Tuesday, February 16, 2010
The Bachelor -- 15-Feb-2010 -- St. Lucia
I have to say, with all the hype Jake was talking on Gia and the date, I'm quite disappointed in him for letting her go. She's the only one left that seems to have a decent array of emotions. On one hand you've got Tinley, who only ever sounds like she has the one super-saturated sugary emotion all the time and Vienna, who just wants a sugar daddy to take care of her. Then again, it could be an editing trick.
The problem Jake has with Tinley, as far as I can tell from the confessionals, is that he likes the idea of loving Tinley, but it doesn't sound like he actually does. Then when Jake talks about Vienna, it's more like he just has the hots for her, but he'll end up feeling like a baby-sitter in the long run if he picks her. From my standpoint, I don't know exactly how many times I heard Tinley say she'd only ever been with one man, but it was enough that if you had a drinking game, there might be some alcohol poisoning involved. Yes, Tinley, we get it. You were married once and he's the only guy you were ever with. She should do us all a favor -- including herself -- and sleep with someone else already so she can say something else now.
The producers also have to shake things up a bit, so they allowed Ali to call Jake at the hotel to see if it's too late for her to come back. Apparently she made a mistake by going back to her job. It two's company and three's a crowd, what is it when there's suddenly one more woman back in the picture? A whole lotta confusion and more drama is my guess. However, it didn't go that way. There was something I didn't understand about Jake's response. He says everything about him wanted her to get on a plane and come, but then he says his gut says no. Huh? Oh well.
I'm guessing he doesn't go home with anyone and makes everyone cry ... including the producers.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
The Bachelor -- 8-Feb-2010
Gia -- She took Jake for a little boat cruise around the New York harbour. Jake said that when he kisses Gia, he has a burning sensation to get to know her heart. Pardon my mind, but I've never heard it put quite that way before. The family was interesting in that the brother did the protective threatening thing, but it was hard to take him seriously under the helmet he was wearing ... that was a spiky helmet, wasn't it? He admitted that he loves her, but not to her.
Ali -- She showed Jake her dead grandmother's house and talked about how the grandmother approved of him being there. Sure ... whatever. It's very easy to say what the dead would like or not like because they aren't there to say if for themselves.
Tinley -- Yawwwwwnnnn, stretch, and ZZZzzzzz. What's that? The dad's crying and Tinley is still being too sweet? Doesn't this girl have more than one emotion? Maybe she's a new generation of Stepford Wives or a robot.
Vienna -- That girl is so full of crap. I think the father said it all when he said she was a princess. Jake will definitely have his hands full with this one. I could see her putting him into some big time debt and shrugging it off ... (trumpet sound) charge it!! Either that or she'll get bored when the show is over, entertain him for a bit, then before dump him.
So, the drama before the rose ceremony:
The door knocks at Jake's hotel door. He answers it. It's Ali. She's all upset and pouty. Apparently she was given a choice -- quit her job or quit the show. All I could think of during the whole blah, blah, blah was that there's something suspicious about the whole bit of drama. She said she would let him know her decision during the rose ceremony. After more blah, blah, blah, Ali finally decided to pick her job over staying on the show.
It may or may not be the end of Ali and Jake from the previews for next week though. She gives him a call and then the cameras show Jake talking to a mystery person. It's all in the editing though.
Monday, February 1, 2010
The Bachelor -- 1-Feb-2010
Tinley, Ali, and Corrie all got the one on one dates while Gia had to share Jake's time with the idiot princess Vienna. The date with Tinley appeared to go well. She's sweet and all, but so sweet sometimes that it's almost sickly sweet -- like the stomach or tooth ache one would get the day after Halloween from stuffing your face with the sweetest candies. Or better yet, shortly after a few too many coolers or crantinis. You know where you're left laying on the couch thinking "oh, maybe I had too much."
Ali's date was a bit easier to stomach; not nauseatingly sweet. After all, perfect is annoying after a while. It's nice to see a bit of an edge that Ali appears to have and she doesn't pretend to be perfect either. Whereas Vienna's "what? poor little ol' me?" and crocodile tears are just too much to deal with. Speaking of Vienna, there was the overnight two on one date with Jake and Gia and Vienna in a castle. At the end of the evening, Vienna went off to go find Jake in his room for a late night interlude. To her unpleasant surprise, Jake sent her back up to her room. Although it was awkward and hard to watch at times, I'm not sure if it was as awkward as when Corrie teased Ali and Vienna earlier that day that they would be the ladies on the two on one date. You could have sliced and chopped through the air with a butcher knife. At one point during the evening, I could be wrong, but I could have sworn I saw the slight hint of disinterest or fall back on Jake's part towards Vienna. Time will tell in the next little while if he decides to keep her around.
It looks like all the women made it to through up to the rose ceremony for a change. Chris should have congratulated the ladies and Jake for making it all the way to the rose ceremony without any early departures. However, as Jake looked down at the last rose, I noticed he shook his head for a moment. It got me thinking, is he going to ask Chris if he could toss the last rose ... again? He didn't do that though ... he actually handed out all the roses that were provided to him. Unfortunately for Corrie, he didn't have enough a) roses, b) sense, or c) chemistry to keep her around. Even so, it would have still been better to keep her and lose the idiot princess, Vienna.
Call it a hunch, but seeing as how Jake usually calls Ali and Tinley first and/ or second each time makes me think they'll stick around until at least the final three. Strangely enough, next week's preview shows Chris announcing that there won't be a rose ceremony due to another unforeseen bit of drama. This is another first ... like when Rozlyn was booted off ... that was an unforgettable first.
Tune in to see who gets booted off and the cause of the drama. I would laugh if it was Deanna showing up to say "choose me".
Monday, January 25, 2010
The Bachelor -- 25-Jan-2010
I thought it really funny that Vienna talked about how Gia wasn't good for Jake because she's a city girl and wouldn't know how to handle herself in the rugged outdoors. That's rich coming from the idiot princess. And rugged outdoors? Uhhh no. They're camping on the front step of a vineyard; that's hardly roughing it. Not to mention they're not exactly sleeping in tents and they have plumbing.
All I can say is good for Gia for holding her own, even if she did sport some high heel shoes. She wasn't afraid to take them off and play around in bare feet. If anything, I'd have to say there's something sweet about Gia and yet straight up if you challenged her about something. Her nervous laugh is something to get used to though. It could get annoying on one hand, but it also has a strange endearing quality.
I guess nobody told Jake that the two on one date somebody was supposed to go and somebody was supposed to stay. Not for Jake's rules this season. Going right along with his tag line that you don't have to wait for a rose ceremony to go home, he did just that -- he sent both ladies home.
As for the group date, Jake wanted to see the ladies get down and dirty in the sand. I'm actually surprised that Ali and Vienna appeared to stay out of each others way during the group date; impressive. That Vienna, she no longer has alliances or friends in the house. I can't imagine how much it would suck to live in a house full of women not just all wanting to date the same guy, but not be liked by anyone else in the house. Talk about uncomfortable. Yikes.
Jake managed to stir up some drama of his own during the rose ceremony. Part way through the ceremony, he excused himself, walked out, chatted with Chris and sought to have one less rose to hand out that night. Basically, within a week, he managed to remove four women from the show instead of just two. I think if there was a way for him to avoid the rose ceremony, he would narrow down his choices that much faster. Needless to say, the women that remained were both surprised and pissed off -- well at least a few were distinctly pissed off -- that Vienna, once again, got selected to stay. I guess it's the way she looks at him all crossed-eyed like that keeps him hanging on. Oh well. I guess we'll see how much longer Vienna sticks around ... or if Ali goes home if Vienna stays, which would be unfortunate ... but possible.
It's hard to say what drama will unfold next week from the previews. The previews didn't really give away many hints as to who got in the limo at the end of the day. It does appear, however, that all the unknown women that were there are now gone. The question for next week is, will Jake release anyone extra women before the rose ceremony? Or will he be forced to keep with the guidelines because he's running out of choices?
Monday, January 18, 2010
The Bachelor -- 18-Jan-2010
This week on The Bachelor, there were two one-on-one dates and a group date.
Vienna was chosen to go on the first one-on-one date. After jumping off a bridge with someone tied to you, I doubted that Jake would send her packing right away. Unless the person he was tied to really repulsed him, I doubt he would send her home right after something like that. Fortunately for Vienna (not so sure if it was fortunate for Jake), he decided to give her a rose and secure her a spot for at least another week. However, the other ladies were very disappointed that Vienna got to stick around for another rose week. If I didn't know better, I would say that if you asked Vienna who any of her role models are, she'd probably mention (ack) Paris Hilton -- young, self-absorbed, and so very OMG drama-queenish. In a word: annoying.
For the group date, they all went to Universal Studios to see John Lovitz and have the assignment to do a quick stand-up bit. No pressure there.
Poor Ashleigh suddenly got a panic attack with the prospect of doing stand-up in front of not just the immediate group of people, but a crowd of strangers. When she finally managed to shake off the nerves, she actually did quite well. I don't know what it is about her, but she's on my list for people I hope Jake keeps around.
However, what's a group date without drama? Oh yes. Stalker Michelle took the cake. Even John Lovitz didn't know what to say after Michelle did her stand-up bit. That's not the drama part though. Oh no. All evening, during the confessional interviews, she kept going on and on about how amazing it was going to be when she finally kissed him. How it was going to be a clothes-ripping-off, wild and hot kiss. Uhhh ... not so much. Even before the kiss started there was a problem. The problem arose when Michelle asked Jake if it would be awkward for him to kiss her. Yah, bringing up the word "awkward" -- that just does not invoke passion so much as the urge to squirm and maybe get the hell out of there as fast as possible. Well, she finally kissed him and talk about a dead moment. Zero fireworks. Even crickets were afraid to make their cricket sound. When Jake finally took his face away, I had to laugh in awe when Michelle responded to Jake with, "Is that all?" Wow! Yah, crazy and funny. OK, so it was a lame kiss just to appease her, but I think he sensed her stalking levels rising, and not to mention the whole awkward thing. Within a few minutes after the death kiss, Jake asked her to leave and escorted her out to a cab. So no more Stalker Michelle on the show. Who knows, maybe a nice stalker guy follows her around while she follows Jake around, and they'll all be happy together.
Ella got the other one-on-one date. No bungee jumping involved. Instead, they went on a day trip out to Sea World and Jake invited her son out with them. He thought it was the right thing to do especially as it was recently Ella's birthday. It was definitely a more tame date.
So, who went home this week? Elizabeth the Nanny and someone named Valishia. I didn't even know she was there. Who's Valishia? Poor thing.
Next week looks to dish out just as much drama. The preview showed Jake not even wanting to hand out the last two roses and tossing them into the fire. Amazing. He must really not want those last two women around so much that he'd rather burn a couple of roses than have them linger for another week. For a guy who strikes me as hot but boring, it's still interesting to watch him react to some of the drama unfolding around him.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
The Bachelor -- 11-Jan-2010
That bit of action definitely took the cake from any other activity during the show. Along with Rozlyn taking the cake, her comment to Chris also took the cake -- something about she didn't she how her personal life was any of their business. Uhhh... right!! Ok then.
Even though Rozyln getting booted from the show was mildly surprising (only in the way that nobody had done that yet in the history of the show), I was more surprised that Jake did not pick the jelly bean beeyatch to stay. I wonder if anyone gave her jelly beans on the way out? After all, that's what she had offered the other ladies within a minute of entering the party last week. Tsk tsk. I'm guessing that the producers thought they'd give Jake a little break by not asking him to keep her around with the whole Rozlyn thing unwinding. There's still the dragon lady after all to contend with. Somehow I can see a confrontation of sorts happening between her and stalker-type Michelle. Then again, I imagine they all need to have a bit of crazy to put themselves in that situation to begin with.
For next week's show, it looks like yet another lady departs before the rose ceremony begins. This season might go a lot faster than expected if the ladies leave before the rose ceremony has a chance to start. Although, that is one way to do it -- this way Jake doesn't have to call names during the rose ceremony, it'll just be a matter of if you make it to the rose ceremony, you're in for another week.
Until next time ...
Monday, January 4, 2010
The Bachelor: Jake – 4-Jan-2010
Viewers of The Bachelorette all got a good glimpse of Jake from the last season where the Bachelorette, Jillian, decided that she didn’t feel enough for Jake to keep him around for the final rose. Oddly enough, in a previous season of The Bachelor, Jillian got dumped by skanky Jason (who was supposed to be such a good guy, but actually wasn’t so much) didn’t think that there was enough chemistry with Jillian. Still with me? So, here we are: One man (Jake) and 25 women desperately pleading to be his numero uno. Let’s see if Jake remains the good guy or if he has a dark side after all.
Even though the first episode has a whole lot of women to scan through, you can often get an idea of who will be the old dragon, the idiot princess, and the flat out bee-yatch. The flat out bee-yatch is usually the one who in a confessional and quite often in front of others will say they are not there to make friends.
Dragon lady: Ella. She’s supposedly only 29, but looks really good for a 39-year old. She stole her son’s lucky plane to give it to Jake. Really? You took your kid’s toy to give to a man you don’t know? Wow. Nice move lady. I’m sure your kid appreciated it.
Idiot princess: Vienna. 23. She speaks like she’s 17, but looks 30. Like, oh mah gad! It might be cute for about 5 minutes, but it’s really dizzying to listen to her. Someone just needs to put their index finger to her mouth and shake their head as if to say “don’t talk.”
Flat out bee-yatch: Christina. 25. Flat out admits that she’s a bee-Yatch. The girl brought jellybeans to the party and told the ladies that they can have a pack when they head out the door within a matter of seconds after entering the party. Whewee! There’s a way to get people’s backs up. I'm tempted to refer to her as the jellybean bee-yatch.
Last, but not least, there is always at least one supremely over the top borderline stalker-type that really has convinced herself that the Bachelor is hers and hers alone until she has the cruel realization that other women are also vying for his affection. The award for gaining that spot upfront is Crying-Stalker-type Michelle. The girl talks like a stalker – she’s pretty and all, but who said stalkers can’t be pretty? Yet, somehow stalker Michelle got a rose over some of the other women. How did that happen? Pretty sure it’s the power of the producers telling him to keep her around for a while. I sense this girl will be crying in pretty much every episode until she goes home.
The thing with a lot of these ladies is that the screen identifies a lot of them as 25. If they really are 25, oh damn! I’ve never seen so many old looking 25-year-olds in one place like that. What are these ladies doing to look so old at their supposed twenty-five-year-old selves? It’s incredible. It’d be better if they just said they were 35.
One comment I heard that kills me is: “I’m 25 and I’m ready to be a wife.” Really? Wouldn’t you be ready if you, oh I don’t know, maybe knew someone first? Uhm, maybe even be in a committed relationship first? And just maybe oh, perhaps, be in love with that someone? Call me crazy. It’s not a job application people. Then again, if these ladies didn’t think like that, we wouldn’t get to watch their delusional dramatic selves on The Bachelor. Cruel, but it’s entertainment.
(I don’t recall if that particular person was one of 10 ladies who didn’t get a rose from the first night, but they might as well all have said it.)
Things to look out for this season:
· How many episodes will Michelle cry through before she leaves?
· How many people will Christina piss off before Jake catches on? (The guy is usually the slow to figure it out)
· How long will dragon lady last before she breathes fire on Christina? (I sense a catfight of sorts happening there)
· How long will it take for Jake to realize the idiot princess really is that shallow?
