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This is something which kinda hits home for me.
It is?
Yes. It is.
IMHO, wrong choice. But hey, tonight was the first time I watched so maybe I missed some key moments.
Ummm, I was really just watching it for the Palm Springs scenery.
Really.
And the next one in Hawaii, yeah - same thing.
What a shallow skank she is. I was gravely disappointed in her. Not surprised, but disappointed nonetheless.
[spoiler]So after all that bull about looking for good inside, and appearances not meaning anything, she goes with the pretty boy-lives-with-his-folks-waiter/college boy instead of the kinda goofy looking but highly romantic, successful wall street trader. I think the whole throwing the pretty boys into the mix sucked. In the end it was about getting two “beautiful people” together.
I still think pretty boy waiter is bi.
I also thought it was stupid how pissed she got over the guys making fun of her in the fat suit, when in the second eliminations she got rid of ALL the fat guys. So much for the beauty within.
She was a vapid airhead, and she got a vapid airhead in the end. so I guess it all worked out.[/spoiler]
Also, thanks to this outcome, I am not even remotely interested in seeing it happen again in Average Joe 2. It seems to me the whole point of this sadistic show is to take guys with low self esteem, build them up, then crap all over them. It isn’t about the average guy getting the girl. If it were, then they wouldn’t throw the male models into the fray.
Why couldn’t we have just put “spoilers” in the title? this sucks.
I don’t know how to do the “Spoiler” thing, so I’ll just say that I agree with what Tea and Mac had to say.
Carla just push the little quote button at the bottom of a post with the spoiler box and you will see how it’s done.
I didn’t watch the show at all, but I caught the very end of the finale. My favorite line?
When she told the average guy that he “made her feel beautiful”. Something tells me she didn’t think that comment through completely…
I was so totally not surprised at the ending. It was clear by her inability to look at the “better” of the two men that she was going to do that.
OTOH, at least she gets credit for not leading him on, making out with him, or whatever.
I did like how what appealed to her about NYC was … the shopping!
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Well, in the end, the two fairly pretty, fairly shallow people ended up together and the deep, but not really attractive guy got left in the cold.
Who was honestly surprised by this?
The most annoying thing to listen to was her vapid justifications of why she picked the good looking guy. I know it is really hard to not sound shallow, while justifying a shallow choice, but I wonder how convincing she will sound–even to herself–when she hears it.
If the roles were reversed, a guy would have the exact same problem she did.
And, Just for the record, I think they are a perfect match and Adam will probably have to beat the gold diggers off with a stick.
But regardless, it was a lose-lose situation. Which would she rather be: Shallow (hot guy!) or Gold-Digger (rich guy!)?
Did she know the rich guy was rich?
I never watched the show, but I was told by a friend who watched it that the guys were told almost nothing about the girl’s background.
If true, then all they knew was that she was pretty. They were competing to win a girl based just on her appearance.
Sounds like a cynical suck-fest all around.
I agree with most of what has been said so far, especially Mac Guffin. I don’t think I’ll watch #2.
Why are there spoilers? This show won’t be repeated, so there’s no chance to spoil the outcome.
I am mystified by the skank’s choice. Adam’s only defect is that he breathes through his mouth, but other than that he’s a catch. Physically, I found him much more attractive than Waiter Boy (I like men, not hairless, emaciated models), and he has more financial security than Waiter Boy as well.
Fiver has a point, too–the blonde chick had a vapid personality and one could tell that she had never read or thought much in her life. The only asset she had was her looks, so the guys who said they were “falling” for her were not interested in love, which is based on caring and intimacy, but just sexual attraction.
All along they’ve been running commercials asking “Can a guy like this get a girl like this?”
Allow me to provide the answer:
No.
Too bad really. Adam was a much better choice. Not that he was “average” really. Most Average Joes don’t have a million bucks.
But still, Jason never showed any personality. He was Blandy McWhitebread. The only thing I can really remember about him is that he wanted to be a weatherman with the name Jason Storm. Which is pretty practical I guess. If the whole weatherman thing doesn’t work out, he can just get a job in gay porn.
Actually, Gobear, the commercials at the end of the the show said that a new Average Joe would start in January. Apparently it was filmed before the first one ever started, so none of the guys know of the twists. And it takes place in Hawaii! Ooooh. The ads made it look like the girl (a former Miss USA contestant) was a lot more attractive (physically… personality-wise they made her seem pretty shallow), and the guys all seemed more goofy. The one guy with curly hair ala Weird Al seemed to be even more shallow than the girl was made out to be, since his only apparent reason for wanting her was that she was hot and he’d never otherwise get a hot girl.
I knew she’d pick the “hot” guy, but seeing still sucked. For the record, I never saw any of the other episodes, but Adam seemed like a genuinely nice guy. The “Rocky” scene contrasted with the “I’m so beautiful laying in the sun” scene was classic.
Ah, but that’s a different show, and I said that this show, the one which ended last night, would not be repeated, hence no need for spoilers.