Live Feed - Monday, July 23, Part One

• We start with Stephanie wondering who to talk to Vegas.  I’ll go!  I really think, if we meet, you’ll like me.
• Once again, HorridBitch sits above it all and better than everyone else by climbing to the top of that weird red thing.
• Ori fills us in on what we just saw.  Erica looks nervous.  Kevin looks like a smug bastard.
• I vote that Mike lost the challenge, not Gene.
• Interestingly enough, Ori does not ask who they want to return.  I guess she realizes it’s obvious.  Ori instead ask them to name the sneakiest player in the house.
• Andrea says it’s Gene, because he has an alliance with every person in the house.   UGH.  
• Stephanie says that it’s HorridBitch because she has conversations with everyone at different times, trying to make them distrust Gene, and then lies to Gene about these conversations she had.  I guess she also made multiple comments about needing to get off a sinking ship.  Steph says that she’s denied saying it, but HorridBitch says she doesn’t.
• Kevin says that he thinks Gene is good at networking, and that is OK, so the sneakiest is Stephanie, looking into windows or sneaking around.  He thinks she can read lips.  She’s laughing.  She says that she’s actually an undercover spy.  Ori, “I thought she was always cleaning?”
• Joy thinks that it’s also HorridBitch.  From this angle, her forehead looks bigger than James Van Der Beek’s.  Why does everyone think she’s so hot?
• Erica agrees that HorridBitch is sneaky.  She thinks that Gene is also sneaky, and he was doing and saying things that she didn’t know about.  She’s a little concerned with his deciding the vote at the last minute.  She also doesn’t trust him.
• Gene says that there’s a difference between “being sneaky” and “getting caught every time you try to do something.”  He thinks that Stephanie must be the sneakiest, because he’s never caught her doing anything wrong.  He’s caught everyone else being sneaky, so she must be sneaky enough to avoid getting caught.  Nice.   Gene then tells us that before he has a semi-sneaky conversation, he tells someone else in advance.
• Ori asks what they think of voting Jeffrey into limbo.  The viewers vote at the same time.
• Stephanie reminds us all of what a hurtful, violent, and generally terrible person Mike is.  She also says that every time someone from his alliance has left, he’s said bad things about them.  She then reminds us how Jeffrey is 10,000 times more awesome than Mike.  He tries to do what he thinks is the right thing to do.
• Kevin makes a snotty comment about defending Mike in private so the others don’t interrupt him.  What a fucking jerk.  He wants Mike back.  Big surprise.  Kevin encourages all of Jeffrey’s fans to turn against him.  Uhhhhh… ok. Sure.
• Every week, I hate Kevin and SnottyBitch more.  I’m not sure how long I can keep watching, especially if Mike comes back.
• Erica also goes into private to tell us that she loves Jeffrey, and if we love Erica, we’ll vote to bring Jeffrey back.  Already did, sweetie.  She says that it wasn’t about cockiness - he thought it was his best move.  Erica also wanted to tell us in private what she thinks of Mike
• Ori shows us that 51% of the viewers blame Gene for losing the challenge.  That concerns me.
• HorridBitch makes ugly faces while saying horrible, stuck up things about how she is so much better than everyone else.  Or whatever.  Seriously, her forehead is huge.  How has no one ever noticed?  She’s talking about how cocky and arrogant it is to go into limbo 100% convinced you’re coming back.  Does that include leaving all your shoes and stuff in the house because you know you won’t need anyone to pack them up and mail them to you?
• Joy wants Jeffrey back.  Duh.
• Gene is upset with Mike for “pulling an Apollo” on the live feed and blaming him for losing the feed.  Gene also says that he has a lot of respect for Jeffrey to take such a ballsy move, and it shows that Jeffrey trusts the information he’s getting from the viewers, including his #Fanswer.  All of the words Gene is saying are wonderful.
• While Gene is talking, I take a moment to vote that Erica needs to give up on Kevin.
• Ori shows the fan reactions to the episode.  Watching this is pointless.  Some people like Mike, some like Jeffrey.  Whatever.
• Ori then does some weird, bizarre special effects.  They’re having a Glassquerade?  I can feel my brain cells fleeing my head.  The viewers are supposed to vote on costumes.  I refuse.  
• Ori says that we’re voting on whether they should be vampires or zombies.  I see no votes.  Erica and Joy are vampires, Steph is a zombie, Andrea is a vampire.  Gene is a zombie, too.  Kevin is also a vampire.  They’re creating their costumes, so I think it’s time to find my jammies.
• Ori shows a flashback to where we learned that Kevin and Erica are in the Enemies room.  Erica tells us that she likes the bed, but that’s really awkward.  She finds the whole thing even more humiliating than Kevin’s constant rejection of her.  Kevin tells us that he’s not going to get in a relationship with Erica just to make the viewers happy, and he’s going to sleep on the floor.
• Gene and Joy are in the friends room again.  She likes being with him, but it makes it difficult to get alone time.  Erica wanders in, and Steph and Joy ask how she feels.  There’s a sexy lingerie joke.  Tell tell Erica that they’ll be there for her.
• This is really boring.  You know what I haven’t done in awhile?  Balanced my checkbook!  I bet that is WAY MORE INTERESTING than what is on my computer screen right now!  Woo-hoo!

                            

• Ori decides to read comments and ask questions from Twitter.   Where’s my comment, Ori?
• Would you ever, in any situation, vote yourself into limbo?  *yawn*  Seriously, we all know what they’re going to say.
• Gene can’t think of a situation where he would do that, because he never wants to go to limbo.  If it ever could have happened, it would have been week 1 against Alex.
• Erica said that such a scenario might exist, but she can’t envision one.  She goes on to defend Jeffrey’s move.
• Joy said that there are a few scenarios.  The game isn’t necessarily about stabbing other people in the back or doing everything necessary to stay out of limbo.  It’s a game of choices.  She also says that there are more important things than just staying in the game.
• Stephanie said that she wouldn’t, she thinks it’s too risky, but she supports Jeffrey’s decision.
• Shut the fuck up, Andrea.  She’s repeating what she already said, and since her voice is like fingernails in my brain, I have to mute her.  Sorry.  
• Kevin says that he wouldn’t, because there’s no way to know where you stand with the viewers, which is a good point.  He thinks it’s too much of a risk and it’s a sign of arrogance. 
• When do you think you will start playing on an individual basis?
• Andrea says she’s always been playing an individual game. I guess when the entire Mormon church is voting, despite not watching the show, that’s easier.  She’s playing an “individual game” with Kevin?  That doesn’t make sense.
• Stephanie thinks they’re in a transition between the usefulness of workable bonds and that it may be necessary to move to a more individual game.  She doesn’t think that needs to mean stepping all over the other players.
• Kevin says it’s already an individual game.  Uh-huh.
• For some reason, Ori calls Kevin after he’s done.  Awkward pause.  Drink!
• Joy is going to continue playing the same way she has been, but things could change as others show their “true colors.”  She also says that she’s been playing her own game this whole time.
• I want a cookie.
• Erica thinks they’ve entered that phrase.  The game is changing.  She doesn’t think there are really any alliances left, because the game is about working with the viewers.
• Gene says he’s been playing an individual game all along.  For some reason, Ori asks Gene to repeat his answer.  I already heard the whole thing.
• Hmmmm… as I’m going through my accounts, I see that I eat out a lot.  
• Would you ever throw a challenge?
• Kevin, of course, says emphatically that he would never even consider it.  That’s not the conversation he had with Mike last Tuesday.  
• Andrea can see the benefit if you know that you’re not going to limbo, but she doesn’t feel safe, so she wouldn’t.  You’re not safe, because you’re awful.  Moving on.
• Stephanie said that these are all team challenges, so it’s not easy to “throw.”  She wouldn’t intentionally throw a challenge, but, if her team isn’t giving her any effort or support, she would give them the same effort that they give her.  So, she might not try 100%, but she wouldn’t “cross her arms and refuse to cross the finish line.”
• Joy says, “Heck no!”  She’s almost as emphatic as Kevin.  Of course, Joy has never been on a team where she was 100% safe if her team lost, so I can see where she might not want to do it.
• Erica wouldn’t throw it, and she thinks that drawing a line between not giving your all and actively throwing is bullshit.  She said that she might have in a very extreme situation, but she wouldn’t do it.  Andrea is doing something weird behind her, but it’s blurry and I try not to look directly at her, so I miss it.
• Gene, again, says no.  He gives a weird example that makes no sense that anyone throwing the challenge would be more obvious than refusing to cross the line?  No. 
• Oh, good.  They’re going to get drunk.
• Another bonus scene for no discernible reason.  It’s Gene and Joy in the Friends room.  They try to watch, and Ori yells at them.
• This is so painful, I’m going to get cookies.  No one tell my trainer, OK?  It’ll be our little secret.

                                  

• The bonus scene starts again.  Joy tells Gene she isn’t wearing a bra and touches her breasts.  Earth shattering stuff.  She’s teasing him about being celibate.  She also tells him that she can’t possibly go for that, so they can’t work.  She’s actually right, if he took a vow of celibacy.
• I really can’t hear this over my A/C and it’s July, so the A/C wins.  I have no idea what they’re saying.
• It ends with Gene saying to never fall in love in The Glass House.
• Someone asks Biggy or TuPac?  I don’t even know what that means, so whatever.
• Ori tells them that the viewers chose to send them “offal dishes” rather than sushi.  Why has no one told Joy to eat a bug yet?
• We’re watching them eat tongue and stuff.  Really?  
• Ori calls the players to the video wall to show a question from a viewer via Tout.
• Ori is all annoyed that no one has heard of Tout, and she won’t explain it.  ‘k.  It’s not their fault they never heard of it.  No one ever heard of it before this.
• Who makes the best cocktails?
• Erica says it’s Stephanie, because she makes mocktails, even when they have no alcohol.
• Stephanie admits that she’s awesome at making cocktails.
• Kevin says it’s between Gene and Stephanie.  Erica points out that she and Kevin would drink mouthwash if necessary, and he agrees.
• Joy says that Jeffrey also makes awesome cocktails, so he should come back.
• Gene says that he, Jeffrey, and Stephanie should share it.
• Andrea says that the rest of them are more entertaining when drunk.  Because it lets her feel so superior.
• Which eliminated player would you want back?  Which would you not want back?
• Kevin does not want Alex back.  He would bring Jacob back, because he seems easy to beat.  
• Andrea does not want to see Jacob back.  She’d like to see Ashley back.
• Stephanie also doesn’t want Jacob back, because he just walked away for no reason.  She would love to see Apollo come back.
• Erica would also like Apollo back.  She doesn’t want Alex back.
• Gene would like Apollo to come back so he could hear the rest of his plan.  Apparently, he had a 42-step plan.
• Ori tells them that Apollo’s not coming back.  Isn’t Apollo still hanging around?
• Joy would like Apollo back, also.  Really?  He was so unbelievably boring!  He didn’t do anything interesting in the episode, or the videos, or on the live feeds.  Joy would like to not see Mike come back, more than anyone else.  I love that she chose someone who hasn’t even been eliminated yet.
• If you could restart the game, would you change your strategy?
• Stephanie says that something is not right, so she thinks maybe she should have asked more specific game play questions and tried to get better feedback.
• Erica doesn’t really have a strategy, so she can’t so much change it.
• Andrea said that they had no idea what the game was until the day before, making it difficult to strategize.  Yet another reason for ABC not to renew this show.  Anyway, she said that she might do things differently.
• Joy says that hindsight is 20/20.  Part of her always has things that she might have done differently - she’s an emotional person.
• Kevin wouldn’t change anything.  Of course not - he’s winning.
• Gene also wouldn’t change anything.  He’s also winning, so this is also not a surprise.
• Erica remembers to say that she would change what happened with Kevin in the beginning, because it made things awkward.

We’re halfway through, it’s late, I’m tired, so that’s all for now.  More tomorrow.