S03.E05: All This Murderous Power

[AntFTW]

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With their trust shaken, the Traitors must move forward; the limits of an alliance are tested.

Air date: January 23, 2025

[ichbin]

Am I the only one finding it problematic that Danielle refers to Rob as one of those Mafia guys given his ethnic background?

[AntFTW]

Robyn said she was a threat to the traitors.

[65mickey]

She also said that the traitors were running scared. I guess she thinks the traitors felt like she was on to them. Talk about delusional. 

[AntFTW]

Carolyn thought Rob was going to be the first to betray her, and it was Danielle that betrayed her first.

Getting rid of a Robyn was good for Rob and Carolyn but bad for Danielle, Robyn was the kind of idiot that Danielle needed. Robyn was defending Danielle hard.

Since last season, I've been saying they need to release the uncut or extended footage from the roundtables. They need to put it on Youtube or an extra on Peacock. The few minutes they gave us of last season's roundtables were juicy, and I'm sure we're missing some good stuff on this season. Next week's roundtable looks like it's gonna be a good one.

The face Carolyn while eating her cereal... 😂

What does everybody think of Danielle? Is she being sloppy?

[Stats Queen]

Danielle is definitely sloppy.

The reasoning for voting for Nikki mad absolutely no sense.

The have been so clueless and are now even more clueless without the brain trust that is Robin. 🤣

[ByaNose]

Danielle was very sloppy tonight. I think Danielle became a little unhinged and the pressure got to her. I know she thinks Carolyn is a mess but she should have hung on a little longer before dropping her name out. Carolyn would have been more than happy to ditch Rob but apparently Danielle didn’t know this. Next week’s turret and round table is going to be off the chain. 

Random but did anyone notice that they used the same shower clip of Sam Asghari from last week? It’s like they said, So we really have to waste more film on him again? LOL!!! That said, he’s miles ahead of Tom Sandoval? Did woman really find him attractive? He looks like he’s dumb as rocks and bugged eyed all the time. 

[DEL901]

During the riddles, Danielle tried twice to protect someone else instead of herself and didn’t realize she was practically saying that she felt safe and didn’t need the shield AND didn’t realize how it looked until a Housewife called it out in front of everyone.   And she still didn’t get her name called at the round table.   Nikki should have mentioned this to turn the discussion.  

And I thought Boston Rob’s response to Ivar’s questioning wasn’t up to his usual standards.  Ivar even gave him the heads up earlier in the day.  Rob got lucky…this time.   

I was also waiting for someone to tell Rob that Danielle was suggestIng Carolyn was a traitor. I was surprised when Carolyn was told.   She is freaking out, but despite how flaky and scattered she can come off, she didn’t get to the end of Survivor without having some game smarts. 

[AntFTW]

5 minutes ago, DEL901 said:

I was also waiting for someone to tell Rob that Danielle was suggestIng Carolyn was a traitor.

I was hoping someone was willing to cause a little chaos and say it at the roundtable.

[QQQQ]

I laughed when Rob said Bob had signed his death certificate (he meant warrant). Also, was Nikki wearing a flea collar?

[janiema]

How is it that these contestants don’t realize that Rob would only have been brought into this game to be a traitor. His master mind skills would have been useless as a faithful.

[MicheleinPhilly]

My word, these people make me feel like a MENSA member. 20 morons with 3 brain cells amongst them all. 

Having not been familiar at all with Carolyn, I had assumed early on that people would sniff her out as a Traitor early on based on her wild facial expressions. But no, people just think she's an airhead who is literally just confused all of the time. 

I really would like them to just do a season featuring "regular" people. All of the fake acting and tears and hero worship of Rob is just grating. 

[RedbirdNelly]

I didn't get Danielle being concerned about getting Rob out. You don't have to plan anything--the odds are strong that the group takes him out--you don't have to lead the effort; you just have to encourage the flames subtly and that issue will take care of itself

I also was surprised she decided to go for Carolyn that strong. No need to rush. You could still accomplish that with a more innocent sounding question--what about Carolyn? are we overlooking her?  

[Michichick]

3 hours ago, QQQQ said:

Also, was Nikki wearing a flea collar?

I don’t know, because I couldn’t see past the rest of her outfit. That top was at least a size too small for her, and she seemed to be using a flannel shirt as some sort of shawl. Weird look.

Danielle is pushing way too hard. I don’t want Rob to end up as the last traitor standing.

[65mickey]

I bet a lot of the faithful suspect Rob is a traitor. But individually they are afraid to make a move to vote him out. And if they go to others in the game at this time  not all will agree to a group vote like what happed with Nikki. Some will squeal to Rob and he will convince enough players that it is someone else. He helped get Tony out and he orchestrated the ouster of BTDQ. It's going to have to be a group effort to take him out.

[Ivana Tinkle]

I don't understand Danielle's strategy during the challenge at all, way to telegraph that you feel safe. And then to have the very person she was saving call her out on it was hilarious, but clearly didn't make an impact on anyone.

I've never seen Survivor, but does anyone else think Carolyn kind of looks a bit like Kathy from BB12 (incidentally, Britney's original season)? 

I've heard of Boston Rob but obviously never seen him in action and he seems...kinda meh? I don't really get the hype based on what I've seen. 

I wonder if Chief Derrick Wiggum is still trying to feed his daughter. 

 

 

[LeDucDiableBleu]

5 hours ago, DEL901 said:

During the riddles, Danielle tried twice to protect someone else instead of herself and didn’t realize she was practically saying that she felt safe and didn’t need the shield AND didn’t realize how it looked until a Housewife called it out in front of everyone.   And she still didn’t get her name called at the round table.   Nikki should have mentioned this to turn the discussion.

 

Lord Mountbatten threw those three names out at the beginning of the Roundtable, and I think everyone kind of locked in on those and were too afraid to mention anyone else. But yes definitely when Nikki was in the hot seat she should have deflected to Danielle. I think that's where the "gamers" have more of an advantage because the good ones have arguments in their back pocket and can identify when to use them.

[MicheleinPhilly]

39 minutes ago, Ivana Tinkle said:

I don't understand Danielle's strategy during the challenge at all, way to telegraph that you feel safe. And then to have the very person she was saving call her out on it was hilarious, but clearly didn't make an impact on anyone.

I don't understand Danielle's strategy at all. Multiple times I find myself asking, "Have you ever watched this show?" Carolyn was also pissed about the BTDQ blindside. Use that to your advantage so the 2 of you can orchestrate Rob's ouster down the line. 

Instead she wastes her advantages to ensure the Housewife doesn't get her fee-fees hurt. She's not even a player that can benefit you strategically down the line! 🙄

Forgot to add: Did anyone else cackle when Tom indicated that he's good at riddles because he reads Dan Brown and Harry Potter? Cause I did. LOUDLY. 

Edited 7 hours ago by MicheleinPhilly
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[MerBearHou]

11 minutes ago, LeDucDiableBleu said:

yes definitely when Nikki was in the hot seat she should have deflected to Danielle. I think that's where the "gamers" have more of an advantage because the good ones have arguments in their back pocket and can identify when to use them.

Nikki just folded!  She basically said this is who I am -- I'm calm and not stealthy -- and didn't mount any kind of deflection which could have really helped her.  I was sorry to see her go.  I don't know Nikki at all but she seems very kind. Chrishell sure drove that landslide vote with her emotional speech.

[sugarbaker design]

It seems the dumbest Faithfuls (Robyn, Sandoval, Chrishell) use the same script "There was a sudden shift in your demeanor..."  Which normal people realize that could be caused by anything:  lack of sleep, stomach trouble, missing family, dealing with HWives.  Traitors would never let anyone see a sudden change in demeanor.

10 minutes ago, MerBearHou said:

I don't know Nikki at all but she seems very kind.

Too nice for this show.  She did mention missing her son.

10 minutes ago, MerBearHou said:

Chrishell sure drove that landslide vote with her emotional speech.

If I were Nikki, when I was standing in front of the table, after getting banished, I would've singled Chrishell out as an awful friend and an even worse Faithful, I would've begged the table to banish Chrishell next.

[fishcakes]

I didn't see Danielle's first Big Brother season, but I saw her on the Reindeer Games mini-season last year where everyone was calling her a legend and a great player. Then in the first or second episode here, someone said the same thing.

But she's coming across to me as kind of dumb and terrible at this? All her OTT fake crying and bad acting at the breakfasts where they find out who was murdered, which already made a couple of faithfuls find her suspicious (RIP Jeremy), but last night was just one bad idea after another. Not giving herself a shield (twice!) at the riddle game, and then going after Carolyn and trying to sell it as, "no one is paying attention to her, so obviously she's the traitor!"

It's makes no sense to go after Carolyn anyway. She thinks she needs a more reliable traitor to go after Rob, but she doesn't need another traitor at all, just as he didn't need her or Carolyn to get Bob out. She would only need another traitor if Rob could be murdered, but since he can only be banished, then she just needs to be working on the faithfuls.

Right now, only Rob and maybe Bob H. seem to be playing decent games. Bob seems to be in on all the conversations, and no one has talked about getting him out. But I still don't know who half these people or what their names are. If you showed me pictures of Dolores and Robyn, there is no way I could say which was which.

[DEL901]

1 hour ago, fishcakes said:

I didn't see Danielle's first Big Brother season, but I saw her on the Reindeer Games mini-season last year where everyone was calling her a legend and a great player. Then in the first or second episode here, someone said the same thing.

But she's coming across to me as kind of dumb and terrible at this? All her OTT fake crying and bad acting at the breakfasts where they find out who was murdered, which already made a couple of faithfuls find her suspicious (RIP Jeremy), but last night was just one bad idea after another. Not giving herself a shield (twice!) at the riddle game, and then going after Carolyn and trying to sell it as, "no one is paying attention to her, so obviously she's the traitor!"

It's makes no sense to go after Carolyn anyway. She thinks she needs a more reliable traitor to go after Rob, but she doesn't need another traitor at all, just as he didn't need her or Carolyn to get Bob out. She would only need another traitor if Rob could be murdered, but since he can only be banished, then she just needs to be working on the faithfuls.

Right now, only Rob and maybe Bob H. seem to be playing decent games. Bob seems to be in on all the conversations, and no one has talked about getting him out. But I still don't know who half these people or what their names are. If you showed me pictures of Dolores and Robyn, there is no way I could say which was which.

I didn’t see Danielle’s BB season, either, but it was quite a few years ago, iirc.   That game has evolved, so if she were to play again without changing her approach, I doubt she would do as well.  And Traitors is also a different game.  
 

Edited because Traitors apparently do get input into picking replacements. 

Edited 4 hours ago by DEL901

[janeyjay]

1 hour ago, MicheleinPhilly said:

Forgot to add: Did anyone else cackle when Tom indicated that he's good at riddles because he reads Dan Brown and Harry Potter? Cause I did. LOUDLY. 

Not even close to being a Sandoval fan, but he is making me howl every time he's on screen because of the ridiculousness. Bob Harper yelling at him to STOP EATING as they were exiting the breakfast room had me cackling loudly.

[sugarbaker design]

9 minutes ago, DEL901 said:

And the way she talks about getting a new Traitor to replace Boston Rob…does she think she gets to pick?

In past seasons, Traitors did get a chance to recruit a selected player.

[MicheleinPhilly]

2 hours ago, janeyjay said:

Not even close to being a Sandoval fan, but he is making me howl every time he's on screen because of the ridiculousness. Bob Harper yelling at him to STOP EATING as they were exiting the breakfast room had me cackling loudly.

I don't even know who he is but I find myself laughing at him constantly because he always looks like this 😧.

Edited 3 hours ago by MicheleinPhilly
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[fishcakes]

7 minutes ago, MicheleinPhilly said:

I don't even know who is but I find myself laughing at him constantly because he always looks like this 😧.

lol. At least he knows. In an earlier episode someone said he looked upset or worried and he said something like, "no, my face is just like this."

[QQQQ]

Wes is keeping a really low profile. Or maybe it's the editing monkeys.

[AntFTW]

Do we think Rob believe Wes when Wes denied saying Rob was a traitor?

[peachmangosteen]

8 hours ago, MicheleinPhilly said:

I really would like them to just do a season featuring "regular" people. All of the fake acting and tears and hero worship of Rob is just grating. 

Same. This season is already almost unwatchable imo. If Rob isn't gone soon I might just have to give up on it. I need to see if there are spoilers out there lol.

4 hours ago, fishcakes said:

I didn't see Danielle's first Big Brother season, but I saw her on the Reindeer Games mini-season last year where everyone was calling her a legend and a great player. Then in the first or second episode here, someone said the same thing.

But she's coming across to me as kind of dumb and terrible at this?

As someone who never liked Danielle/didn't think she 'deserved' to win BB3, seeing people realize she isn't great is validating. Now, if only the masses would start to see how overrated Rob is lol.

1 hour ago, QQQQ said:

Wes is keeping a really low profile. Or maybe it's the editing monkeys.

Maybe a bit of both. Ether way, I'm thankful because I never want to see him again.

24 minutes ago, AntFTW said:

Do we think Rob believe Wes when Wes denied saying Rob was a traitor?

No. He said as much, didn't he?

Which reminded me, Wes was so sheepish with Rob. It's fucking embarrassing. Not as embarrassing of Efron brother's hero worship though.

Edited 1 hour ago by peachmangosteen