Jul 7
2008

The Bachelorette Finale

Deanna and Jesse-huh?

Now do NOT get me wrong, I LOVE Jesse, but he is the kind of guy you DATE, not marry.

In the After the Final Rose, at least she was honest and said that what she wanted, her shopping list, had changed by the time she got to the end of the process, but really, I have to say, she has come off as an unholy bitch to a lot of people.

I mean, she KNEW Jeremy’s feelings, and Jason’s.  It’s like, once she had sex with them, athletic Jesse won the day. In fact, it’s like the more the guy played hard to get, the more she wanted him, like Brad, like Graham, like Jesse, who did not even kiss her for weeks, and then told her at first he would not go to the fantasy suite with her.

I think Jeremy and Jason were two AWESOME guys and she really should have told them long before that they were not the one. She said it was an 11th hour decision where she wrote all the pros and cons down on paper, yet she bent over backwards to smooth Jesse’s way with the family.

Her sister in law described her as a free spirit? I don’t think so. Spoiled brat more like. She kicked the guys like footballs if they didn’t ‘open up to her’ but what’s the point when she would then whack them in the nuts?  And was she open and honest? I mean, Jason was decent, with a son. If she had had any doubts, (and what about her timetable of 3 kids before she is 30, she is 26 already??) she should have let the guy down gently.

I felt so sorry for the poor bugger, and can only hope that he gets to be The Bachelor himself after a decent interval, though I can honestly say he will probably not want to leave his son, and he is so deserving of a great gal he will have every woman in the country after him.

Jeremy is a bit too dull to be the next Bachelor, but we wish him well, and it took guts to try to ‘make it right’ with her, even though he should have seen that she was clearly on a roll (literally) with Jesse after they spent the night together.

Her saying she can’t live without him in her life, well, it’s a bit hard to believe, really, considering what awesome things she shared with Jason. I only hope she doesn’t live to regret it, and that Jesse steps up to the plate for her, because I can tell you from her personality, and her big fat Greek family, there will be hell to pay if he doesn’t!

As her dad said (and Jason must have totally cringed at this) she had already made up her mind at the family visit. She was just going around desperately trying to justify her emotional and illogical decision. Can you imagine what Brad must be thinking now—or Graham? All having a good laugh at her expense, I shouldn’t wonder.

I mean, Jesse is a great guy, but for me, he has all the sex appeal of a golden retriever puppy.

So congratulations, I think, to the happy couple, and let’s hope they are happier together than Shayne the drama queen and Matt the British bachelor, who were so lame on the show it is hard to imagine them ever setting a date. “Monkey, will you marry me,” has easily got to be the worse proposal line EVER. Chelsea the runner up (as horsey a looking woman as Prince Charles’ wife) must spit every time she thinks of what she went through!

Jul 1
2008

Farmer Wants a Wife Finale

This has been one of my guilty pleasures, given how awful most of the women were on the show, and also the two that he picked in the end.

Josie and Ashley have got to go down in history as having even LESS class than the tarty blonde who handed the British Bachelor her panties within an hour of meeting (the fact that they were large enough to hang on a flag pole did not escape anyone’s notice except the blonde’s apparently.)

I have to admit I was not dying about Christa, but she was a darn sight better than all the other princesses that got sent home.

I hate to say this, but you could see it coming a mile off in the end, though I fail to see how Matt could have acted the way he did, leading on Christa, and I think he made a mistake.

Why he picked Brooke:
A-virgin
b-britney spears lookalike
c-she went out of her way to charm the whole town
d-Christa blew any chance she might have ever had when they did the pair date in the hot tub and she jumped all over Brooke, and made Brooke look like the innocent puppy victim.
She also blew the date because guys can’t stand conflict, they just want to have a good time, so he had yet another blown date and it was HER fault.
e-Guys don’t like a woman who challenges them all the time, but supports them. Christa was too sarcastic all the time, and too flirty.
f-Christa is a bartender, Brooke a nanny-which one is going to be the best fit for a wife for a guy with strong family values and who wants kids and marriage right away? He had his timetable, and Amanda blew it when she said that she was not ready to get married within three months. What was he trying to do, fit it all in before the next planting season?
g-Amanda was a really great personality fit, but she sort of dropped herself out of the running –I think she might have changed her mind about life on the farm, if not him, the more she got to know him. I think the cow’s butt was the last straw for her!
You could see after that, in the edits, she was hardly ever seen and she and Matt never hugged, which considering what they had been like before, gazing deeply into each other’s eyes, was a big contrast.
He said he did not feel as connected with her, but they started out well. She clearly ended up not having feelings for him, while with Brooke, she was determined to get him and she did.

Christa clearly DID have feelings, not just the competitive streak.

So IMHO, it is a bit unfair of matt to have been indulging in all that romantic stuff with Christa and taking her to his own house and building up artificial expectations of forever in her, and then dumping her in front of the whole town.

Like Brooke said, she got the ATVS, and Christa got the fairytale carriage and the home visit? It made no sense.

So Matt got what he wanted, but he ended up looking like a prick in the end. The farmer’s wife chores at the end, which Brooke totally blew, was like the final torture. And the cow’s butt was totally unnecessary.

KJ was a better fit than anyone there, IMHO, because she really wanted to be, and really liked him, and she was also not a schemer like Brooke showed herself to be. Everyone warned Matt, but did he listen? He will have only himself to blame when the reality show ends and the reality sets in.

Maybe it is me, but EVERY time I watch one of these kind of shows, the Bachelor, whatever, I always get it wrong. I can’t understand the male mind and criteria–you would think they would pick the gal who is totally into them, not the standoffish one who could not even say 2 words about her own feelings.

So it is clear, ladies, string them along, be dishonest, don’t put your feelings out there, and you will get a guy!

As for men, well, keep them dangling, say you want someone to share your life with in a meaningful way, then go for the bimbo every time.

I doubt it will be back for another season, but it was a lightweight bit of fluff to cheer us after the dire writer’s strike.