Desperately Seeking a Fifth Wheel - 
by J-Unit
Sometimes I think I am really quite adept at observing all of the personalities on Big Brother and then coming up with a feel of how people in the house are positioning themselves. Other times, especially with this cast, I am left stupefied by what actually ends up happening in the house. I understand that the houseguests don't have the advantage of seeing everything that is going on in the house with nice little subtitles when people whisper, but you would think that as they line themselves up to vote out a third person, somebody would have developed some sort of awareness for the alliances forming in the house. This is clearly way too much to ask of the current houseguests.
Yes, there is some sort of ambiguity inside the Big Brother house as to the obvious power inside the house. As Mike was telling everybody in week one, and has become eminently clear to us viewers at home, Scott and Jase are the strongest duo in the house and along with Michael and Drew, form the Four Horsemen who have orchestrated enough of the game to have removed their choices in the previous two eviction ceremonies. Scott and Holly are joined at the hip, so Holly is at least an adjunct to the Horsemen. Marvin mistakingly believes he and his macho schtick are also in tight with the Horsemen and even tried to suggest "Santa Monica Van Gang" as the name of the new group.
What's left? We have Adria, Nakomis, Diane, Karen, and Will. They are a decent bunch, but only Nakomis has the ability to actually play the game. She has a subtle quality to her personal interactions with everybody, so as not to alienate anybody but, as her diary moments attest, she can think for herself and knows you can't implicitly trust anybody in the house. Adria seems to have both things as well, but she has so much on her mind involving all of the switching with her sister that her head is not always in it. Diane has the attitude, but too often fails to hold her own in confrontations. Karen isn't doing anything after being up on the block last week and Will is trying to lay low as long as possible.
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