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So Jordan won. Which was really no surprise to anyone, except maybe Jordan herself. But then again, everything surprised Jordan. You probably could have told her that Julie was a robot and she would have believed it. She won the show purely by dumb luck, which sounds mean, but is true. She claimed that her best strategic move in the game was winning the final HoH, but she won both stages of the competition by chance. She rolled the balls into the right holes better than Natalie, but everyone is a better competitor than Natalie, and then she basically wrote a random number on a chalkboard and won her spot in the final two. I can't even pretend to think that she actually calculated how many votes to evict were cast during the course of the season. She is not a math genius, or any kind of genius.
She didn't have any strategy or ability to read people. She was probably the only person in the house who was shocked to find out that Natalie lied about her age. The only decision she made on her own, without the help of Jeff, was to take Natalie to the final two with her instead of Kevin (though part of me wonders if Jeff sort of guided her on the final two scenarios before he left). I'd like to think she was smart enough to do it herself, but given her babbling speech about how she trusted everyone and just acted like herself as a strategy, I'm more than a bit skeptical.
The jury didn't necessarily vote for her to win; they just really, really hated Natalie. Obviously America cast their vote for her because she's cute and likable, unlike the irksome Natalie, but I would have been curious as to how America would have voted if Kevin had been in the final two and how the former housemates would have voted, because they seemed to respect Kevin's attempts to strategize.
As for this season, aside from a few blow ups early on, Jeff's use of the Coup D'Etat and the Chima meltdown, it was filled with pretty dull people doing very dull things -- so it's not surprising that the winner was equally dull. Even the new twist in which the final three were kept in the house until the needlessly long two-hour finale was overly complicated with ridiculous rules. This show really shouldn't be this hard. I just hope that for next summer, the producers take some of our advice on how to make it more interesting.
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If Kevin had made it into the final 2 he definitely would have had the Jury votes locked up. Jordan's best decision was NOT taking him to the final 2. Natalie didn't win, that's good enough for me.
I'm glad Jordan won, because despite her complete lack of intellect, I think she's probably a genuinely decent person. Seriously, though, this season was like a roomful of monkeys with typewriters. The best gameplayer was probably Laura, and she was booted super early. I've never seen such buffoonery disguised as strategery, except for the Bush Administration.
Agreed.. all of the strategic players took each other out and left the 3 monkeys to duke it out in the end.
However, given the final 2.. I'm happy with the result.
I can't think of any season of BB in which a nicer person won. Jordan may not have played hard, but she outlasted everyone else who might've gotten the votes. There's something about her -- so unaffected and naturally disarming -- that makes me really glad she won.
Natalie is loathsome, period. I would've been happy if she'd lost to Jeff, Kevin, Russell, especially Michelle, anyone but creepy Ronnie and insane jerk Chima. So the fact that Jordan was not much of a player doesn't bother me. Better a blank slate than one covered in ranted obscenities.
The icing on the cake was Natalies supposed "best friend" Jessie didnt even vote for her to win!
She may have been "lucky" in the final HOH, but Kevin didn't help his cause by saying there were 80 votes, Natalie should not have dropped in the first HOH.
Also Kevin seemed pretty shocked that Gnat was 24, and so did many of the others when they were told in the jury house.
Not saying that Jordan was a great player, however she was a better player than either Kevin or Nat when it counted.
I do agree though that people were voting against Natalie, and not for Jordan, and it would have been a more interesting vote if it was Jordan vs Kevin.
I was hoping Kevin would win. Natalie lied so much , I did not like her. Good for Jordan for winning. This is my favorite show to watch while enjoying coffee with my coffeemate.
I would have been happy if either Kevin or Jordan won. Really as long as Natalie did not win I was happy.
I agree with pretty much everything that has been said. I think Kevin played the better game out of the final three, and I would have loved to see him in the final two, because I think he could have won against any of them. Kudos to Jordan for taking Natalie.
hell jordan did a good thing. if she had taken kevin it wouldve been a 100 percent win. natalie doesnt win shi she gives up. good going jordan. you were a better player than natlie and you deserved to win out of you 2.
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