RNO Roundtable: Who Should Win ‘Big Brother 4’?

We’re down to the final two – Alison and Jun. Neither is exactly the favorite person for most fans (though each do have a few people rooting for them), but one of them has to win. The questions now: Who should it be? Who will it be? There are a number of ways to address this issue, whether strategy or who is nastier or more arrogant or what have you. So the writers of RealityNewsOnline gathered together once again to put forth their views. Let’s see what Sting7, Ken Kellam III, Jeffrey D. Sadow, David Bloomberg, Brian James, and Paris Cosby think:

Sting7: In terms this season of Big Brother, it may as well have been called "This One's For You Danielle!" For the first time, only the seven prior evicted HouseGuests will vote as a jury between the final two. And, for the first time, the evicted HouseGuests are sequestered. The only parts of the show they will get to see are the competitions and the evictions themselves. No Diary Room confessionals. Had they done that last year, Danielle Reyes might have been $500,000 richer.

Neither Jun nor Ali have exactly been hothouse flowers in the Diary Room. Both outspoken women were extremely outspoken in there. But, Ali's comments eclipsed even Danielle's bravura. "Yeah, I lied," she'd snort. Her face showing as much remorse as it did green spots. All those tears when her savior Nathan got axed, false. Was she sorry to see Jack go? Not at all. Her tears when evicting Erika? Just acting. Not even a test of her range, she'd say. Alison may go down as the most despised player in BB history, and that is saying something.

But even her biggest detractors have to admit, she played a hell of a game. Off the top of my head, Alison has won three or four HOHs, two POVs, survived two nominations, and is in fact the only contestant to be pulled from the eviction block! Besides that, she has masterfully managed to slither from the Stooges to the Alliance, without actually joining either. Both camps knew she was slithering and neither was able to do anything about it. Just when it looked like her game would catch up to her, she'd win something. Seemingly effortlessly.

Jun played a good game as well. She cooked every meal (unless it was already prepared as a luxury prize) every day in the house. She's stirred up some trouble and slithered for a while, but ultimately banded with the Alliance to oust the Stooges. But, her résumé is nowhere near as sparkling as Alison's.

I get the sense the jury's sequestration (playing in paradise for weeks) has soothed the bruises they felt from losing the game and all of them, even Alison's fiercest rivals, appear ready to make a sound, gameplay-based decision.

And that is why Alison will win BB4. Then, when they see her Diary Room commentary, they will kill her.

Ken: At least we know this couldn't have been scripted: Why would any writer in his right mind have such disgusting characters in his final two? Choosing between Alison and Jun is like choosing whether to have a thumbtack driven in your eye or a nail hammered into your ear: Which one would be less painful? Alison comes across, to me at least, as being far more cocky then Jun, and I hope she doesn't win, if only to see her put in her place. However, the choice is the jury's, and most likely, they'll vote for Alison, based on the way she played the game, and then kick themselves after they see her snide comments about everyone, as Sting7 noted above. It's a little like the first season of Survivor, where Rich Hatch was voted the winner, and then everyone saw the way he trashed them in confessionals.

Jeffrey: While nobody deserves to win, Jun deserves not to lose. Up against mostly strategic zeroes, she had the guile to figure these people were easily manipulable, did so, and then she allied with Alison, the woman who will do anything to run in front and (maybe) could have only beaten Dana or Scott, just at the right time. She would not have had a prayer against the likes of Danielle from BB3, but against this group, it's more than enough. I don't consider schmoozing and being attracted to the hot group or person like a moth to a flame much of a strategy, but it is a good way for a player like Jun to use you for her own purposes, so that's why Alison definitely does deserve to lose.

David: I’m going to have to disagree with a couple of my esteemed colleagues about who will win. Let’s take a look vote-by-vote:

Jun automatically gets Dana’s vote because there is simply no way in Hell Dana would ever vote for Alison. Since she’s been sleeping with Justin, I’m going to say that Justin will also vote for Jun – he doesn’t want to piss off Dana! So that’s two for Jun. None of the rest are so easy to read.

The other Stooges might go the way of Justin, depending on how strongly he wants to push the issue. We know Rob didn’t like Alison, but he was never terribly fond of Jun, either. Still, Alison was the one to say she would 99% probably take him to the final two, and then not do it. Is he mad or does he realize he was outplayed? I don’t know for sure, but I think if he’s leaning towards voting for Jun and talks at all with Justin, he will go full over to Jun. If so, that’s three for Jun – she only needs one more.