Big Brother 14

[Mizzougrad96]

I don't agree that Dan evicting Shane was a mistake. He was playing the odds. If it's him, Shane and Danielle in the Final 3, the only way he makes the finals is by winning the three-part HOH competition.

Dan's a great player, but competitions are not his strength.

If Shane or Danielle win, he gets evicted. Based on the reaction to him yesterday, I don't know that he would have beaten any of them in jury. Danielle would have been close. Shane would have beaten him.

 

[Bradley Guire]

Dan didn't have a chance, no matter who went with him to the finale. Too many people voting with emotions, not logic. And when the little fella played just as good a game without hurting people's feelings ... it was a no brainer who was going to win. Dan is still a sliver-tongued *******, and he's awesome. I've never watched this show until this season, because I just didn't get the appeal. Dan made me understand.

One of you should audition.

 

[FootballScribe]

I do think it's entirely possible Dan wouldn't have won against any of them. But I also think that he might have been able to beat Shane or Danielle if for no other reason than he could have talked circles around them with the jury. Ian was a nightmare for him because he not only had a good case but he was able to state it well also. I don't think Danielle or Shane could've done the same.

 

[The Big Ragu]

I do think it's entirely possible Dan wouldn't have won against any of them. But I also think that he might have been able to beat Shane or Danielle if for no other reason than he could have talked circles around them with the jury. Ian was a nightmare for him because he not only had a good case but he was able to state it well also. I don't think Danielle or Shane could've done the same.

According to Britney in the interviews afterward, Dan wouldn't have won against a bottle of ketchup. It was decided by the time they left the jury house. Jenn's vote is evidence of that, because she had a nasty hatred of Ian and voted for him.

Dan was smug and overestimated his chances. He thought he'd have Danielle and Jenn. And Ian would have Britney and Frank. He thought it was a wildcard after that and thought he could charm his way into the money.

Both of them overestimated how well Danielle would have done. They thought she was well liked in the jury house, and were afraid of her, when in reality no one in the jury respected her game.

Dan got himself to the final two. Either Ian or Danielle would have carried him there, so he hedged his bets right. He had zero chance of winning, so he made the right move to get himself the $50K, which was the max he was going to walk away with. If it had been him, Shane and Danielle, he conceivably wouldn't have been sitting in the final two.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Just getting to the Final 2 as a previous winner is an incredible accomplishment. In my opinion, he's the second best player in the history of the show... I would have thought that the second the coaches became players that the biggest target would have been on Boogie, with Dan a close second.

He played a brilliant game. My only issue with him was the whole "swearing on my wife" and "swearing on my grandfather's cross" some of that stuff just is really bad karma and is unnecessary.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Just getting to the Final 2 as a previous winner is an incredible accomplishment. In my opinion, he's the second best player in the history of the show... I would have thought that the second the coaches became players that the biggest target would have been on Boogie, with Dan a close second.

He played a brilliant game. My only issue with him was the whole "swearing on my wife" and "swearing on my grandfather's cross" some of that stuff just is really bad karma and is unnecessary.

I'd say he got to Final 2, and actually played the best game. But he was up against a 21-year-old who was awkwardly likeable and had talked a lot about his student debt. The people in the jury knew Dan had already won half a mil once. And on top of it, some of them thought he went a bit beyond playing the game and took it to a bad level. His maximum in that game was going to be second place. He got it. That is impressive.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Yeah, there was something about Ian that just made you root for him. I don't think you could say that about anyone else this season, except maybe Frank because it took them so many tries to get rid of him.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Ian was surprising. The first week, when Boogie was basically trying to get him to not act like a dork, you really thought that socially he was going to annoy people and hasten his exit. But he settled down nicely. Then he was really smart about getting people to underestimate him. Knowing your weaknesses and using them to your advantage is a sign of good game play. I don't think it really affected anything, but when it came to the final speeches, Ian nailed his, and for all of Dan's polish, he came off as scripted and fake. Ian came across as poised, sincere and made a case for himself. He is so damned awkward that it is just stunning that he manages to find poise in moments like that and essentially be a completely different person.

 

[Pancamo]

Dan's coach-speak drove me nuts. What kind of football coach is stuck in a house until September 19th?

 

[imjustagirl]

I found the one person who hates Ian: My mom. She's PISSED.

 

[Point of Order]

Dan didn't have a chance, no matter who went with him to the finale. Too many people voting with emotions, not logic. And when the little fella played just as good a game without hurting people's feelings ... it was a no brainer who was going to win. Dan is still a sliver-tongued *******, and he's awesome. I've never watched this show until this season, because I just didn't get the appeal. Dan made me understand.

One of you should audition.

I'd like to. I need to have a really well defined & scripted character for casting auditions. working on it.