Jan 20 2009
The Bachelor - Too Much Drama For Just 2 Hours!
While the two hour long shows sometimes get to me, I have to admit The Bachelor packs a lot into that time. There are so many things we need to touch on after last night’s show.
I have to start with Stephanie’s date with Jason that also included her daughter on her 4th birthday. That little girl will probably be more pressed to ever have a better birthday than that, a private party at Legoland. On TV yet. She’s young enough now that she doesn’t even understand the scope of what’s happening.
That being said, I have to go back to my original thoughts on this, questioning the involvement of the kids, wondering if it’s really selling out just for the ratings. It has to be confusing to them on many different levels. What is Stephanie’s daughter thinking, that she’s never really known her real dad, yet here’s this other guy acting as dad and she’s never met him before, but he’s taking her to Legoland on her birthday.
It also seems like it’s not putting the women on level playing fields, but perhaps they really aren’t to begin with. How is any other date going to compare with the specialness of the Legoland birthday date and Stephanie seeing her daughter for the first time in weeks? Yet, he’s such a family guy himself, and maybe he needed to see Stephanie in that same type of light to see what life would be like if he chooses her in the end.
The question is if any of that played into Jason’s date with Natalie. He saw that this was never going to work out, and rather than give her a rose and lead her on, he chose to cut her now. It could have been that he was comparing this particular date to the one he had with Stephanie and her daughter, thinking with Natalie it would never measure up.
Yet, I would venture to say that even without that influence Jason would have seen this one wasn’t going to work. True, she is gorgeous, but also very young and into partying, and the single dad isn’t looking for that. You can’t just say you’re ready to settle down. You have to do it. When he tried to figure out who she was other than someone into clothes and shopping, the only thing she could offer up was that she liked bears. Maybe she and Ty could bond over their teddy bears, but there has to be something else there, and it was obvious there wasn’t.
It also showed her immaturity that she started throwing everyone else under the bus the minute she found out she was going home. She didn’t leave with good terms, was downright pissed off, and hopped in the limo and left. She needed to realize she was expecting this man who has a lot riding on this, as he has his son involved, to take a chance on her, and he just can’t. Jason has too much riding on it. This is his life, and his son’s life, and I don’t think she could possibly understand that at this point.
That leads us to the other women in the house and what erupted after they found out Natalie had nailed some of them as being there for the wrong reasons, but that will have to wait for another day, another post. As I said, they just packed way too much into these two hours with too many things to go over. And if we think that was a lot, wait until Deanna comes back.
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