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I expect that a lot of the dialogue is helped by the writers of the show. Everyone on these shows says stuff like " I think I could fall in love with you" because they're not really in love with people. It seems like the contract period has expired because the couples are spilling the beans in post show interviews. Ironically, the GMA interview was postponed because of extended wife beater coverage about Ray Rice this morning. Some other sources have already revealed that Jamie and Doug consummated their marriage after the show was over. That makes sense, because that way Jamie didn't have to do one of those creepy post-coital confessionals the next morning.

I've made some smart ass remarks that she's favorited on Twitter.

The reunion show that filmed in late August is about the 5 month mark. GMA (yesterday) is almost 6 months since the weddings. I'm pretty sure FYI is too low budget to have a camera crew after the first month, but the camcorders might have remained.

"Your code is like music." That's pretty adoring. There are Mary Sue elements, but she's not necessarily a projection of the writers of the show. I liked Wesley Crusher until the end of TNG when he became kind of erratic. I even liked Fred Burkle from Angel and everyone turned on her as a Mary Sue. The problem with Cameron may have been that since this is a Joe McMillan centered show, his obsession with Cameron took up a lot of story time.

The big feature of a Mary Sue is how much the people on the show worship them. Joe fell for her hard, Bos went to jail for her and even Gordon and Donna thought she was the most brilliant programmer ever. The code monkeys even followed her out of Cardiff. It's still possible for people who watch a show to hate a Mary Sue character. Look at Wesley Crusher on Star Trek The Next Generation.

I think Jamie has some good qualities. She has a pretty good sense of humor and she seems to have a dry wit when she banters with Doug. Despite the editing monkeys, I think she doesn't cry every day as we see in the show. Even though I've been pretty positive on her, I think Jamie did the nurse thing before she discovered reality TV and if she can get a steady paycheck, nursing will be a thing of the past. She's definitely going to stick with Doug until the FYI publicity (the reunion show, et al.) is finished.

Jamie tweeted a month ago that she and Doug waited weeks to have sex, then quickly deleted the tweet. So I assume things went kind of well in that regard. I think all three couples may stay married after the episode. That's why the reunion will be interesting because it is 5 months after the "experiment." I assume at least one couple will be divorced. I think Vaughn and Monet have different geographies and don't want to deal with the distance. So I looked up Cortney's burlesque group, The Hot Box Girls. After the pages of porn, it looks like she may not even be a featured player. I think she mostly just does the make up.

She's saying it on her twitter. Even if you aren't on twitter, you can read her timeline of tweets. https://twitter.com/KortKneee_Rae

Assuming the people on the show are not professional actors or sociopaths, I think they are real. They are not normal, however, because most people would not get married to a stranger on a lark (or to get TV exposure). There have been a number of studies and experiments that show men and women with shared experiences, (like being on a TV show) are more likely to find each other attractive. The romantic stories are supposedly of people who see each other across a crowded room. The reality is that couples get together often because they went to the same college or high school or worked in the same building. Still, I don't see any of these couples being afraid of hitting the divorce button when it gets annoying.

I agree with this. People can go to therapy for years until they are better able to handle life. They're better off getting into relationships and living their life so that a therapist can help them get through real experiences. This may or may not apply to Jamie and Doug because this is a TV show marriage. Even if Jamie is a reality addict, I hope she realizes that the clock is ticking on her being TV pretty.

I can easily believe there was no video of the cigarette fight. This show is still pretty low budget, so they only have a camera crew at the staged events and some camcorders to fill in the other stuff. I wouldn't be surprised if Doug and Jamie rehashed the fight for the cameras the next day when someone was available to film it.

Doug may be waiting until just after she sucks him dry.

A deleted tweet from Jamie makes me suspect they had sex at some point between when the show started filming and when it started airing.

That thing with Jamie and Doug is total bullshit. People are going to lie. This whole "one lie leads to another" thing is just an excuse to end up an old cat lady because the cats never lie to you. I imagine Doug had a lot of motivation to lie, especially after the trip to povertyville. He wanted to avoid the epic shit storm he was going to get from Jamie over smoking. Still, Doug has lost that aura of perfect husband, something he needed to do days earlier. Now that Doug has proved himself to her a little, it's Jamie's turn to accept his flaws. It was bound to happen some time.

I don't have numbers to back it up, but I think setting this show in NYC is going to lead to higher divorce rates. The national average is like 50% divorce rate over 5 years. The purpose of an experiment is not always to be right, but to prove (meaning to test) the theory. For the sake of the show, it doesn't really matter. The Bachelor has a horrible success rate and people watch it year after year.

I actually like Jamie and she is more comfortable with doing this since she is the biggest star of this digital cable show rather than the one everyone made fun of on a network show. The reality here was that Jamie was not part of that group of people in a room. She said the show called her and asked her to do the show. The dumbest part about calling the advisors "experts" is that they have no experience in setting up arranged marriages. One guy is an atheist minister, another is a clinical psychiatrist, so he doesn't see patients. One is a marriage councilor and the other teaches wives to dress up as naughty nurses to spice up a marriage. I think Dr. Pepper (Schwartz) is the only one who has anything to contribute now that those couples are married.

FYI has the show where they move people into tiny houses. One couple put theirs on wheels in the backyard until they could move it to a new location. That way it was a trailer and not a structure and wouldn't get in trouble with zoning.

Cameron and Donna go on a trip to kidnap Hunt and tie him to a tree naked in front of a prison.

Lee Pace is in Guardians of the Galaxy. Of course, he's blue, but he's the villain. Well, except for Thanos, who's the villain everyone is really waiting for.

After minimal effort, I saw that Jamie represented Central New York in the 2012 Miss New York Pageant. If that's where she's from, there are enough rural areas that could be considered redneck a few hours from NYC.

I watched a couple of B.O.R.N. to Style episodes. It seems like one of those businesses that caters to minor celebrities. Usually, they re-style some nobody with aspirations of fame and one person who's supposed to be famous going to a fancy event. I suspect that shop disappears as soon as the show does. I also watch the show with the Tiny (around 200 sq ft) Houses and Epic Meal Empire, but not on a regular basis.

Obviously, the "good one week, bad the next" relationship episodes are all editing monkeys. Vaughn and Monet have a lot of fights, but they may only consider it a small part of the relationship. As far as Jason's mother, I know that dying people 1)don't like meeting people 2)don't like being on camera and 3)don't want people knowing their business. I think there may be a meeting, but these reveals are probably just to satisfy the audience. I'm not surprised at all about the Uncle Doug stuff from Jamie. Her history makes me think that every stepfather or paternity-failure guy was Uncle something-or-other. She'll likely have sex with Doug before she'll be comfortable with her nephew calling him Uncle.

As far as I know, The Bachelor(ette) franchise has a horrible success rate, but it does happen. Hope springs eternal, I guess.

Hopefully, they will wrap up this Joe MacMillan walkabout stuff quick and bring him back to Austin.

Seriously? And I'm still waiting to hear about Continuum. I hope Bos gets sprung.