Good morning all, Monday and Tuesday were an active couple of days. Steve and Hilary have already covered it in detail so I’ll only touch on a few highlights from Monday. Before I get going, thanks for the happy birthdays from all of you. I really appreciate you guys!
I ended Mondays recap waiting for Tucker to confront Angela after he found out she was trying to take him out. The conversation began just as I was wrapping up.
He asked, she admitted it and said she didn’t believe he’d take her to the end over Rubina.
Tucker may be entertaining but boy is he bad at the game. He was running the house last week having F2’s with Angela and Joseph, a F4 with Rubina, Kimo and T’kor and had gained MJ and Leah as numbers. He also had the 6th Avenue alliance but i’m not counting that since T’kor wanted to break that up anyway.
Tucker lost Angela, MJ and Leah at the same time AND for the same reason.
Tucker also questioned Leah about why she didn’t tell him. (MJ did and ratted out Leah for being a part of it) First, Leah said she’sd forgotten since it wasn’t about her. (Haha)
Leah, an adult and not wanting to be scolded, finally, said “I don’t owe you anything anyway.” (Good for her!) Once they talked about it some more, Leah managed to remember that Quinn was VERY excited about the idea. (She never misses an opportunity throw Quinn under the bus)
It’s funny that Tucker is the AI Instigator because instead of messing with other people’s games, he hurt his own game with it. First, he made Rubina cry by using a Quinn hologram to out their shomance. I can give him a pass on that one because I know that wasn’t his intention. He thought if it was outed, they could be affectionate in public and all the talk about it would die down. (He was wrong)
Instead, it made Rubina paranoid that she’d be targeted because of it. (I hate to break it to Rubina but her talking about it nonstop is a bigger issue for her) I like Rubina but i’m losing patience with her. She talks about Tucker and their “relationship” constantly, all while worrying she’ll only be seen as someone in a relationship. (Maybe try talking about something else a bit more?)
Angela finding out about the shomance made her think Tucker would never choose her over Rubina. That’s what set her off and caused her to go looking for people to evict him. She admitted this to Tucker, he said she was wrong and sadly, (for me) MotherTucker was over.
Obviously an old pic:
Tucker had MJ and Leah convinced “Rubina was like a sister to him.” I was surprised they fell for this but they don’t have the benefit of cameras or seeing some of the things we’ve seen. He didn’t realize the moment he outed the showmance, MJ and Leah snapped out of the Tucker trance.
MJ went to work on Rubina to convince her Tucker was just playing her. (You’ll never convince me this was for strategic reasons) It temporarily worked and we had to listen to Rubina go back and forth about it….for the entire day.
Instead of talking to Tucker, Rubina talked to Kimo about it. (T’kor spent alot of time in the hoh room that day so it was mostly Kimo)
T’kor had her own problems….guilt. She cried and said she felt terrible about hurting people and having to put people on the block. This was right after the veto ceremony, when she chose to put up Angela instead of Leah, since Cam used the veto on himself.
Friendzzzz alliance hug:
She and Kimo had gone back and forth ALL NIGHT LONG over the decision. On Monday morning, Tucker asked her if she’d put up Leah as a favor to him, since she was undecided anyway. He reminded her he volunteered to go on the block as a favor and took the punishment from her so she cold have the 5k. (In the real world, this makes total sense to me)
T’kor went a different route instead and put up Angela. Keep in mind, this was after Angela had asked T’kor not to put Leah on the block, knowing it was probably between Leah and herself. T’kor also has a better personal relationship with Leah. (I actually think T’kor made the wrong call but not because of Tucker. Making the selfish move was correct. She just doesn’t know both Leah and MJ told Chelsie they’d put T’kor, Kimo and Rubina on the block)
Chelsie kept that bit of information from T’kor when they talked.
After the ceremony, Angela was very accepting of it, since she’d practically asked to be put up. I know she has a hard time connecting with people in the house and it gets to her.
At the same time, she’s also very self sabotaging. She gets paranoid that something’s going to happen so it’s as if she does things to go ahead and make it happen.
Tucker, on the other hand, had a Tucker tantrum over it. He was ready to take his toys and go home. Like I said, I get it, he did favors for T’kor and didn’t think it was a big ask to have her return one. T’kor didn’t help herself by waffling so much over it. To Tucker, she didn’t have preference so why not?
Tucker doing his punishment:
The ‘why not’ is because T’kor isn’t trying to help Tucker. She’s in an alliance with him but she doesn’t want him in it. She’s stuck with him because her two closest allies want him. Tucker is loyal to T’kor but it doesn’t go both ways.
Here’s an example of how much Tucker likes T’kor. In the midst of explaining to Quinn how he’s “playing varsity and everyone else is playing jv,” Tucker found out T’kor was upset and crying. He shook it off his combining or at least put it on hold to go comfort her. He told her it was okay, no one was upset with her, told her how amazing she was and so on. (I think he genuinely is crazy about her. The only thing that may bother him after the season is finding out she didn’t feel the same)
Angela tried to talk to Tucker again to tell him she wasn’t upset with him. He basically said he didn’t care because he was upset with her. He walked away from the conversation saying he didn’t want to talk. He moved to the hammock to sulk there.
Later, Angela cried and told Kimo she’d made a huge mistake. (She did) She said she was way too impulsive and needed to think before she did things. (She does)
Eventually, Tucker and Rubina talked again. This was after she ignored him for most of the day. Here they are working out side by side, but without speaking:
He convinced her she wasn’t being played, but she didn’t tell him about the things MJ had told her. Regardless, they made up.
Rubina, Quinn Kimo and T’kor celebrated the showmance in the backyard. For the record, Rubina has chosen “Tuckina” and not “Tubina” for a showmance name. This was made official with a little Tuckina dance. (This shit is so stupid but hey, it happened and I’m recapping so….)
There was also a new alliance with T’kor, Kimo, Rubina and Quinn. They are calling themselves the “Mistfits” after Quinn explained Dan’s funeral and Dan’s mist to the others.
Yesterday included alot more hologram messages. They ranged from fashion tips from T’kor, a grocery list from Leah and Chelsie saying Angela needs to be targeted this week. The hg’s are trying to remember everything that’s said. They think it may be related to an upcoming memory comp. (I’m not sure how it could because wouldn’t that give Tucker an advantage?)
Cam’s been hanging out with the guys a bit more. I think Joseph’s loving it because he has a new audience. He went through his entire game from week one and gave Cam way too much info. He really does think he’s a combination of Dan and Will and it absolutely cracks me up!
I’m also enjoying the Joseph and Quinn rivalry. It involves both Leah and the game. Quinn tried filling Joseph in on an alliance that formed while Joseph was in solitary confinement. Joseph immediately took credit for it and tried to make it sound like he’d got the ball rolling on it before his confinement started. (He didn’t)
They arm wrestled too:
It goes both ways though because when Joseph said he was playing a Dan/Will game, Quinn told him no, he was playing a Nicole F game.
T’kor finally hosted a girl’s night up in the hoh room. It had been planned for Monday but with all the drama, they’d postponed it. While the ladies were upstairs, the guys seemed incredibly bored. Cam even started cleaning just to have something to do.
Rubina talked to T’kor again and has gone back to thinking Tucker might be “playing her.” Tucker kissed her outside the HOH room while the others inside cheered. Now, she’s wondering if he did that to put a target on her.
I stupidly thought this might be the one showmance that didn’t get on my nerves. I assumed that because both Tucker and Rubina are in their 30’s. I guess I thought a little maturity would make it more bearable….I was wrong.
Side note: Rubina’s pissed at Angela because she thinks Angela is the AI Instigator. (Haha)
MJ went through what she thought was a break up between herself and Tucker. (It was bizarre but so is most of the stuff MJ says) She’s made up with Tucker (sort of) so she’s worried Rubina will spill the convo MJ had with her on Monday. She told Leah, if Rubina tries it, she’ll just turn it back around on Rubina. (I think this was more about MJ bringing up a girls alliance than daying Tucker was playing Rubina) MJ definitely got in her head because Rubina talked to T’kor about starting a girls alliance afterwards.
Kimo told Rubina she needed to tell Tucker alot of the things she was worried about came from MJ. This was on Monday and as of last night, she still hadn’t done it. Kimo and T’kor also never followed through with telling Quinn about the things Leah’s said about him. (Leah’s game could’ve been blown up so easily by now but she keeps getting away with it)
Quinn really wants Angela out this week over Tucker. Quinn, Joseph and Cam all said Tucker shouldn’t go out this way since he went up as a favor to T’kor. (Has Quinn forgotten that’s how Cedric went out on his hoh takeover?) I think Joseph means it, I’m sure Cam doesn’t and I think Quinn doesn’t think they have the votes to gwt Tucker out.
Quinn and Angela had words again and this is why he wants Angela out so much. Tucker told Angela that Quinn was the one who told on her for trying to target him. Later, she found out MJ told Tucker too. Quinn ended up admitting (to Chelsie I think) he tells everything because he knows Tucker will still target him. He’s basically trying to pretend he’s on Tucker’s side by giving him info.
Chelsie’s layed low so far this week. She’s gone back to work on her relationships with Leah and MJ. (If she hadn’t dropped them to begin with, Brooklyn would’ve stayed) She and Cam talked about wanting to take out Tucker this week and said if MJ wins AI, they only need 1 more vote. (I don’t think they’ve realized yet that Quinn could be that vote) If Tucker wins the AI comp, they still want MJ to stay to target Tucker.
Unless something major happens, Chelsie’s in a good position for someone who lost her entire alliance. Even if she doesn’t end up getting MJ and Leah as allies, they aren’t against her either. She has T’kor and Rubina on her side. Tucker isn’t even targeting her anymore and Quinn wants to work with her. Joseph winning an HOH might be her only problem but Joseph is still throwing hoh comps for the moment. In my opinion, she’s still playing the best game in the house. (She just needs to shut the hell up about Cam’s dirty underwear)
Cam’s told Kimo he’s concerned he isn’t being featured on the show at all. (Maybe he will be if he keeps strategizing with Chelsie) He said he goes days without being called into the DR. He said even after winning the veto, he was only called in once.
Tucker’s stopped saying he’ll throw the AI comp. Instead, he talks very over confidently about how he’ll win it. He and Kimo talked about Angela and how she turned on Tucker. They think it’s because she’s gotten closer to Leah. (Angela and Leah made a F2 but they don’t know that part) They think Angela still needs to be the one to stay this week over MJ.
After Kimo advised Tucker to work on votes, (just in case) Tucker checked in with Joseph. They speculated over Angela and Leah maybe having a F2. Tucker told him T’kor would rather have Angela stay over MJ. Joseph said he doesn’t trust Angela at all but was still open to them taking her to the F3.
Joseph moved on to talking about when they’d need to target T’kor and Kimo. He said they were a trio with Rubina but he wouldn’t target her, just the other two.
There was alot more talk about a guys alliance. MJ got this started and Rubina ran with it. Okay, this thing with MJ is kind of funny. She usually annoys me but her bad reads have been hilarious. It’s not entirely her fault because no one really wants to work with her. This means no one gives her any real information. She’s left to sit and speculate on her own. That would be fine if she didn’t talk about her guesses like they’re facts.
She’s accidentally caused Tucker to be upset with Quinn all over again. MJ thinks there’s an alliance with Cam, Quinn and Chelsie called the Ballers. She thinks it’s based on how they all played sports. She’s annoyed they didn’t invite her into it because she also played sports.
Here’s the confusion, MJ isn’t aware there was an actual alliance called the Ballers, which changed to Players and this is what Tucker thinks she’s referencing. She isn’t and has her info all jumbled. Quinn had just been naming old outed alliances and MJ thinks she picked up on something.
Tucker’s talking like he’ll target Quinn again. You know, Quinn, the 1 vote he’d need to stay if he doesn’t win the AI comp. Because MJ said she’d just recently heard about it, Tucker thinks it may still be an alliance. He’s talked about it to Rubina, T’kor, Joseph and Kimo. He said if he won the hoh, he’d put up Cam, Quinn and Chelsie. (So much for not targeting Chelsie anymore)
T’kor had finally juat got on board with the idea of keeping Tucker. After finding out Tucker may target both Quinn and Chelsie, is that going to change her mind again? Those are 2 people she genuinely wants to work with over Tucker.
Some random tidbits:
There was a lot of talk about when jury would start. (9 vs 7) and if Ainslie is actually the AI Instigator. They think the messages could be generated from production based on convo’s they’re overhearing in the house.
MJ told T’kor she’s been told she’d have the votes to stay over Angela. T’kor told her she’d break a tie in her favor.
Later, T’kor told Rubina she does NOT want to break a tie. She wants people to get together and make a decision ahead of time. ( Hopefully they will otherwise the life show will have to go on for hours)
Chelsie told Cam she thinks they’ll have to do a last minute push to take out Tucker. She said she doesn’t think people will openly discuss it until after the AI comp.
Quinn is annoyed that Tucker has too much say over the decisions they make. He’s wanted Angela out multiple times but never gets his way. He didn’t like hearing from Joseph that Angela could stay over MJ.
Timo decide, they’ll talk to Quinn today about the Ballers alliance. They aren’t convinced it’s a real thing and want to talk to him about it.
Kimo pointed out to Tucker the Quinn, Joseph and Leah trio. Kimo said it concerned him and Tucker agreed.
Leah was upset to find out that Tucker knows Leah was in the room when the idea of getting rid of Tucker came up with Angela.
After Monday and Tuesday, I couldn’t begin to guess how today will go. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. Don’t forget tonight is a 2 hour Veto episode. Have a great Wednesday!
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