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Jaided
Member
08-04-2007
| Thursday, August 16, 2007 - 7:25 pm
I was just thinking to myself, that if there was no America's Player.. how would Eric fare in this game? To his credit, he is VERY good at double talking.. he is good at subtle minipulation and twisting things. I think if we weren't pulling his strings.. I think Eric would have either been evicted ASAP because they could sense he was that good of a player.. OR he could have gone pretty far. From day one I was never an Eric fan as a person.. So I don't LOVE him.. I certainly don't hate him... But I think he would have been a great player.. AS his own player... cuz he really has pulled off some major stuff in this game.. Gotta give the boy credit!
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Spunky
Member
10-08-2001
| Thursday, August 16, 2007 - 8:03 pm
I think what gives Eric the confidence to turn the house upside down is the fact that he is acting on behalf of America. If it had to be his game he wouldn't have done what he did with Dustin. He would have been much more cautious. I was thinking about your same point and was telling myself, it's like being in a dream, you know it's not real and you do the things you wouldn't do it if it was for real. I would have had the same courage as Eric knowing that I had America's behind my outrageous actions. And also, I would laugh it off if all came to a disaster because I always can tell the others: Hey, I had to do what I had to do because America told me... (I hope he will take the blame for the Nick goof up). I also started a thread to talk about what if Eric is going to run the show with Daniele as HOH and if she'll let him knowing something is up with Eric. So, yep, kudos for Eric for pulling this off but again he had a big chunk of people telling him so.
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Sunnyside
Member
07-16-2007
| Thursday, August 16, 2007 - 8:08 pm
From tonight's show I think it was maybe the first time Eric actually sounded like he was playing for America. I do not think he would of made it this far on his own. Sometimes it does not seem he stops and thinks before he acts.
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Thursday, August 16, 2007 - 8:27 pm
I like Eric and have actually become quite protective of him--I think he is a little cutie and doing the best he can.
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Cousin_jake
Member
07-04-2002
| Thursday, August 16, 2007 - 8:33 pm
I don't love him or hate him. (except for the incest comments - ugh!) He's finally playing the way the majority of voters want him to, so that's a good thing. I don't get the Jess/Eric relationship. I guess everybody likes to find someone in the house that they feel that they can totally trust but I just don't get any heat from them. (even though Eric seems to! LOL)
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Guinevere
Member
03-15-2001
| Thursday, August 16, 2007 - 10:31 pm
I find him annoying, and some of his comments really offensive. If I liked him, I would "work with him" in terms of voting in ways that would help him in the game. But since I don't, I feel no obligation to help him - I'm always surprised when I see posts that get angry about how "we" are not helping Eric, as if it's some moral imperative. Maybe if he hadn't called Jen "fat" (!) and implied that the Donatos engaged in incest, I'd get over my distaste for his mugging and other irritating habits, and be willing to not throw a wrench into his game. As it is, I feel no compunction about being as sadistic as I feel like being.
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Penpoint
Member
03-27-2001
| Thursday, August 16, 2007 - 11:05 pm
As America's Player, Eric has been put in one impossible position after another, and he has been brilliant! The voting viewers seem to be taking particular glee in doing everything they can to sabotage his game, and still he is able to turn around his strategies and survive. Since he has been able to do what he has done, I have no doubt that he would have performed just as brilliantly without the burden of the viewers' interference. Funny that Kaysar thought himself to be such a clever strategist, but he couldn't come near to matching Eric's mental agility. Eric has my utmost respect.
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Sanfranjoshfan
Member
09-17-2000
| Thursday, August 16, 2007 - 11:11 pm
That says it all, Penpoint!
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Tide
Member
08-11-2006
| Thursday, August 16, 2007 - 11:21 pm
Ditto, Penpoint.
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Kearie
Member
07-21-2005
| Thursday, August 16, 2007 - 11:35 pm
My first impression is still the one I have. From the first moment on TV...(no feeds) he looked very sneaky and nervous. I got this immediate dislike for him. I felt he would be mean and go for the jugular to win. Felt he shouldn't be trusted by anyone. I still feel the same. I HATE his incest comments and dislike him as a person for that. It's just wrong to even think that stuff about other people. He does seem to do well with manipulating the game and players. I think BB is helping him out, more so than others. I'm not sure how he would do in a straight game. He seems fun and likable. My votes for him aren't to hurt him, they are to help D & D.
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Uncle_ricky
Member
07-02-2007
| Thursday, August 16, 2007 - 11:47 pm
I love that he is putatively heterosexual, nipples rings and all. That arching eyebrow that punctuates every sentence he utters is a major irritant. But no matter how much I dislike him, I am grateful that his machinations this week helped to not only get Dustin booted, it also saved the season from officially turning into a copy of season six <55>
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Shopstomuch
Member
07-09-2007
| Thursday, August 16, 2007 - 11:47 pm
At first I really actually liked him and liked this idea. Then he got very cocky and it was like we were playing for him and he even seemed ticked off that he was having to do or vote what America voted which did irritate me because he knew he was doing this and agreed. And while we may be voting or doing something to help D&D, this also really did help Eric. Eric was the low man on the totem pole on that LNC alliance and would have been the first put up. This at least takes him to the final 4 and then it is an every man for himself thing.
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Willsfan
Member
09-04-2000
| Friday, August 17, 2007 - 12:03 am
<<<That arching eyebrow that punctuates every sentence he utters is a major irritant. >>> ITA I hate that too. LOL I don't really like for Eric, but IF I were in the BB house I might think he's funny and perhaps trustworthy. The view I have on the outside looking in (LFs) is that he appears very sneaky and his rant against Jen and other things he has said about HG's are not what I would have wanted the AP to say but that's his gameplay. That's really my only fault with him. At this point I don't care if we wins money for tasks or not & I don't know yet if I would want him to be this years winner. Depends on who is in the Final 4.
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Bbonthego
Member
08-06-2007
| Friday, August 17, 2007 - 1:19 am
I hate how he sold out his alliance with Dustin just because America told him to. Yes it's fun to see him squirm at being told to do outrageous things (he actually does more outrageous things on his own), but where does it end? He needs to have the courage to say no to America, when it's become quite clear that America has lost it's mind. Ever since he was on the block and America told him to flatter Dick instead of Amber, it's been made quite obvious that nothing he can do (even evicting Dustin) is good enough.
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Penpoint
Member
03-27-2001
| Friday, August 17, 2007 - 10:06 am
Unfortunately, Bbonthego, Eric has no choice in the matter. He doesn't vote; America does. And to save himself he has to take an action that will match America's vote. Thus, his selling out of the alliance. I agree with you, when it comes to voting, America has lost it's mind. Too many voters get some perverse pleasure in casting votes for the worst that is offered. How else to explain the election successes of Sunjaya, George W. Bush, and Evel Dick!

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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Friday, August 17, 2007 - 10:10 am
Pen...I think America was working with Eric until he stopped working with them. Now that he is back to working with America, they are also working with him again, as evidenced by America choosing Amber for him to get nominated this week. It was Eric's choosing his own way and showing his anger about the choices that turned him off for the voters.
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Wavelength
Member
07-25-2007
| Friday, August 17, 2007 - 10:30 am
They chose Amber!!!! I am so excited. I was so afraid it would be Jess and they would ruin the little showmance we get to watch. It is the only cute thing on BB After Dark. Otherwise it is just Amber rambling on and on and Jameka mm hmming incessantly. Yay!!
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Jeanne
Member
07-15-2005
| Friday, August 17, 2007 - 10:47 am
I think Eric will be very happy with that choice!
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Wilsonatmd
Member
01-23-2001
| Friday, August 17, 2007 - 10:54 am
We'll never know what kind of player Eric would have been because of the AP twist. I think he's a good player, but he's been thrown so many curveballs it's screwed up his strategies. (I'm not crying for him tho...he's got $20K banked likely, and because of his new alliance, I expect him to get another 10 grand before this is over).
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Frogichik
Member
06-11-2002
| Friday, August 17, 2007 - 10:58 am
I like Eric now that he learned to stop playing his personal strategy and start playing America's as he was put in the house to do. I will try to support him a lot more and I like him being in the house.
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Friday, August 17, 2007 - 12:04 pm
The eyebrows do not play well on TV.
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Bonbonlover
Member
07-13-2000
| Friday, August 17, 2007 - 12:12 pm
The eyebrows...The lazy eye stare ... the cadence of his voice... the pairing every sentence with a laughtrack... none of these things play well on TV or feeds...
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Kmjm
Member
05-19-2002
| Friday, August 17, 2007 - 12:26 pm
I'm sorry that Eric has to play for "america" since I obviously do not agree with what "america" thinks- or at least that portion of "america" that used the votebots to evict Dustin instead of Dick. (But then I am Canadian, lol.) I don't enjoy watching Eric have to do things that screw his game and benefit the Donatos. Still I think he has done remarkably well under very difficult conditions and I'd like to see him and Jess as the final 2.
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Kidsatm
Member
07-08-2005
| Friday, August 17, 2007 - 12:38 pm
I am not a huge Eric fan, however I do think he has good game and has done a remarkable job with AP. Can you imagine some of the other players being forced to vote or campaign in a way that goes against what they think?
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Nynana
Member
05-31-2005
| Friday, August 17, 2007 - 12:38 pm
When he was in the DR last night talking about the Dustin vote and the one eyebrow kept going up my dh and I both decided he looks like Spocks illegitamate son...the ears, the eyebrow and the new haircut LOL. I don't like or dislike him but can not accept his incest remarks and the fact that he is always trashing Jen. I think he does this because he knows that she is a good BB player and he is scared of her so he wants her gone. The one thing he does and I have to FF through it is overtalk everything with anyone he is talking stradegy with. He and Zach both need to learn to make their point <mostly good ones> and be done with it. I have said for the last 2 weeks now, if he makes it to sequester house, he will be final 3, then it will be manipulated so he goes to sequester so we get our vote. BB maniuplated DR's to get him to be kept, they will manipulate to get him to sequester.
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