If there are no mentions of venereal diseases, does that hurt the show? Specifically, yes. Can something else command the same attention? Jenerally, yes.
If there is a more useless prop in all of reality TV than the “Golden Power of Veto,” I can’t think of it. The closest I can come is Randy Jackson, but still, he is a distant second. We’ve come to the first week of nominations in the household of BIG BROTHER 8, and Tuesday’s episode had the first veto competition, as Amber and Carol fought to win the power to take themselves “off the block.” (A phrase we will hear, in some form, roughly 6,337,918 times over these summer months.)
The game to win veto power was hide-and-seek, with half of the houseguests playing. Each player was given a veto placard, and whoever hid it the best won. Knowing she was fighting for her very survival in the game, Amber hid her placard … under her mattress. Hers was the first one found. Daniele was the eventual winner, burying her placard in the giant pot of BIG BROTHER slop. When it came time for the veto ceremony, Daniele vowed to shake things up with her use of the veto. She didn’t use it; she let the nominations stand. The only thing I can surmise from this turn of events is that Daniele doesn’t know what the phrase “shake things up” means.
That is par for the course, because this may be the lowest-functioning, best-groomed mass of human tissue BIG BROTHER has ever cast. This group is dumb. This group is slow. This group communicates clearest with tee shirts that state things like, “I’m too pretty to work” and “Life is better blonde.” I believe the first quote is from Camus and the second is from Goethe, but it could be the other way around; like Jessica, I get these two confused.