It’s Time To Open Up The Diary Room For Week 9!

We’re close to the end.  Rachel is the first member of the jury.  Tonight, someone will join her.

So, it’s time to open up the diary room!

Who do you vote to evict?

For whatever reason, the Blockbuster is continuing and I don’t think either Will or Ashley have much hope of winning it.  Will has a bad leg.  Ashley sucks at challenges.  Keanu is a comp best and he truly wants to make it to the end.  I vote to evict Ashley.

Finally, I do need say something about the elimination of Rachel.  On the one hand, I’m not happy about the idea of Big Brother using a comp to eliminate someone this late in the game.  That’s not the way that Big Brother is supposed to be played.  On the other hand, if Rachel was as much of a badass as she’s spent this entire season bragging that she is, she would have been able to solve that extremely simple puzzle in 3 and a half minutes.

The houseguests are getting a lot of hate online for “targeting” Rachel.  To be honest, regardless of whether the comp was fair or a good idea, Rachel has only herself to blame for her elimination.  Instead of complaining about not getting picked first, Rachel should have been trying to avoid getting picked in the first place.  No, I was not impressed with how a lot of the houseguests behaved.  Ava asking for volunteers and then picking Vinny, who didn’t volunteer?  Yeah, that was dumb.  Still, Rachel was eliminated because she failed to complete a very simple maze and she only has herself to blame for that.  No one owed Rachel anything, regardless of what Rachel herself seemed to believe.

(Anyone who has Rachel’s three seasons on The Amazing Race knows how quickly she can fold under pressure.)

Anyway, we’ll see what happens tonight!

Lisa Marie