Reply #7: No, I can't believe it [View All]

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But people are people, sad to say. Making threats against someone's family because of their play on a reality show is just nuts.

As for Shelley "lying" to Big Jeff, I wonder about Jeff's ever-shifting standard of ethical play? According to him, the only people who "deserve" to win are those who play the game exactly as he does. He has a strong competitive game, a decent social game, but his strategic game stinks on ice. If you're allied with him, you're golden, but the moment he senses you aren't 100% in his corner and doing everything you can to further his interests, he cuts people dead. His first season, when he was HOH at the round of five, he convinced himself that the third member of his alliance with Jordan (Eric?) was insufficiently loyal. "Eric" (or whatever his name was) had made an offhand comment about how hard he was going to compete to get to the final two, and Jeff jumped to the conclusion that Eric was plotting against him, so Jeff put Eric up and evicted him. It cost Jeff the very next round, and Jordan had to fight alone to make the final two.

This year, the same thing happened as Jeff's paranoia caused him to doubt Shelley's loyalty. Granted, Shelley has been making lots of side deals, and may not be the most trustworthy ally. But instead of anything concrete, Jeff's breaking point came because Shelley was talking too much with people Jeff didn't approve of. Jeff never sees anything wrong with his own behavior that he finds objectionable in others. This season could have been the Jeff and Jordan Show, but Jeff's paranoia forces him to play one way and one way only, and it doesn't work.

Jeff and Rachel keep talking about how they hate "floaters," but they were allied with the two biggest floaters of all, Jordan and Adam. Rachel herself hasn't exactly been a competitive powerhouse since Week 3 until she won the Veto this week. Jordan won one HOH competition that her alliance threw to her. Adam? I've seen more useful tits on a boar. But he is the last man standing in the house, so there's that. It's gotta be a little lonely for him now that his buddy Jeff is gone and there are no other guys to pal around with.