Big Brother Dumps An All-Star Veto Surprise - Episode Two Recap
Posted on 07/12/2006 by RealityWanted in Big Brother
Lin Sbordone
Skipping the previous Saturday night now moved to the prime spot of Sunday night at 8pm episode, Big Brother All-Stars steamrolls straight into coverage of nomination reactions, revealing diary room sessions, and ultimately, the power of veto. As segment producers and clever editors scrambled to deliver a second episode as commendable as the first, the long-awaited follow-up finally made its debut last night.Beginning with a recap which subtlety followed the enemy key call by showing Howie call Will's name to safety last, we find the nominees reactions to being on the "block". Though she watched all the other "losers" her season do it, Dani claims she does not know what to do since she has never been nominated for eviction. Fake hugs abound. Ali and Dani talk together for a while and then decide to confront the HOHs, Jase and Janelle, together. In the HOH room, Jase and Janelle tell them directly they were nominated because of the threat and over-playing. As both scramble justifications and lies, Ali and Dani go to leave. Dani, staying behind, immediately starts blaming everything on Ali. Ali later returns to the HOH room blaming Dani entirely. The HOHs, laughing together and neither knowing quite what to think, are overseen by Alison downstairs on the spy-screen. Ali heads down to break them up, and scenes are shown of both Ali and Janie calling each other "bitches."
Then in a strange scene demonstrative of an equally weird relationship, developing between Dr. Will and Howie, Howie is everywhere following Dr. Will. Though not able to follow the evil doc with equally witty banter, Howie nonetheless fights back undeterred. Dr. Will is shown in the diary room stating, "In real life when you have a stalker, you can get a restraining order..." and other perky quips regarding Howie. Howie admits he finds Dr. Will attractive, "If he were a girl....He's got piercing brown eyes...They kinda get to you." At the bottom of this, Dr. Will reveals in the DR that he is using Howie as part of his plan to invade the "Sea Sick," his new coined term for the remaining Sovereign alliance from last year.
Next up are scenes that show the theme of the "Sea Sick" versus the rest of the household. The Sovereign/Sea Sick are shown sticking together while reels following show almost every other houseguest stating how they want to get rid of them. Other musings include the unlikely pair of Erika and Marcellas discussing each having their archrival on the chopping block being hard to pass up. Regarding Dani, Marcellas goes on the record to state in the DR, "Her jugular is exposed and it's too juicy...Hell in one hand and hell in the other." Other personality revealing scenes come up, including George's snoring, the "All-Stars" slip and slide (which Kaysar seemed to prefer to the Season 6 "ghetto slide" stating, "It was a lot of fun."), and the pre-veto ceremony where the new rules are introduced to the houseguests. Before moving to the veto ceremony, Chicken George is shown climbing onto Howie and asking to be thrown down the slip and slide, two grown men lying on each other. This was a needed laugh before the unveiling of the veto competition from hell.
New rules force the nominees to spin a wheel to find their player for the veto challenge. The HOHs choose Mike Boogie to narrate the ceremony, and the houseguests are told to put on their bathing suits for a wet challenge. What they find is an utterly disgusting, Fear-Factorish nightmare: The Big Brother Dump. Filled with things from seasons past, houseguests must cipher through BB garbage to surface for six plastic red vetoes they climb into their own dumpster to hang for the win. However, do not think that is all the garbage Big Brother threw at the contestants. Not for a second, as this is All-Stars, so it must be necessary to dump peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, supposedly old hair collected from six season's of drains, and a combination of mud, fish chum, and ice-clam sundaes all over the contestant's bodies as they stand in their dumpsters. As CBS "trashed" the All-Stars, the only bearable thing about the competition offered had Dr. Will not yet saved the entertainment value by narrating the competition like an auctioneer. Janelle wins the veto.
Before the veto ceremony, Dr. Will heads to the HOH room to see what is happening. When asked what he would do, he immediately relays what he claims others have said to him regarding how they will vote. Jase and everyone else catch on to his old ways shown here, and James suggests to Janie to use to veto to save someone and put Will on the chopping block instead, likely insuring the one winner is sent home the first week.
Janie ponders options for a bit, and then during a rather anti-climatic veto ceremony, she decides not to use the veto, though she does admit to having considered using it on, "a certain someone." Following the nomination ceremony, Dani says in the diary room, "I'm not going down without a fight." Ali promises to come back.
What will actually happen? Who will be evicted and who will stay? Can the relatively unseen houseguests stir up some surprises? Will Big Brother stop both physically and metaphorically torturing the contestants or turn up the heat on these self-proclaimed "bad-asses"? Tune in this Thursday night for the first live eviction and continue to "expect the unexpected."