CBS.com Blows it! Reveals Twist Before Live Show! (Spoilers?)

This post contains possible spoilers from a horrendous screw-up at CBS.com.  They posted information about a twist that was presumably meant to be revealed in tonight’s live episode.  If you want to wait until the episode to hear the twist, then read no further!  Otherwise, it’s all after the jump!

Episode 9 Recap: The POV!

In last night’s episode we got to see a lot of things I never thought we’d see: Brendon and Rachel not being total trainwrecks, Dani totally destroying her game, and Jeff actually being able to spell.  What’s next, BB?!  Is Porsche going to develop a personality?  Is Adam going to talk about anything besides previous seasons and bacon?  The world has gone mad!

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR

When I talk about the broadcast episodes of BB I often say I wish we could get just ONE episode that doesn’t show Brenchel fighting.  Well, this week I got my wish.  But the fates mocked me, because instead of a Brenchel trainwreck, we got this:

Did I need that image burned into my brain for all of eternity, BB?  What did I ever do to you?  I’ll take a Brenchel fight over this ANY DAY.  Shudder.

DANIELE, FROM FIRST TO WORST

Daniele really did have an easy ride.  She didn’t have to compete at all because of the golden key, and she didn’t have to worry about being nominated, either.  All she had to do was sit back, keep her mouth shut, and make friends with everyone.  This week, though, it all turned to caca when she transformed into a 5th grader with a silly crush and a self-destructive streak.

Not only did she annoy the hell out of me with her childish flirting with Dominic, but she also overplayed her hand and made all of the vets distrust her.  She should have realized that Brendon and Rachel weren’t going for the backdoor Jeff plan and quit while she was ahead.  But she pushed too far too fast and it made everyone suspicious, destroying not only her game but Dom’s as well.

A HAIRY MESS

This veto competition brought the LOLs.  I think Lawon explained it best, so I’ll let him do the recap:

"WHAT is this lady in the backyard? WHO IS SHEEE?! OMG! I'm so flamboyant and SILLY! CUH-RAZAY!"

Thanks, Lawon.  That was very helpful.  To translate: Jordan played in the bubbles, Rachel almost died, and they had to spell words.  Brendon won, but Jeff redeemed himself for the “Technotronics” debacle and came in second.

NOMINATIONS STAY THE SAME

In the end, Rachel and Brenda got wise to Dani’s scheming and kept the nominations the same.  Since Dominic is Dani’s accomplice, it looks like it’s curtains for him tonight.  This week has drawn some lines in the sand (which you’ll see in the episode tonight if you haven’t been spoiled yet), so there could be a pretty significant power shift depending on who wins HOH.

ANOTHER TWIST?

At the end of the episode, we were told that another twist will be revealed tonight.  Speculation is rampant.  Some people think there will be a returning houseguest, and that possibly he/she will be chosen by the golden key holders.  Others think that the duos will be shuffled and everyone will have a new partner.  Some say  it will be revealed that Rachel is really a robot designed to annoy the hell out of people. OK, no one actually said that last one, but what other explanation could there be for her behavior?

Personally, I think the “twist” will be that the duos are kaput and it’s all individual from here on out.  And while that’d be a pretty anticlimactic reveal (since all of the HGs assume that’s what’s happening tonight anyway), I wouldn’t put it past BB to overhype the end of a twist as a twist in and of itself.  I guess we’ll find out tonight!

Big Brother 13 Premieres!

The first episode of BB13 just ended, and to sum it all up in one word: WOW.  So much information!  Tonight’s episode had more twists and turns than Kim Kardashian trying to wiggle out of a pair of Spanx!  I had my doubts about how this season would play out, and although it’s still early, I’m liking it so far.  But let’s get down to business–there’s a lot to go over!

THE CAST

So, internet, congratulations!  You were right about who was coming back to the Big Brother house.  As we all suspected, it was Dick & Daniele, Brenchel (ew), and Jeff & Jordan.  I’m so glad Jordeff are still an item, and I love that they’re already coming out with the adorably silly banter.  Brenchel is the worst, but I have to hand it to them, they are (sadly) a power couple!  And the Donatos are apparently right back where they started in BB8, not having spoken in 3 years.  I think they’re both pretty level-headed, though, and hopefully won’t let their personal business get in the way. I thought it was funny that some of the HGs had no clue who they were!

I already did my breakdown of the new cast in a previous post, but now we’re seeing them in action for the first time.  So far few of my opinions have changed.  Here are my impressions of the newbies so far:

Adam: Funny.  I really want to like him.  But he needs to take it down a notch, because he already seems to be grating on people’s nerves a bit.

Lawon: Jesus, this guy is obnoxious!  There were a couple times that he made me chuckle, but then he took every quip too far into annoying.  I think he’s trying too hard.

Dominic:  I was surprised to hear that he’s a virgin.  I still can’t get a good read on him.  He seems cool enough, but he was kind of a dick to Adam (his ‘prison buddies’ comment was both hilarious and mean) and I think he has potential to be a real judgmental ass.

Porsche: Obnoxious.  She’s like the devil spawn of Rachel and Parvati (from Survivor).  I do not like her so far.  I predict she’ll be an early boot, because she seems to be relying a lot on flirting to get ahead, and there really aren’t any guys in there who will take the bait (aside from Keith and possibly Dominic).

Keith: WAY too girl-crazy.  Everything he said tonight was about women.  It’s getting old fast.  Picking Porsche as a partner was a pretty stupid move, as I don’t think she has much to bring to the table.

Cassi & Shelly:  I like them.  They both seem really friendly and fun, and I don’t think either of them will put up with annoying drama.

Kalia: Seems very bitchy.  I think she’s most likely of all of them to overplay her hand and get booted because of it.

It was interesting that almost everyone lied about something!  Some of their lies were stupid, others not so much.  I don’t understand why Porsche and Keith lied about their professions.  They both should have bent the truth instead of pulling jobs out of their asses.  Why couldn’t Keith just say he works in HR, rather than say he’s a matchmaker?  And if Porsche didn’t want to tell the truth about being a “VIP Cocktail Waitress,” she could have just said she’s a bartender or waitress at Chili’s or something.  Completely fabricating your profession has big potential to bite you in the ass.  It’s hard to keep up the big lies like that, and I don’t see either of them being able to pull it off.

THE TWISTS

It sounds like the game will be played very differently this year (in the beginning, anyway).  Being forced to choose a partner must have been extremely awkward.  You barely know each other aside from introductions (which was mostly lies anyway).  You don’t want to seem over-eager, but you also don’t want to sit back and get stuck with everyone else’s leftovers (like Kalia and Lawon).  Not only do you have to depend on your partner to fight, you also have to turn on them if you’re both nominated!  So you simultaneously want someone who can help you in strategy, yet will be easy to beat in a vote.  My head hurts.

Then there’s the Golden Key issue.  When a duo is nominated, whichever player is not evicted gets a free ride to the final 10!  This, to me, means that once it gets to the final 10, it will become an individual game (otherwise the concept of nominating duos makes no sense anymore).  It’s like Rachel said, it’s less about who you want to get rid of and more about who you want to keep.  So, with that in mind, I would think you nominate the imbalanced couples, evict the most threatening, and then you give the free ride to the one who’s not a threat to your long-term strategy.  But that’s in an ideal world–are there even any such couples?  There are so many ways you could slice this. I do think, though, that this twist will play out much like the cliques in BB11, where it has a huge impact early on and then no impact after a couple of weeks.

I think the newbies are right to try to stick together against the returnees.  But history has shown us that people rarely stick to the plan, because everyone is always looking out for a better deal.

Side note: I’m 99% positive they’re bringing back Have Nots this year.  I assume there was just too much to cover tonight and they’ll show us on Sunday.  Hopefully that heinous candy room becomes the Have Not room, because I actually really like that library room they unveiled tonight!

THE HOH

As soon as the houseguests saw those bananas, the That’s-What-She-Saids were spouting as much as the chocolate & whipped cream.  This challenge was delightfully awkward.  You had Daniele’s butt hovering over her father’s head, Adam mashing his head into Dominic’s ass, Brendan and Rachel in that creepy mating position, and everyone else simply losing their dignity on a giant banana.

Shelly & Cassi were smart to throw it.  I don’t think they’ll be seen as a threat anyway, and they don’t need HOH this week.  Jordan, true to form, depended on Jeff and dropped out early.  Sadly, it came down to a deal between the Donatos and Rachel, and I think the Donatos were smart to drop out.  If another returnee has HOH, Dick & Daniele are most likely safe.  Plus, considering how much of a threat they already are, it was smart for them not to win HOH this week.

So Rachel won, which is a mixed bag for me.  I loathe her more than anything, but at the same time, I’m glad she’ll (hopefully) keep the other returnees safe.  I think she’d be stupid not to.  They have to know that the returnees are the biggest target out of anyone so far, so they really need to stick together or else they’ll be picked off fast.  I’m guessing Rachel will nominate a newbie pair, but I have no idea who she’ll go for.  Possibly Keith & Porsche because they appear to be athletic.  But with this Golden Key business thrown in, who knows?

Based on the previews at the end of the episode, it appears the veto competition has already been played, so at this moment the houseguests probably have a good idea already of who’s going home.  The feeds go live in a couple of hours, so I’ll post as soon as I figure out what’s going on!