Don't Hate the Game, Hate the Players - 
by J-Unit
It seems like every week I have a different opinion on Big Brother. While the last two episodes have been good, overall the show lacks that much drama. There have been individual episodes that have been great, but I keep on returning to the overall feeling that this show was decided in the first week. There is lots of backstabbing and the scheming is great, but you just know that Will is going to win, and while I may respect him as a player, his domination of the game is not compelling. I kind of feel bad for him because every great player needs a rival, and this cast has decided not to worry about challenging him AT ALL.
Our last great hope, Janelle, has done a great job saving herself, but unfortunately has not been able to save us from the slop that we now call Big Brother. The producers have taken a page from Emmy-Award winning reality production and introduced their own Fast Forward, where we'll have two evictions, plus a whole entire round of HoH, nominations, and vetoes sandwiched in between. Will it generate the needed excitement? It's not Neil Patrick Harris, but it will do.
OK, so I guess I was a little bit of a Debbie Downer, but please don't think that just because this show is boring means that I won't tune in. First of all, I have to show solidarity for all of the TVgasm peeps that have been following us all summer, and second, we still have the one, the only... JULIE CHEN! Yes, we love the Chenbot. If there was one sentence that could sum up my relationship with her, right after "non-existent", "stalker-like", and "a little too obsessive to be called normal", it would be "You had me at 'But first!'"
This summer the Chenbot hasn't been her wild and crazy self. If there is anything that would spice up this season, it is the return of the Saturn V pantsuit. Instead Julie has been keeping the wardrobe in check and held back a little. Oh Julie, why must you do this to us? Bring back the espantoso top! I was beginning to think I would never know the old Julie, and then I saw her tonight!
I've been a bad boy Julie!
Julie was dressed in all black, and on top, she had a leather jacket that was one part dominatrix, one part Hell's Angels, and 100% Julie Chen. When Julie is dressing well, her outfit is actually distracting from the rest of the show, as you might have noticed since I am approximately 400 words into this recap and not even thirty seconds has passed in the entire show.
For those of you who missed Tuesday's excellent Doogie-Hauser infested episode, Janelle won the veto, saving herself, and putting Erika in the position to nominate arguably her closest ally, Danielle, for eviction. For all the great strategy and scheming Danielle has done, she left too much out in the open when it came to Erika's decision. Danielle let Chilltown fill Erika's head with thoughts that she couldn't beat Danielle in the final two, but Danielle didn't do a good enough job of reminding Erika that Danielle is the only person who would have picked her for the final two in the first place.
As for Erika, the decision has to be considered very stupid. She says that the game is "about getting to the end", but if that were the case, why would she put her biggest and most effective ally in harm's way? What's even worse, Erika is saying that in the end, who can you trust but yourself? Well, obviously, she is trusting Chilltown. I am not if all of the peroxide in Mike Boogie's hair has been killing off her brain cells when they spoon, but how in the world does she think it's better to trust the two biggest liars in the game? Then again, how can I blame her when everybody else has been doing it too?
And what about Chilltown? They are in the same maddening position that they have been in all year; they are causing all the problems in the house, but nobody has dared make them pay for it. Will even said, "I am the one who did this, and nobody is mad at me." Danielle actually believes that she is safe, but Will says he'll just string her along like he has with James, Howie, and Marcellas.
The saddest part about this is that you see both Erika and Janelle playing right into their hands. Mike and Will are both telling them the same things, i.e. that they both are the "secret member of Chilltown", but they are crafty ninjas and nobody knows what they are doing. Erika looks stupidly into the camera and says, "Being that I am the secret member of Chilltown, I think they have my back" and Janelle says, "Nobody knows that I'm with Chilltown". The only person more delusional is somebody confusing Lara Flynn Boyle for Delta Burke.
To make matters worse, Will and Mike decide that they might as well have Chicken George as an ally as well. Granted, Chicken George barely knows what's going on at this point in the game. He looks so confused it's like he spent his whole summer in Australia driving on the left side of the road and watching the toilets flush clockwise and his brain has just enough function left over to enable him to eat and speak. He eats up his initiation into Chilltown, promising to "step up" when the guys need him.
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