Post by Candice Stewart on Apr 10, 2016 2:00:52 GMT -5
Poor Meg! I really liked both her and Danielle a lot so it was a bit sad that they were on the block together (of course I don't know everything going on in the game so I can't completely judge yet). I can't tell if Meg's placement is better or worse than last season's. I'm not good at math but comparing last seasons 12 people vs. 20 people this season, I think she improved, good for her! But she didn't get as far as she did last time.
As of this, all five season 15 players, who entered on day one, have been evicted. Now there's only Jackie from season 15 and she is a really sweet girl, I think she'll make at least final five but just judging off of her posts she's obviously playing a safe and sort of vanilla game, which is smart, but not that entertaining. Jackie is playing a safe game, like last season. This gets you far and I could possibly see her making final two, but then when you're in front of a jury and they look back at your game and see you playing it mostly safe and not shaking things up or making big moves, you might not get the jury's votes.
A smart, quiet safe game is good for making it to the end but to rack up some jury votes, you need to make your presence known; you need to have done something HUGE or at least more prominent then your opponent. This is where I believe Jackie messed up last time, she didn't have her presence known by the others. Everyone always said she was just... there. Now behind the scenes she did a great job of making alliances with the right people and such but the problem is that it's hard to show a jury a low key and smart game.
If anyone watched Big Brother Canada season 3, a bit of a similar situation happened in their final two as it happened with Jackie and I. If you haven't watched, just skip this part, lol. Godfrey was Jackie, relatively quiet but always gathering information and making moves under the radar and I was Sarah, saved by a huge twist that completely turned the game around and went on to make allies and moves as well, something a jury can easily see.
In the end, the point is that if Jackie gets to the final two and wants to win, she HAS to do something relatively large. She needs to win HOH, she needs to take out a huge target, she needs to make some type of visual move that she can cite in a jury speech. It is so easy for a jury to visualise something they saw themselves and thought to them selves 'woah' as it happened and vote that person to win versus a person who did make moves... but played them safely and kept them low-key.
End of the line, Jackie has a good chance at making it far but if she wants to win she needs to do something big, that goes for everyone else left too.
Right now I think Jessie, Danielle and Lori have a good shot at winning... in a jury vote... but they still need to figure out how to get there (then again, I may be wrong and everyone hates those three, I don't know; I haven't seen much if at all any game talk so far).
Just my two cents.
What I want to see happen this next week? I'd like a Jackie HOH and see her do something iconic. I'm really rooting for her because I feel bad that she lost last time. I'm happy she's getting a second chance.
BTW sorry if this make no since, I'm writing this at 2.00am on my phone, lol.
Oh also what happened to Shane? I feel like I haven't seen him post or do much in a while.
I really miss the house talk threads in the Kitchen, Bathroom and Living Room. it's really hard to judge what's going on in the game when that was a big window into the house and now we can't see it anymore. Maybe people can start using it and talking in those threads again? *coughs* I wonder if Julie can give a little suggestion or push for the house guests to start using those threads again?
People will talk when they feel like it. It happens every season. It happened last season. You didn't talk that much in public if I remember correctly.
Shane has been pretty in the shadows, but he hasn't had to do anything besides try to get Eddie evicted. I disagree and will forever that Jackie did everything she needed to last season. Bitter jury is bitter. The moves she made made people hate her, not her lack of doing anything. Her game was not safe in regards to all the butthurt jurors. The fact that none of those jurors will be on the jury this season is a blessing. This group of jurors are smarter than that.
With that said, I don't see Jackie making Final 2. There are too many factors against her and she'll need to win at the right times to get there. Not impossible, but an extremely uphill battle. She and Andrew would need to pull Danielle and Dustin and stick together...and I don't see that happening.
This is Jessie or Lori's game, which would be a great winner in both cases.