelle. The only problem is, by putting Alison on the block, Janelle has already done a better job when it comes to putting people into misery.

Posted by J-Unit on July 12, 2006 2:30 AM