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Sam is not into Neil and she doesn't act like boys have cooties. Ashley didn't want strippers at her bachelorette party. If she thought they were gross, that was one thing, but she had some kind of excuse regarding her reputation. She doesn't do most of the other stuff and frequently blames being on TV. So why does she decide to be on TV? She reminds me of Faith from Unreal, trying to be a buddy to David (or not even that) rather than a wife. David may be coming on strong. I blame that on the "experts" pulling that love takes time stuff. If they matched him with a 35 year old woman who is obsessed with her biological clock, they'd be a match made in heaven.

Maybe Ashley became self aware (oh no, self-aware robots) enough near the end to know she looked like an ass and then made up falling in love with David so that she could instantly fall out of love with him for some minor incident. Remember how Jamie blew up at Doug over sneaking a smoke in S1? The edit monkeys had a field day with that.

Audience participation has been rejected since Big Brother Season 1. The audience chose to kick off the villains and the winners were considered too boring. I don't actually agree, but I doubt any TV show is going to bother listening to the audience. Maybe we just need better actors. When Jamie froze Doug out, it was a little playful. He'd say something sleazy and Jamie would say something like, "no way, Jose." If David said something risqué, Ashley would run away screaming "Ouch, my virgin ears! I have to go home and study the reproductive system for my nursing certificate."

They could get some good ratings if failed relationships end in death, especially if the audience gets to pick which one.

The production people would have to be playing a game opposite to S2. That time, they were trying to hide the fact all the dudes were sought out and didn't seem to want to be married at all. I would have some serious respect if they could manipulate the show so effectively that we won't know that Sam and Ashley are head over heels until the last 2 weeks. However, we live in a world with social media and even just watching the show makes me 99% certain that David and Ashley are a train wreck, Neil and Sam aren't long for marriage and Tres and Vanessa have something. And even if the David stuff about another woman is true, Ashley has been shitty from day 1. It would be an effective deflection, not an exoneration.

Considering half the answers I see from Ashley and Sam are "keep watching" I very much doubt there's any payoff.

Sure, it's possible that Ashley doesn't like David and she has trouble warming up to people. If that's the case, Ashley might be certifiably insane for going on a show where you are forced to marry and live with a guy sight unseen. What part of that has she indicated she would like?

Ashley really seems like she's either hung up on 9 year guy and she's trying to be faithful (whether he cares or not) or she's gay and can't handle her real feelings and decided a shotgun wedding would do the trick.

I've been thinking, and my take on the disaster that is MAFS is a combination of lazy production and contestants who are more aware of it being on TV. We all know that Jamie Otis was cast by production and specifically told she would be matched with someone. So either the people on S1 were hard core fame seekers and knew this show would be a lunching point or they did a better part of playing the game because they thought this would end up on a bigger network. With S2 and S3, I think contestants knew this was a basic cable reality show and they got people who were lousy actors and just wanted to be on TV. Production got more pushback and they faked the show even more because most of the S2 cast knew they couldn't afford to kick them off the show for weak participation. The fact is that the experts say the same shit in the talking heads regardless of the couples or what's going on. Also, couples like Tres and Vanessa who are successful really get the boring edit. Sam and Ashley are the ones setting social media on fire. I know I have more to write about Assley than Vanessa and Tres. I may be done for this season when iZombie comes back on February 2, even if Ashley is kind of a zombie already.

I think Neil and David would have a good case for fraud.

I'm pretty sure a traditional matchmaker wouldn't put people together sight unseen. Unless you're talking about the really old fashioned type. They would just let the parents decide.

It looks like MAFS tried really hard not to get overemotional men like violent Ryan for S3. Instead, they ended up with dull women with social problems paired with very calm guys. The answer for fixing this show is to spend a buck. I also think this not living in the same house crap should end. They need a contract where people get fined for not living with the spouse, even if it is separate bedrooms. Also, they have to be together for 6 months, minimum. I spent more than 6 weeks with college roommates in a much smaller place. The thing that would really cost money would be to tell contestants like Ashley who don't do anything after 1 month is that they're done, she and David are off the show and her face will never be on TV.

My guess is that Ashley was chided by producers to the point she threatened to quit. Then they and the "experts" had to pull back and let her do what she wants. She's probably under some kind of contract where she'll get slapped with a lawsuit for a lot of money if she quits, so she's serving out her time and only doing the minimum to fulfill her obligations.

That would work once.

I didn't watch much of the early stuff, but producers were really laying it on thick when the kids supposedly didn't understand basic technology they would have seen on their regular trips to Hoonah or some other reasonably sized village. Didn't they once ask them to say what they thought a "smart phone" or "the internet" was or something ridiculous like that?

That's what I thought it was, but I was thrown off because letters 1 and 4 weren't 1 number apart.

Ashley seems to have this weird hang up about letting anyone know she has sex or kisses guys. What she did instead was to come off as a cold shrew who did this experiment for no sane reason.

Maybe Neil should hook up with the roommate. I think Ashley is headstrong, too. She was probably really insistent that she's looking for a lifetime thing and someone who's serious about marriage. Then she displayed all the personality traits that virtually guarantee that a guy won't marry her.

I hadn't noticed Sam changed her twitter profile pic to her and Neil together. Nice try.

What occurs to me is that they are casting couples for conflict and excitement rather than compatibility. I think Vanessa and Tres got lucky because the show wanted a Black couple that wouldn't get divorced, so a boring, well-matched couple was acceptable. Sam and Neil seem to be good for drama because Sam is a drama queen and Neil has enough self-respect to "put her in her place" for being an ass once in a while. In the case of David and Assley, the drama is mostly David going slowly insane as he tries to form a human connection with a robot.

Next week looks like fight week. Finally, something all the couples are good at.

Yeah, I noticed that. In the first episode, Sam's wearing business appropriate clothing. Then she shows up, sans any kind of gym bag and wearing her crotch amplifiers and she's just getting home? How many relationships has Ashley actually had? One was 9 years and she's like 30. Add to that she doesn't spend the night until a couple months in. I'm still holding on to my theory that Ashley is attracted to women and can't handle it, so she has nonsexual relationships with guys who dig facial hair. Sam and Ashley make S1 Jamie look like a sexual dynamo. My guess is after season 1, the show decided to save money by limiting filming to a couple hours a week. They don't seem to spend any time together, which would make it impossible for this BS concept to work. Logan's vocal fry is crossing over into Rachel Ray / strep throat territory.

I still think Ashley is gay and she thought forcing herself into a marriage would allow her to deny it longer.

Daddy / Mommy issues is the laziest excuse for anything. It's almost impossible to find a person who didn't witness issues between their parents because parents are human beings.

I think the show implied that Alaskans go to Seattle when they need a specialist. It sounds like Billy's problem is one of those things doctors can't figure out so they just keep running tests.