Vote Alec

 Now.

This is not a joke.

There are plenty of reasons why Alec Beall doesn't deserve to be voted back in to Big Brother Canada. 

I'll be the first to nod my head in vehement agreement that he's played a god-awful game, which has only gotten worse in his last few days. 

He gave Peter possibly the worst advice in the history of the Big Brother game. 

He was a douche to Topaz (he can plead insecurity all he wants, but at a certain point you gotta man up, Alec.)  

Also, with Topaz out and Peter up against a four person alliance, Alec will have a tough road digging himself out of the hole he churned up this week.

The Emperor of (His Own) Doom

Some of those are also among some of the best reasons to vote him back in, though. Let's run through a few of them:

1. It will make amazing TV.

Alec and Peter's downfall was gloriously horrible to watch, and their resurrection will be just as incredible. Alec's ego will be on full fire, fanning the flames of Peter's insane Diary Rooms, and they'll send the season out with a bang.

Will they play any better? Doubtful, but at least they'll have fun playing.

Say what you will about these guys - and there's plenty to criticize - but they love the game and they play hard, and that will never not be entertaining.

The Shield Sheyld (sic, RIP)

2. He still won't win, but it will make the end of the season a contest.

Right now, due to The Shield's pure stupidity, Peter's cheese stands alone against an alliance of four. He and Alec have no one to blame but themselves, yet we're the ones stuck with a boring-ass finale of Andrew and Jillian (that's what's happening, people.)

Dumping Alec back into the game will send Team Nova Scotia scrambling and upset the apple cart for the last couple of weeks. He'll stay a huge target, and probably be booted quickly, but at least we won't be stuck with a slow march to a boring finale.

And if by some remote, unlikely chance Alec does scrape out a win, maybe he deserves it for being entertaining enough to get back in.

Day Topaz, Night Topaz 

3. He's a goof. 

This is one of the reasons why I admittedly remain an Alec fan, even after he's completely screwed up his game and his showmance. This guy never forgets that he's on TV and, ergo, is supposed to dance for us.

He has no qualms about dressing like others for the live shows, and I read somewhere that he dressed as Survivor's Boston Rob for an entire day? (How'd I miss that?) 

His campaigning was probably one of the live feed highlights this year - as bad as it was, it was pure comedy at a point. 

His exit was a hoot as well - quoting Lost and Big Brother US Season 2, failing to hit on Arisa, and sadly identifying all of his mistakes, correctly. 

This has been a great season for comedy, and inching Alec into the finals would be one way to keep the laughter going. 

You know you're thinking about it

4.  He has a shot.

Now, Alec's popularity is not high. He's largely despised on some forums for his treatment of Topaz, and is viewed as a villain by many. 

But if America can vote Brendon back into the Big Brother 13 game over the hilariously fun Cassi and Dominic (who had the misfortune of splitting the votes of a shared fanbase), it's possible that Topaz and Gary's significantly larger fanbase will fall prey to the same problem. And we know AJ isn't exactly in the running, unless his friend Murtz can manage to - well, we know AJ isn't exactly in the running.

Alec will also have the benefit of a bounce from Peter's fanbase, as Brendon benefited from Jeff and Jordan's.

So I wouldn't count him out just yet.

5.  Wouldn't it be nice to see Jillian go from this:

Crushing bones

To this?:

Crushing fear

6. He asked for it!

Help a brother out, Chevy!

Who can say no to that face? (And what was he wearing?) C'mon Chevrolet, the ultimate punchline would be for Alec to actually get the ridiculous thing he asked for in his even more ridiculous eviction speech.

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And why not Topaz? She did play a better game than Alec and had an outside chance of winning if she'd survived the Double Eviction.

Unfortunately, her failure to make a deal with Peter to get him to pull her off the block demonstrates that she doesn't have the alliance game to make it any further. (Yes, that one's on him too, but it's too late for either of them there.)

The Shield Is Broken

Right now, the only way to upset the apple cart is to get Peter a solid ally, and there's only one option for that: his bestie, his future roommate, his partner in the first alliance of Big Brother Canada: Alec Beall.

So: Canadians, Romans, countrymen, do your patriotic duty and vote Alec Beall back into the Big Brother Canada game! 

(Anyone interested in partnering on this as a "Vote for the Worst" thing, I'd enthusiastically endorse that, too - the ends justify the means, I think.) 

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

So after weeks of sitting back and narrating the game, The Shield finally sprang into action today, and we got to see their much-hyped, long-awaited game at work.

So, what's the verdict?

They...

Really...

Suck.

Sorry guys. There's always that future in comedy I mentioned awhile back.

Alec and Peter spent most of today throwing everything to the wall, and nothing stuck. The whole house is basically laughing at them.

Alec's chances are down to, well, Mundo Power, or bust.

Still, it's nice to see someone putting forth a good campaign effort this season. It may be comically bad, but at least it's made for some entertaining feeds in the process. 

Werk

It's been a day of work in the Big Brother house. 

About halfway through the day, feeds went down for a few hours for the POV ceremony and preparation for the dinner, which the house earned as a result of Peter's task from Marsha the Moose.

Putting on the moves during bedroom lockdown

Alec woke up after sleeping off last night's fight with Emmett and Jillian and immediately went to work entertaining the house and trying to get firmly on everyone's good side. He's not actively campaigning against Topaz, but... he's not exactly not campaigning, either. It's a fine line. He'll sell himself without selling her out. 

His Hail Mary, as he outlined last night, is to promise Emmett and Jillian that he would actively sit out the next Head of Household competition, a promise he's privately told Peter that he intends to stick to. 

For one week, anyway. After that, he's going after Jillian and Emmett with a vengeance.

Trying to get a word in edgewise with Talla on speed

Somehow in all the chaos of the last few days, it seems like Topaz didn't truly believe she was going on the block until it happened, so she's been much grumpier tonight, hanging by herself while Alec works the house. 

She vented to Talla - naturally, she's angry that she could have won the competition and trusted Jillian, who's now broken all three promises that she made. (Jillian disputes this, saying she only broke two of the three, and that putting up Topaz as a replacement pawn doesn't actually violate what she promised her. Sure, Jillian, whatever helps you sleep at night, especially as you contemplate sending Topaz to jury.)

I'm all out of faith, this is how I feel

Emmett, meanwhile, is torn - he seems to switch from Topaz to Alec and back again depending on who he's talking to. As angry as he was after the conversation with Alec last night, something about it resonated, and he wondered all day today if he's better off keeping Alec instead of Topaz. 

He's also trying to pressure Jillian into going for a 2-2 split vote in which she would break the tie, because... well, he's not giving a great reason for it, though it would be super for his game... in a final two against her.

Good thing that invitation to her sister's wedding is in pencil.

A head scratcher

Jillian at this point is changing with the wind too, though her wind smells suspiciously like milk and tattoos. She's worried about being a target next week, so Alec's sit-down promise is tempting, especially since Topaz isn't offering anything like that.

In the meantime, she and Talla are going after Topaz for the dregs of a mostly fake girls' alliance later tonight, and Topaz's reaction to that may well determine whether Jillian supports keeping her in the house, or decides that Emmett's split-vote and Alec's sit-down HOH are more tempting to her game.

Talk to the hand

Andrew is not budging at all - Emmett tried to float the idea of keeping Alec and he unleashed a torrent of reasons why that was a bad idea. There's no doubt in Andrew's mind that Topaz needs to stay, so if a house flip happens, don't expect him to be a part of it.

Shielding

Peter is locked and loaded to do the campaigning against Topaz that Alec refuses to do, already starting to sell her vengeance to Emmett to try to preserve the Shield.

Alec said to Peter tonight that his life is in Peter's hands. It seems like they may have worked out that Peter will have to do the campaigning against Topaz, since wherever Alec is in his torrid soap opera of a relationship at this point, he just can't bring himself to do it.

Mr. and Mrs. Jones

Talla, meanwhile, has been on crack today. She spent some time after the task reveal dancing around the house jabbering to Tom's monkey Mr. Jones, until Big Brother broke down and confiscated it. They instead gave her a card that said "Do you love it?", her catchphrase, which she's been alternately wearing, talking to, and promising to marry.

In the middle of all of this, she's working as Jill's lackey in this arrangement with Topaz. It seems like she wants the guys out of the way one way or another, and Alec is simply another means to this end.

So right now, the votes are looking like this:

Andrew: Voting out Alec

Talla: Voting out Alec

Peter: Voting out Topaz

Emmett: Could vote out Topaz or Alec 

Jillian: Could cast the swing vote either way if Emmett votes out Topaz.

Alec is probably still going home, but things aren't looking quite as dismal as they did twenty-four hours ago.

And, hey - what ever happened to that "mundo power"? No one is acting like they have it, especially not Jillian, so we might be looking at a Wednesday night public vote, in which case, it really will be anyone's game.

Moose on the Loose: Twist on the Way?

Marsha's not the only moose in town any more.

Over at Survivor Sucks, there's a suggestion for a name for the new moose:

Meanwhile, there's also a bird flitting about the indoor backyard today. The official Big Brother Canada account tweeted the following:

Something is afoot. 

No, not that foot.

Are these things connected? More importantly, are they related to the "mundo power" Arisa hinted at last week? Will the new moose (Jan?) be dealing out tasks like our friend Marsha? 

I don't think anyone besides Peter in the house right now even knows about Marsha, since she's been swearing them all to secrecy, but I heard she had a nice long cameo on the feeds this morning.

Here's hoping this twist isn't a failure like some of the production team's more recent efforts. 

(Confidential to the Sixteenth Houseguest: Talla can go, we won't miss her!)