Monday, June 2, 2008

The Bachelorette- DeAnna Pappas

Before tonight’s episode airs I want to rehash what has gone on so far on The Bachelorette.
I admit that I’m skeptical about the whole premise of the Bachelor/Bachelorette thing. At one time I may have thought that finding true love this way was possible. Now I’m so tired of the process, I am beginning to think that the whole thing has been played out. Really, how many times has it worked so far? There was Trista and Ryan and…yeah. The only couple that made it to the alter in how many seasons? (And believe me, I pray for another couple--ANY other couple-- to make it so that Trista and Ryan can finally retire to their private little lives!). The only other couple that have come close to actual commitment are Brian and Mary and I don’t even know where that stands since she assaulted him last year!
So here we are with a new season of the Bachelorette. This season’s Bachelorette is DeAnna. I can’t think of any “finalist” in Bachelor history who was dogged as hard as DeAnna. For those who don’t remember, DeAnna was in the final two for the heart of Bachelor Brad Womack. As DeAnna stood in front of Brad, he told her that he had sent home her competition. She smiled and I’m sure her heart soared. Then the douche followed up by telling her that he couldn’t say that he loved her either and was sending her home. Now it isn’t that he didn’t pick either girl-- if you don’t; feel it, you don’t feel it. It’s that he let her think, for those few seconds, that she was the one. He could have broken the news any other way that didn’t include the lead-in, “I just sent Jen home…”
Anyway, DeAnna is back and this time she gets to pick. She had her choice of twenty-five very hot guys. Sadly, some guys are just as sadly desperate as the women on The Bachelor. None of the guys has given DeAnna their undies yet, or bitten a hole in a beer can, but some of the “hey, look at me” behavior is just as pitiful.
Already DeAnna has sent home the overconfidant (and a little unstable) New York body builder, the guy who pointed out at every opportunity that he was Greek just like DeAnna so they must be perfect and the virgin NFL player who alleges that he never uses curse words then called Jeremy a d#@k! (Dude, what do you have to do to get a devoted christian to call you a d#@k on national television?)
So tonight is a new episode, and two of the guys will get into a fight (or so they say!)