Adam is a sensitive guy. He's not a Prince Charming and rather more like the frog, but his heart is as big as the moon. You can tell he feels for people. One can guess that growing up with that awkwardly rugged mug of his, and those growing deer-in-the-headlights eyes, ah, he must have been the brunt of a few blunt chards of childish ridicule.

By David W. Taylor (Email The Author)
Reality Reel Media
04.08.08

And so he empathizes with pain in the Big Brother House: Shelia missing her 16-year-old son; Joshuah and his being on the block freak-out...and now James feeling "isolated" and having fits. Adam is just a big, sweet guy. Ready with a huge hug.

You remember the $10,000 cash prize Adam sprang on Shelia? — and subsequently pirated away by Ryan (ugh!). And recall his comfort of Joshuah during his grossly manufactured — and nauseating — crying jag? This time James' embarrassingly frenzied outburst struck Adam deeper. He actually took Pink Hair off the block. Took him right off. The leader of Team Christ, Natalie, snapped at Adam, "Frickin' Idiot!" An "evildoer," they say, was being rewarded.

Adam said he wanted to "fast forward" the game to assume that James would've won POV (highly likely) and had taken himself down off the gallows; and to preview the inevitability of being forced to place Shelia up for elimination. So Shelia will have to earn the right to stay in the house. Right here, right now. She will have to show she can win something. After this shocker, Ryan carefully adjusted his backwards baseball cap in a mirror and said Adam was "cowardly" and "spineless." Well, he should know...

In some ways I hope James clobbers everyone. After seeing Ryan blow his cool during the Hold 'em or Fold 'em POV Challenge, missing several clear opportunities to assure James' much sought after departure, it became clear that James was largely deserving of his nine lives. No one seemed bold enough to put a stake through his heart.

During last week's POV Challenge Ryan balked. He folded out of fear. Ryan oozed squeamishness — sweating, licking his lips — and once again belied his true gutless nature.

Ryan showed this flaw earlier when he couldn't keep his secret "relationship" with Jen hushed-up and then he couldn't keep his pants zipped when faced with his pedestrian horniness on national television. The Big Brother community toilet became his boudoir. That was merely a trailer for the Ryan inspired frailties to come. And he passes out alliances like cafe mints.

Ryan's POV fecklessness merely emboldened James. As Ryan squirmed, James grew more confident. He snatched his looming defeat defiantly and flung it under all their noses. He went nuts. But in his celebration James wasn't realizing that he was losing his allies one by one. He was again looking at the game through his own narrow prism. The loss of his father at fourteen obviously helped to shape his eye.

Inevitably James becomes manic. He was flush with victory joy whilst taking himself off the block but then lapsed into a funk when left "isolated." And Adam fell for his most latest and greatest whimpering.

Somewhere down deep these two knuckleheads connected. Adam's crazy eyes welled-up with tears and he felt a compulsion to save this lanky Pink Hair dude. Natalie and Ryan saw capitulation. Adam sees duty, compassion and justice. Putting up James again would have been just too plain easy. A reptile-like reflex. A carnal indulgence. Especially when Shelia has earned nothing (and thinks, from the beginning, that you are some sort of trash). Adam is sorting things out.

But it may work out for Team Christ in the end if the POV Challenge is seen as the epic battle that it surely has come down to. Shelia and everyone chosen will have to play as if their lives depended on it. This feeling of entitlement simply due to the direness of their outside-the-game circumstances will have to end. If you want it bad enough you'll have to pull it out of your guts and drain it out of your soul. You'll just have to do it...or lose it.

I want Natalie to win it all. Natalie or Adam. And then these two marry and live happily ever after. Interesting children. And James, poor hurt James, will be riding around on his bicycle, seeking something, and wondering what ass cheek he wants to place his next gorgeous tattoo. Team Christ and the Evildoer marching down their separate paths in this wonderful world...