Big Brother 17: Zingbot Power of Veto Show Blog Party - August 26

Good evening! Ready for a blog party? We have the Zingbot ahead!

As the show airs here on the East Coast, I'll update this entry with the major happenings. Refresh the page to get the latest. As always, the real party is in the comments area. I hope to see you there!

We have to get through the "Previously on Big Brother ..." segment first. 

Okay, Johnny Mac and Steve are on the block. Austin claims that's the best move for his game. Um. Okay, whatever. Steve gives Vanessa credit for being good. 

Vanessa plays nicey-nice with Austin. He plays along. Steve questions who the target is -- Austin tells him Johnny Mac unless Steve comes off the block, then maybe Vanessa.

James pranks once again.

Time to pick players for the veto comp! Austin draws Vanessa. Johnny Mac draws Meg.  Steve draws Julia (who had just whined about never being picked).

Steve thinks Vanessa might save him and wants to rebuild their relationship. 

Zingbot comes in the house. Newly Zingle and got an upgrade - Zingbot 9000 now on Twitter. To James - Meg will take you to the Friend Zone after the show. Liz - Confused, less attractive, less intelligent, less charming ... oh, wait -- that's Julia. Steve - Less cool than a trombonist who cries for his mommy? Nothing!

Please take out the trash, it stinks in here, that's just Austin! Meg - Your New York attitude is very stuck in the city, too bad your gameplay is stuck in the city. JM - 4/5 dentists agree the only thing less attractive than your laugh is your back hair! Vanessa -- Playing a masterful game, assuming that game is The Crying Game. Liz -- You've become such an important part of Austin's life ... are you more excited to meet his mom, his dad or his GIRLFRIEND? 

Liz is ticked.  

Veto comp time. James and Liz are secluded and allowed to watch. Julia is up first for the morph/Zingbot related comp. 

Julia's time is 4:45.

Steve is up next. Weird, they let Julia in to watch with James and Liz. Steve is out -- he didn't beat Julia's time. Then he enters the room. 

Austin is up next. He also can't beat Julia's time and is out, in the room with the others.

Vanessa is up. Her time is great! 2:51. She takes over the lead.

Johnny Mac next. He's out now. 

Meg goes up. Heh. She's out.

Vanessa wins the Power of Veto.

Vanessa talks to Johnny Mac. She quizzes him about his previous alliances (that have been voted out). He tells her he's alone in the game. She claims to be alone in the game, too. He offers to work with her going forward. She hints that she might use the veto, but has to talk to Austin. (So, the blame won't be on her if she doesn't! She's thinking ahead, for sure.) She does push for JM to stay with Austin. He's not keen on her idea of putting James on the block.

She tells JM that Austin doesn't want her to use it and, if she does, the Austwins will target her. JM tells her that he was in a five-person alliance last week to get her out. She confronts Julia who tells her it was Steve's idea.

She lights into Steve. He denies orchestrating it and she says he doesn't have her vote.

Veto meeting time. 

Steve - Will respect whatever strategic decision you make.
JM - A gazelle asking a tiger to hang out, don't use it on me.

She gives a short bitter speech about Steve.
Vanessa decided NOT to use the veto to save either of them.

Big Brother 17: Live Feeds into Wednesday - August 26

Vanessa attacked Steve ... for the HoH cam

Did you notice I didn't post last night? Well, they didn't give me a heck of a lot of fodder. One of the problems when the hamsters have been in the house this long and it's that three day lag between PoV meeting and eviction ... there's not much new ground for discussion. Of course, had there been a brouhaha or ax murder, I would have posted. Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Dwindling Days:

• There were no ax murders.
• BB doesn't allow them to have axes or even hatchets, most likely to keep them from becoming ax murderers or victims of such crimes.
• While Vanessa is giving Steve noogies in the screen cap above, it was all for the HoH camera.
• Those were fake noogies.
• Leave it to BB to remind me that noogies even exist. Now I'll have childhood nightmares!
• Despite many talks back and forth, it's still probable that Steve will stay by a vote of three (Vanessa, Liz, Julie) to two (Meg, James) or even that Meg and James or a combination thereof might flip.
• Anyway, it's going to be Johnny Mac going out the door.
• That's even though he agreed to a deal with the twins that if he remains and gets HoH, he'd go after whomever returned from the jury.
• Liz and Julie were talking to Vanessa -- "We don't know anything about this game! We were recruited because we're twins!"
• I wonder how BB decided which twin to feature in the "initial" hamster cast. Did they Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock it?
• Julia pointed out that BB hasn't given them any more alcohol since Meg was hit in the eye during one of their chocolate wars.
• I personally think that BB should give all Chocolate War participants penalties as chocolate, dear to me, was meant to be imbibed ... not thrown about like that!
• After all, you could put an eye out with that stuff.
• Austin prepared a pork dish, shared it and then said the pork expired last week, but still smelled good.
• Heh. They almost choked.
• He was kidding. But I have seen many cases of expired food in the house over the years.
• Liz talked to Meg and James about their vote and the discussion turned to Rock, Paper, Scissors.
• Had they added in Lizard, Spock ... it would have been something.
• Meg and James wouldn't commit their votes to Steve and told him they'd let him know Wednesday night.
• I still say three to two unless it gets into one of those house votes again.
• I don't think there's much point in house votes at this time because the lines are clearly drawn.
• We'll see. 

Meow James posed

Vanessa schemed

Johnny Mac was given false hope

Crowds gathered for tomfoolery

We don't know this game!

Big Brother 17: Live Feeds into Tuesday - August 25

It's making me pull my hair outuuuh!

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Workin' Things Out:

• When I last left you, Vanessa was all kinds of mad at Steve because Johnny Mac told her Steve orchestrated a five-person alliance against her.
• Of course, things are different now.
• This is BB17.
• Steve is no dummy. He often just plays one in the house. He knows that his relationship with Vanessa has been rocky all along and, more that a few times, she's wanted him out.
• He has a lot of damage control ahead. 
• He also knows the Austwins are closer with him and trust him more than they do Johnny Mac.
• His one game feather in the cap to "prove his loyalty" is that he got their nemesis Jackie out during his short-lived HoH reign.
• In talking with Austin, Vanessa has decided that Steve has too much dirt on them to go now, so she needs to play nice with him.
• And 'round and 'round it goes.
• Meanwhile, James told Meg that it's best Johnny Mac goes because he's his main competition for the kind of competitions he does well.
• Got that? In other words, the physical comps -- to James, Johnny Mac is more of a threat to him than is Steve. I believe he's giving Steve the fact that he'd win the remembering stuff comps over either of them.
• Meg, being Meg, isn't sure who she wants out.
• Steve and Vanessa had a talk during which he used the confusion over dates card about when the alliance was formed.
• In actuality, he's protecting Austin and company. He can't come out and say it was Austin and him forming the alliance -- then he'd have everyone mad at him.
• But, whether she's just playing nice or whether she's changed her mind (again), she and Steve mended fences.
• With the accusations that Steve and Johnny Mac have a final two deal, Steve denied it was such. He said they had a team, not an alliance. And, they called themselves Rock Stars because they're both musicians.
• Austin kept insisting that the team was a final two alliance because you don't make a bond like that without it being one.
• Hmm. What would you call what Austin has? A final three deal, leaving both Steve and Vanessa in the dust.
• Hmm.
• Anyway, things are back to Johnny Mac probably being voted out three-two.
• We still have a few days.

Steve, Johnny Mac, Vanessa pow-wow

Don't lie to me!

Vanessa and Steve smooth things over

Back in

Snarling

Big Brother 17: Live Feeds into Monday Evening, PoV Meeting - August 24

Entertainment Boy safe this week

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Kerfuffles:

• Vanessa did NOT use the veto -- either Steve or Johnny Mac will go out this week.
• Johnny Mac went to Vanessa telling her that Steve orchestrated a five-person alliance against her.
• Vanessa blew up at Steve who hemmed and hawed when confronted.
• She screamed at him that he's lost her vote.
• Steve immediately kind of called out Austin in public and Austin could only say that he (Austin) didn't orchestrate it.
• Liz and Julia are mad at Johnny Mac for telling Vanessa about the alliance.
• Steve is befuddled.
• Austin talked to Johnny Mac and JM said he'd go to Vanessa and tell her they were all a part of it and Steve didn't start it.
• @@
• Austin told him he ought to work things out with the twins instead.
• Austin is laying all the nominations blame on Vanessa.
• That's even though we all know he wasn't going to backdoor her anyway.
• But he's acting to both Johnny Mac and Steve as if he was going to do it.
• The twins want to convince Vanessa to keep Steve as they think that James and Meg will vote Steve out.
• They need three votes.
• It's a mess.
• And, it all could change (and be a bigger mess) by Thursday.

You've lost my vote, Steve!

What are we going dooooo?

You made Liz and Julia mad

It's all Vanessa ...

Big Brother 17: Live Feeds into Monday Morning - August 24

She can occasionally talk a good game

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Well, It's Tomorrow:

• And, because it's tomorrow, things have changed once again in the house.
• This drama is all because of Vanessa, mind you.
• It's Vanessa who holds the PoV and will use it or not.
• It's Vanessa who's going around from hamster to hamster mind-boggling them into thinking of reasons to target others.
• When I left you in my last post, it looked like she was going to use the veto to save one of the nominees (probably Steve) and James would be the target.
• Scratch that.
• It's now tomorrow.
• Now it looks once again like she will not use the veto and Johnny Mac will go.
• I cannot predict how this will go down. She's too hard for me to read and, unlike some, she doesn't talk to us. 
• In other news, Julia claims she's lost Liz because Liz is "in a relationship."
• @@
• Okay, then break up the relationship!
• Austin continues to have delusions of grandeur about how the show's fans perceive him and how we see his "relationship" with Liz.
• That boy is in for a shock when he gets out.
• He also thinks Johnny Mac's speeches (at ceremonies) are unintelligent.
• Need we get a transcript of his own speech from last night's show? That had some mighty big words in it, yet made no sense at all. It was written like he thought he'd be impressing people, but instead it just perplexed us and gave us more reason to want to chop off that ponytail beard.
• The poll on the website for live feed voters had us wanting them to play hide and seek. Johnny Mac was the winner, finally scaring Julia when he leaped from under one of the dentist's chairs.
• I guess we'll see whether Vanessa uses the veto or not.
• Then we'll see who Vanessa wants to go home.
• I'm so glad that Vanessa won HoH again this week!
• Heh.

Julia wouldn't mind if Austin was OUT

Continues to run the house

Can he hang in?