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Originally Posted by JayP
Pandora's Box has been opened every time it's been in the game. It's easy to go online and say "she has to resist the temptation", but every player it's been offered to has done it. And from what I've read, Porsche was saying all that day that they were setting up Pandora's Box and that if it was offered to her she wouldn't open it...and then she goes and opens it for $5000. Smells like production persuading her to open it to me...
And I don't see how a final 3 deal with Jeff and Jordan is at all beneficial to Shelly. So you get the final 3 with two people you outright know are going to choose the other for the final 2. And this is someone who's struggled with competitions all year going against someone who is pretty good (but not great) at competitions in Jeff. Either way, saying it's a bad move because Jeff/Jordan said it behind closed doors is irrelevant. You can't judge any strategy with the complete omnipotence of the cam feeds - you judge it based off of the information people have on hand themselves.
This season hasn't been much different than many others in terms of strong/weak players it's just that the "strong" players are really mediocre in the end. Brendon/Rachel are great at competitions, but have zero interest/ability in playing the other side of the game and are always targets. Jeff is mediocre at everything - he would've been out early his first season if production didn't hand him the ridiculous coup d'etat and he went into this season with an instant alliance and an automatic vote/ally on his side in Jordan. Danielle is decent at everything, but isn't great at anything either. If there were people who were actually good as the veterans they would've cruised to the final 6 and made for an interesting final few weeks. Instead all the veterans blew each other up and it's useless players like Jordan and Adam left.
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Same thing with Kalia and Porsche. They have a final 2 deal and Shelly knew that too.
Russell and Lydia were the nominees when he got it and they were already down to the final 9 (the jury). So Lydia would have left and then there would have been 8 left. Jeff got 5th place in that game. He might have gotten 6th or 7th but hard to say who would have won the next HOH (would have been Jessie/Natalie/Kevin vs Jeff/Russell/Jordan/Michelle).