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Desperate to get out of the house, Brendon’s veto win in Big Brother 13 Episode 12 led him not to saving himself but rather to saving Rachel. Tonight either he or Jordan will be sent home.

Daniele feels people aren’t threatened by Jordan, the only winner in the house, who’s a far better player than Brendon (or Daniele’s dad for that matter). She needs Jordan in this house because otherwise she’s in trouble. As if she’s not in trouble either way after throwing away her game.

Brendon and Rachel assume that Kalia and Lawon are lost causes, which will leave the power in the hands of the other three newbies. Rachel hopes she can at least count on her closest friend in the house, Porsche, assuming she’s able to take Rachel’s tantrums and self pity.

Julie points out that the only other person ever to use the veto on someone else rather than themselves when they were on the block were Dick and Daniele, who both saved each other during their season. It’s a mark of extremely poor gameplay, although in Daniele’s case it was merely for show since it granted her father the only vote.

ED returns to the show, still deluded into thinking he and his daughter played a great game (in spite of having full knowledge now about Eric and America’s Choice), but his main purpose for being on the show tonight is to talk about how much Daniele sucks at this game.

Votes
Jeff: Brendon
Rachel: Jordan
Kalia: Brendon
Adam: Brendon
Porsche: Jordan
Lawon: Brendon
Shelly: Brendon

By a vote of 5-2, Brendon has been voted out of the Big Brother house. Kalia and Daniele use their goodbye messages to be bitches, always a stupid idea.

It’s time to shake things up. I hate hearing phrases like that from Julie. Keith, Cassi, Dominic, and Brendon will be given the opportunity to return to the game. This is why you play nice in your goodbye messages. You never know when somebody will come back and/or how it will impact their jury vote.

Here’s the bad news. America will be able to vote between the four people who have been evicted to choose who they want to return to the house. If Big Brother were intended to be a popularity contest, the format would not have been changed in season 2.

The HOH competition has three choices for answers: Keith, Cassi, or Dominic.

During an eviction ceremony, who referred to the other houseguests as…
Kalia guesses Dominic and strangely enough is correct. Jordan is eliminated.

Rachel and Lawon are chosen to compete next by Kalia.
Who did not play in the march of the ants competition?
Rachel correctly answers Keith, and Lawon is out.

Kalia and Adam go next.
Who was nominated for eviction twice?
Kalia answers Dominic.

Rachel and Porsche are next.
Who putted their ball into…
Rachel guesses Dominic incorrectly rather than Cassi, and she’s warned by Julie not to swear on live TV (with a 7 second delay).

Jeff and Shelly are next.
During an eviction ceremony, who said “There are some friendships I’ll carry outside of…”
Shelly correctly answers Cassi.

As the only others who remains, Kalia and Porsche square off.
Who was the third houseguest to fall off a banana? Kalia correctly answers Keith.

The final competition is between Kalia and Shelly. I doubt Shelly even wants this.
Who spelled the word standings?
Kalia answers Dominic, and she is the new HOH.

Oh joy. Another week of Kalia and Daniele.

Julie leaves us with information that two evicted houseguests will battle live to get back into the game. (Yeah, I was listening to her for once.) So is that next week’s evictee and America’s choice, or is it the top two vote getters?

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 13 Episode 14, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

Daniele followed her scripted for television HOH win in Big Brother 13 Episode 11 with an also scripted for television nomination of Rachel & Brendon, a couple that once again can’t make it past week 5 before the house turns on them.

Brendon’s plan: win veto and remove Rachel so that Daniele is stuck with her rather than him being stuck with her.

Well, I can see this is going to be an evening of waterworks.

Jordan volunteers to Jeff to go on the block as a pawn should it be necessary. Jeff is willing to honor his deal with Daniele for as long as she’s in power.

Daniele views this as her opportunity to make a big game move. Her and her army of… Kalia. Somehow her terrible gameplay is Rachel’s fault.

Daniele, Brendon, and Rachel are joined in the power of veto by Jeff, Adam, and Porsche. They have apparently run out of ideas because it’s a mix of all the previous competitions.

The first competition up for bids is how long it will take them to transport 10 gumballs across the balance beam. Dominic’s winning time was 70 in 12 minutes and 10 seconds. With her bid of 2 minutes, Rachel will either need to complete the task in that time, or Adam will be knocked out after bidding 3:17. Now we get to listen to Brendon being a cheerleader and Kalia’s equally annoying impression of him. With a time of 1:49, Rachel eliminates Adam.

Brendon and Rachel completed the superhero veto puzzle. They are now bidding on how long it will take them to complete this new version. Rachel again bids lowest, 38 seconds, and she is competing to knock out Porsche, who bid 1:58. The ridiculously short bid is not enough, and Rachel is eliminated.

The third task is to pluck 11 hairs and spell an 11 letter word, nominations. Not wanting to spell, Jeff bids a high 1:59, but the thinking she was being smart Daniele accidentally bids lowest by a good margin with 29 seconds. She seems to have the word but not enough time.

While dressed as cows on the moon, they will have to transport 3 gallons of milk from the pool to the jug. Saying she does not want a repeat of what happened when she was partnered with Keith (I’m sure there’s logic in there somewhere), Porsche bids 3:19, a time far higher than Jeff’s 54 seconds. Coming just a couple seconds shy, Jeff is eliminated.

The final round is to put a ball into the hole. Brendon’s bid of 33 seconds is 2 seconds lower than Porsche. Finishing with 3 seconds to spare, Brendon wins the power of veto.

Brendon’s plan is to use the power of veto to save Rachel so that he can stop whining about his PhD and what he’s giving up to be here. However, he will tell everybody that he’s going to save himself so that Daniele has to make a last minute decision that burns her. He’s not even telling Jeff and Jordan, a good thing because Daniele’s only hope is to send them fishing for answers.

Daniele doesn’t trust Shelly because she considers her a floater, though she doesn’t want to make yet another enemy either. Her other option is to nominate Jordan and assume the house will view her as less of a threat. I disagree because Jordan’s clearly a far better player than either of them, but ultimately, you don’t take anything for granted in this game. If you nominate two people, make it two people you want to get rid of. Don’t assume your intended target is certain. This is Big Brother 101 and was made obvious the very first week of the very first house nominations in Big Brother 2.

Rachel and Brendon offer to work with Daniele, but she’s not biting.

As planned, Brendon uses the power of veto to save Rachel, a surprise to everybody in the house. The replacement nominee is Jordan.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 13 Episode 13, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on CBS.

After calling the others jellyfish, Dominic was predictably voted out in Big Brother 13 Episode 10. We left off at the start of an endurance competition for HOH.

Adam’s struggling, but ultimately he feels safe regardless of who wins. He’s the first to fall after 9 minutes, and his prize is an elf suit for the week. Lawon is next to fall at 19 minutes. He wins the ability to be a have not for the week. Brendon drops at 35 minutes, and he is also a have not. Last man standing Jeff is out at 51 minutes, and he wins the $10,000, as if he needed a bigger target. Jordan’s the first girl down at 57 minutes, and she’s a have not. Porsche drops next at 1 hour and 16 minutes. Shelly falls at 1 hour and 26 minutes, dashing the hopes of the rest of the house. Kalia drops 11 minutes later, and Daniele wins HOH.

Predictable much?

I was getting tired of the veterans. But now that my other option is Kalia and Daniele, that’s not more appealing. Daniele’s looking forward to making everybody sweat. Surely now would be a good time to mend some fences and recover from your disastrous gameplay last week, no? She’s going to have to improve a lot if she wants to be more than the girl who can only play this game when a twist makes her safe.

Nobody is even able to pretend to be excited about the HOH room, except for Lawon, who gets to wear the HOH robe.

Daniele tells Jordan that she and Jeff are staying this week, but Jordan doesn’t trust her. Later, she reveals her logic for this. She wants a deal, a one week truce, whereby they will keep her safe next week. A deal worth taking, but not one worth sticking to.

In addition to their slop, the have nots get seaweed and sardines. Nobody is happy with this choice.

Brendon and Rachel suggest to Daniele that the five of them rekindle their alliance and go to the end. Apparently, they are willing to forgive and forget. Aw, isn’t that special?

Nominations
Adam is safe.
Kalia is safe.
Shelly is safe.
Lawon is safe.
Jordan is safe.
Porsche is safe.
Jeff is safe.

Brendon and Rachel have been nominated for eviction. Retribution for evicting her closest ally. It’s not personal, except it is. Jeff’s not convinced he’s not the target.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 13 Episode 12, which airs Wednesday at 9/8c on CBS.

After finding out her alliance was not as aligned with her as she may have thought, Rachel kept the nominations the same in Big Brother 13 Episode 9. Tonight Adam or Dominic will be voted out.

Both Adam and Dominic feel they’re safe and have deals.

Daniele’s upset and surprised nobody is trying to hand her this game (unlike the last time she was in the house). She warns Brendon and Rachel that, if Dominic goes, she’ll be furious. So that is future tense or present because I’m seeing furious already?

Kalia pretends she had no idea that Jeff was a target. In the face of being told he’s probably going home, Dominic does this same pretending. Jordan doesn’t buy Kalia’s lies, and Jeff finds Dominic’s lies to be insulting.

Dominic wants to prove to the non-Daniele veterans that he’s on their side, or at least not the one who’s not on their side. Rather than dancing around it, you want to throw Daniele under the bus now or what? He merely refers to her as “that person”.

Brendon calls Kalia (and in turn her partner Lawon) a floater. She tells him to suck, uh, something, then goes inside to repeat their conversation to the rest of the house.

Well it’s war then. House meeting.

Kalia doesn’t like being public enemy #2, behind the boss of her. As Daniele sits there quietly, they warn her that she’ll sell her out in a heartbeat because she doesn’t care. Daniele’s silence breaks to call Rachel an idiot. Jeff uses her actions against her with a warning to those who would trust her like he did. Seems her plan to do nothing and get other people to do her dirty work isn’t going to go as she’d hoped.

In his pre-voting speech, Dominic says he likes all of these people, even though they are spineless jellyfish who all suck at this game. That’s a goodbye speech if I ever heard one. If he were as good at this game as he seems to believe, he would at least realize that the game never ends. Somebody’s probably coming back into the house following Evel Dick’s early departure, and burning your bridges is just an amateur move.

Votes
Jeff: Dominic
Jordan: Dominic
Kalia: Dominic
Daniele: Adam (to prove a point, of some kind, apparently)
Brendon: Dominic
Shelly: Dominic
Lawon: Dominic
Porsche: Dominic (I forgot she was even in the house this week)

By a vote of 7-1, Dominic has been voted out of the Big Brother house. He explains his speech to Julie, saying he was calling the non-veterans jellyfish. Weren’t you one of the people trying to work with the veterans? His goal in this speech was to get Daniele some help. Uh, isn’t she a veteran, too? He still doesn’t realize he overplayed. Dude, you did. Sticking both feet in your mouth was your undoing.

With Dominic’s elimination, the twist is done. No more “here’s a free month to aimlessly float and say you’re great at the game” golden keys, and no more duos. Yay. Now what new/lame twist awaits us?

They get on skis in the backyard for an endurance HOH competition. The first 5 houseguests to drop must pick a snowball, with one of the prizes (that can be good or bad) being $10,000. The skis start moving back and forth and forward. And what would a ski competition be without a little snow? Aren’t you glad you went sleeveless, Jordan?

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 13 Episode 11, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.