[Macie Lightfoot]

I skimmed through this thread for a hot second and it made me realize why this forum is deader than dead. Anyway, here to share my thoughts because quite frankly it's easier for me to find old posts on this hellhole of a forum than other places if I ever need to reference anything!



Finally finishing my edgic and posting this. I don't seem to be as much in love with this season as people are here but it wasn't bad! Probably about on par with 23 for me. I think this cast was actually very Not Good but through a series of unlikely events we were really blessed with the best timeline possible which elevated things greatly. Taylor's journey is one of the most iconic things ever, fantastic winner, etc.

1. Taylor (****ing duh. A cultural icon, a truly unexpected but incredible winner, and easily one of the best journeys ever. So much star power and I don't know what hasn't been said already. Feel lucky to have witnessed it all live)
2. Jasmine (what a morph! She was maaaaybe my least favorite for the first week and a half, but then by the end of her HoH week things just started to click for me? One of the funniest HGs ever both intentionally and unintentionally, between how much she milked her injury and her absurd metaphors like #BlindsideButterbeans and scandals like Muffingate and Balloongate. Could easily be #1 if she was on a non-Taylor season)
3. Joseph (not a rabid Joseph stan like certain parts of fandom but he was cute and kinda fun and a staunch Taylor supporter and seems like a genuinely good person and honestly that's enough for a high ranking in this cast)
4. Indy (she wasn't really in the episodes but she was occasionally fun and funny on the feeds and she's been on a righteous tear postshow so good job Indy xx)
5. Brittany (alol so I actually found her to be EXTREMELY annoying and unbearable and insufferable and frustrating for the longest time, but then post-DE Brittany was just something else and it all wrapped back around into being hilarious with her sobbing at Michael backstabbing her, winning F5 POV while cosplaying Michael and screaming that this is for him, her ridiculously transparent attempt at trying to get Taylor out at F5 because she was staying up until 8AM having slumber parties, thinking Alyssa called her a Karen, melting down in the bathroom because she heard everyone reminiscing on the DE and thought they were laughing at her, refusing to speak to Turner at F4 and making him cry.... I mean you can just look at the edgic and see what a whirlwind endgame Brittany is. The same things that made her frustrating and unbearable early on suddenly made her hilarious in the endgame so that was fun)
6. Alyssa (she's fine! She kinda got thrust into a position that she wasn't ready for with the Kyle showmance and continually being an almost target and then having to ditch Kyle's ass after the race stuff came up, but she's really just a simple bikini girl and nothing more lol. She's ultimately harmless and was fun and funny on occasion, and being situationally interesting is enough for a top half ranking this season. Sad that she and Taylor aren't really on speaking terms anymore because their endgame friendship was cute and I honestly think genuine on Alyssa's part)
7. Michael (meh, I don't really care that much about him sorry! Just a Compbeast and final boss of sorts and he's not bad, just kinda boring and uninspiring. Points for being staunchly pro-Taylor and subtly serving as a Jury foreman to make sure she won!)
8. Turner (this seems like an appropriate spot for him because he's really a mixed bag. Occasionally funny and righteous like with his feud with Jasmine and his Week 3 HOH, occasionally cringey and annoying and also kind of a jerk? Some of his DRs were a little too in-on-the-joke for me to actually find them amusing, sometimes the Jasmine stuff went a liiiiiiiittle too far for my liking like with Balloongate, and he was also kinda frustrating as a player? Being afraid to go after Michael in the DE because he wanted to go with the house and also voting to evict Alyssa at F5 because he wanted to go with the house were frustratingly stupid comments that he seems to genuinely believe so that was kinda annoying)
9. Monte (so even though I would've rather seen a Monte win over a Turner win, I think I dislike Monte more now after it's all said and done? He was such a rollercoaster because there were times where he was good and righteous and rootable but then he'd always counter it by being AWFUL and low-key/high-key misogynistic? He had some weird af hangup about women and black women and Taylor specifically, and he too was TERRIBLE about her in the first few weeks. It kinda got cute when the Leftovers formed and they became more allies and friends but even then in the second half of the show he would randomly have days where he decided she was the worst person ever and hated her for no reason. And then they started hooking up in the endgame and then he would lash at/about her again, and then he lost $750,000 to him and I don't even think they're on speaking terms anymore! Some people just end up leaving the house the way they came in and unfortunately that rings true for Monte)
10. Ameerah (she was fine. I know certain sects of the fandom say she was THE WORST about Taylor but like......... Paloma and Terrance and Nicole and early game Jasmine and ****ing DANIEL were so much worse and I only have so much hate in my heart. Ameerah seemed like she was destined to girlboss the endgame until she suddenly became an epic Week 3 blindside and it was great to see! Love the fancams about her saying the game is easier than she expected it to be only to be booted like two days later lmfao. She also seems like she's actually not human garbage and just kinda got caught up in the house's bull**** but is willing to hold herself accountable, and that's so rare these days that I'll give her credit for that)
11. Pooch (honestly probably the person I have the least thoughts on? He was a boring appendage to the bad people but wasn't too bad himself from what I remember. Was just kind of simple and actually stupid for volunteering to be a pawn and whatnot. Kinda harmless enough for me to not care about since he ****ed off so quickly)
12. Paloma (oh my goodness what a whirlwind. The Paloma Experience was...... something, and I was here for it honestly! Her manic strategy sessions, her insistence that this was all just a simulation, her plan to subvert the prize fund by splitting the money through investing in everyone's businesses, being possessed by Descartes... it was unlike anything we've ever seen before. Unfortunately, watching someone have a mental breakdown on live feeds is only so much fun when they're also an awful person. She was one of the worst people to/about Taylor AND when she left the show she only continued to double down on things because of what she studied in her MediaST10 class at Berkeley sooooo yeah she had a chance of being in yellow but she's definitely in red)
13. Nicole (like just about everyone else in red, also an asshole and not really a good person, but she's saved from being bottom 3 for SOMETIMES being funny to laugh at, like her continual insistence that she's a 41 year old woman so she's smarter/better/whatever than everyone else, meltdown after the Ameerah blindside where she and Daniel got in the most melodramatic fight ever, when she had a heartfelt reveal to Terrance that she's actually a cop only for Terrance to survive eviction and have her reveal be for nothing, and her bizarre conspiracy theory that Monte, Jasmine, and Taylor were all connected through Black Greek Life. She also gets a few points for apparently dropping Daniel immediately post-show and trying to get back into Taylor's good graces lmaoooo)
14. Kyle (honestly just ANNOYING like his whole personality is being an unemployed Tik Toker and he was also annoying when the Leftovers formed and everyone was willing to be nominated as a pawn to get their Festie Bestie evicted but he'd chicken out and find excuses to not be nominated every single time. And then there was the whole race fiasco and.......... I *possibly controversially* think that Kyle kinda handled the blowback the best he could and seemed kinda genuine in his remorse/wanting to learn and become educated on the matter, and while that is better than... most other instances of BB racism, at the end of the day he's nearly 30 years old so his sheltered upbringing and ignorance are Not Cute and don't really work as excuses as well as he thought they might have)
15. Terrance (Crock Pot Pussy was good by accident during Dyre Fest but other than that he was a boring asshole in the house and apparently is also a terrible asshole outside of the house sooooo yeah, what a waste!)
16. Daniel (so so sooooo bad with no real redeeming qualities. Just a terrible person who somehow came out of the house, received the reception he did, and continued to double down on his awfulness. I know some people find his downfall satisfying or something but BIG PASS for me)