Do not tell me who she ends up with, because I am enjoying the hell out of watching this slo-mo train wreck.
That said – WTF. Presumably she’s reasonably intelligent – she’s a dentist, for crying out loud – but this woman is the craziest, most fucked up, out there neurotic wackjob I’ve seen. Believing the one guy when he badmouths the other, then dumping the first guy also?
And fuck, making them all box each other?
Yikes. This show – the guiltiest of my guilty pleasures – may have finally jumped the shark this season.
I’m enthralled.
And woohoo, Bentley is back next week. blissful sigh
And she doesn’t deserve him, because she’s fucking pathetic.
Even MORE pathetic, however, are the editors of this show… why are they under the impression that the only thing we have any interest in are ENDLESS repetitions of:
I’m insecure I hope they are here for the right reasons.
She’s a great girl that any man would want.
I really love being here with you and I want to get to know you better.
You’re really special and I have special feelings for you and I’m glad you’re here.
I sure hope I get a rose.
I was really nervous that I wouldn’t get a rose.
I was unsure going into the rose ceremony.
I can’t stop thinking about Bentley.
I feel really connected to you.
Seriously? On what basis are these connections being made exactly? THESE lame conversations???
Blahhhhhhhhhhh … I hope for THEIR sakes that they are having more interesting conversations than that which for some reason are not deemed worthy of taking up any part of the two hours.
William is pretty pathetic as well.
And I keep hearing that they have given boatloads of power to the Bachelor(ette) about how the whole thing is conducted, and if so… why don’t the B’s spend WAY more time with the guys/gals? It seems very difficult to believe that they can make any progress in any kind of genuine connection in these tiny bites of time stretched over weeks…
To be fair, she has little to no control over who goes on what date, what they do, etc. The producers like to make you think that she does, but it’s all pre-ordained. That’s why you wouldn’t ever see her on a two-on-one with the two leading candidates. Not sure where you heard that she has all this power, Stoid - that’s the exac t opposite of everything I’ve read on Reality Steve, which includes interviews with previous people that were on the show.
She also knew for a fact that Bentley was coming back, so the entire scene where she tells Chris Harrison that she still has feelings, he says he’ll see what he can do, she says “Shut UP!!” when he tells her Bentley’s in the hotel…pure bullshit.
He won fame! And he won the fact that he didn’t have to do anything stupid, like kick-boxing, in order to win over the heart of the “prize”.
The fact that they found 8 guys who would kickbox on national T.V. after training for 3 hours just shows that they pick some real bright bulbs. The only explanation that is even reasonable is that they are all there just for the media attention. None of them can read or are the slightest bit interested in the fact that a future dentist really doesn’t want to watch the fighting anymore and any of them would be fine just sitting out the fight and forfeiting. I think the producers brought back Bentley simply because none of the other guys are actually interested in Ashley so they are just going to pay off Bentley to have a conversion in his love for Ashley.
I firmly believe, based on nothing other than my own powers of reasoning and an embarrassingly long history of reality TV watching:
Bentley isn’t just a douche who got on the show – he was *hired *to be The Douche. The producers wanted a villain, extra drama, the tried and true “break her heart, go away, come back” script, and they recruited Bentley to play the role. So he’s being completely honest when he tells the camera that he has no interest in Ashley, but he’s not doing it to promote some non-existent business – he’s doing it because he’s being paid to do it.
You’re an amazing person.
I am having an amazing time.
This is an amazing experience.
I think you’re amazing.
Our life together would be amazing.
You’d be an amazing mother.
It’s all so amazingly nauseating that I find myself skipping about 90% of the date blather.
I’m also creeped out by all this focus on marriage. Haven’t we learned from a billion seasons of this shit that it’s all so completely unnatural that it’s highly unlikely these people are going to actually manage to forge anything lasting much beyond the last day of filming?
Does anyone remember what show it was where the babe “confessed” to the guy she picked in the end that she had dated Fabio like she was admitting to being a former crack whore? Now THAT was entertainment…
I don’t blame anyone for anything. This is far from season one, so it is honest fun now to watch people be made fools of. Just showing up for the show is sort of like accepting the dare.
Oh, look, she is too stupid to see what is going on, even when she should be running with maximum caution. Holy crap, how can anyone, under these circumstances, with the history of the show be this dumb/shallow/whatever?
Ashley was picked because she is overly dramatic and a world-class narcissist. She isn’t stupid, she is just too self-involved too see that Bentley really was an asshole and didn’t immediately fall in love with her. She was specifically warned about Bentley, but she ignored the warnings after he was nice to her. I mean if anyone can make Bentley fall in love with her and change his asshole ways it’s Ashley, right?
Well, marriage is kinda the raison d’etre of the show, so I don’t find it “creepy” at all. But highly unlikely, yeah (and there have been, what…two? marriages after all these years of matchmaking shows?)
I imagine that some couples do leave the show thinking that it’s possible that they can make a go of it. But when they find that their time together consists of waiting for their name to be called at Applebee’s, instead of dinner for two in the middle of the Bellagio fountain…reality comes crashing down on them.
Yes, that was Average Joe: Hawaii, which also featured that dude with the thickest Boston accent I have ever heard. 'There’s a baaaaaaax around my haaaaaaaaaaaaaart"
I especially loved how blindsided she was by the fact that not all the guys shared her delight that she’s “gotten closure” with Bentley. Her cluelessness delights me.
Well, first, I thought the whole Return of Bentley drama was an absolute freakin’ waste of our time and the producer’s money. It just kinda fizzled…much ado about nothing.
I thought the guys over-reacted tremendously. It’s like each of them was shocked – Shocked! – that Ashley may be thinking about someone other than themselves.
Ashley is currently living in Philly (dental school at Penn), so there’s a piece in the local paper on her.
The finale is August 1st, when I’ll be on vacation. Not sure I’m going to be willing to admit to the people I’ll be sharing a house with that I want to watch.
I don’t watch this show or shows like it. I came in because the thread title suggested to me that everyone would be just completely trashing shows like this. But out of curiosity I clicked on the link to the video of this “Bentley” talking about the Bachelorette.
End of the very first line: “Having her tickle my balls would be amazing.”
Guys, he’s a troll and he managed to infiltrate a huge television show. He might be getting money, or free trips, or promotion, or whatever, but ultimately what he’s really reaping is lulz. The protagonist of this show seems like a massive fucking lolcow and he’s milking it for all it’s worth.
