Adding to your kudos on Johnny Mac, I believe he was a have-not this past week, so winning his way back into House on a slop diet is even more commendable. You would think swinging on a pole would have been more in Jackie’s wheelhouse. I’m mildly (yet pleasantly) surprised not to hear Johnny’s efforts being discredited as just another “Production conspiracy.”

Had he hung on longer and won HOH we’d have the same result. He told Julie, the studio audience, and all of the viewers Meg would be his primary target...and going that route it would make sense to put her up with James.

I’ll chime in with you (and Michel) wanting to see the twins nominated against each other.

Hey, you might get your wish with Meg. She could very well follow the same script as Spenser and Victoria and float her way to the F3. I’m not sure what Production could possibly conjure up for the there-part final competition that would be in Meg’s wheelhouse, but some fans believe Production has become quite proficient in “rigging” competitions so anything is possible. Even if your “wish” comes true, NO ONE would believe she was deliberately tanking prior comps. It would be more like Wesley Snipe’s quote in White Men Can’t Jump that “even the sun shines on a dog’s ass some days.”

As for James not pressing harder to remind Vanessa about the “deal”...you accurately assessed Vanessa as the biggest rat, liar, etc. so the attempt would have been futile. And reneging on the Shelli/Clay “deal” completely cripples whatever bargaining power he might try to work up.