Monday, January 6, 2014

The Bachelor, Ep. 18.1

Get ready for the drama and cat fights to begin, because The Bachelor is back! I'm excited to watch the extremely handsome Juan Pablo. I'm a little on the fence about the girls, based on the very brief preview we had last night and what I've seen and read online. Maybe some of them will surprise me, but I'm not holding out much hope for this group. They seem to all be a little immature and not there for the right reasons. And lets just face it, some of them seem just a bit creepy and over-the-top.

Night 1: Limo Arrivals and Cocktail Party
I can't wait to see what fun and original things the ladies come up with for their first meeting with Juan Pablo (sarcasm).

First we get to see a brief bio of Juan Pablo, and then it's a visit from Sean. Normally these "visits" seem really forced and awkward, and at the end you're thinking "why were they even there, that was pointless". However, Sean actually had some really good pieces of advice for him. Juan had some good questions and Sean did a really good job answering them. The best part was the segment at the end of the show when Juan Pablo was showing Sean how to dance the salsa. They were discussing what Juan Pablo's "thing" was going to be. Sean's was being shirtless, and Juan Pablo said his could be dancing. Too funny!

Limos

Amy L. - so excited, "the sun couldn't set fast enough"
Cassandra - "the night has taken so long to get here"...awkward silence
Christy - "I'm glad it's you"
Christine - nervous and brought bracelet for Camila
Nikki - she does some sort of strange wave; she's a nurse and she makes him listen to her heart with a stethoscope (Juan Pablo: "no more limos")
Kat - she's a dancer and wants to learn the salsa (Juan Pablo: "she smells good, very good")
Chantel - she gives him a lesson on how to pronounce her name
Victoria - she's from Brazil, and she'll help him with Portuguese if he helps her with Spanish (Juan Pablo: "hmm a cute one")
Lucy - she wore a flower "hippy"-like headband and she didn't wear shoes because she didn't want to be too tall, and she's a hippy; she seemed like she was drunk
Danielle - she has a present for him inside
Lauren S. - she comes in playing and pedaling some sort of piano bike, because music is her passion; that's not weird at all...and she messed up; she was out of breath and talked really fast; he chased after her back into the house to get her name, because she was so nervous she forgot to tell him
Chelsie - she's a science teacher, so she does an experiment with him and he looks like he wants to eat her test tube, but she throws it away and says "instead of doing chemistry, why don't we just have chemistry"
Valerie - she is wearing cowgirl boots with her fancy dress
Elise - she is so excited to meet him (Juan Pablo: "you smell good")
Ashley - she speaks with a very creepy whisper (as what appears to be her natural voice) and then gives him a gold star sticker because she is a teacher
Clare - hello baby bump! and oh yeah, it's a fake...having something to do with him being a father and wanting more kids (Juan Pablo: "she's very cute")
Alli - she comes out kicking a soccer ball
Amy J. - "I'm here for you because it's you"
Renee - single mom to son Ben (Juan Pablo: "bye mama")
Lauren H. - she says it's nice to meet him and can't wait to learn more about him
Maggie - wow, that southern accent; she is sincerely happy it's him"; she brought him a fishing hook because she loves to fish with her family
Kelly - she sends her dog out of the limo first and it runs from Juan Pablo; he said "I hope the owner likes me". She said "she insisted on coming"...oh boy.
Lacy - gives him pills to take and think of her, because 25 girls could give him headaches and make him feel dizzy
Alexis - she's from Tampa...that's all (Juan Pablo: "she is cute too")
Kylie - she said "I've been dying to hug you...I can't believe this is happening, I'm so excited"
Sharleen - she said she flew all the way from Germany, and Juan Pablo asks "why" and he really, really likes her dress (Juan Pablo: "hmm singers, I like singers")
Andi - she is nervous, but excited; he had to ask her name more than twice (Juan Pablo: "oh my gosh, wow")

Following the limos, Juan Pablo greeted the girls, started some music and they had a little mini dance party to get loosened up. He also had a photo booth there for them to take some crazy photos.

One-on-Ones

Nikki - he remembers her as "Nikki the nurse"; she talks really fast. My favorite part was when he was remembering her name and he said "oh yes...your heart...boom boom". lol
Renee - he actually remembered her son's name (and he was so worried about remembering the girls' names); she was married, and got married because she was pregnant
Lucy - she is so over-the-top and so crazy...she put her legs on him...night 1. She talks really fast and there's not a whole lot going on upstairs, if you know what I mean.
Amy J. - in the backyard, she gives him a massage with essential oils...with his suit on. Oh my gosh she is weird, and so awkward as she is rubbing his butt...yikes! And the moaning again...aah! Run Juan Pablo, run!!!! At one point, she was rushing around so much like she was afraid he was going to get up and run away. Part of me thinks she has one of those tables in her basement and it has straps attached...
Chelsie - did the photo booth and talked about wanting to have kids, oh and she didn't make it into any of the photos
Elise - she lost her mom; she thinks Juan Pablo is the one
Lauren H. has an extremely pouty face, and wow is she upset that she hasn't gotten her one-on-one yet! What a sourpuss! That look is not attractive at all! She starts to break down because she thought she was a fun person and doesn't know why she hasn't gotten her time yet. Her last relationship, which was an engagement, ended abruptly and unexpectedly. She's bawling her eyes out and doesn't want to be like that when she talks to him. She finally gets her time and she tells him that the night has thrown her and has brought up some insecurities. She tells him more about her situation: she lived with her fiancee, who had a son, and she got a phone call at work saying it was over and she never saw his son again. She says she's completely over it, but it only happened a couple months ago, and she really seems like she's not.
Andi - she's used to being in control because she's a lawyer
Sharleen - again, he says how much he likes her dress. He likes that she has traveled the world, and he loves her elegant look. He gives her his jacket and shivers his way inside to get the first impression rose. Upon re-entering the room, she immediately says "seriously?" He offers her the rose. She looked at him in disbelief as he offered her the rose, and she hesitated for a VERY long time and finally said "sure". She couldn't have been less interested. She continued to stare blankly at him as if she wanted to throw it back at him. She kept calling him "sir"...that was a little strange. Then in her ITM (In The Moment) video, she said she didn't really feel a lot of chemistry. And she stumbled over saying "he's...a good...package." Not off to a great start here. He is very interested in getting to know her better and she made the biggest impression on him out of 27 girls. Her, on the other hand, doesn't feel any chemistry and seemed rather let down by the lack of feeling anything.

Rose Ceremony
The order roses are handed out: Clare, Nikki, Renee, Andi, Alli, Chantel, Lauren S., Kelly (and Molly the dog), Cassandra, Danielle, Chelsie, Kat, Victoria, Christy, Lucy, Elise, Amy L.

Awkward moment: he calls Kat, and Kylie comes forward because she thought he said her name; embarrassingly she asks "can you take us both?"...guess not, she is eliminated...ouch!

Crazy moment: for some stupid reason, he gives weirdo Lucy a rose, and she giddily accepts the rose and twirls like a 5-year-old back to the group of girls. Yikes! There is something not quite right with that girl.

Well, on dodging bullets (aka Amy J. and Lucy), Juan Pablo was 1 for 2. And knowing some of the spoilers, he could have saved himself, and the girls, some trouble by eliminating 2 others. If you want to know what I mean, you can read all the episode-by-episode spoilers that I got from RealitySteve here.

Episode Summary
  • 27 girls met Juan Pablo 
  • First Impression Rose: Sharleen
  • Rose Ceremony Eliminations (9): Alexis, Amy J, Ashley, Christine, Kylie, Lacy, Lauren H, Maggie, Valerie
  • Remaining Girls (18): Alli, Amy L, Andi, Cassandra, Chantel, Chelsie, Christy, Clare, Danielle, Elise, Kat, Kelly, Lauren S, Lucy, Nikki, Renee, Sharleen, Victoria
Final Thoughts
OK, so can we talk about how absolutely crazy some of these girls are? I'm not sure which one is the worst. I think it may have been Amy J., the masseuse. I went back and rewatched the episode and her video introduction was even creepier than I remembered. And it was so fake! Her best (worst) quotes:

"None of the men I've dated have enjoyed massage."
"I want a man who wants to be rubbed by me!"

OK, the quotes weren't even the worst part of the whole thing. The worst and most disturbing parts were of her massaging someone while making some seriously disgusting facial expressions and moans...yes, moans. No wonder no one she has ever dated has liked her massages. She also said she made Juan Pablo breakfast and proceeded to fly the food on a spoon making an airplane noise. Wow...that's mature. And she's the same age as me, 31...that's scary.

I don't know if was just me, or if the video introductions really were a LOT more staged than they normally were. It was to the point that none of them were really believable. Amy's was horrible. Nikki's was really forced and fake with the baby. And the extremely fake courtroom scene with Andi was maybe the worst of all of them. There was no one else in the courtroom, and there is no way that her speech was during an actual trial. It was probably the worst acting (hers and the judge's) that I've ever seen. It was really, really bad.

Then there is Lucy. What planet did that girl come from? Wow. Strange, strange girl. As uncomfortable as he looked with her legs draped on him, with no shoes on, I can't believe he kept her around.

I would have to say that my favorites would be Lacy, Andi and Renee. They seem like very sweet, NORMAL girls :)

SPOILER for Next Week
According to RealitySteve, we didn't see too much of it, but Victoria was apparently very drunk at the Rose Ceremony, so drunk that the girls were holding her up during the Ceremony. Well, next week after the group date, she's drunk again. Something happens, and she becomes the girl crying on the bathroom floor saying that she hopes Juan Pablo dies. As reported earlier, she is then sent home sometime before the Rose Ceremony. Oh, and her and Lucy are the girls who show their boobs on the balcony. 

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