Originally Posted by starry:
“Well yeh obviously Frank needed allies, though he had created some kind of alliance with Shane and Britney at least for the short term according to the previous HLs.”
It was a temporary alliance at best, that fell apart as soon as Frank found out that 1. Ian was the one passing info to the other side and 2. Britney and Shane were still planning to get him out the next week.
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“I can't say I'm convinced that everyone bought into that ridiculous over the top speech from Dan and thought that he really had dropped Danielle.”
Jenn and Joe didn't fully buy it.
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“Ian had already been exposed as he exposed himself when Boogie left. And nobody is to be trusted at any time really that's how the game is.”
But Frank just assumed Ian was ganged up on by Dan/Danielle/Britney/Shane and was swayed in to voting out Mike and putting up Frank/Ashley. Frank believed Ian was bullied in to it...not actually behind it (although he had his suspicions). Once Dan convinced Frank that Ian not only planned to vote out Mike well before Thursday, but was also in an alliance with them, and was the one selling out Mike and Frank...that broke all trust Frank had with Ian and therefore also with Britney.
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“The main question seemed to be who would Shane side with though, not whether Dan had won over Frank or not. Even though Frank put Britney up with Jen's veto that didn't mean Britney was going home without Shane turning on her. So this Dan plan that the HLs wanted to concentrate on was not really as important as the desperation of Frank (he's been desperate most of the time) and what Shane thought was best for his game.”
Shane was always more likely to keep Danielle. And he confirmed fairly early on after the Veto Ceremony that he was keeping Danielle. Britney knew she was going home, hence why she wasn't dressed for Endurance on Thursday. The HLs tried to make Shane's vote seem more up in the air but it really wasn't - and if they focused on that instead of how Dan went from "dead man walking" to "risen from the dead" the producers of this show would have been morons.