I have to admit, I saw this scenario from a mile away. Jase goes to pieces after his best friend and sleeping partner is thrown out of the house. I guess the only thing that was different from my scenario is Jase is actually crying about Holly's eviction, while we all thought it would be Scott. Details, details. After Holly's eviction, there was clearly a few ways Jase could take the news. A) Sulk and admit defeat, quietly living his last few days in the Big Brother House. B) Realize his power structure in the house is rapidly failing and re-evaluate his alliance. C) Go completely mental and seek his revenge on everybody who remains. There aren't that many people left who can stomach Jase's antics, but we all must applaud the fact he chose for option C, almost guaranteeing every week Jase remains will be one to thoroughly enjoy.
The viewers received another Big Brother first for the season on Thursday as the house guests competed in the first endurance challenge of the season. With the Horsemen down an ally in Holly and the Girls determined to continue their winning streak, this endurance competition promised to be a good one. This competition forced the contestants to stand on an apparatus featuring a life-size cutout of themselves with a button in the middle of the face. Each person had to keep a finger on the button or they would be eliminated. After a certain amount of time, the remaining players were told they couldn't switch hands, and after a little bit longer everybody learned they had to keep their feet planted on the ground, preventing any stretching to relieve leg cramps and the like.
The rule preventing hand switching caused most of the early problems, including bringing Michael to tears after he was eliminated from the competition. He had to rely on support from a shoulder he says he injured just a few days before entering the Big Brother house. After his elimination, Jase and Scott started making fun of him. Although nobody really needed more proof that Scott and Jase had no love for Michael other than adding to their own numbers, I suspect that Michael will continue with his relationship "friends" as if nothing happened. The only other interesting disqualification was Scott. Once again proving he has more than enough mental capacity to deserve a place in the house, Scott eliminated himself after placing his hand on his cutout for support, a move previously forbidden by Big Brother decree. Surprisingly, it took a mention from Diane to point out this breakage of the rule, but Scott was eliminated. As expected, Scott and Jase chastised Diane for being a narc.
After several more eliminations, only Jase and Diane survived. I know a lot of you out there were hoping that we would see some people pee themselves a la Jun and Alison in last year's cage competition. Either nobody had to use the bathroom (somewhat believable) or CBS put the kibosh on watersports, because were afforded no such public humiliation segment. What we got instead was almost as good, with Jase trying several attempts to psych-out Diane including and Diane mostly ignoring Jase. Jase became increasingly nutty and started some crazy gyrations to go along with his words of intimidation. Sadly, this flailing accomplished nothing other than eliminating Jase from the competition after he moved his foot during some of his antics. 10 hours in the same position can do that to a person.
Many a viewer rejoiced at the thought of Diane as HoH. My personal faves in the house are Diane, Nakomis, and Adria/Natalie. The first two seem to be the only people in the house hell bent on scheming up a storm to destroy the Horsemen, and I am gunning for Adria/Natalie because I like the twist and it will become either really great or really bad for them once they are both in the house. Diane further solidified my support for her after the nomination ceremony and she elected to put up Scott and Jase. Yes, America, we have been waiting for this day. The Veto competition is going to be interesting. Who does Scott pick? Who does Jase pick? Scott and Jase each won a veto competition, so there is a good chance we won't see them as the final pair. We like to keep ourselves in suspense by staying away from the live feeds, so Tuesday's episode is going to be a good one. Even if one of them wins the veto, it is likely the last week for one of the two. Perhaps Scott can help his cause be telling Jase he is going to go after Holly if he is evicted.
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