Originally Posted by sammyvan:
“I thought Alec played a good game right up until the point where he did not support Topaz in her decision to have Andrew evicted, until the time he spoke so badly about her behind her back, when he blatantly threw the HOH contest to Andrew... Alec changed at this point in the game and I feel he let Peter down and let the shield down.
If he came back at this time I am sure he would re-unite with Peter and hopefully they can bring down Jill and Emmet, who I dont dislike - just feel they have had everything their own way for too long.”
“I thought Alec played a good game right up until the point where he did not support Topaz in her decision to have Andrew evicted, until the time he spoke so badly about her behind her back, when he blatantly threw the HOH contest to Andrew... Alec changed at this point in the game and I feel he let Peter down and let the shield down.
If he came back at this time I am sure he would re-unite with Peter and hopefully they can bring down Jill and Emmet, who I dont dislike - just feel they have had everything their own way for too long.”
he didn't talk that bad about her, basically at that point he needed to start to distance himself from her for future plans because he was being seen as a trio where mostly everyone was seen as a duo.
and the direction they were heading was to go away from the gary/topaz side of things and commit to the emmett/andrew side. (we now know where that path led but it looked fairly solid at the start of it).
which is why to them he would attempt to speak negatively about her for the perception angle, as his closest ally was peter.. but then he would try and keep her close also (away from the group) in case that's the direction things went, like if she ended up winning an hoh for example.
granted, he could of done it in a less cold fashion.. i think in that way he was trying to emulate a dr. will character and try and play it that way where he had no feelings for her and was all about the game, etc.
the move to keep andrew was understandable at that moment, it was such bad timing as it hit right where the shift was becoming complete (andrew shifting more to jemmett) if they had the whole week to discuss it then maybe he would've figured out the shift and went another way but it was such a quick/short course of events he stuck to what was already in place which i would think is logical.
keep in mind he's the main person to even bring andrew into the end game mix, and was pushing for him to be the 4th member of the quattro over tom in the beginning, and worked long and hard to gain an early relationship with him.
(just a few weeks earlier andrew hated emmett and both he and talla wanted him out so badly... alec was the main one to even position andrew into end game scenarios)
at the time it went down the plans were andrew/emmett/peter/alec based on what had gone down previously up until this point where emmett/andrew shifted away from him without him knowing.
yes, from our angle as viewers who are able to see everything.. we knew the shift was happening, we saw the conversations between andrew/emmett/jillian/talla so to us it would make sense to get out andrew but alec/peter didn't have access to those convos.
it fell the way it fell, he made some mistakes.. he was the main person carrying his alliance out in the front and so the bigger threat and it just didn't fall his way, sometimes that's the way it goes.
i still think (and will always) annie is one of the best players and one of my favorites but some bad luck and things not falling her way and she's out the door first, just the way it goes sometimes.
