Ocean Island's Summary for August 30, 2002
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Ocean Island's Summary for August 30, 2002
Ocean_Islands | Saturday, August 31, 2002 - 09:10 am     Ocean Island's Live Feed Summary August 30 2002 Deep game day. Food fights. Bubbles burst. Scales fall from eyes. Bitterness spouts. Amy grows up. And Marcellus and Danielle are triumphant . . . . . Here are some random revelations from Houseguests on Friday:
Roddy is a psychology major. Well surpraz, surpraz.
Marcellus says what he likes most with Jason is how nice Jason has been towards him.
Jason admits to being hyperactive and says if he was younger he might take medication. He also admits to extreme anger when playing rummicub with Danielle .... suddenly he gets quiet; because if he opened his mouth at all, he'd go off on her.
Marcellus played cards with the shark floaty and had a conversation with it. Boo was not there, but this is eerily Michael Jackson-like, isn't it?
Amy is an expert at playing "Minesweeper". = = = = = Marcellus discretely questioned Danielle about her position in the house with him and in general. He said she would be surprised by the nominations, but pleasantly so. She confirmed that she wanted him with her in the end. He wants to know if she has overextended herself, with too many alliances, but she says she has not. Food competition involved searching for keys for each day in a bunch of pies. It ended up like a big pie fight and a big mess. But they found all the days so they don't have to eat peanut butter and jelly at all. The rest of the day was recovering from the pie fight until nominations. Then the proverbial chocolate mousse hit the proverbial ventilator. We find Amy in tears; Roddy sullen and listless, and the truth becomes apparent: Marcellus has nominated Amy and Roddy. Not only that, but he apparently lashed out at Amy during his nomination speech. Afterwards Amy did not get up from the table for over a half an hour, crying. Roddy and Marcellus adjourned to the back garden and immediately started rehashing the whole thing. Roddy seemed to have lost all finesse and simply was saying what he thought (or thought he thought, or thought they thought he thought, or .... ) directly and without apparent perspective, as if he had given up all strategy. But that is in itself a strategy ... a poor one! He told Marcellus that HE is the jackal in the nest of vipers, not Roddy. This must be what Marcellus told him during the nominations. Without reiterating each volley of the match, Roddy insisted that Marcellus (and later Danielle when she joined the conversation) were very wrong, had treated him badly, and wrongly nominated him. They went back and forth, Roddy cleverly making both Marcellus and Danielle know how 'bad' they were without actually saying it . . . and he ended up by saying to Marcellus, "I forgive you (for your manipulative lying ways)." This was a brilliant play that was, unfortunately, used in the wrong game, because it fell flat and Roddy was cut off deftly, swiftly and without rancor by Marcellus who simply stood up and said, "I can't do this anymore," and left. Roddy was left sputtering to Danielle, who clearly had no sympathy for him either, but at least listened. Roddy claims not to know why Marcellus is mad, but that has to be a lie, how could it not be? Marcellus is in no way any more fooled by Roddy. It's hard to know if Roddy believes himself or is lying to himself. Amy was upset not at the nomination but at Marcellus's speech. In talking with Danielle, woman to woman, she cried deeply, but at the same time showed some perspective, that she is learning about her self. In addition, Danielle tried to get her to see that she is looking for attention in group settings. It was a heartfelt conversation, and Danielle seemed caring. She encouraged Amy to go to her friend Marcellus and try to understand why he would make such a hurtful speech to her. Amy listens to her and goes immediately to Marcellus, who is now in the HOH, and they have a rehashing of their relationship but Marcellus makes it clear that he does not want her out of the house. They ended by hugging and saying that they loved each other. I'm not clear that they addressed the items in the speech, though. Marcellus is looking like a very strong player right now; but viewers have to ask themselves if -- like me -- you believed it when the television show indicated that Marcellus and Roddy had a 'deal' when they were in the hot tub. Marcellus may have been starry eyed around Roddy, but that didn't mean he totally lost his head. Maybe he was playing Roddy to make Roddy out the fool . .. it's possible he didn't but maybe he did. Marcellus claims to Amy, later, that he doesn't think he's going to make it to the end game. Roddy told Marcellus he is getting kicked out for playing the game well, but Marcellus disagreed and told him it is because he has not been playing well, in other words, he has aligned himself with bad people and done bad things. Now did Marcellus and Roddy have a deal to 'go to the end together' or not? Roddy thinks they did, Marcellus thinks they didn't. Didn't we see them shake hands on tv at the hot tub? Maybe they heard different things: Roddy might have heard: "You and I will be in the end, and one of us will get $50 gs and the other will get the $500 gs." Marcellus might have heard: "You and I will be in bed together after the game is over." Conversations all over the place, but nobody is getting snowed despite Roddy's biggest efforts to date. He overplays his hand so much that Amy sees right through him, goes running to Marcellus telling him how much she sees through Roddy now. Poor Roddy . . . he has everyone to blame but himself. He feels F'd over by Marcellus, Jason, and Danielle, but he is proud of everything he has done in the house. Roddy claims this show is the "Survivor of Scaredy Cats" -- since they were always afraid when he hung out with someone -- and perception is apparently everything. This is a psychology major? In a conversation with Lisa, Roddy told her that he knew he was leaving. She said she was sorry that he was angry, and was wondering if that was how he was in reality. He responded defensively to this and claimed not to be angry at all. Lisa tells him she thinks he is beautiful person and that she hates to see the game get the best of him. Roddy says he appreciates her kindness. He says he feels powerless, which hurts. He feels that he had come up with logical reasons for why all these things happened. He feels he is nominated for something that was not true (his manipulations) and that he is being nominated because he is a strong player. Roddy feels Jason lied to him about the Eric eviction. Roddy believes that Marcellus has trashed every person in the diary room, but Roddy didn't do that sort of thing because he knew his grandpa was going to be watching. Roddy claims Danielle is the one playing the game the best -- that she got Marcellus to do her dirty work for her. Amy has become very philosophical; she is ok with the nominations, but hates the politics. She just likes learning things and feel she has learned a lot. But she hates the game and will never play it again. She hates that everything is perception. She mentioned in passing to Roddy that she hopes she leaves on Thursday. Danielle feels she has Amy's number, she tells Marcellus, separately. She believes that Amy is a strong player ... and her strong game is 'I'm so weak'. The climax of this intense evening came with salvation. Amy saw the light. Roddy, she says, is a master manipulator. She is angry. Marcellus is overjoyed. Roddy is frustrated. Lisa is compassionate. Jason is tentative. And Danielle? Danielle is looking pretty satisfied right about now. Marcellus is so satisfied that Amy understands about Roddy: "Roddy played on everything I had. All of a sudden he was my lover. He told me how much he respected me, thought of me. Now it makes sense how Chiara fell for him. We got hosed. She got played right out the damn door for him. He had me so in his pocket. Lisa learned tonight that he's a psychology major. He's playing us all. He is so contrived and diabolical. He's even constrained in the DR so there would be no negative sound bytes that could be used against him." Marcellus says Danielle must have been psychic to have been on to him so early. He thinks she deserves all the money for this. They are stunned about this newer, deeper revelation about Roddy. Chiara didn't have a chance. He turned it on and made her think he loved her. Can you imagine? In the claustrophic Big Brother world, anything is possible, contradictory truths reign, and professional help awaits the evictees at every turn, especially when they step out of the house. Need professional help? Look in your yellow pages. Just don't telephone any psychologists with the first name of "Roderick". And that was Friday August 30 at Big Brother House! |
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