Some thoughts as Big Brother enters the endgame phase...
Renny: Poor paranoid Renny. Unfortunately for the New Orleans belle, sometimes paranoid folks really do have somebody coming after them...
No one is really out to get her for revenge or payback or because they hate her--but she is truly the target of Dan and Memphis. Renny's imminent demise brings out another inherent weakness in the structure of the program--the nicest, most popular player must be sacrificed before final Three because no good strategic player can win if sitting next to Miss Popularity for the final vote. Renny has been a pretty smart player, usually seeing through the nonsense and b.s. that flies around the house, but it is not enough to be popular--and smart--and in a good alliance. To get to Final Three you just have to get tough and WIN SOMETHING for yourself down the stretch. Renny will be out this week and finish Fifth.
Jerry: How is this ole coot still in the game? He is guaranteed to be in Final Four. This illustrates the biggest weakness in BB--weak players are allowed to coast along because the group in power always seems to have a bigger fish to fry, as it were. For whatever reason, Jerry is FAR from being the most worthy player to make the Final Four. However, since he cannot play for HOH on Thursday, he will surely be sent to the Jury House unless he has one more POV win left in him. Poor Jerry is so delusional. No one in the house listens to him--at all--and yet he truly believes that he will be able to convince the others in Jury House to vote the way he decides. HAH! Maybe he misunderstood and thinks that they are sequestered in "Jerry House". Jerry finishes in Fourth place.
Dan: For all of his planning, plotting, strategizing and scheming, Dan is still in a precarious position. He seems to have a solid Final Two deal cooking with Memphis, but Memphis has the same deal with Keesha (and even Jerry). If Dan does not survive into the Final Two, it will be because he always kept his alliance mates Memphis and Keesha at arm's length and never discussed his real plans with them. Over and over, he just told them that "it might get sticky" and "trust me", "just trust me". Well, they did trust him--sort of--and the three did make it pretty far; but now that it is every player for him/herself, Memphis and Keesha have plenty of reason to doubt Dan's real motives. However, if Keesha or Memphis get control of the final choice, Dan would be a good choice to take to the final jury vote as Ollie-Michelle-April and Jerry would all fight to cast the first vote AGAINST him. Four votes against Dan will guarantee the win for whoever is in Final Two with him. Impossible to predict who will survive the final two-part competition, but Dan will be in Final Three.
Keesha: I have always liked Keesha. She never tries to be catty or mean, but the girl is just insecure enough that when someone else, especially one of the other girls, attacks her--she will fight back--Hard! She doesn't seem to harbor grudges though, and if I were a jury member, I would be tempted to vote for her. It is always fun when the final four (or three) are all friendly or in th same alliance, because one of the "friends" has to be eliminated, and it is always impossible to predict just how that decision might be made. If Dan is making the choice, he very likely takes Memphis to the final two; Memphis might honor his deal with Dan--or he could honor his deal with Keesha. Memphis would probably win the game by taking Dan to the end. However the chips fall, Keesha made final three.
Memphis: He might be in the best spot. In fact, unless Jerry wins next week POV, Memphis, Dan and Keesha will fight it out for the last HOH with the big choice. If Memphis is in that grouping, I can see him throwing yet another HOH competition as it is all but guaranteed that both Dan and Keesha would choose him to take along to the Final Two. Memphis would be a fool to win that HOH because that would force him to choose between two players that both believe that they have a Final Two Agreement with him. Making that choice would expose his double dealing and probably create an enemy on the jury--and he needs every friend he can get. If he does not make the choice, the evicted player will blame the other, and Memphis probably gains that vote.
Memphis will be in Final Two--and a likely winner over both Dan and Keesha.
Renny: Poor paranoid Renny. Unfortunately for the New Orleans belle, sometimes paranoid folks really do have somebody coming after them...
No one is really out to get her for revenge or payback or because they hate her--but she is truly the target of Dan and Memphis. Renny's imminent demise brings out another inherent weakness in the structure of the program--the nicest, most popular player must be sacrificed before final Three because no good strategic player can win if sitting next to Miss Popularity for the final vote. Renny has been a pretty smart player, usually seeing through the nonsense and b.s. that flies around the house, but it is not enough to be popular--and smart--and in a good alliance. To get to Final Three you just have to get tough and WIN SOMETHING for yourself down the stretch. Renny will be out this week and finish Fifth.
Jerry: How is this ole coot still in the game? He is guaranteed to be in Final Four. This illustrates the biggest weakness in BB--weak players are allowed to coast along because the group in power always seems to have a bigger fish to fry, as it were. For whatever reason, Jerry is FAR from being the most worthy player to make the Final Four. However, since he cannot play for HOH on Thursday, he will surely be sent to the Jury House unless he has one more POV win left in him. Poor Jerry is so delusional. No one in the house listens to him--at all--and yet he truly believes that he will be able to convince the others in Jury House to vote the way he decides. HAH! Maybe he misunderstood and thinks that they are sequestered in "Jerry House". Jerry finishes in Fourth place.
Dan: For all of his planning, plotting, strategizing and scheming, Dan is still in a precarious position. He seems to have a solid Final Two deal cooking with Memphis, but Memphis has the same deal with Keesha (and even Jerry). If Dan does not survive into the Final Two, it will be because he always kept his alliance mates Memphis and Keesha at arm's length and never discussed his real plans with them. Over and over, he just told them that "it might get sticky" and "trust me", "just trust me". Well, they did trust him--sort of--and the three did make it pretty far; but now that it is every player for him/herself, Memphis and Keesha have plenty of reason to doubt Dan's real motives. However, if Keesha or Memphis get control of the final choice, Dan would be a good choice to take to the final jury vote as Ollie-Michelle-April and Jerry would all fight to cast the first vote AGAINST him. Four votes against Dan will guarantee the win for whoever is in Final Two with him. Impossible to predict who will survive the final two-part competition, but Dan will be in Final Three.
Keesha: I have always liked Keesha. She never tries to be catty or mean, but the girl is just insecure enough that when someone else, especially one of the other girls, attacks her--she will fight back--Hard! She doesn't seem to harbor grudges though, and if I were a jury member, I would be tempted to vote for her. It is always fun when the final four (or three) are all friendly or in th same alliance, because one of the "friends" has to be eliminated, and it is always impossible to predict just how that decision might be made. If Dan is making the choice, he very likely takes Memphis to the final two; Memphis might honor his deal with Dan--or he could honor his deal with Keesha. Memphis would probably win the game by taking Dan to the end. However the chips fall, Keesha made final three.
Memphis: He might be in the best spot. In fact, unless Jerry wins next week POV, Memphis, Dan and Keesha will fight it out for the last HOH with the big choice. If Memphis is in that grouping, I can see him throwing yet another HOH competition as it is all but guaranteed that both Dan and Keesha would choose him to take along to the Final Two. Memphis would be a fool to win that HOH because that would force him to choose between two players that both believe that they have a Final Two Agreement with him. Making that choice would expose his double dealing and probably create an enemy on the jury--and he needs every friend he can get. If he does not make the choice, the evicted player will blame the other, and Memphis probably gains that vote.
Memphis will be in Final Two--and a likely winner over both Dan and Keesha.
Shoot - even as teachers we have to use the "head fake" (as Randy Pausch called it) and trick kids into learning! And unless
I'm mistaken, students of any parochial school tend to be even more devious because they have to appear to be "good" all the time. LOL (I went to
a parochial school, so I've seen it first-hand.) If Dan's been paying attention to his students AND been a student of BB, he should be the best player
ever.
