Big Brother 15 Power Rankings - Down Goes Judd!

That Just Happened...

First off, Wow, just wow. It's not a TOTAL surprise to see Judd walk out the door in 10th Place, but I didn't expect it to go down like that. He and his bear shirt had grown into fan favorites and I, along with a lot of others, thought he was going to go a lot farther in the game. Right after it happened, a couple of my "episode-only" friends who know I've been watching the live feeds hit me up with texts, emails, and tweets, all expressing the same thing - "Whaaaaaaa?" 

Honestly though, what really shocked me was Aaryn winning another HOH in a massive More/Less Game bombout by a bunch of other players. I didn't expect to see that many people eliminated in one fell swoop, and I never would've picked the Bigoted Bobcat Barbie to be the one to survive.

Candice's explosion was no surprise at all of course, but was no less ferociously entertaining, apparently she's a good person but you wouldn't know it if you watched the show lately. I feel for the abuse she had to put up with in the House, but it pushed her into a place where she acted ugly and petty herself, and that's too bad.

...and so did That

Big Brother 15 Power Rankings - Howard v. Amanda, Perception v. Reality

Which side are you on?

As I move along in my first Big Brother season as a live-feeder, each week deepens my recognition of how producers slant their storylines in the edited episodes. In the BB Blog community that I've discovered, the phrase "getting a good edit" is routinely applied to players who's TV persona comes off in a more positive light than the person that Internet viewers become acquainted with.

Superfans originally worried that this disconnect would prevent the exposure of Aaryn Gries' Texas-sized bigotry, but thankfully those ugly truths became too much to ignore. Now though, four weeks into the game, an actual discrepancy between TV portrayal and online reality has emerged in the person of Howard, thanks to an episode that featured a textbook "good edit."