This will be my last Big Brother recap of the 2005 season, and although I am sad that our time together will be winding down, at least I do get to enjoy one last bit of Julie Chen madness before I sign off. But you know what? I have to say, ever since Julie pulled out the crazy fireworks poncho, it is as if her wardrobe people came back from watching Ron Burgundy and said, "You stay classy, Julie Chen." She decided once again to go with an all-black ensemble, and she has looked a lot less hippy (as in she doesn't have big legs like Maggie), and the fabric was such that cameltoe was nearly non-existant.

But with every good thing, there is some bad, and once again, we were all taken aback by Julie's choice of jewelry. Last night, she sported the oddest bit of jewelry in the form of a pearl necklace/choker/collar. About the only thing good you can say about it was that it matched her earrings. She's a big girl now, and married to a lot of money. She doesn't have to go around making these huge uber-necklaces from the parts of lesser necklaces. Perhaps she twisted her neck doing a little reverse cowgirl, and this was some sort of fancy cervical collar the paramedics wanted her to wear just as a precaution? I just didn't know what to make of it, except there was only one more day of this stuff that I had to look forward to.

Most of the first half of this episode was devoted to the first two parts of the HOH competition. We saw the opening part of the first competition at the end of Tuesday's episode. All three women had to balance themselves onto spinning wheel that was supposed to represent a combination. While they tried to keep their balance, they also had to keep at least one hand on a key that was suspended in the air above them. As they were performing in this competition, April's eviction was still fresh in their minds. I know it was difficult for Ivette to evict April, and I know that it's no that unusual for the evicted houseguest to be made to look like a saint, but what was it with the April worship? Ivette said that her decision was something she didn't wish on her worst enemy, and Maggie literally said "I loved her" and "God, I'm going to miss her."

But when you stop think about it, the whole goal of the Friendship was to make it to the end together. Unfortunately, with Janelle still in the picture, there was a possibility that one of them was going to go home, and even an outside chance that neither of them would win the money. As Janelle said, she really "crushed their dreams to shreds." I know she meant to say she tore their dreams to shreds or crushed their dreams into little pieces, but considering all she has been through these last few months, I am willing to forgive her a mixed metaphor or misspelled word or two every now and then.

Our dream has been that Janelle makes it to the end. A lot of things had to go right for her to even make it this far, so it seemed like it was almost destiny that she would win this final HOH competition. All of America was behind her, but it looked like our dreams would be crushed to shreds early on in the competition. Janelle was having the most trouble out of the three people left, and she complained that her back was hurting and she wasn't able to concentrate. I hate both Ivette and Maggie with a passion, but I should at least give both of them props for encouraging Janelle to do her best and to keep fighting the whole time. Maybe they realized she was going to possibly vote on one of them to win and didn't want to talk trash, but they seemed at least semi-genuine, which is more than I can say for them for most of the season.

Despite all of those words of encouragement, Janelle was the first to be eliminated from the first part of the competition, and it was quite the blow. Although she still had a chance to make it to the end, these tests of will were the ones that we though Janelle would be great at against Ivette and Maggie. Her departure also gave us a preview of what would happen should we be left with Ivette and Maggie as the final two. As predicted, the conversation was sickening. Maggie said "I love you" and Ivette said "I love you" back. When Big Brother 4 aired, I thought there could be nothing worse than seeing Jun and Alison compete for the prize, but at least they didn't like each other. With Ivette and Maggie, not only do we have to deal with two people we don't want to see win, but we'll be spared most of the trash talk as well, which makes for a doubly boring finale. Hopefully CBS had some way of putting the fix in for Janelle, because nobody in their right mind is going to watch the finale and pretend that they wanted either of these two to win.

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Posted by J-Unit on September 18, 2005 3:08 PM