No Nightmares

Big Brother S21 E3-5

This post is so late…I’m finally going to churn it out, and stay more on top of things for this current weeks post! We have the first full week in the books, yet still have the same amount of people in the house, because…twist! Hookups, emotional breakdowns, no fights…let’s get into it!

The nomination episode is made up of a bunch of pieces falling into place. Mostly establishing the major alliance in the house. Previously we had the majority group at 6 with Jack, Jackson, Nick, Christie, Bella, Holly. Jack and Nick are hanging out and decide to expand to a group of 8. This is always a great idea and never goes poorly…The more people you have in an alliance, the more likely it’s going to fall apart. I was surprised Level 6 went so well last season, since 6 can even be too high of a number. Jack and Nick decide on Tommy and Analyse, both of which are ecstatic to join. They all decide on the name Gr8ful, which I’m not a fan of, but whatever.

At this point there is no clear target, essentially anyone not in Gr8ful. Kathryn, Analyse, Kemi, and Bella are all talking about how well they know the HOH Christie. Kathyrn is trashing Jack and Jackson saying how she can easily manipulate him since they have a relationship. Wort noting…Jackson and Kathryn had a prefeeds hookup. It had already ended by the time feeds started. They show us a package in the next episode of them being flirty but in the Diary Room (DR) that they aren’t in a showmance. Producers cut between them denying it, but still hooking up a few times for a humorous segment.  Anyway, Bella immidly tells Christie, Jack, and Jackson what Kathryn is saying which inflates her target significantly. 

Later on when Christie is planning out her nominations she pulls Cliff aside. She asks if she can put him up as a pawn. Of course “Pawns go home” but when someone asks if you want to be a pawn, you can’t really say no. After this we see Christie pull Kathryn aside telling her that if she is nominated it’s as a pawn because Cliff is an easy target. I really like this tactic especially early on when the people you are nominating aren’t really talking game to each other. This way regardless of which person survives the block, you can sell you were backing them.

It doesn’t take long for us to see our first slip up! When you’re talking game, just make sure the room is empty or talk later. Pre-noms there is nothing that is so important you need to risk talking in front of people not in your group. Tommy, Nick, Jack are cuddling on a bed talking about the group of 8…while Ovi and Cliff are laying in the room. Cliff is completely passed out so no risk there, but Ovi was awake and heard the mention of 8, and since he wasn’t in a plan with anyone, knew he was in the minority now.

I love Ovi, he seems like a great guy, and he’s clearly a Big Brother fan. He handles this knowledge of the 8 group SO badly its painful. He needed to sit with the information and observe, try to see who the 8 were so he knew who it was safe to speak with. Instead, he speaks to Analyse right away, and shortly after talks to Christie, Bella, Jack, and Jackson telling them all about the 8. Statistically, with 15 people in the house there is no way the 5 of them, and himself are all not part of this majority alliance. He let 5 of 8 members of Gr8ful he was onto them. Hello target. Oh…also we have the creation of the Fab 5 with Ovi, Jack, Jackson, Christie, Bella. Clearly a fake alliance to keep Ovi calm.

Wacktivity Competition

At some point throughout the week all the houseguests had to sign up for different “Wacktivity Competitions” without knowing what they were. The categories were Nightmare, Panic, Chaos. Each has 5 people and takes place over the first 3 weeks and the winner gets a special power.

A horn goes off to announce it is time to play the Wacktivity competitions. The first one is Nightmare that has Cliff, Bella, Ovi, Kathryn, Nicole. Each houseguest is in a little shack that looks like a cabin with 3 buckets in front of them. Each bucket has an awful smell. There are signs on the side of the cabin. They need to run out, smell different stations and match the smells There were 3 rounds. No one got all of them right until Ovi gets the W in round 3. He is pumped but knows he can’t react and needs to keep the power a secret.

Ovi is awarded the “Nightmare Power”. It’s one of the more powerful powers in all of Big Brother in my opinion. After the nomination ceremony, Ovi can use this power to wake up the whole house in the middle of the night and force the HOH to nominate two new people. The previous nominees are safe for the entire week, including from being renominated after veto.

At the end of the episode Kathryn and Cliff are nominated. No shockers there. Kathryn is pissed off at being used as a pawn (even though she’s the target at this point). She says “I don’t have the personality of a pawn, I have the personality of running this shit!” Which I don’t really know what that means, but alright!

Kemi and Bella are shown having a pretty close relationship. They spend a lot of time together and are really connecting over making great jokes at other houseguests expense. This connection is making some of the members of Gr8ful nervous that she is the weak link. Christie tries getting the group together to touch base and realized its nearly impossible to get an alliance of 8 together in secret (no shit). 

It is decided that if veto is used, Kemi would be the backup nomination. It would cut that tie with Bella, also Kemi is throwing out a lot of peoples name acting like she’s running the game. We were shown a scene where Kemi is talking to Christie and Jack throwing out Ovi’s name as a nomination. Christie and Jack are pissed off about her name dropping people. The anger does seem a little extreme until you take into account Kemi was throwing Jack and Jacksons name out as nominees and it got back to them. They didn’t show that in the show though.

Veto

Players for this week’s Veto comp are Christie, Cliff, Kathryn, Sam, Jack, and Nicole. We have ourselves a guest host! Season 20 winner Kaycee! The house flips out. I was looking forward to making it through this season without hearing “lets go!” as a catchphrase. No such luck.

The competition is similar to the space invasion veto comp that Kaycee dominated last season. The houseguests need to catch things flying at them that’s mixed in with messy sludge and paint. Its pretty difficult and just an excuse for them to look stupid. No one did great at it this season. Jack asked Kaycee how did she get 37 points last year!? It helps being a professional football player. Sam ends up beating Jack by 1 point. It doesn’t really make sense for Sam to win this, but hey, it gets him involved in the game and he seems excited so why not?

It is pretty expected by everyone that Sam is going to use veto on Cliff. So Gr8ful plans on putting up Kemi and backdooring her. Jack comes up with a pecking order of Kemi, Jessica, then Ovi. Christie doesn’t understand Ovi before Sam. Jack made a really bad situation for himself here. It looks really bad that his biggest targets are all the people of color in the house (aside from Bella in his alliance). It might not be his point…but it still looks really bad. 

Nick and Bella are cuddling (budding showmance) and Bella tells him that she doesn’t want Kemi gone yet. Nick says he will talk to Christie. Christie doesn’t want to get rid of Kemi either, that’s Jacks plan and this is her HOH. You mean there are already rifts in an 8 person alliance!? What!? Christie talks to Jack and says she isn’t putting Kemi up. Jack turns into a huge ass hole saying over and over again “The plan stays!” Like Christie isn’t her own person in charge of her own HOH. 

Christie really comes unhinged the rest of the veto episode. Very emotional about being pressured to backdoor Kemi which she really doesn’t want to do. She seems to be turning on Jack really hard, getting to the point of threatening to nominate Jack in the DR. She really hopes that Sam doesn’t use the veto. She pulls him aside seeing if he will not use the Veto. He says he is going to, as Cliff has been through enough. They are trying to think of a replacement and poor Ovi comes up to tell them dinner is ready…looks like wrong place wrong time for him.

For some reason, Sam agrees to an awful plan of letting it look like he blindsided the HOH and going against her when he uses his Veto on Cliff. It only makes him look bad, and her a victim. Either way, Sam uses it on Cliff, and the replacement is Ovi. He is really hurt because he thought the Fab Five alliance with her was strong, so it was a blindside for him.

The target appears to have fully shifted from Kathryn to Ovi now. She is still using the tactic of telling the other they are a pawn, just like she did with Cliff. Poor Ovi is very emotional and scared over the nomination. Jack and Christie are consoling him but still heartbroken. 

Kathryn did her damndest to try getting herself sent home. She was driving everyone in the house crazy. She went full paranoia and came up with a catchphrase “Are you Bitches conspiring against me!?”. There was a horrible montage shown where she just kept saying it over and over. It would have been tempting to vote her out just to not deal with that anymore. You know as soon as she is home she’s turning those into shirts and hats to sell in her 15 minutes of fame.

Ovi throws a hail mary. He sits Jack and Jackson down telling them about the Nightmare Power. I understand the desperation, but I still don’t like it. He is telling two very strong competitors who get to play for HOH next week that he has the ability to change their nominations. Ovi offers it for their use and protection to stay, but thats trusting someone. There would be a lot of incentive to just boot Ovi so the power is gone and can’t mess with their game. For what it’s worth, Jackson does consider flipping, Jack wants to stick with the plan though.

Eviction

Ovi did a great deal of campaigning when he was put up, and did almost everything he could to sway people. However, it wasn’t enough as he was voted out unanimously at 12-0. Its a shame he wasn’t able to use his Nightmare Power. That would have really shaken things up in the house. Everyone is saying goodbye as he is about to go to the door when the horn for the Wacktivity comp goes off. Everyone sits back down and we are introduced to “Camp Comeback”

The evicted houseguests don’t leave the house. They continue to live with the rest of the house and after 4 people, 1 gets back in the game. Camp Comeback members don’t participate in house comps, or ceremonies, but play the social game. Julie tells Ovi “but you won’t be alone…” then the door bursts open and David comes running in and everyone starts freaking out!

We are basically dealing with Edge of Extinction again from Survivor this season. I really like it so we can see more of David and Ovi. It does make the show a bit messy as we aren’t losing people so the screen time is still pretty spread out, but only a couple more weeks and we will likely be back to normal, but who knows!

I’m going to segment these from HOH to eviction. So even though the HOH comp is in this same episode that Ovi was voted out, I’m going to go ahead and save it for the next post. Again everyone, I’m sorry for the late post, I’ll try staying more diligent on it for the coming weeks! I’m gonna go now…..bye!