Well tonight's the night. Kevin and Jordan have had their heads together, Natalie and Jordan have been whispering and Natalie and Kevin have been scheming, all saying they want to go to final two with the other.

Natalie seems to be the most paranoid, she seems to be really bothering Kevin too because she keeps putting him on the spot about what his choice will be if he wins the final HOH. Then she immediately threatens to turn the vote against him if she gets "screwed over" by him. I hope Kevin meant it when he told Jordan he has no intention at all of taking Natalie with him, I could not stand the thought of Natalie winning this, while she has had some luck, she hasn't been a good housemate, nor a player who directly had a hand in evicting another player. She has let Kevin be the bad guy for the last two weeks and now she expects that Kevin owes her some allegiance. I'd love it if she were left out the cold!

I will be so glad to see this season end, just in time for Survivor to start on Thursday and The Amazing Race later this month!

Whew! Well, thank heavens for that, indeed. Had that disturbing Natalie creature won I'd have been up all night with heartburn .

Y' know? I'm not sorry I watched (the summer had its moments, I can say that for sure) ... but I ultimately don't think I'll remember this season as anything better than mostly forgettable . The most memorable part of it, HiroChima, is already getting foggy in the memory banks. Of course, this might change when Jeff and Jordan get their own television show somewhere down the line . Then I'll be forced to remember how darned cute they were together ~ and they really are, aren't they? One just wants to run up and squeeze the "darling-ness" out of the both of 'em ....

I for one was delighted at the outcome tonight, although I would have rather seen Kevin take home $50K than Natalie. My favorite part of the evening had to be when Jessie voted for Jordan! Huge surprise there!

Once Jordan won the final HOH, I was pretty sure she had it sewn up -- I was expecting Jessie, Russell, and Kevin to vote for Natalie; Lydia, Jeff, and Michelle to vote for Jordan; and I knew without a shadow of a doubt that Jordan would have America's vote. (Jessie's vote has always been assumed a lock for Natalie.) I think Jordan would have beat Kevin 4-3 as well.

I was also pleased to note that my previous assessment was correct: the jury members were as a whole completely turned off by their viewing of Queen Natalie with her crown and scepter.

There was a live interview segment with Evel Dick in the backyard tonight on stickam.com, which has never been done before. I was looking forward to that because usually we have to wait a day or two to see the backyard interviews. Unfortunately, Evel Dick's ego took over and instead of interviewing the houseguests, he talked incessantly about himself. (At the Big Brother forum where I hang out, we actually played a drinking game where we drank every time Evel Dick said, "In my season..." I sensibly bowed out of the game rather early, but I believe several hardy souls are probably passed out on the floor at present...none of them were heard from by the end of the interview process.) So, most of the questions everyone wanted to know the answers to were not asked, or were asked but had the answers interrupted by Evel Dick. (Drink!) We did get a brief statement from Jessie that his reasoning for giving Jordan his vote was that he felt Natalie had not put forth enough effort in the competitions.

In Natalie's interview, ED rather gleefully informed her that she had many haters out there.

"Oh, I know I've got haters," she said, "But--"

"No, I mean, you've really got a LOT of haters out there," interjected Evel Dick.

I also learned that the staff psychologist always recommends to all the houseguests that they not go on the internet and read about themselves after leaving the house. Guess they're afraid someone might get suicidal.

I look forward to the backyard interviews to come where (hopefully) sensible questions will be asked and will be allowed to be answered.

I was disappointed, as I knew I would be, by the long-hoped-for 2-hour finale, which turned out to be one hour of what is usually the second to last show and one hour of the typical rushed-through standard finale hour. Next year they should give us both!

I don't think I'll find the season quite as unmemorable as you, Gats, if only because there were quite a lot of fireworks and fights this season to keep things interesting -- plus the mostly adorable antics of Jeff and Jordan -- plus the extremely attractive Jeff to keep my eyes happy.

Unless something interesting pops up in the backyard interviews, I'm guessing this will be my last post on this topic for 2009, so I'll leave you all with a memorable moment that I don't believe was ever shown on TV:

Jeff and Jordan were playing a 20-questions type game they "invented" called "What Animal Am I?" Jordan had thought of an animal.

Jeff: Do you have fur?
Jordan: No.
Jeff: Do you have legs?
Jordan: No.
Jeff: Do you have big teeth?
Jordan: Well, if I'm a little shark, I have little teeth.
Jeff: So you're a shark!

(sigh) Those two were a riot sometimes.

I didn't get to see the first half of the show, my DVR was full so I only managed to get the TV on in time to see the final HOH get played, I'll have to go to the On Demand feature and play it from the start so that I can see the faces of the jury as they watched Natalie's 'reign', she really, REALLY thought a LOT of herself, didn't she?

Ronnie exposing Natalie's lie came to be a HUGE shock to Kevin, I saw him react to learning that by turning to ask the jury "Why didn't you tell me?" - I'd like to think it would have impacted his vote. Michele's jury question to Natalie was pointedly phrased "You are eighteen years old and engaged...." and I wondered why she didn't expose this deception herself. She looked like the cat that swallowed the canary, I know I couldn't have sat on that knowledge and not at least try to use it to swing the vote against her. In retrospect it could've been a test to see if Natalie would have fessed up at this point, it might have actually earned her a vote. The point's moot now, but it'd've been nice to witness her realization the jury had turned against her even before the voting began. The only thing that could have gone better in this scenario would've been if everyone voted for Jordan, a true fairy-tale ending in my opinion!!

Though Chima wasn't present it almost felt like she was there, considering how often her name came up. Laura's comment that she was offended by Chima's behavior (and Kevin echoing the sentiment) was justly deserved. If she had stayed in the house the final outcome undoubtedly would have been entirely different.

America's choice for favorite player was the only obvious one (IMHO ), I'm happy for Jeff that he didn't leave the game with nothing. He was an honest player who was a genuinely nice guy, he completely deserved the "consolation prize". In all, everybody got what they deserved this season, except Kevin should have been beside Jordan instead of Natalie in the final two.

I loved reading your post Star, the thought of Evel Dick informing Natalie that she was so despised and underscoring the thought with a "no, seriously" comment hopefully knocked her down a few pegs. I definitely have to see that, thanks for the tip!

I was so grateful that Natalie didn't win! If I'd had it my way, Michelle would have won, with Jeff coming in second. She was such a fighter. I am happy with the ending, though. I also wish that it had been Kevin sitting next to Jordan in the end. Oh, well- at least Natalie had to feel bad when she heard of the 5-2 vote.

Just in case we didn't our fill of Jeff and Jordan over the summer, they are going to be contestants on The Amazing Race, the only reality show I pay attention to, other then Big Brother, which starts on February 14th.