August 25, 2006
2nd double eviction week on 'BB7'
By JOHN POWELL -- JAM! Showbiz
James Rhine, another victim of Big Brother's Chill Town Alliance.
READER ALERT: THIS STORY CONTAINS SPOILERS
Watching the 'Challenge of the Super Friends' animated series as a kid, I always rooted for the Legion of Doom over the Boy/Girl Scouts of the Justice League.
I mean, come on. The Legion of Doom had Lex Luthor, The Scarecrow, Black Manta and Sinestro while the Justice League allowed the utterly useless Aquaman to join their ranks. Aquaman? Yeah, he's the dude who could communicate with aquatic animals, which of course made him totally ineffective on land, in space or in the air. I swear the others members just kept him around because they needed someone to clean the pool and pilot Wonder Woman's jet while she was busy kicking some ass.
On the seventies television series, The Legion of Doom was continually torn apart by conflicts within the group. Big Brother's version of the sinister alliance has now met the same fate. Big Brother's Legion of Doom self-destructed on Thursday night's live eviction show. Unable to trust the wily James Rhine, Chill Town took it upon themselves to dissolve the alliance by masterminding James' eviction after he lost a controversial Veto Competition. Danielle Reyes, James' other Legion of Doom stablemate, has vowed revenge on the Chill Town turncoats.
"It's All-Stars. I got beat by the best. I kinda like going out this way at the hands of Will, Boogie and Janelle. I got beat by the best and I had some fun," James said while he sat on the Couch of Shame with host Julie Chen. "I took this game way too seriously in the beginning to where it was not a game for me and I didn't have that much fun but I started to move away from that."
Presuming that he felt betrayed by his Season Six Alliance last year, some fans thought James came into the house looking for revenge against them even though he does view them as friends outside the 'Big Brother' house. As those who watch the 24/7 Internet feeds can attest to, James especially had it in for Janelle Pierzina.
"I got really mad with Janelle because I could see at the beginning that she had tossed me under the bus the first few weeks. I don't know how much of that got shown (on television)," James explained. "She sold me out to Jase. She sold me out to Chill Town. She sold me out to Alison...and...I think that was it for the first week. At that point, I knew this was not someone that was going to be working with me."
James justified turning on his Season Six pals because he says they broke promises to him about nominations and strategy when he was supposed to be a solid member of their alliance.
"I could only give them so many chances," he said.
For the first time this season, footage from the sequester house aired with Marcellas Reynolds fuming about having to spend a week alone with Howie Gordon. Marcellas called Howie a bully off camera and told Howie to his face not to call him by the nickname 'Marcie' any more.
As the series heads into to another double eviction week with next Thursday's show featuring two boots, Erika became the new Head of Household after winning a trivia competition named "But First..." after Julie Chen's favourite catch phrase on the series. Erika's nominations for eviction will air on this Sunday's episode of 'Big Brother: All-Stars'.
As for how next Thursday's double eviction episode will work, CBC states "that what normally plays out in one week, will play out in one hour, with the first ever live HOH, veto competition, nominations, veto meeting and double eviction taking place all in one hour of television on Thursday. Aug. 31 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT)".
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