Anybody watch this last night? I am very ashamed to admit I did. I do have an excuse, though. The remote was all the way over on the top of the TV, and I had a sleeping kitten in my lap. I HAD to watch. Sophie was way too cute to disturb. And then I (gulp) kind of got into it.
So, I hope I’m not the only guilty party. What did you guys think of it? I thought the choice he made was awful. Miss Hyper Frizzy-Hair.
And the prince wasn’t the ugly ogre I was expecting. He was actually sort of cute, in a nerdy sort of way.
Come on, people! Don’t leave me stranded here! Confess your TV sins and you will be forgiven. (At least by me!)
Sorry, I was re-reading The Brothers Karamazov in the original Russian while running lightly though J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier on the harpsichord I built yesterday afternoon. And preparing a souffle with my feet.
My excuse is that I was knitting a scarf for my mother and it has to be completed in two weeks. I didn’t watch the show, I just listened to it.
Okay, okay, I watched it, too. I thought it was only slightly less annoying than Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire. Oops, I guess I watched that, too. Well, the Miss America Pageant was pretty awful, though. Geez, I’m really digging a hole here, huh?
Anyway, yes the “prince” (does Italy really have royalty?) was nerdy and pretty cute. I knew he’d pick that frizz head, though. When the host asked what one personal item she would bring in her suitcase, I thought she was going to say “hair fryer”.
You mean the one with all those teeth? My wife and I caught about the last 20 minutes; she commented that the prince must really like women with square jaws, as all of the finalists had them.
I didn’t see the show, but obviously I saw many promotions for it. Just who WAS this “prince,” anyway?
To my knowledge, only 7 countries in Europe still have momarchs (Britain, Belgium, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Spain). Surely none of THEIR princes would sink so low as to be on such a show, would they?
All I could think was, numerous countries have abolished monarchies in the past century. If I were the great-grandson of Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm, the grandson of Italy’s Umberto II, or the son of Greece’s Constantine… I suppose I COULD claim to be Prince Astorian… but that title would be meaningless! I’d have no power, and probably no money.
So, was this “prince” legit? What was he the “prince” of? What country, and what royal house?
My daughter was looking forward to seeing it. I told her “why bother - he’ll pick the tallest blonde.” He did, and by doing so he’ll keep my daughter out of trouble because now she knows I can see into the future as well as out of the back of my head.
I watched it while doing physics homework. The prince was named Gugliemo Marconi Giovelli or something like that, and his choice was named Tavallia (don’t remember the last name, sorry).
I thought that Mia Byrd character was pretty cute. I wish I looked like that. She would have been my choice, personally. Or the singer…Lauren Starts-with-a-T. She was cute, too.
I thought it was more interesting than “Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire” only because I knew of WWtMaMM’s failure and I was hoping for more of the same. And also I liked looking at all the pretty dresses.
So they just date afterwards? Was it basically just a long and drawn out “The Dating Game?” I watched a few minutes and I did want to see who the Prince was, but during a commercial I changed the channel and forgot to turn it back.
In a GQ sort of answer to some questions here, I know that some countries which no longer have their monarchy still keep track of who would have had certain titles and that it is great fodder for their tabloids type journals. I think the Italians had Kings up until 1946 when they voted him out in favor of a republic. Kind of a cop out in my opinion though. Although imagine the repercussions if this had been say, Denmark, and she ended up becoming Queen?
Mrs. H watched this and I caught the last half or so. I only saw the final 10 ladies. I thought that the African-American (who I think was Mia Byrd mentioned by FUB) was by far the best choice. She didn’t make the final 5 though.
The eventual winner didn’t look all that thrilled to be seen with an elfy “prince” who was a good three inches shorter than her.
