What is Danni doing Right?
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Bbrules4ever

Thursday, August 29, 2002 - 09:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
how is she escaping nomination every week?

Wendo

Thursday, August 29, 2002 - 09:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, I don't know if she's going to escape this week? She could easily go on the block, just like everyone else.

Dagny

Thursday, August 29, 2002 - 09:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
she plants her seeds...and then nearly "forbids" them to talk about it. Always finding an excuse why they should discuss it with the HG in question.

Bmh

Thursday, August 29, 2002 - 09:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Obviously she is doing something right..by escaping it's crazy..if she doesn't get nominated this week..which I doubt she will be..then she will be like bunky and hardy who both didn't get nominated until very late in the game

Puck1021

Thursday, August 29, 2002 - 10:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I know that most agree as I do that it is sickening that she throws HoH every week, but if you ask what is she doing right, that would be it. HoH is a dangerous position, especially in the beginning when there is a house full of people, because of the smaller cliques and the jealousy, HoH puts a target on your back. When the people dwindle as they have now, HoH is a much safer position, Dani has made allies now, Jason, Lisa and (Marc is a?), but if she had won HoH in the beginning she would have made more enemy's then allies. What she did right was to throw the HoH competitions. Gerry made the mistake of winning and using the power of Veto in the beginning, that is something else Dani has avoided. Everyone else that has won Veto realized after Gerry used it that using it only makes one ally (if you consider Marc an ally) and makes more enemies. Dani even though I do not like her tactics, she has played the game exceptionally well. Throwing the HoH competitions until you have more on your side, then you have against you is a good strategy. I hope next year, if there is a next year the HoH competitions will be created so the HG’s can not throw the HoH.

Guiltyviewer

Friday, August 30, 2002 - 07:39 am EditMoveDeleteIP
NOT winning a competition for HOH/POV can be just as effective strategically as winning it, if not more so. Each hg has had different circumstances at different points in the game with varying degrees of safety and jeopardy. To win HOH when you are part of a powerful majority is less risky than when you are in a small (and secret) alliance, as Danielle and Jason have been.
I'm not sure if I'm remembering this correctly so feel free to set the record straight if my memory has failed me, but didn't Will avoid becoming HOH, too? Not that Dani or any other hg is trying to follow Will's path (except possibly Josh if you accept his claim of trying to play a role) but there is a lot of benefit to NOT going for that HOH crown sometimes.

Draco

Friday, August 30, 2002 - 07:42 am EditMoveDeleteIP
She is not making enemies. She uses her humour and intelligence to win people over. She hasn't been HOH and had to make any hard decisions. She talks about people behind their backs but hasn't been caught. I'm not a Danielle fan. In fact, I want her outta there but she's obviously doing something right.

Dee723

Friday, August 30, 2002 - 07:43 am EditMoveDeleteIP
The only person who called her on it was Lori and look where that got her. I think Dani HAS been caught before. Didn't Marcellas overhear her once? For whatever reason they all seem to tiptoe around her, I say enough, put her on the chopping block for a week.

Blossumtree

Friday, August 30, 2002 - 07:45 am EditMoveDeleteIP
she's Bizzaro Roddy.

Letmeinthere

Friday, August 30, 2002 - 07:48 am EditMoveDeleteIP
She must realize that taking Jason with her to the final is a big mistake. Who was Dani's partner in the first show in the bird nest? Are there still partners in the house? That could be a strategy that none of us have thought about. Each week those partners stay together means more money.

Nimtu

Friday, August 30, 2002 - 07:49 am EditMoveDeleteIP
In addition to throwing HOH she has actually managed to make them feel sorry for her cause she hasn't ever gotten to be HOH.

Crazydog

Friday, August 30, 2002 - 07:53 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Letmeinthere, the only people who got money were the winners of the tree competition, which were Jason and Lori. Lori was evicted after one week, so they shared $3,000. (Or maybe $6,000 since it seems the first eviction didn't happen for two weeks.) The rest of them don't get any money.

Dani's partner was Marc. He threw a fit after she stepped down.

Letmeinthere

Friday, August 30, 2002 - 08:02 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Crazydog, wasn't sure what was happening with the bird nest money.

Jaysgal

Friday, August 30, 2002 - 08:19 am EditMoveDeleteIP
She didn't throw the competition this time. I'm tired of the assumption that she's some genius that would win HOH competition had she not intentionally thrown it.

In this particular case, Danielle wanted that position so badly and so did Roddy. You could see the look on Danielle's body language as she and Lisa were disqualified. She really wanted to win it, especially as Roddy was still in the game and Lisa was out at the same time.

Danielle has escaped nomination because people assume that a woman and black is not a threat at all and she tries to draw them nearer to her as a mother figure by doing the stupid gossipping and pretending to care about them.

She is going to be nominated at some point. In all likelihood, she will be nominated by Marcellas. I cannot imagine Marcellas putting Amy even as a decoy after all of the drama and without consideration toward how many times she's been put up. Also, he would be leaving room for no one else to be chased but himself by the Lisa/Jason/Danielle group because they cannot nominate themselves, in spite of how eager they are to be released from the alliance as they approach the end.

Crazydog

Friday, August 30, 2002 - 08:25 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Just my opinion, but I don't think Danielle's non-nomination has anything to do with her being a woman, or with her being black. I think it has to do with her trying to stay out of the spotlight. She said as much in the DR after she got out of the tree the first week that she doesn't want to call attention to herself as a target. She has been blown out of the water since, but there have been other people to eliminate. She will surely be nominated soon, probably by Marc, and she will throw the Queen of all hissy fits.

Blossumtree

Friday, August 30, 2002 - 08:27 am EditMoveDeleteIP
just wait til dani finally gets her perm, then she'll really be a force to reckon with.

Nimtu

Friday, August 30, 2002 - 08:30 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I could be wrong, however, didn't Danielle state that she was going to throw the HOH comp?

Keiffer

Friday, August 30, 2002 - 08:56 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Regardless of throwing or not, she has not been HoH and either by luck or design that has helped. She has been able to sit back and smack talk about how bad HoH's have acted, or people nomminated have acted and not been put into a postion to live up to her words. She has been able to talk about loyalty and trust but has never been put into a postion to show she deserves it.

She may, and more than likely will make it to the final two, but unless people get very forgiving once they are out for awhile she will loose in the final two against anyone excpet Amy I think.

Spunky

Friday, August 30, 2002 - 09:33 am EditMoveDeleteIP
She escaped so far because there were others they wanted out before her, the same thing goes for the questions why Roddy is still in the house.
They are running out of the hated ones and now they will have to put her up even for the only reason they will give that she was never nominated so far...and the same goes for Jason... watch Marcellas may say the Clash of the Titans but he'll go for the lambs...

Sheila494

Friday, August 30, 2002 - 09:36 am EditMoveDeleteIP
i think that even though danielle is supposedly fun and a lot of laughs..she has an intimidating presence..and i think a lot of people in the house are scared of her quite frankly..i guess shes put the fear of god in them.

Maryk

Friday, August 30, 2002 - 09:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I agree Sheila. Also she talks about Roddy making deals, but she is the one who has the most deals to the end with Marci, Jason and Lisa. Those 3 will never nominate or evict her. Thats what she is doing "right."