Originally Posted by zeebra:
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It has been a pleasure to see the outsiders overcome the much larger insiders group and all that remains is to witness them snatching the top three places in the final. That would be the perfect ending.”
That's a bit of a myth, really. The insiders were a much larger group only if you count outsiders very narrowly and insiders very broadly. For example, Caroline and Conor had almost no nomination choices in common, yet they'd both be counted as "insiders".
Originally Posted by Noisy Oyster:
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I was unhappy that BB let the Insiders rig the vote so that it was a straight Lauren v Luke eviction and barely tuned in for that week. ...”
It's questionable that the insiders rigged the vote. Becky's revelation about what Lauren said in the DR was bound to get Lauren lots of nominations, but it wasn't vote-rigging as that's normally understood; and if the nominations for Luke A were rigged, why didn't Conor or Ashleigh nominate him?
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I think it all makes more sense if we don't see the "insiders" as a large, unified group. Instead, there was a group of guys (Conor, Arron, Luke S). They chiefly targeted Deana and seemed to have some effect on Ashleigh's nominations.
Caroline always nominated "outsiders" (if we count Chris as one) and seemed influential some weeks but not others; but she never nominated Deana, not even after the "B and D" talk, or Lydia.
Everyone else has nomination choices that aren't so easily categorised, though Becky seemed especially good at seeing which way the wind was blowing. (She nominated the evicted HM every week before the almost-all-up week when Caroline went.)
I think the fundamental division is that the main "outsiders" were all more "mature" in some way. That wasn't the only factor at work, but I think it was the most important.
And so ... it was almost inevitable, if Luke A was still there at this point, that he'd find himself in a group much like the one he's in.