[Pink Pegasus]

Originally Posted by Dollface

Austin seemed genuinely upset to me (no that doesn't excuse his behaviour before anyone jumps down my throat)
...but where was his best mate when he was sobbing? -- Sitting on a chair looking like he couldn't care less, didn't bother to hug his mate like the other housemates were. He nominated his "best friend" in the house (which clearly very much upset Austin), and didn't seem to have the slightest bit of guilt about it. He's being made out to be some hero that stood up to a big bad wolf, but to me he's just shown himself to be a backstabber.

The cynic in me would say that James thought everything was going great for himself, he'd given his good guy moralistic reasons for nominations, he had some housemates siding with him and possibly the public, Ausin had just lost the plot with Janice and handed any chance of a win away making it even more likely public were on James side, so: Austin looking terrible and James looking pretty good.

Then out of the blue Austin emerges from the diaryroom in floods of tears, a sobbing remorseful wreck and instantly gets comforted by James' earlier supporter Bobby, then Natasha and Sherrie also join in comforting Austin too. Suddenly it's not so clear cut as Austin = 'all bad' and James = ' good'. IF James had done his nomination for tactical\gameplaying reasons then Austin having a breakdown in tears could have thrown off his game for a bit. The delay in his reaction could have been him thinking 'how will I play this, forgive and befriend again or cut all ties with him at this point because of my 'morals'?' - before he eventually just followed the lead of the other housemates...

OR maybe he was just annoyed because Austin had just called him a ball-less something or other, had that row with Janice and he was still too angry with Austin at first to respond?

Neither of these possibilities would surprise me...

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Pink Pegasus

The cynic in me would say that James thought everything was going great for himself, he'd given his good guy moralistic reasons for nominations, he had some housemates siding with him and possibly the public, Ausin had just lost the plot with Janice and handed any chance of a win away making it even more likely public were on James side, so: Austin looking terrible and James looking pretty good.

Then out of the blue Austin emerges from the diaryroom in floods of tears, a sobbing remorseful wreck and instantly gets comforted by James' earlier supporter Bobby, then Natasha and Sherrie also join in comforting Austin too. Suddenly it's not so clear cut as Austin = 'all bad' and James = ' good'. IF James had done his nomination for tactical\gameplaying reasons then Austin having a breakdown in tears could have thrown off his game for a bit. The delay in his reaction could have been him thinking 'how will I play this, forgive and befriend again or cut all ties with him at this point because of my 'morals'?' - before he eventually just followed the lead of the other housemates...

OR maybe he was just annoyed because Austin had just called him a ball-less something or other, had that row with Janice and he was still too angry with Austin at first to respond?

Neither of these possibilities would surprise me...

Love reading your posts Peggy I completely agree with the first two paragraphs