An interesting addition this year is the change to the Power of Veto. The Veto is a good concept but rarely gets used. Their is little incentive to use it unless you are on the block yourself or a very strong ally has a chance of being voted out. Otherwise, there is too great a chance that the veto will backfire. In an effort to give people more incentive to use the veto, the two nominees and the head of household get to pick one person each to participate. The thought goes that the person up for nomination will choose somebody who would remove their name from consideration if they win the veto. Mike picked Holly, believing he wanted the least amount of competition against him and Nakomis picked Drew, knowing he would be in lock step with Jase and Scott's nomination of Mike and wouldn't upset the current situation. Even after denying that he and Scott had no special relationship the day before to Mike, Jase, sporting the worst bandana turned Zorro mask on the planet, indeed picked Scott as his partner.
Although Mike put up a good fight, Scott ended up winning veto. Jase and Scott were so busy relishing all of the power they held in the house, they forgot to notice that by winning everything in the first week, they are setting themselves up as targets. If anybody in the house didn't see the pair as a threat before, the fact those two held Head of Household and Veto power should wake everybody up.
There was some good work by CBS to introduce some drama into the Veto ceremony. As previously noted, Diane was scheming like crazy. Since any girls team must include the gay man, she filled Will about their plans. She made "a serious mistake", according to Will, by mentioning that she will take him and Drew "as far as possible". This made will believe he was simply a pawn, and he told Drew, who of course filled in the Horsemen. It was a huge turn for Will, because I don't believe that he has a chance trying to garner influence from the Horsemen. He has a better shot of going with the girls and trying to break up that alliance later on. In the end, the veto turned out like most; Scott didn't use it. Nakomis and Mike will battle for votes on the next episode.
My contention is that CBS should give the person with Veto power the ability to choose who the person going on the block is going to be. This would add not only intrigue to the Veto process, but would make nominations much more strategic. It would work with the full cast, or the subset like they use this year.
On a side note: Ladies if you can't get enough of Jase and Scott, move to LA at the end of this season. These two are almost guaranteed to be moving in search of acting careers. Therefore, you will be able to find them as trainers at 24 Hour Fitness, probably the one on Sunset.
Lastly, I want to speak a little bit about project DNA. There are two sets of twins the audience knows about: Drew and his twin, and Diane and her twin. There is a third set that hasn't been revealed yet: Adria and her twin. It's almost a guarantee that Adria and her twin will be picked for the switcheroo because of their profile and it would add another twist for the audience when an unknown set of twins appears. I wouldn't put it past CBS to have Diane and her twin go on either, because Diane has been trying to scheme like crazy almost like she knew a little more than she let on. CBS could even decide to reveal one set of switching, and then reveal a second group was switching without anybody knowing it.
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