To those who know me, I seem like I would be the absolute last person to like a show such as The Bachelorette, but I am in love with it. The main reason is because deep down I’m a total sucker for love. I watch the show and I’m always thinking “Gahh, why can’t this girl just find love! She deserves it!” With every man she casts off I can’t help but feel their heartbreak, especially the closer they get to the end of the show. I just want them all to find love! Love for everyone!
Aside from all that, I realized today while watching the “After the Final Rose” episode that the show sucks me in so much because I love watching how people react to things. But I’m especially interested in how the show expects everyone to act, and when someone deviates from their mold everyone is taken aback. For instance, twice this season Ashley, the Bachelorette, was shocked when a guy who she just dumped didn’t want to talk to her and just wanted to leave. Actually, both times she tried to get the guy to turn around and come back and not “leave it like this.” I just wanted to crawl into my screen and say to this woman, “Are you kidding me? You just broke these boys hearts and you want them to still tell you you’ll be great friends forever?” Anytime a guy who I was invested in has essentially told me we “are just friends:” I don’t want to say anything else to them. I have nothing else to say. Click. We are done.
One of the men that reacted like this was the “runner up” so to speak. It was so painful to watch, she allowed him to get down on one knee, ask her to marry him, and waited a good twenty seconds before she put her hands around him to get him to stand up. Really?! You couldn’t have caught him before he got down on one knee?! He reacted exactly as I would have, when she finally told him he wasn’t the one, he stood there for a few seconds, looked awkward, and basically said “Welp, okay that’s it. I guess I’ll go.” He took some lengthy strides to get the hell out of there; I don’t think it even registered with Ashley until he was ten feet away from her. Cue the “Wait! Ben! Ben!” Then the gushing of how great a guy he was, at which point he told her to stop sugar coating it for him. He spoke with some bite, and gained a few plus points in my book from that exchange.
The real kicker was during the After the Final Rose when the host of the show was questioning Ben asking him why he was so angry and proclaiming that he was shocked, just shocked, at Ben’s anger that came through. I could just see Ben’s brain turning trying to say the right thing. I’m sure you are expected to be all happy and grateful to the camera. Still my favorite part of that show was when Ashley came out and they exchanged niceties and he said to her “Nice Rock.” The audience was aghast! I thought it was hilarious, and the perfect thing to say. If I was him I would be thinking, “Oh, you’re going to spend an episode parading around how in love you are in front of my face? Okay, well don’t expect me to join in the festivities.”
I understand that the whole premise of the show is absurd. One girl dates 25 guys, 25 guys fall in love with one girl, the girl falls for ONE guy. The odds are not good going into it, but it’s just the way the show seems to expect the castaway boys to act that I just cannot handle.
Until next time,
Mia!
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