'Big Brother': twists and turns
Last night, my television was trying to protect me from Big Brother. It was so pixely and jumpy that I missed about half of every sentence and didn't get a clear picture for pretty much the whole show.
But I was able to mostly figure out what happened. After Matt was mean to Natalie, some of the others opted to try to ally against Matt. Unfortunately, when Matt was nice to Natalie the next day, she spilled the whole story to him. He, in turn, told Ryan to expect a pitch to keep Ryan safe for two weeks if he put Matt on the block.
Still, it seemed like he was down with the idea, but at the veto meeting, after Chelsia took herself off the block, Ryan gave a speech that sounded like he was targeting Matt, but he shocked everyone and put James on the block.
But then on tonight's episode, Sheila stirred up some controversy. Sharon told Sheila that Matt had kissed her when she was HOH, which of course Sheila immediately told Natalie about. Natalie started saying how that meant she couldn't trust Matt, so she should vote out Sharon. Could this girl be more deluded? She acts like a needy 13-year-old!
Anyway, during the live portion of the show, the evicted houseguests were brought together to learn which of them would be going back into the house. (My favorite part was when Allison was answering Julie's question, but the audio was of Matt talking inside the house. Whoops!) The twist here was that despite being voted by America to go back in, it wasn't a given. The houseguests would have to decide whether to let the new person in (not knowing his or her identity) or to let the person they just voted out stay in instead.
Alex learned that he had been chosen by the voters to have the chance to re-enter the house. Back inside, James was evicted by a vote of 5-to-1 and left to talk to Julie, so I guess Natalie's plan didn't work. In his interview with Julie, James claimed that Sheila is playing the hardest of everyone, which I wouldn't have bought until tonight.
After Julie informed James of the twist and asked how he might react to the news that he could go back in the house, he said, "I would crap my pants, Julie." The very matter-of-factness of his statement was amusing.
The evil alarm went off in the house, and the remaining houseguests freaked out and ran into the living room. Julie told them they had to vote between the mystery box and James. They of course weren't supposed to talk to one another, but they were already babbling about how they needed to choose James. I assumed they would go for James since that wouldn't be a surprise, but the votes were more split than I anticipated, at 5-3. But James was still the winner.
Then, HOH. Ended up it was an ongoing one and wasn't finished when the show was over, so we'll see how it went down later.
