Live Feed - Wednesday, July 25, Afternoon

• Wow.  There’s no one left.  Guess that means I can stop watching soon.  YAY!!!
• Stephanie doesn’t look very happy, but I don’t think the challenge has taken place yet.  Also, Joy doesn’t look thrilled either, and if she won the challenge, she would.  I wonder what happened this morning.
• Gene and Erica also look… guarded, maybe.  Not their usual selves.  Everyone is on edge.
• For some reason, Ori wants to relive the desperate banality that was yesterday’s live feed.  I prefer to ignore her.  
• Ori plays a video asking if the viewer voting has changed their strategy/voting in any way.  Didn’t someone already ask that?
• Kevin, “My alliance is STRONG!”  He’s joking, but he’s also winning, so he’s going to keep doing what he’s doing.
• Stephanie says that she’s questioning her strategy because she’s trying to figure out what she can do to connect with the viewers more.  Stephanie, sweetie?  Can you become stupid? The viewers would like you a lot better if you were stupid, like them.  She also says that there’s no point in alliances now, because there’s no one left.
• Jeffrey says that he realizes that the viewers are totally in control and there’s nothing they can do.  He hasn’t changed anything yet, but he’s got a lot of new information, and he’s open to seeing what will happen.
• Erica’s talking about integrity.  She wants to keep around people who bring out the best in her and who she wants to interact with, because she’s more likable that way.  So, what I hear is that she wants to be left alone with Kevin so she can make out with him.  That’s what you heard, too, right?
• Gene is changing nothing.  Of course not - he’s WINNING.
• Andrea has noticed that her alliance is slowly dying.  My mind wanders to the contents of my fridge.  This show is going to make me fat.
• I have no idea what Joy is saying, actually.  Probably because I don’t care.
• Who do you absolutely not want to win?
• Stephanie says Andrea.  Apparently, she’s a reality show whore.  She was on Family Feud!  That’s hilarious.  I missed that last night when they were talking about how desperate she is to get onto a show to win money that she can’t be bothered to earn.  She also points out that Andrea has the perfect life already.  That’s interesting, considering her “I need the money!” strategy.
• Erica says Gene because of the double talk.  Andrea does it, too, but she thought she could trust Gene, and she can’t.
• Andrea says Gene as well.  Is it because he’s black?  She says that she needs the money for necessities for her family.  Yeah, I desperately need to spend $250,000 on food.  Gene said that he’s going to spend the money on donations and buying a sports car.  She thinks there are better uses for the money - who is she to judge someone else’s financial situation?  The show is NOT ABOUT who is the poorest or most needs the money or will do the best thing with it.
• Kevin says Joy because, of all the people left, they have no connection.
• Gene says Stephanie, because is so smart, and she’ll find some other way to get money in life.  Yes, Gene.  Genuises don’t deserve to win money.  Gene points out that a used car isn’t really a luxury.  He’s not spending the entire $250,000 on a new sports car.
• Erica says that, other than her husband dying, Stephanie has had a completely charmed life.  She’s trying to make it funny, but it falls a little flat.
• Joy goes to answer in private.  She’s the only one.  She doesn’t want Erica to win, because she doesn’t trust her anymore.  Joy says that it’s sad that she’s broke, but that’s mostly due to personal choices, like buying hair extensions instead of paying to get her car out of impound.  Wow.  I can’t believe Joy is telling us that.  Cut to Erica touching and playing with her hair.  That’s awesome, ABC.  Thanks.  Basically, Joy is calling on Erica to exercise some fiscal responsibility - if she gets $250,000, she’ll piss it all away, anyway.
• Jeffrey says that it’s a bad idea to judge people’s “need” or wants for the money.  I agree completely.  Everyone has their own reasons, and the game isn’t about need.  The idea that someone in life has a lovely, wonderful life, and enjoys all of the benefits of marriage actually has worked to prevent him to have the same is just something that he cannot handle.  Can’t blame him.  I can’t handle the idea of Andrea winning the money, knowing that the Mormon church will get 10%.
• Ori gives them stuff to make pizzas.  She tells them to preheat the oven to 400-450, so I immediately feel bad for anyone who will have to eat these very improperly baked pizzas.
• They wander around, and we cut to a clip from last week of Erica whining about Kevin.  A-GAIN.  Seriously, someone please kill me.  I can’t keep watching this.
• While they’re making pizzas, Ori is going to call them into the confessional.  They can bring people if they want.
• Jeffrey takes Andrea.  What the hell happened to him in limbo?  Andrea says they have a “secret alliance.”  It’s gone insane.  This is so weird.  I love that Ori asks them if they have a secret handshake.  They do a thumb war.  I kinda don’t want to watch anymore.
• Ori asks if Jeffrey knew how close he was to going home.  Sounds like it was very close.
• He said that, basically, the house went crazy when he was gone, he didn’t know how close the vote was, but that he wouldn’t do it again, because he volunteered in the name of a 5 person friendship that doesn’t exist anymore.
• My love for Jeffrey is flowing away as fast as viewers are ditching the sinking ship that is this show. That was just WEIRD.  Why did he come back from limbo and just denounce all of his friends?
• Gene brings Kevin with him.  Weird X 2.
• Why do you think Erica is gunning for you so hard?  Do you think she has a new alliance?
• He said Erica hates him because she never wanted him in the alliance, but she needed his vote, and that’s the only reason she accepted him.
• Gene knows that Erica’s comments earlier were about wanting to get him out so she could hang out with Kevin.
• Whoa, whoa, whoa.  Gene says that all the girls have an “STI.”  Kevin interjects quickly that this does NOT mean a sexually transmitted infection.  *phew*  I was wondering what was going on in this house.  Anyway, it’s the slutty trip to Italy.  The rest is not important.
• Joy is up next.  She brings Gene, of course.  
• If I’d been paying attention, I could have asked her about being Team Captain.  
• What if Jeffrey is turning against you?
• I don’t think there’s really a “what if” here.
• Joy says that she’ll worry about it if and when it happens, but she doesn’t think what happens in the game is a reflection on any of them as people.
• She knows that Erica is no longer on her side, but Jeffrey hasn’t given her any indication that he feels the same way.  If this is about Kevin, I’m revoking my vote for Erica.  I need to know.
• Damn.  Now I want pizza.

                                     

• Kevin is up, and he brings Erica.
• Would you let Erica and Jeffrey into your alliance, fully trusting them?
• He did it last night, basically.
• He says that Jeffrey and Erica would be idiots to try to join his alliance, but if they’re dumb enough to want to get on board, he’d be all for it.
• The time for alliances is past.  That’s true.  It happened very quickly.
• Erica makes fun of Kevin’s duckface.  This is by far the best part of the feed.
• Erica goes alone.  “Every man for himself!”
• Ori asks why she’s alone.  Really, there are no more alliances.  
• Do you think your kind of humor can be taken in the wrong context?
• Of course it can.  Most senses of human can be taken the wrong way.
• She says yes, because she’s not a complete idiot.
• Stephanie is up next.  She leaves Jeffrey in charge of her pizza and goes alone.
• She looks really good in that shade of green.
• Do you think you can still trust Gene?
• She says that she thinks she can.  All of the things people have said that involved double-talk or them not trusting her all involved things that she already knew. 
• She also is aware that, twice, his vote has saved her from limbo.  That’s a good reason to trust him, actually.
• Andrea.
• Do you practice those overly-dramatic eyerolls or do they come naturally?
• She says it’s a terrible habit, but it’s not practiced.  She's laughing, though.
• It’s 4, so Ori says we’re signing off.  Weird.  They actually ended it on time.  Must be going straight to the challenge today.

Ok, everyone.  I’m taking a (MUCH NEEDED) vacation.  I would have tried to put it at a different time but, well, people who schedule weddings don’t consult reality TV schedules first (and that’s OK with me).  So, there will be a series of guest blogs, I’ll do what I can, and I’ll be back next week.  Try to avoid drinking yourselves to death, folks, OK?