Big Brother Watch Party - Thursday 8/15/2024

 Time to cull the herd...

And WE'RE LIVE for the eviction.

We get the obligatory summary of the week.  End result: Makensy, Rubina, and Cedric are currently on the block...and Tucker is still a cocky ass.  ;)

We have the "AI Arena" coming up.  And don't forget, we have the "AI Instigator" twist to be announced.

It's Day 31...where does the time go?

The 8 person "Collective" could run the House, Julie tells us.  But are they really together, she asks.

Quinn doesn't want to flip on the Collective until Tucker is gone.  Kimo, on the other hand, thinks he's at the bottom of the alliance and considers the advantage of flipping on Cedric to weaken the Collective.

Tucker and Kimo are coaching Rubina.  Rubina thinks she has an alliance with T'Kor, Brooklyn, Kimo and Tucker in the "Five Pointz" alliance.  Of course, that alliance also overlaps The Collective and The Visionaries and The Pentagon.  [I still need a storyboard.]

Angela is on the floor listening in on the Five Pointz discussion and then begs to join.  Her begging is just really sad...  They are all stunned into absolute silence.  Tucker finally says "sure, why not" because he feels she's wrapped around his finger after the Veto play last week.

T'Kor and Kimo talk about only really trusting each other.  Kimo makes the point that there's a lot of alliances that don't include him, which is true.

Brooklyn and Kimo talk about whether it would be Cedric or Rubina if Makensy comes down.  They prefer Rubina, it seems, or at least Kimo does.  But they need Lea and Makensy to be on board to avoid having to go head on with The Collective.

Just realized that I've been misspelling "Rubina", so I'm fixing it moving forward.  Sorry, Rubina!

Coming up after the commercial break - The AI Arena!!!

We're back...  Julie introduces us to all of the nominees, as if the 30 minutes of summaries wasn't enough.

Makensy and Cedric look nervous, more so than Rubina.  the game is to roll 5 balls up a ramp and get them to stop on a blue towel - the "upload".  Then they have smaller balls to knock the balls downhill - "the download".  First one to upload the 5 and then download the 5 wins.

Early on, only Makensy lands one.  Makensy up to 3, Cedric and Rubina at 1. Makensy at 4, Rubina at 2 and Cedric knocks his off.

We're now 4 and 4 with Rubina and Makensy.

Rubina is first to 5 and has started to knock them down.  Rubina down to 1 left.

Makensy and Cedric get to 5.

Makensy literally edges out Rubina by seconds as she quickly downloads all 5.  Really close at the finish.  Rubina was down to 1 ball left just as Makensy got her 5th ball onto the mat.  But Makensy cleared all 5 quickly and just beat Rubina to the buzzer.  Nearly a photo finish!

This does make for the most interesting choice on the eviction.  Otherwise, I think Makensy was the easy vote since she's not in any alliances.

Time to tell the HGs the news after the commercial break.  Julie announces that Makensy won.  Most of the Collective looks happy, but T'Kor actually did not.  She still looks confused/upset as the rest of them congratulate Makensy.

Cedric meets with T'Kor, Kimo and Angela.

Rubina is talking to Brooklyn, whatever Brooklyn told her did not make Rubina happy.

Cedric is talking to Tucker and seems to be preparing him for Rubina leaving.

Rubina is still upset as they seem to be telling her that they need Makensy to save her.

T'Kor tries to comfort Rubina.  T'Kor quickly whispers to Kimo as they head to the seats for the nominee pleas.

Rubina still tearful.  Lea seems really upset also for some reason, I'm guessing she knows Rubina doesn't have the votes.

Cedric trying hard to not get emotional.  He mentions that he is a screen because Tucker is going to go after him.

It's time for the live votes.  The deep fake HOH can't vote.  Are they going to go through the motions of pretending we don't know it's Quinn.  LOL

Tucker votes to evict Cedric.  Surprise.

Makensy votes to evict Cedric.

We do actually pretend that we don't know that Quinn is the "deep fake", so they send him into and immediately out of the diary room.

Leah votes to evict Cedric.

It's 3 for Cedric, zero for Rubina as we go to yet another commercial break.

We're back!

Kimo is up.  This is a key vote.  Kimo very tearfully votes to evict Cedric.

Chelsea votes to evict Rubina.

That makes it 4-1 for Cedric to go.

T'Korr votes to evict Cedric.

That makes it 5-1.  Cedric is toast.

Brooklyn votes to evict Rubina.

Cam votes to evict Rubina

That makes it 5-3.

Joseph votes to evict Cedric, in a bit of a surprise.

So it is 6-3 and the house is going to be in turmoil.

Back to the living room.  Julie announces that Cedric is leaving.  He takes it pretty well, although he does point out that he shouldn't have volunteered to go on the block, "but it's okay".

The AI instigator is sprung.  We get to vote for one of the HGs to be the Instigator.  The AI Instigator must unleash chaos in the house by using deep fakes of the other houseguests to say things.  If they do a good job, we get to decide how much money they win for their efforts.

I'm sorry, but the fake deep fakes are kind of cheesy.  What use was the deep fake Angela when she's in the house saying "I didn't say that".  Now we're going to have ALL of the houseguests standing there as their deep fake says something that everyone knows they didn't say.

Julie asks him if he knows who the 3 votes were.  He does.  He knew T'Kor and Kimo were gone.

Julie asks Cedric why he volunteered.  He says it was a calculated risk and that if the got through this week, he felt he was in better shape later.