Shadow and Flame with Magik

Who goes home, Shelli or Vanessa?  Also, Double Eviction?  Will we break the streak of disappointing double evictions?  It use to be, it was the nice to get a big gun out of the house, now it just seems to be floaters.

Episode 23!

For those keeping track, we are now on Season Five, Episode 15.  Chenbot says “But First” so often!  The cast is starting to grow on me.  Fun to watch the original twin twist and the beginnings of PoV, as they started the six players – but the three players get to hand pick their partners, instead of leaving it up to chance.

Day 54!

Becky really wants Vanessa out of the house.  Vanessa starts to game, she really doesn’t understand what is happening around her.

I just love James’ running gag of scaring people.  Keeps people on their toes and breaks up his day.

Vanessa gets into James’ head and he starts wanting to not work with Becky, which is all Vanessa needs to stay in the house.

Since we are 17 seasons in, the houseguests just wait for double eviction night.  Though the trend hasn’t started yet in Retro Big Brothers.  Julie mentions, again, that a juror may return to the game.  I thought with the twin (Julia) joining the house, Production wouldn’t need to do a bonus week.

Speeches.  Shelli wastes a bunch of time to give shout outs to Jason (whose birthday was Thursday) and Clay.  Vanessa keeps it about game.

The Vote –

Austin (Judas) – Shelli
Steve – Shelli
James – Shelli
Meg – Shelli
Jackie – Shelli
It is official, Shelli is the first Jury member
Julia – Shelli
John – Shelli (John has a fun exchange.  What do you want?  Yeah, whatever – so fun!)
Liz – Shelli

Everyone is dressed like it is a quiz.  No clown shoes repeat.

Something I’ve learn, is that Julie Chen loves to ask questions about Showmances.  Shelli thinks Steve and John are her boyz, that makes me think more of her.

The houseguests saw several loops (gifs) which will be important, for the challenge.

HoH comp – True or False questions

Question One – Everyone got it right
Question Two – James / Liz / Meg / Jackie are out
Question Three – Everyone got it right (Austin / Steve / Julia / John / Vanessa)
Question Four – Julia and Vanessa are out
Question Five – Everyone got it right (Austin / Steve / John)
Question Six – Austin and John get it wrong – Steve is HoH!  Shame, we don’t get to see his HoH room.

Who will Steve nominate?  He has a commercial break to figure it out!  One has to be Becky, for sure.

Nominations – Meg and Jackie, the heck!?!   Is he hoping to back door Becky?  hmmmm

Julia looks good in that blue dress.

PoV (this when clown shoes happen and Jeff got out).  Brendan was the other last big gun taken out in Double Eviction night.  I’m not really sure who would be considered a big gun, this season.  Either Vanessa or James, I guess.

Random Draw – Players are – Vanessa / Meg / James / John / Steve / Jackie

They have three minutes to play, if no winner, whoever has the most balls.

John wins!  I imagine he uses it, if Steve wants him too.

John doesn’t use the Veto!  oh man, this does feel like a waste.

Steve is sort of freaking out, so I guess Steve didn’t ask John to use the Veto (or he did and John chose to go against him).  Which makes sense as John is working close with Becky.

Becky is crying, as she knows she was the target.

I do feel bad, as usually, the second person who goes home, isn’t the other nominated houseguest, so their bags are not packed.

The Vote –

Vanessa – Jackie
Becky – Meg
John – Jackie
Austin – Jackie
James – Jackie
It is official, Jackie is gone
Liz – Jackie
Julia – Jackie

Jackie is gone, they don’t typically show a hint of HoH.  Steve looks super disappointed, he wasted his HoH.  That’s why you never backdoor, but put up your targets.

By now, this is old news but Liz becomes HoH.

Decent episode.

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Assuming this is Jackie’s last chance in the game, here are some pictures that I’ve been holding back –

Who becomes HoH?  It is Becky!  Who will she nominate?  And apparently there was a fight, right before the eviction.

Sorry this didn’t go up, yesterday morning.  Sunday night got a tad intense over here.  The Live Feeds have been blowing up, so a bunch of this episode and tomorrow’s episode, has been spoiled for me.

Steve hints, again, at his feud with Becky, what is this about!

I know Austin is being super cheesy but I need him to cool down, around Liz.

5 Hours Before Eviction.  Johnny Mac states that he went from floater to major target.  I didn’t even know that he was involved.  I saw that Clay was on Twitter, and answering questions.  I also saw that he blocked Jun Song, Big Brother 4 winner, apparently she gets blocked from several Big Brother houseguests.

Right now, in Retro Big Brother, we are on episode six of Big Brother 5, so fun to see how these Twins differ from our current Twins.  One of them, has serious identity issues.

Vanessa confronts James, he doesn’t have a problem with her but she keeps freaking out.

Clay is telling people that James wants Vanessa out, they essentially just keep saying ‘shut up’ to each other.  I do like how Clay stands up, to talk to James.  Vanessa gets in Clay’s face, about throwing Vanessa’s name around.  I do like how Clay, is done with this conversation.  He knows he is going home in five hours, leave him alone.  Vanessa starts crying and is so confused.  John tells her that he made his own assumptions as did Clay but Vanessa doesn’t accept these reasons.

Becky wins all three prizes!  Never a Have Not, $5,000 and HoH!

Becky has some surprises for her nominations.  Steve is worried about being nominated as is Shelly.

Shelly is missing Clay, which makes sense.

What is Julia’s accent?  She really stresses the end of her sentences, something that Liz doesn’t do.

John and Steve are chatting!  John thinks Becky is hot.

If there is whispering, Production has to put subtitles on the screen.

Steve is close to Vanessa and John, that’s great news!

Becky’s HoH room is shown, still odd to me that James’ room wasn’t shown, as he had to share his first one, with Jason.  Everyone comments on how big Becky’s boobs are in a picture with her dog.  Her food basket is nothing but health food.

Shelli and Vanessa wold like Steve to be nominated, as he is still an oustsider.  I imagine Steve is going to own the show, once there is only eight folks around.

Becky wants to backdoor Vanessa, but she wants her side of the house to keep it a super duper secret.

Steve is in the food room, and he spends a lot of his time alone, in the house.  He dances and talks aloud, I feel like that’s how I would be in the house.  I would be a mix of Steve and John.  Production has to tell Steve to not trying to break the bottles, or to stop trying to balance the bottles.  As he is going to break them.  That Steve, keeps being given a segment, every other episode.  Good on Production!

Vanessa talks to Becky and Becky lies to Vanessa, or rather, gives her the cover story.  Shelli and Steve are going up.

#BasicBecky she doesn’t want to work with alliances, Vanessa acts pretty surprise – she doesn’t see it as that Becky just doesn’t want to work with Vanessa.

John and Becky are celebrating!  Kiss some more!  They don’t.  Becky tells John the entire real plan, he is suppose to keep it a secret, he loves the plan.

Nominations!  Shelli and Steve!  But don’t worry folks!  Do not miss tomorrow’s episode, I bet Production has enough footage to make both Wednesday and Thursday episodes pretty grand.  Becky wants Steve to get his hands dirty and start playing the game.

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Here is the picture of Becky and her dog –

So glad I finally found a good quality version of it.

The CBS All Access description has Episode 20 being – Will it be Clay or Shelli leaving the Big Brother HOuse?  Plus, the Hitmen are back!

It took a while for me to remember the Hitmen were Derrick and Cody.  We’re at episode 28 of Season Four and I’m surprised by how often they checked in with old houesguests.  That isn’t really something they do anymore, except as hosts for a competition.

Typing as such,k they really got away from the BBTakeover, didn’t they?  Did they have more people lined up or were they hoping for more inspiration?

Another thing about the older seasons, Julie Chen did say “Bug First” so much!  Once, it was three times in an episode!

Oh, my wife saw the previous Big Brother post and was not a fan of the pictures of Julia, so I’m going to have not posting any, for a bit.

oh Julie Chen, the hunters have become the hunted – do her writer love making her say such things?

I sort of like Julie Chen with glasses.

But First!

Veto Ceremony was Day 47.

Shelli is the target, but I imagine Clay convinces everyone to vote him out.  We heard that the HoH comp was an endurance comp, so we were able to watch the hour and a half (maybe two hours) comp.  Of course, dear reader, you already know that Shelli stays, but Becky wins the HoH, and by a lot!

The Sixth Sense alliance may be way over, before the votes are counted.

Calling the Hitmen the power couple of last season, is giving Cody a lot of credit.

I like that they worked Da’vonne into the BBSoundOff, she’s decent in small doses

I do like how the house has given Clay and Shelli, plenty of space.  Is that really their first kiss?  What has he been waiting for?

The rest of the house seems to be in the HoH room.

I like Jackie playing up being a Knight, in DR

Who cares if the house is reunited, let people vote the way that they want!

Derek, I do forget about him, but he really was one of the best players that game has ever produced.  His daughter knowing Cody’s name, makes me think that the two guys have become close friends.  I recall an interview of Derek’s that said that he was going to make Cody’s Christmas amazing.

Derrick, is how he spells it.  Their families are super close!  They see each other, once a month!  That’s intense!  Cody has done some modeling.  Good for him.  Derrick is clearly one of the better winners.  Holla!

Speeches!  Clay, some shoutouts.  The houseguests are dressed for a physical challenge.  Clay doesn’t want to stay in the house.  Shelli cries during her shoutouts.  I really don’t see them lasting as a couple.

The Votes!

Vanessa – Clay
Meg – Clay
Austin – Clay
Jackie (keeping the Knight helmet on, and cape) – Clay
Commercial Break
Liz – Clay
With five votes, Clay is out
Julia – Clay
Steve, he paws at Julia, who also paws at him, so sweat – Clay
Becky – Clay
John – Clay – people love him, as they should!  We can hear the audience snickering

The house gives Shelli and Clay a private moment, which is nice.  Poor Showmance peeps, Chen only cares about the one thing, but shame on the houseguest for being so one noted, as well!

John’s message is so awesome, Clay and John were a cute couple!  Oh Meg, she’s coming for Clay, if Shellie doesn’t keep up her end.

Chenbot remembers to ask Clay about Drunk Meg.  There was no real attraction there.  Clay goes too far with him claiming that Meg is going around the house, trying to get a showmance going.  Shame on you, Clay!  Now you don’t get Shellie or Meg!  You dummy!

HoH comp!  It is that one where they slide down to  the bucket, to pour whatever (oil, this time), to grab the ball and win.

Everyone is slated for the jury house!  Julie Chen implies that a jury member will come back into the game.

The prizes are – HoH, $5,000 and Never Be A Have Not.  But a smart houeguest can choose to grab the first two prizes and then the HoH but if they are dumb, and choose HoH first, then the game is over.  Don’t worry, Becky isn’t a dummy and does it the right way.

Apparently, even if they don’t make the edit episodes, they have been doing Have Nots and such, which is another reason to do away with the Battle of the Block, as it takes too much time.

Not a bad episode, I’ll be curious how Becky’s week goes but I am not expecting many upsets.

Does anyone know of any Big Brother websites that are tracking the competitions, such as, which ones are repeated and the winners of those?  My wife and I were thinking if a man has ever won this style of competition, as we recalled three women, who have.