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A girl can dream--Jo and Kaitlyn, the last two Bachelorettes, had personality vs most of the Bachelors (I liked them, but Ben, Chris, Sean? One-note guys, nice, not exciting), and even if Wells isn't to Jo's taste, he has a lot more personality than we've seen from her other bachelors. I like Luke, for example, mostly for his background, but he has a strong silent persona which probably wouldn't work, and I still can't tell the other guys apart. But imo Wells is attractive in the Jared fom Kaitlyn's season vein with a lot more personality so come on, Show! Time for a little shakeup!

Besides I want Wells, a whole new direction for the Bachelor, and reasonably smart b'ettes for him who can laugh at themselves. Go away Jordan and guys who are like him.

I can see Show orchestrating the most shocking breakup ever, live on the ATFR, rather than having Joelle and Jordan wait a few months, if indeed she ends up engaged on the finale and if indeed the engaged couple changes their minds afterwards. As the franchise has evolved people seem to not expect or care much about the storybook ending, unlike the early seasons, so Show should go ahead and run with it. Maximize the drama!

I would love Wells as the Bachelor and his b'ettes to be hipster chicks. He is a funny guy with a real profession and being a radio d-jay, could talk his way into being the best Bachelor ever. He most definitely is trying not to laugh during a lot of the scenes. Alex is the opposite of the person who needs a best friend wherever he is--he needs someone to be confrontational with, and now that Chad's gone, Derek gets to take that role in his life. Alex's height has nothing to do with his obnoxiousness imo--he's just a tool. Jordan otoh probably is stuck in "brother to a superstar" stereotype mode and is not growing on me, proving you don't have to be shorter than average to be a tool. He is such a liar. I do think Joelle might have met his former girlfriend if she was in Dallas at the same time--they probably go to the same clubs and Jo would have had some fame having been on the Bachelor while Jordan's ex's fame is based on having dated Aaron Roger's pathetic little brother. So I can buy that. What kind of job is competitive swimmer? Is Robby a coach for a swim team? How does he support himself being a competitive swimmer? Better than Daniel's "Canadian" job description, I guess.

Just watched this finale last night. Nice that Mark and Claire each won $250K, not having to split it. The endurance had to be hard on Mark as he had so much more weight to support--he's strong, of course, but not sure it's proportionate to weight? So kudos to him. Loved that Claire hugged the pole after they won, staying up on it. Haze can go away and never be on my TV again. I'd like to see Noah as the host, personally. I wish Cena had been in the military himself for all the adulation he rightfully gives our service members, even in the reserves. If the show is going to keep the military theme (which makes sense--not complaining about that!), perhaps the host should also have served? Nothing against Cena, who is most personable and sincere, just a feeling I have, which I am probably not expressing very well. But I doubt it will be back.

I forgot--Wells is my favorite. I would take him as a Bachelor. He would be the most entertaining Bachelor ever.

Chad is just like Olivia in Ben's season in that he loves to talk and is good at it, and is happy to be on camera as much as possible. I felt sorry for Olivia because she really was being used by the producers to be the person we wanted to hate. I think Chad is a plant too. Unlike Olivia, who was part of the group (in the group scenes you can tell the rest of the house did like her, she was participating and having fun along with the rest of them), Chad only has the other person, Daniel, who JoJo did not want to keep as his sidekick. I wonder if JoJo's ultimate rejection we can see coming from the way he has been set up and his reaction to it is going to hurt his luxury real estate sales reputation. Who would want a semi-violent person showing them a house all alone? I am very impressed with JoJo (and Joelle is such a pretty name--why, Fletcher family, didn't you just call her Joelle all the time instead of this stupid nickname) and how she acts with the guys. She is pretty kind to all of them and we are being allowed to see some exasperation on her face during the rose ceremony and when Chad kept interrupting her.

Stay classy, exgrlfriends! Their vengeful tweets and instagrams etc. sort of affirm the guys' decisions to ditch them imo. I'd bet anything she bragged to everyone all the time about his NFL career when they were dating, now she's telling the world he just rode the bench. A lot of times people get back together after a breakup but these bridges seem to be thoroughly and bitterly burnt. Sad for her.

When Voight was on Chicago Fire in the first season--his son, the now dearly departed Justin, was drunk and caused an accident that killed someone, I believe--and Casey, one of the CF leads, pushed for Justin's arrest (and eventual conviction) on homicide charges against every incentive Voight offered to keep it quiet, Voight went into full bad-cop mode and made Casey's life a living hell (I seem to recall even Casey's fiancee was collateral damage and killed in a fire Voight caused?), and Voight went to jail himself as a result. Voight in those CF episodes was a very compelling but completely despicable rendition of a bad, dirty cop. How CPD redeemed him is a marvel of creative writing. I completely agree that making him seem heroic now by disregarding the system as he literally tortures anyone in his way is beyond awful. Plus, it demeans the typical real police (I live in suburbs of Chicago now). Perhaps Show realizes this now. I wonder if Antonio will indeed be put in charge of the unit and Voight will return but report to him next season and the story lines will move to clashes between them and out of the torture cage (which should be removed by Antonio as his first official act).

Josh Segarra is so hot--he totally steals the (naked as I recall) opening scene in Trainwreck and was hilarious in the now defunct sitcom Sirens, not to mention he played (still playing) Emilio Estefan on Broadway. we'll miss you, Justin Voight! Voight probably would have had the perp dig a grave in a forest preserve, not an urban parking lot, if he really wanted to hide the body, which is partly why I think we're being played by Show to think he was killed. Hard to think Voight could come back if he did kill him, and not hearing any buzz that the actor is leaving the show.

Actually Kaitlyn is still with her Shawn, her F1 backformore--hard as that is for me to believe!

I thought Nyle was better and amazing at the end, personally. An asterisk in his case would be particularly insulting imo. Lots of people win who someone thought weren't the best dancers but they don't get asterisked, do they? NB: I never vote, including this season.

Yeah, good point, he was probably looking at his translator, who was probably smiling at him and signing "good luck" or something to him right before signing "you won!"

Not Jen Schefft? Wasn't she Andrew Firestone's F1 and then the Bachelorette when that didn't work out? And no tragic backstory, family money, etc., to make her more appealing. But I digress.

I think JoJo and JorJor are both very self-confident, somewhat entitled (not in a bad way) people who are always in the cool group, so not surprising imo they act with each other as if they've already met (and maybe they have) because they are kindred spirits. I like her, it should be a fun season. I love that she got the joke re mom drinking out of the wine bottle. And was nice to Santa. I think this group of men as a whole is somewhat disappointing in accomplishments and looks and not surprised some of them don't appeal to JoJo. None of them grabbed me as someone to root for. I bet she would have sent half of them home if she could have. She was taken at the limo by the Texas guys so she will probably not last with an F1 if he's not from the Lone Star State. At least the fauxhawk hairstyle is over. RIP. If only Kaitlyn had said don't screw a guy in a room with microphones. But she is just as icky as ever and as recapper said, those insect-like arms! Emily (also a self-confident somewhat entitled Bachelorette) should have been giving her advice.

$10 says Voight made the guy fill the grave in and then put him in his car to (a) do it by the book and take him back to the precinct or (b) deliver him to some gangbangers who owe Voight a favor to finish killing him. Not sure how only Erin knew where to find him and why she didn't alert the rest of the detectives about it. Voight's boss is a little unbelievable, like she literally couldn't stop Voight from using his unit to investigate this? Everyone just ignores her? Great leadership, just caving in after making the correct call to tell him someone else needed to be in charge. But I did love me some Trudy and the looks she gave her in that scene. Bye Roman--don't let the door hit you on the way out.... Can't say I'll miss you. Maybe you can be a bailiff on Justice.

I want to see Erin's underwear and thighs through a sheer dress just as much as I want to see Tom's in a see-through tuxedo, which means stop it, Show. I like Erin and think she is amazing on this show, but I hope she didn't pick out this costume. And yay, Nyle. I am perfectly happy he won, perfectly. So much going on with his being on the show. If Show didn't want fan base to determine the winner, it can simply change the proportions of the scoring--make fanbase 25 percent if the total, like a fourth judge. Personally, I am not a fan of the fan base as any percentage--let the judges and maybe the ousted pros vote, but right now it's popularity. No one votes in the MML house because we don't know dance. If that means Nyle would not have won, okay by me. Show could also find stars with equivalent amounts of ringerism to level the field,

Dr Charles really doesn't do much on Med imo--he doesn't see his own patients, he just steps in as needed to drive a storyline. I could see him being the Oliver/Skoda on Justice too.

Ah, good point, Guilford--so Dead Jeff technically is New Jeff. Who we never met anyway. And Old Jeff really is Old Jeff, who the kids call Pops.

That little girl was just amazing. The storyline re Horizon was pretty convoluted and made no sense, plus imo pretty pathetic reason for the perp to take out almost the whole family of someone he was pissed off at. Can Roman be a detective if he can't be a patrol cop? I know he can be a firefighter since those guys all have some serious injury that magically was cured (Severide's shoulder?) or is in limbo (Casey's cervical vertebrae) but they're still climbing ladders and hauling heavy equipment. But yeah, go to San Diego and drag Burgess with you. I'd like to order more Mouse for the next season.

New Jeff is probably not as old as Show is making him look. He was much cuter when he was on Fire. I like him. But seriously, the same name as Old (dead) Jeff? Why. Obvi Goodwin's marriage was in big trouble already if they hadn't discussed retirement. Obvi she was indirectly choosing Med over him. I like Dr Charles but he needs his own patients and honestly, sometimes he looks like he really needs a bath too. Choi, I love you so much. Splendorkable could not be cuter. I'm happy to watch the actress playing Reece develop--she is the best on the show imho so I'll go with the lame rethiniking her specialty storyline.

Go away, Gabby. This character is just beyond stupid now. Why didn't Cindy and Herman adopt Louie, since we'll never see him again but will know Cindy is taking care of him offscreen. Please let Wolf's next show, Chicago Newspaper (just kidding), have its first episode revolve around how firefighters are taking care of personal business while being paid to be on shift--need to look at an apartment? Sure, go ahead. Need to get the alternate housing ready? Sure, and take the rest of the squad with you for eight hours (and what exactly did they accomplish anyway since everything the inspector looked at fell apart but not to worry, St Gabby can break all the rules and still get her way?). Wish Casey had told political consultant that he was in live with his fiancée--Hallie. I only hope Severide isn't the collateral damage from crazy guy. Tired of the Borelli brothers' story. Jimmy can go away now.

I wouldn't have had a slap--cheap trick no matter how the Kings planned it (surely they are creative enough to have come up with an alternate idea--killing your darlings is a pretty basic rule for writers), not believable that anyone especially an attorney is slapping anyone in this day and age (Alicia would own Diane), not believable that the character that was Diane was a slapper. And sexist--catfight in the corridor. Ugh. OTOH it was what the creators wanted and it's their show, not ours. I would probably have had her stay with Peter if the "wife"iness was still important. Certainly not have her need another man to make her complete, if not. One thing I loved about the beginning of this show, and carried through in later episodes, was that it seemed pretty accurate for how difficult it is for women out of the work force to get on their feet financially and professionally, and that to me was a compelling story, far more than oh, look, she slapped her cheating husband. So I would have liked the end to go back to that, where Alicia just shows up to work the next day, because she needs the job, and not the man. I was always sympathetic to the Alicia character. But it was a good show and fun to watch, every week, except imo the Cary goes to jail adventures. I'll miss it.

Yes! Thank you! Hope she's a regular on Legal. Has Burgess learned nothing? Step A. Call for backup. Step B. And say "Officer down" first. Ruzek could have bled out by the time she called for help and it got there. Step C. Chase perp. But I did think the actress did a god job with this storyline. I give the show major props for even acknowledging how bad the shootings in Chicago are. I was okay with this plot--a few weeks ago, they softened the little boy assassinated storyline from the real one, and now this one was softened the other way. Better than ignoring it, and really it would be patronizing imo to try to solve the issues.

Go away, Gabby. Gabby and Britt looked like they could fly away on those ginormous stencilled Groucho eyebrows in the scene where Gabby told her she got a meeting with DCFS. Wow they look like big wings. They were toned fown for Molly's. So glad Casey ran for alderman so he can pull strings and help his friends--masks for the house, meetings for Gabby. Really disillusioning that he is just like the previous alderman re his own interests. Jimmy is like a little doll--so cute, such a little face with big pretty features. I told Mr MML to send only Cruz, Casey, or Kelly in when I need a firefighter. Little girl driving drunk parents story line sure stopped cold. I would love it if Gabby's new foster arrives and it's not sweet little Louis but a tweener like her, who hits the sauce herself, perhaps. Double dare you, Show.