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I thought that a meat waffle had uncooked meat sprinkled throughout the batter (like a pecan waffle or a blueberry pancake). When Riley "tried to cook" the waffle long enough to cook the meat it didn't work, which is why Danny said it was both over and undercooked.
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I did "like" Ridge's (nonsensical) rationale that too much of Rick's presence was keeping his other siblings from visiting. Until last year, Rick lived in the guest house. What was their excuse for the decade before this move? Heck, what was Ridge's excuse for not visiting for those 5 years or whatever inbetween Ronnnnnnnn Moss' departure and TK's appearance?
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Riley putting on her glasses to try to make Bonnie understand what happened with Tad was great.
Glad my Tucker was back, though he was underused. Sipping the martini and then asking Ben to bring it to table 5, and apologizing to Ben for leaving work early with the rationale "I got tired," were my two favorite things. Did Tucker get fired from The Mary Hart Show and I just forgot? Why was he working at the bar?
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No one's mentioned my favorite line, which was Ruby screaming something like, "Devil, compel!" while rebuking Bow. Jenifer Lewis is a national treasure.
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Ben lives in Denver and he's in software sales.
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I think they were trying to sell you on the notion that she flat irons her hair usually. Without the flat iron, her hair returned to its natural state. It looked gorgeous!! No complaints from me about showing Abbie with her beautiful kinky-curly hair instead of straight hair!
Flat iron, humidity, relaxer, whatever. It's still not going to have that length after 10 months. Didn't say it looked bad, just that it was more like a 2 year job.
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As soon as I saw the shot of Abbie with curly hair, I was like, "So...she's been there for 2 years?" 10 months?! The show trying to tell me that she not only completely grew out of a relaxer, but grew curly hair longer than the previously aforementioned straight hair in only 10 months was the most unrealistic thing this show has ever tried to sell me.
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Where was Tucker this entire episode? They didn't even mention him.
Tahj Mowry's name wasn't in the credits, either. I just checked out his Twitter and he's still tweeting about the show. I was afraid he left for good! Anyway, I started to FF when I noticed Tahj's name was missing and now that I know he's not in this ep, I have no desire to watch.
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JoJo being a little cool to him during the pig date was the best. The way he pleaded with her not to be mad at him, saying, "Of all people, you know how this is" and her response of "What do I know?" was gold.
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It was because he'd just spent several hours being rocked around on the ocean, then wind and ocean blown.
Sorry. I meant during the rose ceremony at the beginning of the show.
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I see Ben picked up a play from Lowe's playbook. As soon as he picked up that rose on the two-on-one and asked her to go with him, I knew she was gone.
Ben looked like he was on drugs when took Olivia aside before the rose ceremony at the beginning of the show. Glassy eyed, wide stare, blinking a lot. Are you OK, bruh?
Everyone icing out Ben on that group date really gave me a lot of joy. Jubilee's irritation would have fit right in this week. Ben trying to awkwardly make conversation and Leah giving him nothing? Oh gosh.
Ben: Do you like pigs?
Leah: I like pigs. I like to eat pigs.
Me: BWAAHAHAAHAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BYE BEN!
Caila. Hmm... I don't know what she said, but I think it may have made sense.
Yo, that preview for the rest of the season was...intriguing.
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If you really still love a guy, you don't swap spit with his brother and let said brother believe he has a future with you. You tell said brother to back off and give you space. Sorry, I'm being realistic and logical. My bad!
She's still wearing Liam's engagement ring FFS!
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I'm happy that my little goofy show is back and even happier that my favorite twins are still playing Emma. Loved it when Ben asked if Zoe would go on a date with them, while placing his hand on Emma's head, and she reached up and grabbed it. Cuties!
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As for Lauren H, I will be severely disappointed if she's the next Bachelorette. She seems pretty bland and uninteresting. More than that, though, I found her blather about how Ben doesn't want Jubilee because "he wants someone that the other soccer moms will get along with" so obnoxious and borderline offensive that I know I just wouldn't enjoy watching a whole season of her.
I find it fascinating that her one-off line has drawn so much ire from so many people. Not just here, but in a lot of the blogs I read / podcasts I listen to. They're not even pro-Jubilee people but they thought that sentence was so insufferable that they immediately wrote her off. I'd feel bad for her...but I hate her because of that one line!
"How’s it been like back in the house, since like the day...is it like, stressed or relaxed? Did everybody, like in the house, like, you know, congratulate you and all that's good?" - Ben's conversation with Olivia towards the end of the episode.
This is an exact quote. That is all.
I love you guys for all of your reassurances that Ben ain't all that. I feel like he was drawing me over to the "right reasons" side but I wasn't all the way there. That inbetween place was so uncomfortable. Now I'm firmly back where I belong.
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Hey guys. We're friends, right? So, I started blogging about the show this season (I still need to catch up on eps 2, 3 and 4) and I'd love to know what you think? Question mark after everything? I know I'm not quite "the media," but I thought this would be a good place to put this.
http://kiaschronicles.tumblr.com/post/138670923500/bachelor2005
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He, in effect, said (and may as well have stood up on his haunches and roared): How dare you not smile and simper and bow down to me, woman, do you not know who I am? I AM THE SPATCHELOR! There are ten or eleven, not counting, other interchangeable women over there who are happy to blow smoke up my arse, and you dare, you dare to be unwilling to hold my hand in front of them?
Ha! I didn't quite see it like that, but I can see how you did.
I think the hand holding thing was fairly legitimate. She was in her own head and she was thinking about only herself. She could have grabbed his hand when they were out of sight, but she didn't (because she probably felt the vibe). When he brought that up, she kind of stopped short because she knew he had a point. She didn't try to defend herself. She conceded. However, she's definitely proven to him to be attuned to him ("I wanted you to be comfortable today because I think you stress out too much") and during that rose ceremony, she told Jennifer (and others) that she was thinking of ways to make him feel better. And she did (with some slight producer manipulation). So it's not like he didn't think she was interested. I call bull on that.
I can't believe that no one brought up Ben's dick move, walking in front of the women on the group date, hand in hand with Lauren B., laughing and saying, "Hey guys" as they were walking off. I know there was a back way out of there where he didn't have to walk in front of everyone because that's how he took Jubilee out.
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I don't normally side eye this show because I mean, it's the Bachelor and I know what I'm watching so to side eye the crazy seems a bit redundant.
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I had a real issue with Ben's dismissal of Jubilee. Sure, this show wasn't the right place for her and she should have realized that she would be competing before she ever went on it, but still. Nothing she did was that egregious of an offense to send her packing. They seemed to have great chemistry and she really opened up to him. To me, it would be natural for her to kind of freak out a bit after that. The others all seem to have the same insecurity hang ups she did, they just weren't verbalizing it to him.
Which I guess is where the problem lies with this show and why very few couples stick it out after it's over. He keeps spouting off about how he wants to see them being real with him, but when Jubilee was - dismissed. Then in the same breath he's lamenting about how Olivia is showing him a different face. Like WTF dude?
If he had been dating Jubilee in the real world, would that have gone down the way it did? I don't really think it would have. I think he may have taken a bit more time to make her feel better about the situation or at least be the tiniest but understanding for where her head was. That seems to me to be what relationships are about. Not everything is a helicopter date where you're surmising about "This is so great" "OMG how much FUN!".
Ben is no different than any of the others. He doesn't want a woman who's going to show him who she really is. He doesn't care. Lauren B will probably win because she doesn't make waves and pastes the happy, excited, "OMG!!!" smile on her face every time she sees him. And that's not real.
I hope Jubilee finds a decent man who makes her realize that Ben wasn't what she needed/wanted and she's better off.
Have to say, he went down a few notches after this episode.
Yes! And I'm kind of torn on this. Just because someone shows you their real side doesn't mean you have to like it. I don't want to put that burden on Ben (or anyone). However, they did have chemistry and they talked at length about some of her hangups and he assured her that those things don't scare him off. To me, it seemed as if he was cool with it because he has something in him that's drawn to a "broken bird." She challenged him on his fake laughing, but he could turn it around to compliment her and make out, so it was all good.
Then you have bland Lauren H. -- and there's no chance he will ever move her out of the friend zone -- but she played the part so she gets to stick around.
Again, if he didn't want to deal with Jubilee, then he didn't want to deal with Jubilee. His right. Certainly his choice. But when you wax poetic about how you want people to see the real you -- the good, but also the awkward and sometimes ugly parts of you -- but you can't deal when others do the same...I'm narrowing my eyes at you. Until I see a picture of you with one of my favorite musicians on Twitter. And you're looking so hot. Then I'll unnarrow my eyes.
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A nice one. Last week she stepped up and was the first to grab Ben at the cocktail party. The others were happy/proud, and cheered her on! How often does that happen? The most beautiful girl in the cast (not budging on that one) and yet they're rooting for her,
Not to say that she's not nice, but I think a lot of that was because they were glad that someone other than Olivia was grabbing him first.
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It's a crazy situation and I think the fakeness of it was getting to her (which is why she failed in the Spanish class to get the idea like Olivia did--WHATEVER chance you have to spend time with him, individual or group, you have to stay upbeat, happy to be with him and affectionate. She probably could have had the "insecurity talk" IF she hadn't also been rejecting him so much throughout the date (as it understandably felt to him that she was).
I said something similar to someone else. You may be able to get away with some insecurity talk if you're on a one-on-one because it's only you two and you have the whole day. When you've only got 25 minutes (and how insane was that comment that someone...Jojo?...said? "They've been go SO long. It's almost been 25 minutes." Do they literally only get 10 minutes with the lead in the group date situation?) and you're the only one acting like that? I also think that Sharleen had a great point in her blog. People come on, focused on dating the lead, which is the point. Except it's not. The point is trying to survive the mind game that is The Bachelor and hopefully, you have a nice time with a nice guy along the way.
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Jubilee's "unlovable" lament was a transparent Bachelorette bid. She'd never mentioned that specific insecurity.
She mentioned it on their one-on-one.
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I don't know, some people are saying he was kind and handled it with class, others are saying he was cold, etc. I guess it is all about perception. I don't know if I can make it through two hours to form my own opinion.
Personally, I thought he was trying to get her to talk herself into leaving so he wouldn't have to say it. When they first sat down to talk and she said something about being overshadowed, he was real quick to go, "So are you saying this is getting too hard for you?" Then towards the end, he asks her if she still thinks that they could build something together (which, obvi; she was sitting there telling him she wasn't intentionally pulling back and asking him not to give up on her) in an attempt to put the onus on her. She turned it around and said, "No, you tell me."
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My Ben-colored glasses have dimmed a bit. I didn't think Jubilee was going to win, but that was brutal. If he wants to get rid of her because she has an attitude or whatever, say that. Say, "Whoops. Thought you were layered, but you're just difficult." But to say, "Oh, I'm only keeping people around who I see a future with." Twin? Boring Lauren H.? Also, when he started getting riled up about how she wouldn't take his hand in front of everyone, that was the most emotion I'd seen out of him the entire time. Their walk out was painful. "If you'll just head this way..." Yo, that was bad.
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The only thing I wonder is if or when the Bachelor(ette) is given the opportunity to plan any dates at all, or at least brainstorm with TPTB.
I say that, thinking of how Ben arranged his date with the twins.
According to a podcast Ben was on last week, yes. The brainstorming part, anyway. He said that he thought a spa day would be cool, and then they filled in the rest with a helicopter and hot tub. Stuff like that.
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The Bachelor in the Media
in The Bachelor
I liked Kupah, too. And I got it. Even during his meltdown, I still got it and was like, "Yup! Fair point! Not the best delivery, but whatevs."