The Moving Company was doing pretty well. They weren't in power this week, but Aaryn was controlled by a personal vendetta, keeping Elissa in her cross hairs, and her BFF Helen too. Sure, the MVP (Elissa) nominated Jeremy, but he was a beast during the Veto, even tearing off his onesie in a jouvenile display of primal superiority. All the Moving Company had to do was lay low, and let Elissa put up another girl as a replacement nominee.
And then comes Nick. First of all, let me address the super awkward, confusing proposal Elissa set before Nick. She told him that unless he threw the Veto, she would put him up as a replacement nominee. She also said, that if he did throw it, she would keep him safe, and was hoping for a two week deal. Let's look at how flawed that logic is.
A) Say Nick doesn't throw the Veto, but doesn't win. How will Elissa know he didn't throw it? She didn't say he had to obviously throw it. It is far too common in Big Brother for contestants to lose a competition and then proclaim that they threw it. Riiiggghhht. Because we all know you can sustain your 250 pounds of straight muscle mass on a cardboard popsicle stick.
B) If Nick doesn't throw the Veto, and wins, he could take Jeremy off the block and wouldn't be eligible to be a replacement nominee either. So Elissa wouldn't have any means of repercussion.
Anyway, Jeremy wins the Veto, and Elissa is debating between Kaitlyn and Nick as replacement nominees. She's a sweet person, underneath it all, so she didn't feel right about going back on her "deal" with Nick. Not without at least talking to him first.
And this, my friends, is the conversation that I think single-handedly saw Nick out the door. Maybe that's a little dramatic, but it did seal his fate in terms of nominations. Elissa goes to Nick and says "if I put up Kaitlyn, will you vote her out?" He says yes. Then she asks him, point blank "Would you ever consider voting me out?", in order to figure out where he stands. He takes about the longest sip of water humanly possible, opens his darting eyes as wide as he can, before saying "I don't know. When do you have to know by?" What? Nick! This is not a game of 'let me play mob boss and talk to my people' this is 'you have the power right now, so I'll tell you what you want to hear'!
So Elissa puts Nick up, which is the same thing any self-respecting Big Brother player would do. A series of events transpire before the vote, many of which involve Candice (Mark, your 'authors pick' is looking better every episode!) who was the first to be suspicious of the all male alliance, and Helen, who did a good job of swaying some of the floaters. In the end, it seems Nick's inability to think on his feet got him nominated, but it was his obvious threat-like qualities that made it impossible for people to leave him in the house when they had the perfect opportunity to send him packing.
R.I.P Nick
Loving houseguest,
Willing showmancer
Survived by a crying ball of New Yorkian Pageantry
-Sam
I liked Nick until he got put up for eviction. When he sat down in the nomination chair the way he did that for some reason pissed me off. At least pretend like you are sad to be there. If everyone sees that you are that comfortable being on the block it is going to make people wonder why you would be that confident.
ReplyDeleteHe should have just lied to Elissa and said he was going to throw the competition. For whatever reason he would never give people straight answers when they asked him questions.
Couldn't agree more! Like Tim said in his post, worst poker face ever.
DeleteThanks for the read and comment! We always appreciate a good dialogue.
Sam