by Alexa Duplisea
The Bachelor
Before I even started to watch the show The Bachelor, I already knew that I was not going to like it. Who thinks finding love on a television show is a good idea? This season’s Bachelor, a 29-year-old fitness model from Dallas, Texas, named Sean Lowe, apparently thinks it is a good idea to choose between 25 good looking girls that auditioned to be his wife. Look at it like this, Sean decides to have girls that he barely knows compete in a show to be his wife. This show could not be more fake, and I never plan on watching it again.
The plot is stupid and unrealistic. Girls should not have to complete to gain love. It definitely should not be broadcasted on television. Anyway each girl acts the same towards Sean. They always act so sweet and innocent but crazy and battling each other, when not with him.
Sean is not honest himself; he never gives an honest opinion about each girl. It is always, “She is great, I love spending time with her.” He should being saying the truth about these girls, that they are psycho, trying to find love in a matter of a few months.
The only reason that I could think of why these girls would try to find love on TV is that they are so unsuccessful with finding real love that they think auditioning to find love seems like a good idea. Or they are so camera obsessed that they are willing to look pathetic on TV, just to be on TV.
This week was episode 5 in the 17th season of the show, and it was a two night special, playing on ABC, Monday and Tuesday night at 8 p.m. Eighteen girls are left on the show, and in the end it will only be one who gets to be with Sean. In this episode, Sean and the remaining girls went on a trip to Whitefish, Montana, where Sean spent time to get to know each girl better. The fact that it is the fifth episode, and he is still getting to know each girl baffles me. It’s unbelievable that one of these girls is going to be his wife, and when that time comes he will only know what the girl told him about herself, what she wants him to know.
While they were in Montana, eight girls were chosen to go on a group date with Sean, but first they had to do a relay race to actually be able to go on the date with him. Only the team that won would be able to go out with him. In the relay race, they had to row a canoe, cut wood, buck hay, and milk and drink goat’s milk. How much more stupid can this show get? Having to win a race to spend time with Sean seems just so dumb. At the end of it all, all the girls got to go on the group date.
After the group date, Lindsay whom he had a one-on-one date with, and Daniella who was part of the group date, both got roses. When a girl is given a rose, it means she is safe and still on the show until the next week.
Following those two dates was the two-on-one date where two girls go on a date with Sean at the same time, which is super awkward because someone is going to be the third wheel. When the two-on-one date ended, Sean had to choose between two girls, Tierra and Jackie, and he went with Tierra and sent Jackie home for good. If there was one thing I learned from watching this episode, it is that Tierra is fake, and she acts differently around Sean than she does around everyone else. The girls in the show see that too, and it causes drama in the house among Tierra and all the other girls. The drama leads Robyn to be the second person of the episode to be sent home, and all the girls were upset because they wanted Tierra gone even though she already had a rose.
My final thoughts of this episode are that I will not spend any more time watching it, and I am not even going to bother watching the second part to this special two-part episode because I did not like it at all. The concept of the show and what goes on during the show is so stupid that it should be cancelled. If I were to rate it, this show would get a 2 out of 5 stars because the only good part was when the girls got in each other’s faces, which probably happens every episode because this show is so overly dramatic.
