gratefulgirl

I don't know if this was mentioned or talked about - but is it possible that the Grande family got word that Donny was in the lead, and they started supporting Zach simply to split the votes? It's just hard to imagine an altruistic motivation at this point.

If Brit were dead, she would be rolling over in her grave right now. I think you meant Danielle. ;)

Totally. And it's about the attempt to find the perfect balance between the two...a balance that you think that the jury will respect. Being too honorable = losing. Being too greedy/shady/backstabbing usually equals losing too. So it's this weird question of how greedy can I be without crossing the line. Greedy enough for people to respect my game and honorable enough to not hate me so much that you don't vote out of spite. It's super interesting.

I think it's a risky thing to do before as well, it doesn't make any sense. But, if you watch the conversation, he brings up "What if someone was lying about who they were?" And she replies that she would be really mad. And then he pretty much twists it around and changes her mind into respecting it, and thinking that it would be really amazing. Her gut reaction to someone lying about who they were was to be angry, and within two sentences he changed her mind..."Oh, I would totally vote for them because they did such a good job fooling me!" It was kind of masterful. I think he might be on the fence about when to do his reveal (and seriously, it would be stupid to do it before) and he's just covering his bases in case he does decide to do it earlier.

Derrick set Victoria up for his cop reveal (I have no idea if he's going to do it before or after he wins, but this makes it sound like he's thinking of doing it before) Flashback 9/17, 10:37:45 pm, BBT

This popped up in my facebook feed, and all I could think was "Awwwwww! Cody!"

That's the only thing that matters! :) The person who holds the veto is the person who decides who is going home.

the person who holds veto is the sole vote.

Cody is such a puppy. A nice, dumb lab.

I am personally anxious around police officers.

One thing that I hadn't thought of until a few days ago was that it doesn't seem like there has been a lot of drug talk this season, (although I don't really watch the feeds, so I don't know - but there certainly hasn't been any mention of it on the boards) or really any talk about illegal activity. There have been past seasons where there have been hardcore stoners or people talking about cocaine use and things like that...but for whatever reason, maybe it's just this cast, it hasn't gone on. I think the reveal about Derrick being a cop would be totally different if the houseguests had spent their summer revealing things about themselves that they would not have knowing that there was a police officer there. But all in all, this is a pretty clean cast, they are aware of the cameras and the viewers, and there hasn't been nearly the usual amount of questionable conversations than on past seasons.

Whoever said that Izzy upped their likability factor is totally right. I wonder if there was not only the "wow, the feeds are boring, let's do something to shake up the house" motivation, but also the realization that the viewers aren't really loving anyone this season. Watching humans interact with and find joy and comfort in an animal is absolutely endearing and humanizing. So if that was their plan, it kind of worked.

This made me laugh. http://jezebel.com/the-strict-rules-of-interacting-with-ariana-grande-1632360509?rev=1410269401018&utm_campaign=socialflow_jezebel_facebook&utm_source=jezebel_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

This entire season has been one of brief hopes and then huge disappointments, over and over again. Just when you think something exciting or dramatic or game-changing is going to happen - the absolute worst, most predictable, most boring thing actually does. Over and over again. So at this point, based on the season, I feel like it's almost guaranteed that the reset will happen and then Frankie will win both comps again. Because this season is just. that. bad.

The best part of this bit of gameplay is beforehand letting everyone know that NO ONE was to talk to Nicole alone. Leaving her very easy pickings for Derrick. He's playing with a bunch of idiots.