The first lame twist of the season was unveiled in Big Brother 11 Episode 1. The house was forced to create alliances off the bat when they were all divided into cliques: offbeats, brains, athletes, and popular. Adding insult to injury, the clique that won the first HOH competitition would be granted 4 members instead of just 3. In the physical challenge, the athletes were obviously the last ones standing, allowing Jessie from Big Brother 10 to return to the house and become the first HOH of the season.
Kevin already hates Jessie. Lydia knows it’s going to be difficult to mix with him. Chima would like to see some more power on her team because she think the brains suck.
The athletes obviously are happy to see the entrance of Jessie. Natalie believes Jessie knows the ropes of the game. Did she watch last year?
Unlike the others in the cliques who oppose him, Ronnie is happy to see Jessie in the house. He knows his weaknesses, and he knows that one key factor is to stroke his ego.
Jessie would like some assistance from his clique. Jeff doesn’t care. Nominations are Jessie’s problem.
Although Jordan’s part of the popular clique, she says that she’s not going to be stuck up about it and plans to treat everybody equally.
Ronnie would like to make a deal with Jessie. Athletes and brains together. Nobody would suspect that pair.
Jeff was no help, but Russell says that he thinks Lydia is the threat.
Everybody’s sitting around playing chess, and Laura makes it a point to ask who the hottest guy there is. Natalie declines to comment. Kevin says Jeff. Laura says Jessie first then Jeff. Jessie views this as BS.
Natalie thinks that maybe Ronnie’s alliance proposal is a good idea. There’s a catch. Somebody has to be a pawn. Ronnie doesn’t want to be a pawn, but he’s got no problems if one of the girls goes up as a pawn.
Remember before how people used to just compete to see who’s on PB&J? Well, that wasn’t enough. This year, in addition to the slop nonsense, which sent two people to the hospital, the losing clique will also be put into have not living conditions. I’ve got bad news for the producers. This twist has already been done (and failed) on both The Apprentice and Survivor years ago. After doing it, both shows decided never to do it again because it sucked so badly. Because Jessie is HOH, the athletes are safe. When the juice starts flowing, the cliques will need to connect pipes to pump their juice through the letters HAVE. Under Casey’s guidance, the offbeats are off to the lead and easily win the challenge. The other two teams are in a pretty disastrous state. They’re just getting juice everywhere. Braden believes the challenge is based on physics. If you say so, dude. But the popular crowd does prove that intelligence really didn’t have a great deal to do with this challenge, unless the downfall of the brains was merely that they tried to overthink this.
As punishment for their loss, the brains are the have nots, which means they are stuck on slop, without hot water, and they’ll be sleeping in the most uncomfortable room ever. Chima’s already whining. Once she manages to somewhat pull herself together, they take her to her sleeping quarters, which she believes looks like an insane asylum. Ronnie and Michele say it’s not that bad. She doesn’t care. She’s ready to quit. Good. Quit.
Whatever Laura’s trying to sell in using her assets to stay inside the house, Jessie says he’s not buying. She asks him if he can tell people are kissing his ass already. He just lets her sit there and hold this conversation by herself because he ain’t talking. The fact that he’s ignoring her is annoying her. She’s not used to guys not paying attention to her apparently. If she can’t get the guys on her side, she’s in trouble because that’s her only strategy.
Lydia doesn’t know how to talk to Jessie, so she gives him a massage.
The athletes (well, the athletes excluding Jeff, who seems to be absent in all this strategy talk) already know one of the brains will go up as a pawn. Now they need to decide who else to put up. It’s either Laura or Lydia. They all agree Lydia is the bigger threat, but if she stays, she’s a bigger threat, whereas Laura staying wouldn’t make a difference. Both Natalie and Russell want Lydia to go up, but Jessie’s not so sure.
Laura figures she’s a target. Lydia thinks she’s safe. Braden thinks the universe will decide his fate, whatever that means.
Nominations
The athletes (Natalie, Jeff, and Russell) are safe.
Michele is safe.
Braden is safe.
Kevin is safe.
Ronnie is safe.
Jordan is safe.
Laura is safe.
Casey is safe.
Lydia and Chima have been nominated for eviction. Chima is the pawn, and Lydia is the target. I don’t know how good a pawn Chima is unless she drops the princess attitude. Ronnie is thrilled with the nominations. Either way, he’s safe. Lydia’s not happy, and she looks like she will seek revenge if she sticks around. The good news for the alliance is that, as long as that they remain on the same side, they control the vote because 5 is enough to send it to a tie.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 11 Episode 3, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on CBS.