Well, it turns out that the results of this week's Big Brother eviction were not really that exciting. Mike, The Don, was evicted by a unanimous vote. While the day of eviction always gives us a little suspense, Mike was up against the whole house. CBS always tries to keep us guessing when it comes to who is leaving with selective edits of words from the diary room. If the vote is going to be close, we usually hear the houseguests voice their vote on-air minus a deciding two or three votes; with a blowout we are left guessing what everybody voted for. This week's episode featured the latter, and from there it was not hard to figure out that The Don was dead. With Jase and Scott so intent on getting rid of him, and without any qualities that enabled him to bond with any of his other housemates, it was going to take a miracle to keep Mike in the house. There was no miracle, and Mike was evicted, without anybody voting for him to stay put.
The live episodes always give us one of our favorite little joys of the week by supplying us plenty of Julie Chen banter to get us through our work days on Friday. Julie did a good job this week. She lost the Saturn V pantsuit and even had a nice couple of ad-libs during her interview with Mike. I wish she could have explained why Mike wasn't afforded a nice visit from a family member after getting chucked so early.
CBS also tormented us with the "Family Background" segment of the week starring Nakomis, Michael and their dad. Guy Dedmond, while not the spitting image of either of his two now famous kids, certainly has the family resemblance. These moments are awkward,but not because there is a good chance that the family memebers will start crying. It mostly has to do with the way the producers insist on doing a re-enactment of certain moments of the show to make it look like CBS cameras were there for their live reactions. During those times when we get letters from home, we get the old crossfade into the other person reading the letter aloud trick. Still, I am not completely hearltess, and it was nice to see that there would be happy times ahead.
As for the rest of the guests, Scott gave us a few more quotes to put on our "Why We Hate Scott" bulletin board. He showed us how much of a gracious winner he was by congratulating Mike on how good of a player he, meaning Scott, was. As much of a dope that I thought Jase was, Scott is packing even less upstairs. Apparently, they don't administer a Wunderlich test to the guys before they drop trou for Playgirl. Scott continually tries to sound like he really is a genius in his diary sessions. He talks slowly in his sessions like he is on an interview trying to convince the person across from him that he is qualified to do the job. I can just imagine him sitting back at home in front of a mirror rehearsing all of these lines he is going to use in the future.
Jase, for his part, started getting really friendly with Holly. Apparently they are spending plenty of time together and the sight of the couple together is practically inducing vomiting among the other contestants. There might have been people who thought Jase's comments on Holly's intellect being a turnoff showed a less superficial side of him. Both of you have been shown the errors of your ways. I still believe that Holly might surprise us by showing us some deeper thought, so she could be playing Jase to her advantage. Still, the Girls alliance has decided that they can't trust her with anything. For Jase, his relationship could easily cause a rift in the Four Horsemen.
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