Episode 2 - America’s Player and Jen’s ugly picture
Tonight’s episode would have brought a lot of information to light if I hadn’t already known about it from watching the feeds and BB After Dark.
We learned that Dick’s a name-dropper and that he has never been close with Danielle. I’m still curious to explore Danielle’s past because she stated that her only real parents were her grandparents and Dick has previously mentioned foster care in a conversation about her that was cut-off during BBAD. I think some very dramatic and hurtful stuff went on between then, but I don’t know when, if ever, they’ll want to delve into it on the air.
We also got to see the food competition, which was pretty bland at this point it the game. I don’t have strong feelings for any of the HGs, so it doesn’t really matter to me if they’re on slop or not. The only major highlight of the food competition was Eric (who loudly declares his heterosexuality at every turn) rubbing up Joe with a gleeful eagerness that few straight men would have.
Also, Jen made some harsh comments about Dick when he offered to scrape the fake butter concoction off her body. She said in the diary room that Dick was a creepy old man and she didn’t want him feeling her up. He seemed exceptionally pissed off about this, and I think it was because it’s pretty true. Dick is the old guy of the house and he is vain and wants to seem younger. It kills him for everyone knows he is old enough to have a daughter in her twenties and it kills him to be thought of as the horny old man.
Aside from the food comp, the only really exciting part of the episode was when Jen had a total meltdown when she saw her picture on the wall. Everyone walked over to check out their pictures on the wall, remarking how they looked or how they had styled their hair. Jen saw her picture, covered it with her hand, and started bawling that she looked ugly and the lighting gave her bags under her eyes that she swears she didn’t have.
Not since Brooke from The Real World flipped out over an invitation to go bowling have I seen a more unwarranted freak out.
Hopefully, someone will post it on YouTube and I’ll be able to put it up on the blog.
The only other segment of note was the first mission assigned to America’s Player, Eric. While most of America hates Eric, he’s the only player in the game we can send on missions, so we have to live with it. I was expecting the option of choosing from various missions for him, or secret assignments. Instead, the AP section said “Eric must make up a dramatic story about his past, who should he tell this story to?” Our only choices are who he gets to make up a lie to? We can only choose who he’ll do something to, not what he’ll do? Lame!
America’s Player seemed like such a cool idea, but it seems like the show really dropped the ball there. I would have changed my tune about Eric if he at least mattered enough to be an instrument of the viewers. Instead, it’s just another dumb twist invented by CBS to try to make viewers think they’re somehow involved in the game and not just reality tv spectators like they are on every other show. If Eric’s only tasks are stupid like this, I’m keeping my fingers crossed that he goes next week and we can put this whole stupid America’s Player thing to bed.
As I said, the episode was wholly boring because all this action happened days ago. We’ve known about the nominations, the food competition, the PoV and all the scheming for a long time through the feeds and BBAD. I can’t wait until next week when we’re all caught up and things are happening in real time.