Bachelor Blog: Week 7

Each season, as ‘The Bachelor’ gets closer to the finale, I start having mixed feelings about the show. The bachelor gets closer and closer to these women, they spend intimate time together and then he has to dump one of them afterward. It’s pretty cruel to all the women. It’s not only devastating for those who get dumped but I think it would also be difficult for the woman he chooses in the end, because she’s going to watch the show and see what Matt said and did with the other girls. It’s probably one of the reasons these Bachelor show relationships don’t seem to last. OK, that’s my jaded commentary … now let’s get to this week’s episode.Matt and the girls were in Barbados for the extended one-on-one dates. (You know, the dates where they get to choose to forgo their individual rooms and stay as a couple in the fantasy suite.)

First, Matt met Shayne on the beach for their date.

“Are you kidding me, you can’t get anymore romantic than this,” said Shayne. I’m not sure if romantic would be the exact word to describe the beginning of the date when Shayne, in her plunging bathing suit, jumped around and did toe touches on the trampoline, although I’m sure Matt was pretty stoked about it.

But things did get more romantic as the pair canoodled in the water and then on the beach.

“This is amazing. Check out those trees,” Matt said referring to a grove of palm trees.

“They have those in California,” Shayne replied. “Do they have palm trees in London?”

“No,” he responded teasingly.

“No?”

“The thing I love about you is that you play around with me so much, I think you know the answer to these questions,” Matt said.

“No, I don’t,” Shayne responded.

(No, Matt. She doesn’t. And I can’t make fun of her too much for this because I didn’t really know the answer myself. I googled it and yes, they DO have palm trees in London. So I saved you a google. But do search for “Torbay and palm trees”. I found the most hilarious article about how city officials were concerned that palm trees might be too dangerous because their very sharp leaves could poke someone in the eye. One councilor compared the trees to tigers which are beautiful to look at but you wouldn’t want them wondering the streets. True story. Hellooo Brits, uptight much?)

Anyway, I digress.

As Matt and Shayne head to dinner, Matt is determined to find out “how much of Shayne is the blonde act and how much is the intelligent, independent woman which I know exists.”

“I love being blonde,” Shayne said. “I’ve been blonde since I was 12 or 13.”

Matt explained that sometimes he likes to have conversations about politics, to which Shayne responded, “I’m smart, Matt. I’m intellectual. Is that how you say that word?”

Shayne then told Matt that she was falling in love with him.

“The only thing that marred it from being the ultimate perfect moment in my life is the fact that there are two other women and their dates have yet to come up,” Matt later confided to the camera.

Matt’s next date was with Amanda. They went ziplining where they both could conquer their fear of heights. Later, Amanda, like, expressed her fear of opening up to Matt.

“I really want to go to the fantasy suite but I’m nervous that Matt won’t want to,” Amanda said.

Silly, silly Amanda. What Bachelor has EVER turned down the fantasy suite. Come on.

Amanda was able to open up to Matt telling him that, like, she like really liked him.

“You are the guy, like, that I feel like I could be with forever. The only thing I’m afraid of is getting hurt.”

Finally, it was Matt’s date with Chelsea. They went out on a catamaran and the date got off to a rocky start. Matt described it as awkward. The pair tried to make small talk and Chelsea yawned through their conversation.

“Where was that connection, where was that romance? Gone. Chelsea seemed a million miles away,” Matt said.

Matt tried to create a spark by holding Chelsea’s hand but she criticized his finger-crossing technique, calling it stupid.

Then, when they went swimming with sea turtles, Chelsea kept her distance. Matt said he was “gutted”.

“Chelsea wouldn’t come near me. The turtle was closer to me than Chelsea. I had better eye contact with the turtle, underwater with goggles and mask thing on than I did with Chelsea.”

After that portion of the date, Matt said there was a part of him that didn’t even want to go to dinner with Chelsea. But of course he did. Chelsea confessed that she couldn’t stop thinking about the fact that there were other girls there and it made her want to keep distant from him. But from that point on she decided she wanted to open up to him so she wouldn’t lose him. Back at the fantasy suite, she told Matt she had a surprise for him. (Then, the pervy camera guy focused on her backside as she slipped on a long black lacy nightie.)

That was apparently what Matt needed to be back on board with the relationship.

“Everything that I need Chelsea to act on, to make clear to me, she did. I had the most amazing evening with Chelsea and I can’t wait to spend more time with her now.”

Rose Ceremony:

There were two roses and three women. All of them looked concerned, especially Shayne who was making the most dramatic puppy-dog-pouty face. Matt put her out of her misery by giving her the first rose. When the second one went to Chelsea, Amanda’s mouth literally dropped open.

(I admit that mine did not. Although she was my pick last week, I was getting the vibe this week that maybe, like, she wouldn’t last. So I’m 0 for 2 on my picks so far. First Holly and now Amanda.)

As they said their farewells, Amanda told Matt she was shocked. Matt explained that while she had virtually everything he was looking for, his heart told him he had a closer connection with the other two.

Amanda said she didn’t believe him and then called him a really funny but not-suitable-for-print word. (It was beeped out, but I clearly understood what she said.)

Amanda was cold towards Matt as she got into the limo, but as it drove away, Amanda cried and confessed that she really thought they were going to get married.

So it’s down to Shayne and Chelsea competing for Matt’s heart. At the beginning of tonight’s episode Chris Harrison declared, “Matt will ask one of these women to marry him in what will be the most romantic finale in Bachelor history.” But he truly outdid himself at the end by promising, “It’s the most romantic love story ever.”

Wow. So who could it be? I’m going to say Chelsea. I think she’s been good at keeping the carrot dangled far away enough to keep him interested. But with my guessing luck, that means it will probably be Shayne.

^{Next week is the “Women Tell All” episode. Then on May 12th, Matt takes Shayne and Chelsea home to London to meet his parents and then he gives one of them the final rose.}

^{Click here to read last week’s Bachelor Blog.}

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