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I would have LOVED to see one or more of the "outcasts" just walk into the big meeting room and plop themselves down. It's not like Jack or anyone else can physically retaliate. Heck, have Ovi and Nicole and whoever just chase Gr8ful from room to room. The comedy value would be off the charts.

Nicole and Ovi are forgetting that everyone's in a competition; both think the other contestants, all thrown together by fate, are actually their friends. Bella's forgetting that being in a game show (which is what this is) does not excuse personally reprehensible behavior. I'm already steeling myself to her protests of "bad editing" or whatever. Remember: Editing can be deceptive, but it CANNOT make you say things you didn't actually say or do things you didn't actually do. Jack is obviously a jerk at heart and has figured out that he can act like a jerk to his heart's content as long as doesn't do anything explicitly hateful (he toes the line but stays just on the right side of it, unlike Bella). You can tell a lot about a person by how they act when there are no consequences, and we've found out a lot about Jack the last few weeks.

Bella is awful, but Nicole and Ovi are too dumb (at least in the social game) to live. Speaking of Bella, I'm going to love seeing her casually thrown away by the same alliance she tossed Nicole under the bus for. We hardly ever see Jessica, so I'm guessing she's just a nice person everyone gets along with. No drama = bad TV.

My wife and I were wondering if they were swapping out the snakes. Otherwise, they might be getting pretty stressed by the end and be more likely to bite.

I agree, and the only way to make this stupid idea even marginally workable is to give the returnee immunity for a specified time so they can try to worm their way back into alliances. And giving them Ovi's Nightmare Power might be a way to do that.

Does anyone else think "Whackitivity" is one of the dumbest names ever? And that stupid squirrel voice grates almost as much as Announcer Guy's voiceovers.

Maybe she's bi?

One big surprise gleaned from the Wikipedia pages: Tommy and Christie (who had that relationship with Tommy's aunt) are the same age, 28. Just by the way they carry themselves, I had Christie pegged as a decade or so older than Tommy.

The wife and I tuned in a bit last night on All Access. Other than a little bit of gameplay discussion between Clay and someone else, it was about 10 people on a bed talking about The Bachelorette, and Jackschi eating store-brand (!) peanut butter whilst discussing....something with David and someone else. Turns out that the unedited BB conversations are as banal as I remembered from watching the Season 1 live feed on Yahoo all those years ago.

Given that it hasn't been mentioned in two episodes now, can we safely assume that "Camp Director" is a thing of the past? Weird, considering the big deal Chenbot made of it. Ovi really is an idiot, but a good-hearted one. Aquaman, on the other hand, is just a nasty person. Gotta love how he's already ordering everyone around. Even Jackschi at least tries to act friendly and open to suggestion. I seriously want to see more Jessica (and you may interpret that any way you like).

Question: Do we KNOW Hannah's windmill tryst happened on the show, or could she be talking about something that happened years ago?

My guess is the producers asked if she was interested in keeping Matteo or JPJ around and she said No. So the rose was taken away.

There was a conversation between them, most of which was NOT shown. Maybe one or both started talking about what the producers were telling both of them or some other topic that pulls back the curtain more than Harrison and co. would like? My best guess (and I claim NO inside information): Luke S. asks Hannah if she is keeping him and Luke P. She says Yes, and they will all go on a 2-1 next episode. Luke S. either tells Hannah that he won't debase himself by directly competing with a guy he hates, or tells her that if she believes Luke P's version of events, he wants nothing to do with her.

I assume the plan was for Luke P. and Luke S. to have a two-on-one with Hannah. When he left, that plan became unnecessary, and Hannah had already decided who she was going to dump.

A few exceptions aside, the James Bond movies were (in)famous for having almost nothing in common with the novels they took their names from, aside from the bad guy's name and maybe one or two very loose plot threads.

In Rage (which I've also read), the school shooter ends up convincing the entire class to torture the attractive All-American jock into drooling, mute insanity. The sticking point is that he ends up leading his fellow students down this path, which would be appealing for the kind of mentally ill psycho who would shoot up a school. As much as I hate censorship, I can agree with King's decision (although I wish there instead was a way to make the book available to adults only).

It's so linear. First you go here, then you go there, then you go to this other place, and so forth. There's no choices about how to complete a given level, which levels to attack first, etc. The only time I totally rage-quit a game was after an escort quest in Matrix: Path of Neo. My job was to keep Trinity alive on a rooftop whilst fighting off agents, helicopters and whatnot. After a bunch of tries, I managed to defeat all of them only to have Trinity WALK OFF THE ROOF ON HER OWN, causing me to fail the level. Never played the game after that. I loved Witcher III, but could not stand how they kept trying to force Gwent on you.

How about clickbait articles that say "You won't BELIEVE what Steven Tyler looks like now!" or "This video will leave you ROLLING ON THE FLOOR with laughter!" Quit trying to dictate my emotional state, please.

Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is an example of a great movie that's a terrible adaptation of the original novel. Kubrick, much to King's chagrin, took the source material and went his own way with it.

The entire second half of Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee's Garden of Rama. The Rama ships arrive at Earth and a bunch of humans pile aboard for the journey to the alien world. Cut to 10 years (or whatever it was) later, and some mob boss has opened a casino and become fabulously rich whilst reducing most of the populace to poverty (how would a casino even work in cashless society? Don't ask.). The idiots now running the human settlement decide to break into one of the non-human areas of ship; upon discovering the other settlement does contain alien life, they decide to kill it all because "What if they attack us first?" Our heroes object and are immediately sentenced to death. The book ends right before their execution. It was the first and only time I've wanted to throw a book across the room. Rendezvous with Rama is my all-time favorite science fiction novel, but the sequels (including Garden) are mostly garbage.

The first night of (I think) JoJo's season, former Bachelor Jake Pavelka was wandering around the mansion making small talk with the guys, most of whom were giving talking head interviews resenting his presence since "he already had his chance." Turns out he was just there to wish childhood friend JoJo well and report on a few of the douchier guys. Doing a 100% comprehensive background check is much harder than you'd think. When people recall the mid-2000s trainwreck Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire?, they think it was pulled off the air after one ep because the winner Darva Conger hated the guy she married. It was actually yanked because right after the show aired, it was revealed that the "Multimillionaire" Rick Rockwell had had a restraining order slapped on him a decade before by an ex-girlfriend who'd claimed he'd hit her. A Fox spokesperson said that since they'd done the best background check they could possibly do and still missed something that would have been immediately disqualifying, it would be difficult to continue the show. For me, it's two things: 1) Insisting he be referred to by his first, middle and last names is a sign of a major pretentious asshat. The fact that he shares the name with a member of my favorite music group of all time (Led Zeppelin) just makes it more irritating. 2) His affected surfer-wannabe manner of speaking just grates.

Desert Flippers is entertaining enough, although I wonder if Eric and Lindsay are required to say the phrase "Indoor/Outdoor Lifestyle" at least once per episode. And do people in Palm Springs actually eat their dinners outside? I live in Scottsdale (not too far away) and we would never dream of eating our meals in the backyard.

It speaks volumes that Angela didn't want her husband to wipe her butt or put cream on her cooter or give her showers because she thought it wouldn't be appropriate, but had no qualms forcing her grown-ass daughter to do it. Screen name: It's a combination of my two favorite football teams (the Oakland/Las Vegas Raiders and the Oregon Ducks), and my status as a Knight of the Principality of Sealand.

A few thoughts: Some posters have said she's worse than Steven Assanti. I respectfully disagree because I believe that if Steven Assanti had the physique and mobility of a normal man, he might well be a serial killer. I don't say that lightly, but think of all the times he would say or do hurtful things and then giggle when called on it: he sees other people as there to either serve or amuse him. Angela, on the other hand, sees others as there to either serve or "be there" for her. A small distinction maybe, but an important one. Having said that, she's hateful and horrible and definitely in the Top (or is it Bottom?) Five Worst Ever. Angelogic: If I don't like my apartment, they don't give me the one I thought I was getting, and I voluntarily choose not to live in Houston as a result, it's exactly like the apartment managers are murdering me. Angelogic: HOW DARE Dr. Now imply that I might be taking drugs, even though I actually am? Angelogic: Dr. Now OWES me the surgery no matter what I do because.... er.... well, because..... um.... WELL, I DESERVE IT AND I'M NOT LETTING HIM TELL ME OTHERWISE!

This show, which originally ran from 2011-2016, returned with a new episode (one of four in its abbreviated new season) Saturday night. Thoughts: It was nice seeing Tom and Tanya again. Loved Tom giving Robert a gold sledgehammer, then being mortified when Robert actually used it. We need more of this kind of owner: enthusiastic and wanting to work hard and do the right thing, just in over her head with no clue how to run a restaurant. These types of restaurants/owners usually result in a happy ending (i.e. Robert can show them what to do and how to do it). Liked the makeover. The owner and the mom seemed genuinely touched that Tanya had included the grandma's picture in her redesign.