With Steven and Dan nominated and Michelle winning the veto, we've got several dull days ahead of us. In the last couple of years, I guess starting with James Rhine, it seemed that vetos were continually being won by someone who was either nominated or by someone sure to use it on behalf of a nominee. For someone truly uninterested in saving either nominee to have the veto seems to draw the week out.

If I thought it over, I might be able to recall a BB season with more game play in the first week than the second, but it's certainly not very common. What seems to be happening is that players have seen what became of Brian and no one wants it to happen to them as well. Neither Steven nor Dan is especially unpopular--except with Jessie, who is more than happy to use them as punching bag proxys for the absent Brian--but they aren't critical to anyone's game so one of them, probably Steven, will be leaving us.

At some point, we're likely to see some new game activity. The Dan/Steven survivor, Jerry, Renny, and (I suppose) Angie make up an unusually large bloc of mostly unaligned players at this stage. If you include Keesha as also unaligned--I think she's considered a weak ally of Libra/Ollie/April--that would mean the unaligned are really more numerous than either of the official alliances right now (counting Memphis/Jessie/Michelle as an alliance, though a fairly below the radar one as of now). That's the sort of thing that happens in a season where social and game weak links are being carried while potential powerhouses are being targeted. It's a novelty, and not all that welcome.

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