Watching Reality TV

And here are the recaps of the episode from last night, in case you missed it:

• Big Brother Craze
• Television without Pity
• TV Squad
• CBS.com’s recap and full episode video

Surprisingly, Amber isn’t weeping! Yet. Jameka is in “tough as nails” mode. Eric gives a lame apology to them, saying he thought it would be him. OH PLEASE. Boy, just hush. You’re not fooling anyone. Jessica does a pretty good job of playing innocent with Jen, like they’re all against Dick and Daniele like they always have been. She’s better at it than Eric, at least. Course, she couldn’t be much worse.

Cut to some footage of Eric and Jessica flirting. She’s just totally into him and it’s hysterical! Zach admits to liking to “block” Eric when he’s working Jessica. Cuz he’s just a nice guy that way! Yeah, especially when he makes noises about her breasts. Whatever. If I were Eric I’d be pissed. But he does look pretty pissed so there you go.

Amber and Jameka moan about how they’re the only decent people in the house. *snort* And Amber has had a vision from GOD that she’s going to win POV. Mm. Right. It’s “her time” though. She promises that there’s no more crying but hello? Is that tears I see? Yeah, you and your POV there, Amber.

Back from break, Eric gets his woobie assignment. He’s just horrified. But very pleased when he learns the person he needs to share it with is Jessica. Aw come on, I think Dick would have been great, don’t you? Jessica of course totally bought it. She was happy to bestowed with it, even. Too funny. I bet she won’t be happy when it’s all over and done though, will she? Oops, Eric IS a liar!

And Daniele? Is sick of Jen. She goes on to talk about everything about her that she’s sick of. Zach wonders how she’s still in the house. Daniele is so over her. Zach? You’re not planting seeds and you’re not a force to be reckoned with. Daniele has already said she wants to backdoor Jen. This is no big shocking revelation here.

The POV players are playing not only for veto but for a top secret trip out of the house. The players are: Dick, Daniele, Jameka, Amber, Jessica and Zach. Eric, was denied yet again. Eric gets to host. Again. Dick is actually being NICE this week, which is sort of eerie. It’s like he doesn’t have reason to fight, he just feels THAT secure.

During the competition, it was just so obvious that Amber was trying to mainline God or something. She looked practically constipated. IT’S A GAME! She was thinking way too hard about it all. And… Daniele wins POV! HA! That was awesome. Jen was even happy when she won the veto, the fool. Dick is insanely proud. Amber is completely wrecked. Looks like she’s going to break that “no crying” thing she had going there. Har. Hey, at least she gets to go on the secret trip, right?

So Amber is thinking of making a deal with Daniele and Daniele is thinking of making a deal with Amber. I don’t see Daniele taking Jameka off the blog, to be honest, so that makes sense. As much as Amber bugs me. But she and Daniele make their deal and Amber swears on her daughter. Again. She actually gave up quite a bit to be saved and Daniele was like, “Okay!” She wasn’t expecting that much safety from Amber, so she just let Amber volunteer it. Very wise indeed.

Dick and Eric talk strategy and that seems to be going very well, interestingly enough. They’re getting along amazingly well. This is really, really weird. The veto ceremony goes pretty much as planned. Ho hum. Very anti-climactic. But Amber did start crying again. And had a pretty good “woe is me” speech too. So yeah, Daniele takes Amber off the block and puts Jen up. HA! I don’t think Jen was expecting that at ALL. She played it off in typical Jen fashion, but I think she was surprised. Jen expects to be around next week, which is pretty funny. Doesn’t she understand what being backdoored means? Obviously not.

The mystery trip! Amber and Daniele discover they’re going to New York City! They’ll get to be on the new “Power of 10″ game show hosted by Drew Carey! Wee! Bah. Cross-show promotion! Amber looks ready to lose her nut while Daniele seems to be taking it in stride. But excited. So when does this trip take place? Soon, it sounds like.