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 - The Accidental MVP

What should I do as the MVP?
No really, what the hell should I do as the MVP???

A lot of memorable moments inside the Big Brother House this week were either too pathetic, too morally ambiguous, or just too damn NSFW to make it into Wednesday night's POV episode, and as a first-time live feeder, I'm just now getting a real grasp on the real size of the disconnect between the three edited hours that most fans get per week and the nearly 24/7 access enjoyed by super fans. 

I've always cast a critical eye at the editing of this show over the years I've watched it, looking for production tricks that might reveal more about the storyline show runners might be trying to "sell," against what's really going on in the house. I do it even more now that I have access to so much more of the raw video (and now that so much more of the video is so raw).  

Big Brother 15 Power Rankings - First Eviction Preview

The biggest Big Brother game in US history finally gets a little smaller tonight, with the first live eviction episode and some seemingly legitimate drama as to who's going home. 

Memo to aspiring actors: Perez Hilton not
the guy you want in charge of headshots

Until then though, the biggest loser in the House remains Aaryn, both in personality and in potential personal appearance fees. She was dropped from her Austin-based talent agency for the character that she's revealed on the live feeds, even if Big Brother producers remain stubbornly consistent in their policy of covering up just how ugly a beautiful Texas girl can actually turn out to be. If I was her, I wouldn't have wanted to be called "the Paula Deen of Big Brother" even before Paula's career went down in flames, so you can imagine how it's got to feel right now.