BB14 Finale: Jun’s Top 10

The final speeches last night were AMAZING!!
If Ian really did ‘wing’ his final speech last night then he’s even more intelligent than I thought. It was genuine, precise, intelligent and so on the money, that Dan was literally eating his own words when it was his turn!!

I’ve never seen Dan the ‘master manipulator’ lost for words before, but I think he totally underestimated Ian!! And you were right, from the beginning of the finale he was 100% convinced in his own mind that he had that $500,000!!

I totally agree about Ashley too!! They need to find some sort of show they can include her in next season cos I will miss her on my TV!!

Thanks for an awesome season of blogs Jun!!
Looking forward to your Survivor blogs too!!

Absolutely brilliant! As if I expected anything else.

Thanks for all the laughter during BB14! As usual, I totally agree with these take away points but my favorite is the dream board/ pizza try!

Ian was my preseason fave and I’m beyond excited that he won. How you treat people is an extremely important part of both Big Brother & Survivor. If you want folks to vote for you, remember to treat them with some respect.

Quack, quack, Ian!!! Great job. And you, Ms Jun make the BB experience all the more enjoyable. Moving on from the good to the insane, I am still disheartened every time I see my hero, Danielle Reyes name. Why oh why did Jani have to tell us about the Dani-Boogie hookup after BB7?!?! My stomach turns…,

Yeah… but Dan deserved to win by making it to the final two after already being a winner.

Dan was clearly robber last night. Britney said in an interview that Danielle would’ve won next to Dan, in fact a “ketchup can” would’ve won. The “better person” won over the better player. Jury bitter? Absolutely.

Between Dan and Ian, hands down, Ian deserved to win–but Dan played a better game. It’s odd that Ian (with his supposedly perfect memory altered the events of the creation of the Quack Pack. He DID come in after the group had essentially formed and he was added on, but he couldn’t have known that. It’s an odd coincidence that it happened to match what he had planned in advance, and as others (Brittany?) observed early on there was a particular narcissism about Ian where he spoke as if Big Brother revolved around him. As sometimes is the case with the very bright, they are screwed together in a peculiar fashion (his constant muttering to himself is an example of that). It makes him seem a bit.. strange. Discerning people would look past that and get to know the person underneath, and Ian will learn in time to moderate some of the more eccentric behaviors as he matures (he really IS young after all). Bottom line, I’m sure I join the vast majority of BB fans in wishing him well. He contributed to what turned out to be a far better season than I thought it was going to be at the outset.

Now Dan got far more than he deserved (or not enough, depending on how you look at it, cat-o’-nine-tails at the ready). Hopefully, Danielle does the smart thing and doesn’t waste another second of her time on him–he cost her dearly. Dan is a profoundly selfish, unethical person who labors under the false belief that he can arbitrarily set the rules about when his morals matter and when they don’t. Surprise! The pain he cases others count ALL the time, whether he is playing a game or not. To say someone has “only themselves to blame” for trusting someone is essentially saying that someone is at fault for exhibiting the best of human traits–excuse me?

Danielle *should* have caught on, yes, but I have a hard time BLAMING her for being overly trusting. That’s too close to blaming the victim. Dan is the villain here, not Danielle. He’s the one walking away with 50K that he all but swore he was guaranteeing Danielle would be getting if she just trusted him–all the while the only thing he was concerned with was winning the 500K for a second time. What a greedy SOB. The final pity is that thanks to Dan, it will be impossible for Danielle and Shane to pursue the relationship they both want explore in the aftermath of Big Brother now that they have some privacy (and space free of cameras and microphones). A 50K win would have been sufficient to provide for some airline tickets between Vermont and Alabama to see if the romance was real. Now? A few tweets and regrets, and little more. How very sad. I hope Dan is real proud as he brags about how lucky he is to have his beautiful wife.

One thing I’ve noted about a lot of “Did Ian deserve to win?” discussions is that no one mentions the fact that Ian was a beast in competitions towards the end, winning 4 of the last 7 HOHs (ALL THE ONES HE WAS ELIGIBLE FOR IN A ROW) when the jury started, and with the pandora’s veto, was only eligible to be evicted at the Final 4. Thats really helps make Ian half-a-mil worthy to me, and even if he did get played by Dan, Dan chose to be ‘loyal’ to Ian the one and only time Ian really needed him to.

It’s like no one cares about the competitions anymore. Assuming anyone ever cared at all.
I just felt like someone should be putting this out here somewhere, so I am.

Wonderfully written article! I can’t disagree with any of your points. Loved you Jun in your season!

The jury can be as bitter as they want. Its up to the players to determine how much blood is too much and swearing on the Bible and wife was maybe too much. Brit picked Ian and Lane over Dan and Hayden.She defended Dan only to make herself look good on TV…Brit votes personal as well.I am so glad Frank won Americas player over Brat!!!! Congrats to Ian!!!

Ok Jun you either really don’t like Dan for some reason or you lack an understanding of what a good bb player is with a couple of obvious flaws and biases in your post. Let us just make this clear. Dan is and was the superior player all season. His moves were calculating, intelligent, and precise. He is by far the second best bb player ever. He and Will are in a league of their own.

By your reasoning of why Danielle Reyes was the only one that was robbed, you made an argument containing reasons why she was not. She, like your Dan example, also did not consider the jury in depth and their reaction to her play. Was it different in those days? Yes. But the concept of contemplating the jury and their reaction remains the same. The jury should reward the best player the game. It’s rediculous to think that the jury is justified in rewarding the one who didn’t piss people off through a means of not really playing the game. Sorry Jun but that’s the type of jury that gave you the prize. Allison made more moves and Allison should have beat you. The same goes for Danielle who should have won against Lisa.

It’s obvious that you were a Brit fan, or at least liked her over Frank. Criticizing people for being bitter and using poor judgement doesn’t do much for your argument that it was Dan’s fault for not realizing what he was doing to construct a bitter jury. Also, Britney may have sounded objective, but her vote clearly reflected otherwise. She knew who the better player was and she didn’t vote for him.

And lastly, Dan played the game he had to play. If Dan had played like he did his last season he would have been in Brit’s spot in the jury. Dan had a clean image and he needed to use that to be Dr. Will. The only problem is that when people don’t view you as a Dr. Will they get more upset when you do them in, which is why Will had a better end game strategy. but like I said Dan couldnt have that end game stategy because he had that clean image that couldnt change. Dan’s biggest mistake was not realizing he needed to take dani, not the fact that he hit too many homeruns. Dan put Ian where he was throughout the entire game. I give Ian a lot of credit for winning when he needed to and he is a deserving winner. But to pretend that Dan wasn’t the far superior player and brilliant is rdiculous and comical.

Excellent review of the season! Best article I have read on this debate of Dan v. Ian. Well done and thank you.

“…over a conniving wanna-be televangelist parading as a Catholic school teacher.” You sound more bitter than the jury members.

Jun, you should talk. I don’t recall you playing a very CLEAN game in your season. You betrayed house guests left and right by jumping from one alliance to another. How was that any different from what Dan did by jumping from the Quack Pack to Frank/Jenn/Danielle/Dan alliance back to the Quack Pack to just Ian/Dan alliance? As far as I recall, you were not very well liked by the jurors either. The only reason you won was people the jurors hated you less than Allison. The only mistake Dan made was that he was in the Final 2 with the wrong person. He should’ve evicted Ian in Final Four and gone to the end with either Shane or Danielle, who he could’ve easily beat. But don’t make it seem like Dan didn’t win because he wasn’t charming–neither were you.

Let’s not forget that Dan won Season 10 and was Runner-up in Season 14. I think you’re just jealous that Dan did something that you probably could never do. If you were ever to play BB again, you would probably be sent packing after the first week because everyone will know what kind of player you are. At least Dan made it all the way to the end in his second time playing the game.

And stop this BS about Dan “parading as a Catholic school teacher.” IT’S A GAME!!!

Shane was SO butt hurt during the finale. And I don’t mean in the obvious anal sex way.

Actually I dont think alot of people may know this but the jury wasnt just bitter, they werent voting dan period. If danielle made finals she would have won. They all stated they didnt want someone to win twice which is complete bull. They also thought Ian would appreciate the win more then Dan… Dan played the better game. And Ian played the second best game. Im glad he won but im disappointed the jury voting more personally and not strategically.

I love Jun

It’s no surprise she didn’t find the ending offensive. Allison should have beaten her hands down on her season as well! Again, a bitter jury voting in a popularity contest instead of who played the best game!!

Yay Frank!!!!! So glad he won AP. Also Ian deserved to win because Dan forgot that jury votes are a big part of this game. Love when jury votes personal!!!! Treat people like trash and then think you will get their votes?.hahaha nope

I was 100% Team Dan, but I agree that his speech flattering the HouseGuests was over-the-top. I don’t think any of his game moves were actually that nasty (he claims he only swore on the Bible that he wasn’t lying to Frank about the Quack Pack and about Ian’s betrayal), with the one exception being Shane’s eviction, as I think he should have evicted Ian because Shane hasn’t been amazing in endurance challenges, so I don’t think he was as huge a threat as Dan expected. I also tend to disagree with the point that Britney was unbiased- in her backyard interview, she said that Dan could have been in the Final Two with a bottle of ketchup, and the ketchup would have won. She claimed in the jury house to respect Dan’s game and masterful way of playing, yet she would have voted for anyone over him?
In general, I was pretty bitter about Dan’s loss, but thinking back on it, Ian did play a good game, and he made some good points (e.g. about not having the advantage of skating through as a coach the first few weeks, and about Dan swearing on family members for loyalty [e.g. use of grandfather's cross]), so I’ve gotten more accepting. Regardless of who I preferred to win, Ian is far better than a lot of the more recent winners we’ve seen (Jordan, Adam, Rachel), and this was a very solid Final Two.

You say Dan wasn’t robbed because he of jury management but Danielle Reyes was? She didn’t take in account the jury either. God you’re such a hypocrite.