Is anyone still watching this show? I find it mildly entertaining. Granted, it’s no Survivor, but it has its moments.
I’m so glad they got rid of Kelly. She had some serious issues and it just kept getting uglier.
The vampire is really bugging me, although I kind of like everyone else. He is just too theatrical for me and seems like he is always posing and trying to look evil. The other seem like pretty cool people.
I hope Tim is the next to go. What an ignorant buffoon.
Thoughts?
Thoughts, in no particular order:
Kelly: I was shocked they got rid of her- I figured for the ratings value alone they’d keep her around for another couple of weeks. I should have figured out that Fiona saying she wanted to keep Kelly around would spell Kelly’s doom. I wish we’d had a little more warning during Fiona’s ritual… they omitted her instructions to Kelly after “are you willing to release that fear” and cut to Kelly making the most horrid faces I’d ever seen. I actually yelled at the t.v. “she said RELEASE, not VOMIT!” Overall I think Kelly was way too unbalanced to be on a show like this- you could see the defenses shoot up during the elimination. I loved the fact that everything she was accusing others of were things that she did herself.
Tim: I can see how he runs a little roughshod over people, but I’m unwilling to put him in the “ignorant buffoon” category. He’s obviously uncomfortable with Art and Avacado’s nudity, but at least he’s good-natured about it. I laughed when he said he’d sit with them if they could get Fiona out there. And he was right with Kelly.
Misc:
Anyone else entering the contest?
Well hell. I didn’t watch it last night figuring I’d catch a repeat, and damn if there are no repeats scheduled! And there was mass nudity and everything!
I’m surprised Kelly lasted to episode two. I figured she was a goner from the moment she waddled out of the SUV. I loved how she was all strategizing about how getting picked as an Alt’s roommate would let her work it to her advantage. I’d seen the previews of her tear-streaked face but I was really looking forward to a blubbering fit. Ah well…
Kelly was such a drama queen, and I am glad she was put in her place. She did not absorb Fiona’s Wiccan ritual of releasing her fear. And then she took her fear out on the others in the house. I think the alts did right by eliminating the person who is not embodying the peace and positive transformation qualities.
On the other hand, Eric did not appear to be as genuine as Noel and Niclole during the fear cleansing ceremony.
I loved Avocado’s naked memory game!!! and I thought it was so rude of Tim to make a “size” joke about someone’s “pink parts”!!! He should be next to go, imho!
I don’t think he SAID anything. I think he made a ‘teeny’ gesture to one of the men. But I was looking away from the TV at that point, so I’m not sure as I didn’t see it.
I agree that Tim’s probably the next to go. Either him or Brent, given the comments on both during this elimination deliberation, but I think Brent’s at least harmless in his closed-ness. Tim’s a pain.
I knew Kelly wasn’t going to last, and I knew her breakdown was going to be enteraining. And BOY HOWDY, was it. I loved how, up 'till the elimination, she was all ‘Oh, I BELONG here, I’m so very open minded and willing to learn’, then once she was eliminated, she started calling them ‘freaks of nature’, who had no RIGHT to tell her how to live her life.
Avacado’s challenge kicked ass. Brent and Kelly’s comments on it were a laugh. ‘I don’t know if they’ll let me back into the convent!’
And who got the last pair? All I remember was he said ‘I hate peas, and I’m stuck with the peas,’ which cracked me up.
Just watched this on TiVo last night.
Holy EFFING MERCIFUL GOD – Kelly SUCKS. You could tell she had big time problems. And her “cleansing” routine? Make a few seizure faces and then scream loudly? It looked like she was sucking on a rotten lemon while she had a cattle prod shoved up her ass. I was wishing for a small meteor to land on her head.
And her quote at the end (paraphrasing) “I wanted Art to see how much I hated him in that moment, and I showed him in my eyes” No, you looney bitch, you just looked like a sobbing idiot.
I like Noel best on the show. Also, outside of Tim’s out of place “teeny” finger gesture, I like him pretty well. I’m glad somebody told Kelly to stop acting like an idiot.
Although, one thing I don’t understand is why those Jesus kids should last at all. They have refused to participate in 2 of the 3 activites. I know that the guy (don’t remember his name) won immunity from the blood bath in week 1, but I was wanting him to go after this week.
and Don the vampire – heheh. Everytime he does something stupid, the wife and I crack each other up with a “Shuttup, Todd” – from SNL’s Goth Talk. Don is annoying and all about puttin on a show. You could see how annoyed he was when Noel wasn’t freaked out by him in episode one. Easily the most annoying of the 5 alts.
I dunno… Don’s pretty annoying, but Fiona (She of the Impressive Cleavage and the Pentagram Belly-Shirt) is pretty stupid, too. I know some true Wiccans, and if she’s one, I’ll eat my hair. Her “rituals” are too generalized and too hip. It’s almost as though Dr. Phil were turned into a witch (albeit considerably sexier), with her shiny-happy self-help crap. She reminds me of all the “cool” witches that cropped up around the time the movie Practical Magic and the TV series “Charmed” came out. “See how cool I am, I’m a witch! giggle” :rolleyes:
Anyway, like Don, my feeling is that Fiona is also all-show, with no substance. She either an actress hired to play it up as a witch, or she’s a girl who wants to be a witch and bought all the cool clothes that she thinks goes with the package.
Still, nice cleavage. It was featured so prominently in this episode, one can’t help but comment on it.
The other three alts at least seem very comfortable and “real” in their roles, even if they’re a bit trumped-up for the show, but Fiona and Don both strike me as deeply fake.
As I mentioned in the other thread, Fiona Horne is something of a populariser (her most recent book is titled ‘Witchin’, A Guidebook for Teenage Witches’ - that should give you an idea what she’s like right there). Have to expect pretty much what we got from her ritual. Fluffy and ‘cool’.
Ugh. It’s vindicating to know that my impression was pretty much on the money, but still… Ugh. “Witchin’”
The only thing worse than being Silver RavenWolf is being a Silver RavenWolf wannabe…
OMG. It’s like Kylie Minogue meets Princess Fluffybunny, High Priestess of Sunshine’n’Sweetness Coven!
I’m a little more interested in this book.
I like this show, and I am SOOOOOO glad to see Kelly go. She’s a giant bitch-monster drama queen who always tried to get people to see her as a victim, fails because she overdoes it and appears as fake as she is, and then makes a comment about how it’s high school all over again. I’ve known a couple people like that before (but nowhere NEAR as bad as Kelly,) and they annoyed me so much.
My favorite so far is probably Noel. He just seems like a laid back guy, and doesn’t seem to have any issues with any of the other guests or alts. I agree that either Brent or Loena (the Jesus Twins, as my roommate and I call them,) will be next to go. Possibly Tim, but he seems kinda loved by Art and Avacado
(the two coolest Alts.) They almost delight in making him feel uncomfortable and enjoy joking with him about it. I see Eric as they kid who never grew up. He’s still 15 inside, which works to his advantage in that he is willing to do just about anything to win, and seems fairly accepting, but he is also immature at times, though usually just in conversation with other guests, so the alts don’t see it as much. Nichole and Jaime…no real opinion on either one of them. I don’t recall many bad things said about them in the deliberation (though to be fair, they couldn’t talk bout nichole in the second ep.) Bonnie…I liked her until this ep. She seemed like someone who, while has their own beliefs, is actually willing to particiapte in someone else’s, and accept them. But her refusal to look at naked people…well, that seems kinda prudish. And now that I think about it, she also has not particiapted in either Fiona’s or Ta’Shia’s rituals. She has a good chance of being next to go as well.
Right now, I’m prediciting that Noel, Nichole, or Jaime will win.
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Bonnie…I liked her until this ep. She seemed like someone who, while has their own beliefs, is actually willing to particiapte in someone else’s, and accept them. But her refusal to look at naked people…well, that seems kinda prudish. And now that I think about it, she also has not particiapted in either Fiona’s or Ta’Shia’s rituals. She has a good chance of being next to go as well.
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She participated in Fiona’s ritual, we just didn’t get to see her scroll/release. Tim was there as well… the only ones who sat out were Brent and Loena. And as I said before, her reasoning was STUPID… the comment about how her son’s frat mates were going to want to play the game with her later was so over the top it was ridiculous. I’m sure a bunch of frat boys are just itching to get naked in front of the 50yo mother of one of their “brothers.” :rolleyes:
Noel was actually the one that the alts took an immediate dislike to… he was the one who made the “keep on suckin’” comment to Don the first night. He certainly came a long way in one episode.
And jayjay deserves to be flogged for making me laugh so hard when my tummy hurts.
Avalonian
I feel exactly the same way about Fiona.
Re Memory Game
Could ya give me some details? When I’m visiting relatives with cable, I watch alot of Sci Fi channel. So I saw the ads and am curious. Now that I’m back home, I have no cable. Ignoring, for the moment, the moral and legal issues involved in downloading episodes from Kazaa and the like, I find that I’ve got a 200 mhz processor and a dial up connection.
So what was Art’s challenge?
What was Fiona’s ritual?
Am I correct in assuming that she has harnessed the power of salt crystals, dissolved in water, and contained in sacks made from an alchemical process involving the transmuted bones of dinosaurs?
How are the alts getting along with eachother?
Art hasn’t had a challenge yet. This week was Avacado’s. A group of his naturist friends (male and female), clad only in loincloths were standing in the yard. Each loincloth had a picture of a ‘raw food treat’ under it - cucumber, corn, peas, pumpkin, etc. Each food was under 2 loin cloths. (Avacado had an avacado under his) The challenge was to make matching pairs. It was, nominally, to see who was best able to concentrate around naked people.
She had them all write a fear/secret/something (I had to go to the bathroom when Fiona was describing that part of the ritual) on a scroll, then it was read aloud and they ‘released’ it. Kelly screamed (really, really overacting, BTW), Nichole broke down into tears, and Noel showed his scar (I hope his family sued whatever doctor did the surgery…there’s no reason for the scar to be that ugly). There was also a bit where she pointed a sword at people and challenged them about if they entered the circle without trepidation and of their own free will, yadda yadda. Then there was a chant of goddess names (Kali, Diana and Hecate I caught) and ‘so mote(sp?) it be’ to end it.
Swimmingly. At least publicly. Presumably they weren’t chosen to conflict with eachother, as I don’t doubt the guests were.
“Better you should rush upon this blade than enter the circle with fear in your heart.” The actual finish should be something along the lines of “How do you come here?” with the respondent saying “In perfect love and perfect trust.” However, obviously the norms weren’t going to know that, so they changed it to something I can’t remember (but was probably “do you come here of your own free will?”) that promoted the automatic response “I do.”
Isis, Astarte, Diana, Hecate, Demeter, Kali, Ianna. We usually sing that part because most incarnations of the goddess don’t like being yelled at. 
And that is indeed the correct spelling of “mote.”
Bite me, jayjay. 
You know Princess Fluffybunny’s coven uses Hoku’s Perfect Day as ritual music and has turned the group showing of “Legally Blonde” into a ceremonial working for peace, understanding and good hair, don’t you?
And uses freshly baked chocolate chip cookies and warm milk as an offering? Yeah, I knew.