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Yep, that's Tim's challenge for sure. By end game Tim is going to need additional ammo and probably some wins as well. But I feel like they might give him enough time to work all that out.

Also Nikki started crying because Friday night booze delivery came with bananas and cantaloupe. Which she was clutching to her chest while tearfully apologising for being mean to Big Brother. She has her melon and that's all she wants, guys. I guess Love is trying to course correct from nominating someone with as much social power as Kelsey, but idk.

I genuinely don't follow, sorry. Wouldn't you say being good at percieving what other players are up to or what they value is useful for having a chance at winning? Which is not to say winning will be easy or he'll coast but that's true for everybody. Tim will be spotted as a threat for sure, and a couple of HGs have noticed already. But early on on feeds Likeability may provide a lot of cover with this house, I think.

Sheri's explanation: https://mobile.twitter.com/SheriLaBrant/status/708517842266640385Also, I like Blair. She's really young and loves her dad, so what. I like that you see the eye of the tiger from her every once in a while, like when she realised she might be able to pass the paraglider that had fallen.

Yes, works being the operative word there for me. Not, practices medicine every freaking where whether it's wanted or useful or not. Castaway Joe worked in the Air Force so maybe he could have insisted on using his skills other people don't have to help with the chopper, we could probably go down the list for most of the day jobs out there. Though perhaps not Alecia, bless her heart. The folks who *were* at work managed the situation once they realised what was happening. Anyway we're probably about to start talking in circles on this but hopefully that is clearer. Doctors who think their special knowledge means everyone should listen to them always about everything are the kind to trust the least, so while it is certainly possible Peter wanted Debbie to suffer, it is also possible he has more sides to his personality than the one that gives obnoxious confessionals. Now I've defended him a lot, ugh. Hee. The confessionals are indeed super obnoxious!

Nikki wasn't emotionally prepared to go in the house but she seems like she's never emotionally prepared for anything, poor duck. That montage of her crying in the dr while Tim looked for her was hilarious, omg. Also amazing/terrible was Phillipe freaking out about his brother's potential showmance. Guess they're not on the same page. Also I absolutely think Tim can win. And knows it. Absent any Big Brother shenanigans like a challenge where all the questions are on Canadian history and pop culture. The house likes hanging out with him, which alone is enough to take him far, but he's perceptive as well.

Well as you point out he doesn't actually need medical training for any of that. And it's definitely not something he is encouraged to do in the ER while other patients suffer in the waiting room. Sorry I guess this is one of my pet peeves but doctors are people! With all types of different personalities, just like people. My favourite doctor of the million that I see is a shy science nerd type. He would have quietly sat in the corner with his umbrella, too. Peter not demanding centre stage or being a very comforting type of person just is not too offensive to me.

I'm not saying he doesn't know what a heat stroke is, but everyone *already* knew it was heat stroke and what to do. Even ER doctors mostly diagnose, in my experience. And then they say, nurse, put some ice on him, let's a try a dose of xyz, whatever. Which was already happening so I guess I don't understand what Peter was supposed to think only he, specifically, could accomplish. And insisting they had to let him help, however redundantly, would imply some kind of God complex to me.idk, we've all got fundamentally different opinions of what a doctor even is, apparently. I would't expect Peter to start insisting anything any more than I expect Probst to grab the mic from the emcee at every wedding he goes to. Although Probst, so who knows.

Sorry but this sounds hella creepy to me. If Peter had started grabbing equipment and begging and ranting about how he HAS to help and is the only person on a crowded beach qualified to do so, they would have assumed they had a fourth heat stroke victim in their hands. North American doctors are primarily diagnosticians and in some contexts surgeons. Neither skill was actually needed during this emergency. An MD doesn't make him the only one qualified to put ice under someone's armpits - is he going to lay hands like Jesus? And being aware of his non-divinity doesn't make him a terrible person. And I don't even like him, lol.

Aw I like Arisa. She is pretty and enunciates clearly which is all I require tbh. Though she is not wrong her posture is often terrible. Someone back in the day must have told her she's too tall. The feedsters are not wrong, Tim and Nikki are hilarious so far. Can't believe Tim's dumb act is working so well.

For everyone asking about watching feeds/show from the US or elsewhere, try visiting hamsterwatch. Hopefully that's ok to mention, lol. The brothers may have thought they were both shortlisted but been sent to sequester before they could realise they were both going in for sure. Phil did look furious.

I once had a conversation with an Italian dude giving me the "real Italians never" speech, where I had to reply, yeah I've actually had that dish at a restaurant in your hometown. A lot of times people are talking about tradition and what their grandmothers would never do, which is a bit of a different question from what might have happened gastronomically in the last 100 years or be popular right now in 2016.To be fancy I did the search for "gamberetti e burrata" and it did turn up a bunch of stuff. Looks interesting. The entertaining thing about Marjorie's disdain for Isaac is how enthusiastic he is about her skills in return. It's like one of those cartoons where the grumpy talking animal has a sidekick that won't stop jumping up and down and being excited about everything. And everytime they get punched in the arm, they just come right back.

They did in fact send Steve Rogers to a training camp for able-bodied soldiers, and then selected him for an experimental procedure that could have killed him, because of his strength of character and ~heroic willpower. My point is that superheroes are a fantastic, aspirational genre. Where adopted immigrants and nerdy high school kids can save the day and disabled men get chosen for special hero programs because of their noble hearts. Where Peggy Carter and Natasha Romanov take down roomfuls of men twice their size. If we all cheer on those scenes, then why is it super important to the narrative that we see Sousa's disability hold him back? He's meant to be positive and aspirational for the viewers who know what that shit is like, just like Peggy getting underestimated and kicking ass.

Except we're in a universe with blind and previously asthmatic superheroes. imo it's that hopeful comic book tone again; the whole point for two seasons has been that Peggy and Sousa can do as much their male/able-bodied counterparts. Realistic? Nope. Don't care, personally. Manfredi keeps calling the Italian lady Nonna, which would mean she's his grandmother not mother. Nonna is cold-blooded, lol. Maybe she started the business. Was not expecting a cliffhanger ending, sigh.

The confusing thing to me about Marjorie's complaints about Isaac's unrefined, folksy food or saying he can't win, is that this show is still judged and I can't remember the judges ever really caring about that. We just want you to make delicious food, as Tom says. As mentioned Carla Hall's wheelhouse was pretty similar and the judges loved her. Trying to incorporate "fancy" European ideas is part of what killed her game in that finale. Same for Sheldon and his Filipino-American cooking in Kristin's season. No reason Isaac can't impress through to the end with his Creole cooking, but now I wonder if the edit is leading up to his making a Sheldon-type mistake.

Nope, had to look that one up but the google summary is hilarious. ha! Hope we're not headed to anything quite that dramatic.

I thought there were shades of Jian Ghomeshi in there too, though possibly accidental since this ep must have been written and filmed before the trial happened this month. But all the trial-related slut-shaming had me majorly flashing back to terrible editorials in the local newspapers. The lawyer in that case definitely tried to make hay of the victims not acting raped enough, story inconsistencies, the idea of being out to persecute a celebrity for gain, etc. Ghomeshi almost definitely is guilty, but the verdict is probably going to say otherwise due to all that. As far as the actual case, the idea of the girls agreeing to one thing, then getting surprised with something else that you wouldn't usually do without discussing first seemed similar. Also the fact that the star accidentally incriminated himself before he was actually suspected, in the rush to claim that the girl totally wanted it. Rollins is a mess. As usual. I love that Dodds leaked the tape, and knows Dodds Sr. wouldn't let him go down for it. SVU is rubbing off on him in a bad way lol, his daddy should have thought that through beforehand. I would never have thought to pronounce it vlog, in one syllable.

Wait, one *entire* female? Wow. What more could we possibly want.

Yeah, on rewatch I guess they didn't say who would be leading the group. (Russell said he'd check in ocassionally but the group would be autonomous.) So perhaps all the members will be equal. But that doesn't make the President driving to Henry's house to wax lyrical about how a white Anglo professor is the best qualified person to deal with extremist religious groups in the Middle East, any less ridiculous to me. Henry flies fighter jets, writes bestselling biographies, was the only person in Washington who could be Dmitri's handler and avert World War III, and now is somehow specially qualified to catch terrorists despite never having done it before. But somehow that makes *Bess* the Mary Sue? Okay. Henry is going to continue to steal screen time from the Secretary's office and the title character with his unlikely exploits. And yeah, I did originally start watching a show about ladies being awesome for 42 minutes. Not however few minutes are left over after Henry and Conrad hang out in the oval office saving the world from terrorists. I do watch shows about men being awesome too, but don't particularly see why this show needed to turn into one of them. Boring. Don't see why the problem of Bess and Henry talking about work needed to be "solved", either. Henry had a different job from her and it was fine. Perfectly common on tv shows and irl. She can't talk to her kids about everything and that's just an interesting fact of the plot, no hand wringing or need to rescue them from being left out of the important action. I don't think the writers conspired to write the most sexist idea they could come up with. But I do think it's worth questioning why they think this is the best idea, when Elizabeth is losing plot and screen time to male characters. Why Henry, couldn't be given more typical political spouse plots. No, instead he needed to be elevated to confidant of the State and Presidential offices, the best person to help save the world from this special and unique terrorist. Even Henry questioned his own qualifications for the job in the last scene - the writers are imo well aware they're trying to pull a fast one. Conrad gave Henry a near mirror of his pitch to Bess in the pilot: trust, unique point of view, yada. And just like the pilot I think it's a setup for specific types of stories to be told. Different types of stories from the ones we've been getting, and ones I'm not particularly interested in.

Ok well, I think I would have preferred Henry being killed off to this bullshit. Henry is more qualified to run this task force than any other military or CIA or NSA employee, really? Where the fuck is the feminist show I fell in love with? Mildly spoilery set photo here that just makes me more mad. Is Henry the new Elizabeth?

Okay I am on Padma's side regarding the paratha roti, watching Marjorie make it was slightly horrifying if you know what's supposed to be happening. Besides deep-frying it in a pan full of burning ghee - the whole point of brushing the dough with ghee is is to encourage flaky layers. Kind of like the puff pastry process. Brush, turn and knead, rest. She didn't seem to have the time needed so that would have contributed to the tough texture. Hers just looked super thin and layerless when the name literally means layered dough. Obvious disaster imo. 1 billion plus people eat Indian food, it wasn't really that obscure of a nitpick though I know we hate Padma's judgey face. MC Hammer didn't seem any worse than other local celebs they've had. I thought he seemed nice though the challenge was silly. Does "pink dragon" sound like a vagina euphemism to anyone else lol.

I think so, and it's causing speculation that this season's winner is a lady. We all know how Probst feels about that, heh.

First Brice and now Tai - I think Probst and co. just think it is funny to put the gay guy on the beauty tribe. Gross. Why don't they cast a brawny gay man one of these days? According to Kyle the missing part of the narrative was Brawn worrying about letting Darnell get too far? On the first freaking vote. I hope Alecia drags them back to every tribal council.

Okay, *that* makes me feel better. I actually didn't think much about the first tweet, but with the second I thought it seemed strange. Usually the only reason to play coy in response to a direct question about whether or not you've been fired, is if you've actually been fired. Otherwise you'd try to control those type of rumours for fear of ending up on the wrong side of them. If fandom panic was always the goal then why tweet a second time at all. But if it's a common actor habit, I'll go with that.

I think it would be a terrible idea too. The show has been struggling with Henry outside the McCord home, but inside the home he's great and their marriage is the cutest? But the show hasn't been immune from terrible ideas recently so that's not convincing me. Even though I want to be convinced, sigh. Téa retweeted his two tweets, I don't think anyone's worried about anything going on besides a potential (terrible) creative decision? Please spill the tea if you have some, though. And watching the promo, Henry almost definitely will have radiation poisoning. I guess rather than dying on Sunday he could hang on long enough to die of cancer in the season finale? Ugh I have to stop thinking about this now.