I don’t know about that. During the “After the Rose” show, there were a few moments where Jake showed us his true self. And he scared me.
Seriously.
OMG OMG OMG.
Finally watched last week.
I’m sorry, but how does anyone who does not suffering from some disability which prevents them from detecting genuine human emotions not recognize how thoroughly FOS (full of shit) Courtney is??
Jesus. Ben is a moron.
He does have a disability, silly. It’s called a penis.
[facebook]Like[/facebook]
And yeah, I gotta say, as much as I think she is the most vapid, evil, pathetic excuse of a woman I’ve seen in a long time, that does not prevent me from agreeing with Ben’s penis that she is also an exceptionally lovely woman who does radiate a highly fuckable vibe.
My cousin is staying for a couple of days, and I was way too embarrassed to admit I wanted to watch The Bachelor, so I totally missed “The Women Tell All.”
Was it a pile-on?
Okay, obviously it was.
Did Ben react?
No, obviously he didn’t.
Never mind, guess I didn’t need to see it after all.
This thread makes me so very sad that I have not seen a single episode this season. Zero sarcasm (or shame).
And that video is gold, twickster. Thank you.
Courtney squeezed out some tears of “regret” and upchucked an apology that stopped the ravening harpies cold. It was impressive. I gotta say, she is insanely beautiful. The radiation level of her fuckable vibe (thanks Stoid) has never been greater. Measurable in petacuries.
Emily on the other hand radiates an applehead vibe.
That weird thing she does with her upper lip completely negates all other aspects of pulchritude. I’d put her about 8th in the ranking of this crop of bachelorettes.
“After the Final Rose” is on against “Smash” next week. I have an uneasy suspicion which is going to win. Damn the Bachelor franchise for this TV crack!
Perfect summary of the episode.
I felt a little bad for Courtney but its hard to actually feel bad for someone who enjoyed being the villain all season. I think Blakeley and that other chick who thought they were friends (not Casey S. but Morgan maybe?) really got to her though. She seemed to actually feel a little bad about the Blakeley thing. The rest just piled on. I almost expected Chris to moderate a bit more but that would not have been as fun.
I was so frustrated with the inarticulateness of everyone.
What I sincerely believe Courtney was/is feeling (at least a little) and did not successfully express is this: she grew up a Mean Girl, as so many hyper-beautiful girls do.* This role has always served her, she believed. She also believed, thanks to her life experience, that she is adorable and everyone (who matters - people wiht penises, her family) will find her meanness nothing more than “naughty” and remain captivated by the irresistible force of her beauty.
But this stupid show and the editors have given her something she never previously had: the chance to observe herself and see how others see her. I do believe that she is not especially proud or happy at how she behaved. Not necessarily because she has or has suddenly acquired such a well-developed moral center, she’s far too narcississtic for that at this point in her young, beautiful, privileged existence, but simply because she behaved so unattractively that it became clear to her that she had crossed the line of what her beauty would permit her to gert away with without having it slop back on to her and mar the precious gift of her beauty. It didn’t work for her, and Courtney has a laser focus on what will work for her.
In other words, she learned a little bit of what most of the rest of us, not so well-endowed with the blinding advantage of extreme beauty tend to learn somewhere between 8 and 18: calling other people names and pointing out their flaws, holding grudges and generally treating other people like shit out one side of your face while presenting yourself in a completely dishonest way as kind and friendly and picked on out the other side of your face will lead to people disliking you and rejecting you. But the blinding beauty does exactly that: it blinds the people who gaze upon it so that this sort of behavior goes unrecognized or is otherwise dismissed as something other than what it is so that those who wish to continue to bask in the reflected light of that beauty may continue to do so without the messy complication of considering the blackened soul that lies beneath the exquisite mask.
But now Courtney herself got to see herself. I believe that she didn’t like it. I think she will still THINK the same way, but she will in future be far more aware of what she says, how she says it, and who she says it to. Particularly with cameras around.
- Actually, Mean Girls, like all bullies, are acting out of their own sense of inadequacy and insecurity, which doesn’t undo their meanness, but it does explain and mitigate it somewhat. We are all just looking for love and acceptance, Mean Girls included. And in reality, the beautiful people of the world are robbed of a lot by being so beautiful and getting so much unearned acceptance and advantage. I love what Brad Pitt’s mom told him when he was young, which was not to get too full of himself because the world fell all over itself as a result of his looks. Whether it sunk in or not is up for debate, but it’s cool that she recognized what was going to be his life experience and tried to blunt it from making him a shallow shit. Points for her.
Season finale tonight!
Two hours of “Oh geez I don’t know what I want” from Ben before Little Ben has him propose to Courtney, who accepts – then one hour of “Wow, whoda thunk, things didn’t work out” in “After the Final Rose.”
Can’t wait!
Dangit, twickster! You should put a spoiler box around that!
Heh. Or at least made it clear that it was just my WAG. 
The whole thing has aired on the East Coast.
Yikes, they’re still together? Shall we start taking bets on how long until they’ve officially broken up?
Looks like Reality Steve knew what he was talking about.
So the superhot girl gets the guy. Golly. I’m shocked.
And I think they’ll freak us all out by being the first Bachelor (vs. “ette”) to actually make it down the aisle.
And seeing Ashley and JP (swoon!) makes me think that it’s not entirely fair to blame Ben for falling for the superhot chick, since Ashley fell for the superhot guy. the REAL superhot guy, Bentley was just a poser. JP is superhot… but at least he’s so inside and out. I think he’s the cutest thing ever. SUPER cute…yum.
And Courtney is crazy hot, there’s no denying it. At least we had the satisfaciton of seeing ben talk about how much he squirmed watching his true love act like a terrible little bitch.
JP? Really? He does absolutely nothing for me.
Anyway, the thing I was most struck by was how easily manipulated Ben’s sister – who used the phrase “red flag” no fewer than six times (I was counting) – and mother were by Courtney’s “sweet” act. You know before you meet her that she’s a raving bitch and you don’t dig a little harder than that?