I should start off this week's Bachelor post by formally apologizing to Jason Mesnick. I have been critical in the past of Jason because he appears to live on a houseboat with a three-year-old. Though I am not a parent and cannot keep a plant alive, I found it unsafe to live on a houseboat with such a young child.
So this weekend we went to Tahoe and bought an US Weekly (shared between 3 other purchasers...as always, they will remain anonymous). We just had to find out more about Nadya Suleman. (Sidenote: I'll bet she actually would live on a houseboat with her 14 children).
US Weekly reported that Jason does NOT actually live on a houseboat. The producers used the houseboat because they felt it captured the essence of Seattle. That's not cool to fool us like that.
Now that that's out of the way, this week's episode was not enjoyable. The only interesting parts were when we found out that Bachelor Charlie O'Connell is a recovering alcoholic and that all of the past losers of the show hook up.
FINAL ROSE PREDICTION: Melissa. As Dugan pointed out in the comment section, it would be totally ridiculous if Melissa won. At no time has she ever seemed like the favorite. That's exactly why she may/will win. I worry that this could be a really frustrating ending.
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Having someone live somewhere they really don't - to capture the "essence" of a place - is an old TV production trick.
ReplyDeleteUsing an example from reality TV's past... take the Tanner family. Danny was a morning anchor at a local TV station (which means he made decent money), but Jesse was a struggling musician and Joey was a comedian. With 3 little mouths to feed, there's no way they pulled in enough cash to make rent/mortgage on one of SF's most prized Victorians. Clearly, they were set up to live there by the show's producers who were seeking to capture the essence of SF.
I heard that when the show went off the air they all moved to a TIC in the Lower Haight.
- Vince