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I didn't watch the first season only this one and I can't imagine how it got renewed. This show is so incredibly predictable. If it was deliciously soapy I could understand but it's terribly boring. The upcoming Joss and Brian hookup has been telegraphed for multiple episodes now. It's so inevitable that I'm already bored by that storyline. This show is horribly flawed - weak writing and acting is tough to come back from. I can't imagine it lasting another season.

I just watched the premiere and I found it a bit lacklustre and boring. It didn't feel like a full premiere because we didn't meet the rest of the cast. Once all 16 come together I'm sure things will start to get a bit more interesting. At least sixty percent of the show was spent talking about "types", shomances and attraction. I was over it about half way in. Sigh.

Yikes. That episode did Venice no favours as a tourist destination. So grey and dingy and sad. That being said I would still go there for a day or two for the experience of it. Josh was incredibly shady during this episode but I still think he makes hometowns and I honestly can't see anyone but Nick beating him at the end. Unless a dark horse shows up in the next few weeks, it seems all but determined that it'll be Nick and Josh final two. They're the only ones she's had very obvious chemistry with. She likes Brian's kisses but he's much too wishy-washy for her. Marcus is so, so corny - I can't see him lasting much longer. The farmer is dull. Dylan got lucky with that pity rose on his one on one date. I never in a million years would have thought that Nick would be Andi's type. I find them interesting despite being baffled by them as a pair. I think what might work against him is that he's got that nerdy, city vibe about him that might not fly in the hometown dates. I don't think he's alpha enough for her family.

Having a racial "preference" might not be racist per say but it's nothing to be celebrated either. For the record, I thought it was pretty telling that after Marquel addressed Andrew, Andrew ran to Andie claiming that he'd been attacked by Marquel when Marquel actually dealt with the situation rather well and was very calm and in the end didn't push it after Andrew said that he never said anything like it. I just really can't take Andrew at all. Even if he didn't say blackie - and I am not leaning any way in this - and actually said "whoa she picked the two black guys" that's hardly any better. Nineteen guys got through the first elimination. Two of them were black. Sixteen were white. Why exactly did Andrew feel the need to bring attention to the whole two black men that made it? If she had chosen two blondes out of seventeen brunettes would there have been a comment? No. So to say he was merely calling attention to their blackness for the sake of being descriptive, why did he feel the need to call attention to it at all? JJ is certainly a shit disturber and I don't trust him at all but why is Andrew getting so much leeway when he's been nothing but smarmy and shady up to this point? I don't like either of them but it's certainly very possible that douchey Andrew would say something douchey like that. And ABC will do their best to make sure that if he did it'll never see the light of the day. The Bachelor/Bachelorette has had too much negative press when it comes to race for them to willing add fuel to the fire.