1 November 2008
opinion
Kampala — TK and Ricco were up for eviction. From a strategic point, the smart thing to do then would have been to get Ricco out of the house. If that had happened, chances are TK would be on the chopping block and our boy would live to die another day.
Granted Morris has actually been evicted, as was TK, but that was a fake eviction and TK's exit shows quite clearly that you only leave twice.
TK was not surprised that he was out, seeing as he was in the know all along as far as his popularity went in the house. If he was still in there, I'd call him Dr. Know.
Biggie went all out in selecting the housemate's guest this week by introducing a really old Cameroonian dude whose name, in case you're ever in Cameroon and want to look him up, is Mr. Fondom. Yes, it rhymes with that!
This, as you can imagine, presented a conflict of interest for Tawana, seeing as she would not be the sole agent of cross generational activities. It was a brief visit which saw Morris connect with him more than the other housemates did. Hey, wouldn't it be really cool if Mr. Con er, Fondom was really a magician and he had the ability to save the Ugandan housemate from possible eviction?
The housemates saw the roles reverse when Biggie decided to dump his kids on them. If there's one thing to be learnt from this week's task, it's that family planning is the way to go.
The housemates had to tend to the little bundles of grief for the bulk of this week, making sure they were changed and stopped crying. Morris came out tops seeing as he has a child of his own back home. A real one, not the disposable kind they were totting around the house. Never one to do things in bits and pieces, Biggie also asked the housemates to do some knitting. Damn you Big Brother, why can't you just leave and let die?
Let's talk babies. Ricco has a view to kill, which is just a dumb way of incorporating a James Bond title in this paragraph. Anyway, the Realest Angolan Alive has his eyes on Hazel which means, ultimately, that she will be evicted pretty soon seeing as the Realest Housemate in South Africa possesses the bad touch.
Everything he touches magically leaves the house. I suppose this might mean Morris is safe this week. Granted the tiff they had this week didn't make them the closest of friends with Morris dropping the word "insufferable" and asking why Ricco's character was such that he spoke and one person listened to him.
Hang on, that's a bad thing? Aren't people generally expected to listen when a person talks. Anyway, Morris suggested Ricco look into a change of career as a "pastor, or a chief executioner, or a hangman". Does that mean that all these people have the same character?
Let's talk babies again. Tawana was not too crazy about being kept up by Biggie's offspring, but when she did manage to slip in some shut eye, she was all the better for it, doting on her child whom she named Kagiso.
It's just as well that kid won't grow up and have to suffer being teased for its name. This week's Biggie quote would have been worth the show if Tawana had addressed it to Munya, but alas, "Beautiful baby, I'm going to make you smell nice" are words that she reserves for playthings that are not from Zimbabwe.
Not exactly the most awesome week thus far, but that's reality television for you. Morris is up for eviction, as are Thami and Hazel. Thami doesn't do anything and never really warrants a mention in recaps, so I figure we should set him free and allow him to see daylight outside the house. The Living daylights. Ha!
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