Double eviction episode 9/21

Is it me or was that the most boring DE ever? Way too many commercials. Don’t give them time to strategize. Make the decision right there on the game floor.

Think of the time they could save so they could actually explain this stupid twist.

No HoH, no veto, no eviction means it’s going to be a very boring week. I have a feeling the zombie thing will consist of 3 comps. If not, what else are they gonna do all week?

And if they are zombies living in the house, they should be completely isolated. Nobody hangs out with zombies except other zombies. But they can’t have Circe and Jared separated

The episode was nothing earthshattering or anything. I kind of wish they had put a couple clips of Cam telling Jared he is going next and being lined up etc., given what happened with the second eviction, but no big deal. I assume that might be brought later.

That HOH comp was really pretty cool and I can't believe Cirie did so well being called up there over and over. Maybe if she had been trying a bit more this season she could have helped out the team and took a bit of heat off of others, but Cirie would never think of others on the team first, not even Jared of course. I also liked the rotation thing where they didn't get to choose both people, just one of them and the person at the head of the line. Meme ended up showing her cards there at the end though choosing Cory instead of Blue and I am confused why she went that way at that point, but I guess it really doesn't matter.

I didn't agree with Cory's noms at first, but the way he presented it to Blue that he was putting her on the block so she wasn't put in a position of not using a veto or having to vote him out, SHE chose to promise she wouldn't use the veto, but then Jag told Cory not to fall for that shit. I think Matt acting like he was considering using the veto makes it still possible to be okay with Cirie (if nothing else for a vote or information at times later) because he can say he didn't want HER to go on the block and he didn't want to save Jared because he tried to use his disability to cover up the lies he told. Cirie would actually probably accept that.

Now this zombie bullshit for a week is a crock of shit. First of all if they are going to physically be in the house like they are still playing, how the hell does that work? How do they determine who "wins" their way back into the house? If they are going to be somehow showing up in the mirrors and shit like that, will they be privy to private conversations when people don't know about it? Can they choose to talk to certain people and not others? Without any details they can do whatever the hell they want to slant this in favor of Jared and therefore Cirie.

I also want to know what the hell this means for the feeds? Does this start tonight with everyone wondering when the HOH is going to happen? No reason to have the feeds down if both Cam and Jared are physically going to be back in the house.

Ctown, it is time for you to check some sources and get me the information I want and need!

Sorry Ctown, I was posting at the same time, so can you merge the two threads?

I agree that there were way too many commercials, but I thought the double eviction itself was pretty exciting kind of going back and forth with what might happen.

Like I posted earlier, they can now do whatever the hell they want, making it up as they go along this week in order to make sure the narrative THEY want will be the one that happens.

I had to laugh when Jared actually thought that him and Cam were going right back into the house to play the game together without a battle or anything. Is he REALLY that stupid or is it just the arrogance again?

I keep forgetting to post this and you probably already know it anyway, but Jared actually pulled hg's choice in the veto and CHOSE Matt to play. I don't know how the others were or anything but I was really surprised that Matt was able to stick with his move and not use the veto with that little tidbit. Of course he hung onto Cirie would go up as a replacement and he was protecting her, but I have to say I didn't think he would ever have the guts/stomach to make a necessary move because his heart would get in the way. Of course he was REALLY pissed that Jared tried to use his disability as a cover for his lying and that was apparently said during what sounds like a HUGE blowout when Jared came back into the house because he mentioned it to Blue like he never did that or something.

Also I have heard 2 versions of what happened with the votes and will be interested if they show any of it tonight on the episode. Apparently Felicia and Cirie pulled Bowie into a room and said the vote is going to be 3 to 3 (thinking they had Felicia, Meme and Cirie) and she is the deciding vote and they wanted her to save Jared instead of Blue. Bowie said she didn't think that was the vote count and either went and checked with Meme who said she wasn't voting to save Jared or with Cory/Matt about whether the vote was changing and she went back and told Cirie and Felicia she was voting out Jared which resulted in Cirie being the only one to vote for Jared to stay.

Cory talked about that to Cirie, but of course she never owns anything so there wasn't much information there. But Bowie has talked to various people about what happened and it sounds like Felicia and Cirie THOUGHT they had Meme, but she had no intention of going back on the word she gave Cory and others going into the week. Other people said she only voted Jared out because the votes were there, basically going "with the house."

I forgot something in the previous post. Jared actually thought when Matt and Jag picked Cirie back to back in the comp that they were actually trying to avoid having to go against Cory, he didn't realize even then what was going on and that is why he chose Matt for the veto. At least that is what he said to Blue and he doesn't usually admit to not knowing what was going on even when he doesn't have a clue about things.

All of this is the problem with the format they use for double eviction. They leave too much time for them to make decisions. It should be comp finishes and you make your decision right then and there, not after a commercial break. Then after veto, go to commercial while they go back into the house (this is after veto winner makes their decision), during the commercail you just gather them all in the living room, don't let them go off to strategize. It would be a great way to see how well teams communicate with each other as to how they want things to happen.

And of course Jared was clueless on the whole thing, even though everyone knew DE was coming, he was the reigning HoH and wouldn't listen to anyone because he's Jared and knows better.

I do think they have to be given a couple of minutes for a quick check here and there, but not to the extent they did in this one. The problem with this particular one was that they didn't have much content to air so they weren't as pressed for time as they usually would be.

I still can't believe Jared actually didn't recognize what was happening after seeing who was being picked in the HOH comp, trying to eliminate Cirie. Once again it is his arrogance that is his downfall. Plus I think he thought that he had Matt in his back pocket and it would surprise all the others when Matt bailed him out. And even if he couldn't convince Matt, he probably thought Cirie definitely could convince him. But the problem is that Jared had shit on Matt in the worst way, trying to use his disability to cover up for his own lies instead of just owning his own bullshit. This is Jared's biggest problem, it is always someone else's fault and someone else has wronged him, but his mistakes are never the problem.