Whew.

Everyone loved Bachelor 09 Single Dad Jason Mesnick. He was affable, truthful, cute, a fine father…what's not to love?

Except last week he became public enemy #1 for how he handled his choice of a wife.

Scripted, scripted, scripted…and I'll tell you why.

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Jason Turns From Cute to Public Enemy Overnight

From mlive.com:

Monday's two-hour season ender was the highest-rated program of the night with 15.45 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research. It's the most-watched "Bachelor" finale since November 2003, when Bob Guiney picked Estella Gardinier.

I had no idea this series was so popular! I am a reality show junkee of sorts but The Bachelor has never been anywhere near my fave. “American Idol” will forever hold that title. But the finale of the Jason/Melissa/Molly drama was the highest rated program of the night on Monday, 3/2/09.

They have to work hard to keep up interest like this in a reality series that is a)hard to believe in its premise and b)a little boring, truth be told.

Which brings me to the base of my assertion that this show and its ending was so scripted and by me it was quite obvious.

I shall, as expected, explain.



The concept of The Bachelor/Bachelorette series is that one single person will be given a pool of 25 fine and pretty folk from which to choose their future mate from. It’s not supposed to be a dating game. The show’s script calls for the episodes’ stars to be looking for a mate. To ask an audience to sit through yay many shows so the contender of their affection can get a date is asking too much.

In the early 2009 episode of The Bachelor, we had Jason Mesnick, a cute and physically-fit divorced Dad who has custody of his cute little boy. Jason had been a contender for DeAnna Pappas’ hand in the prior series featuring DeAnna as the Bachelorette seeking a permanent relationship. DeAnna had been rejected herself by the formerly most-hated Bachelor, Brad Womack who, even though he had 25 females vying for him, could not find one worth his fine self. Womack rejected them all!

Jason truly love DeAnna and asked her to marry him. She turned him down for a bowtie-wearing snowboarder, what a hoot. Jason was cute and beloved by the mostly female viewers so he came back to find a replacement for DeAnna who would heal his broken heart.

In fact DeAnna did make a reappearance on this series. Supposedly she wanted Jason back, realizing that a joke-cracking snowboarder was not the stuff of fine husbands. Folks, there really is such a thing as over-exposure. DeAnna needs to move on. Her entire act did not look real at all. DeAnna is no actress. Of course Jason turned her down flat because, read on, Jason had enough problems deciding on his future mate without throwing DeAnna, who’d already rejected him, into the mix.

Up until this season’s finale, Jason came off as intelligent, affable, truthful, pragmatic, kind and gentle.



He chose Melissa, a DeAnna lookalike, for his future wife, telling her he loved her, giving her a beautiful engagement ring and celebrating with her and his son Ty. It left the viewers in tears that this lonely, sweet and cute single Dad, rejected so ruthlessly by publicity hound DeAnna the prior season, finally found someone so cute and loving such as Melissa.

Next came the “After the Rose” show and we knew something was up when show host Chris Harrison told us that the ending we were about to see was so shocking that they did not have an audience on set for the sensitivity required.

I could not imagine how what seemed to have already been a fine and happy finale could have turned so dire.

Jason comes out to greet Chris and he’s got tears in his eyes. “Oh-oh”, the viewer should think.

It would turn out that in the short amount of time since Jason chose Melissa as his future bride that things had gone sour in the relationship. I’m not sure when this series is taped but my guess is in the Fall of 2008, maybe late summer. There needs to be time for around eight to ten episodes, the “ladies’ night”, the big finale, and the “After the Rose” thing. Jason mentioned that he and Melissa spent some of the holidays together, we should assume he meant Christmas 2008.

So hey, it’d only been about three months or so. Melissa is from Dallas and as I understand it, the show paid for Melissa to see Jason every other weekend but this is just scuttlebutt. The thing is, once the Bachelor or Bachelorette pick their mate, they don’t get married the next day. Time is required to arrange moving and such. Or so we are expected to assume.

But Jason not only no longer wanted Melissa, he wanted MOLLY BACK!!

Heh.

Well that’s one of the main stumbling blocks in the show. For here’s a person totally fawned over by a bevy of opposite sex folks, all struggling to win their love and devotion. In real life we kind of stumble upon a potential mate. We must then build a relationship, slowly allowing it to grow to where it will go. In this series it’s no genius to figure out that a person with about a dozen others vying for their affection might not have the patience, forbearance and forgiveness to build a relationship. It’s easy to move on to another dreamer out of the contender pool.

I don’t believe this year’s ending for a second.

The first huge clue here is that we never met Melissa’s parents. Supposedly they had objections to being on a national show about a subject so personal.

I think this whole ending was scripted before this year’s series even began. I think the show’s producers chose a sweet young thing out of the pool of contenders who sort of resembled DeAnna, as the loyal viewers might note.

I think Melissa was given the script as the ending would happen. I think the show’s producers desperately needed a shocking ending to keep audience interest.

Melissa even has a brother! You mean even HE wouldn’t meet Jason and get time in front of the cameras? They did script in a phone call by Jason to Melissa’s parents but you never heard anyone speak a word. Instead Melissa took Jason to meet her “friends”, who I also think were actors, frankly.

What I’m saying here is that Jason chose Molly right along. Melissa had been recruited to act out this “shocking” ending. Jason was maybe given some monetary or reward compensation to go along with being the bad guy at the end. What would he care? He’d have the money and Molly of his dreams.

I don’t think for a minute that any self-respecting woman would agree to go on national TV and get the heave-ho in front of fifteen million people. And not for one minute did Melissa look upset. I think she acted out that ending and she was pretty good at it, frankly.

I’m not mad. Reality shows are almost always scripted on some level. I kind of enjoy finding the scripted parts, it’s part of the allure.

Melissa’s getting something out of this, exposure perhaps, to a future in acting or such. It would not do to have her parents or brother on the show because they’d have to ACT too. That would have been too much to pull over on the viewers.

It’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

For posterity, a remix of the highlights of the finale of Bachelor 2009 below.


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Bachelor 09 Jason has two to choose from.

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Jason Sends Canadian Packing. What About DeAnna?

I saw DeAnna Pappas on Access Hollywood. She was interviewed by Mario of “Dancing With the Stars” fame. She was very coy about what transpires between her and Jason in the upcoming episode of The Bachelor.

I suspect the reappearance of a contrite and regretful DeAnna, who chose snowboarder Jessie over the reserved and more conventional Jason in this past year’s “Bachelorette” series, to be a very scripted event. It’s the sort of story line that would appeal to us females who watch this show. If myself was Jason I’d slap DeAnna back to the caveman era and tell her to take her snowboard and go home. But-a)I am not Jason and b)I’m not even a man.

Of course Jessie was a bad choice but I don’t know, this show is so scripted that who knows whether the choice of Jessie was part of the script as DeAnna had no preference of the eligible males who were her choices, much like Brad Womack who rejected DeAnna as this whole saga began, or if DeAnna really lost her mind and chose a bowtie-wearing, snowboarding comedian over a serious provider like Jason.

In fact, the way I see how this series comes down, all of the contenders are introduced to the Bachelor/Bachelorette long before that premiere episode where they drive up in a limousine. The object of affection gets to know the contenders and comes up with a list, from best choice to worst choice. At this time a script writer comes in and working with the Bachelor(ette) uses his or her impressions of the contenders and writes a storyline that works on eliminating each contender, based on the aforementioned list, with a dramatic scene that captures the Bachelor(ette)’s impression of the contenders.

Likely Jason Mesnick thought that Megan and Erica were trouble-makers and were low on his “likely” list. Thus a storyline incorporating a feud between these two was scripted into the series. The script had Jason keeping Megan around way longer than anyone thought should be given her alleged nasty disposition. The viewer then sits in the TV bleachers across the fruited plains and lament that Jason doesn’t boot either Erica or Megan off…boot off BOTH so thinks the viewer, and interest in the program is maintained. The advertisers are happy that with each scripted drama, more viewers tune in.



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What’s interesting about this Bachelor series is how Jason constantly complains about not meeting Melissa’s parents, how important this is in order for him to establish a relationship with a firm future. Yet he keeps her around.

This is an interesting development. As I recall, Brad Womack actually allowed the show to contact DeAnna’s father before that series’ finale. Womack ended up refusing anyone offered during his stint as Bachelor, such was the quality of his fine self. But he had evidently considered DeAnna before backing out at the end, considered her so much as to allow the show to contact her parents.

Thus I must imagine that should Jason choose Melissa as his beloved one, and I think he will, that he can contact Melissa’s parents for the finale. Although Jason argues that he could not make any kind of commitment to Melissa without meeting her parents first.

I think this is scripted into the show. The viewer is sitting on pins and needles wondering if Jason will kick Melissa off for the refusal of her parents to meet with him. The script, as I envision it, will have Jason agreeing to marry Melissa IF her parents agree to meet with him. Melissa’s parents, now calm as their daughter is no longer a piece of meat on an auction block, will meet with Jason…AND the audience.

It’s a script that keeps viewer attention and that’s the plan.

As for this DeAnna thing…nothing to it as I argue. DeAnna didn’t want Jason when she was Bachelorette and she likely doesn’t want him now. In fact, I don’t think DeAnna ever wanted snowboarder Jessie, frankly. As I understand it DeAnna has her own Lifetime show and more than likely DeAnna is all for DeAnna.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Coming up, the Girls Tell All show and Jason’s folks get to meet Melissa and Molly.

This is one viewer who is still intrigued. But I know the script.

Heh.

Below, Jason speaks on his mind on the three finalists.


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Three Left to Win Bachelor Jason

I did a search on the name Mesnick and it would turn out that Jason
IS Jewish.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that, wink, wink.

The only reason I even cared is an incident with Naomi’s father during the episode of The Bachelor aired on 2/9/09 in which Jason visited the families and home towns of the final four contenders: Naomi, Melissa, Jillian and Molly.

Naomi’s father launched into a sermon from the mount about how we all must love Jesus. Now this scene was so obviously inserted and the language about loving Jesus, along with Jason’s wry comment during a solo camera vignette that Naomi’s father sure loved Jesus, that I concluded, as the show obviously wanted me to do, that Jason is Jewish.

I’ll be honest here and know that some of my best friends are Jews, that I had been suspicious as Jason has a Jewish nose if ever one existed. But beyond that I didn’t think it much mattered. I figured Jason knew the level of his Jewishness, he likely knew the religious affiliation of the females contending for his heart. He could make his choice based on whether he thought a clash of faiths might be a problem with the female who captured his heart. Well hell, maybe some of the female finalists are Jewish, I don’t know.

But that bit with Naomi’s father and his very obvious statement that one must love Jesus, well it was a read-between-the-lines moment but obviously Naomi’s father had a problem with Jason’s Jewishness.

Naomi was sent home that same night and I don’t blame Jason. If she’s got an anti-semite father I would think this would make an inter-faith marriage all the more difficult.

I didn’t much like Naomi at any rate. I think she’s too young for Jason at age 24. Her family is too kookie for me to comprehend, witness the dead bird funeral, and that spiteful father of hers is a real turn-off.







The other interesting event this past week is Melissa’s parents who refused to appear on camera for this series.

So Melissa had to introduce Jason to some of her friends, hardly the same thing.

Melissa said her parents were very “private”, a rare and refreshing thing in this day of Youtube and Myspace. I suspect they don’t like this method of meeting a mate and didn’t want to be a part of it.

In fact I’m not sure how I’d feel about being part of such a thing should my daughter ever decide to participate in such a public and potentially humiliating endeavor of that which should be so personal. Since this is very unlikely ever, I didn’t give it all that much thought. Those young ladies chose to do this, they are all adult, I’m sure that despite the weeping and teeth-gnashing, they know that only one can win the thing. I seriously doubt that all that much deep true love happens as the show is unfolding. Perhaps later, after the Bachelor or Bachelorette chooses the finalist but I’m not convinced the contenders aren’t there just to have a CHANCE to date the series’ star.

But Melissa’s parents didn’t participate in the show and people with principals, what a concept.

I do think this will hurt Melissa in the end but who knows? No doubt should Jason consider Melissa his life’s love he will eventually meet Melissa’s parents.

Jillian’s Canadian family seemed almost normal. Molly’s family started out normal but then there was the weird thing with the hats.

Below, a clip remix of the show. Check out the kisses and you decide who Jason REALLY likes.



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It was the last episode before going on to the home towns of the final contenders.

Jason, amidst tears and sobs, sent home what I thought was his best match.

And a rumor about the outcome of this year's show that will shock you.

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Widow Stephanie Sent Home

I do think the insertion of 34 year old Stephanie was entirely scripted. Well the whole show is very scripted as I often assert but there’s just something weird about Stephanie and her inclusion in the top five finalists, indeed her inclusion as a contender for Bachelor Jason’s heart at all.

I just couldn’t get over the fact that Stephanie looked so much OLDER than Jason.

If I’ve got it right, Jason is 32 years old and Stephanie is allegedly 34 years of age. She looks as if she’s had a whole lot of Botox injections however. Which is not to say she’s not a very attractive woman but I wonder about her age and more, she looks more suited, in looks, behavior and temperament, for a man in his early 40’s.

There was also never any extended makeout session between Jason and Stephanie, never any passion, never any glimmer of unfulfilled youthful lust that one can see, with a close look, between Jason and Melissa, for example.

Stephanie always did this thing where she would softly kiss Jason’s forehead, his cheeks…like that. But there was never a point where Jason grabbed Stephanie and smothered her with a big tongue-probing kiss. Stephanie herself would often mention this lack of lust during a solo camera vignette.



I’d speculated in an earlier post that this meant either the scripting was to lead up to a sudden climax of lust, passion, love and romance between Jason or Stephanie or boom, either by script or for real, Jason just wasn’t all that into Stephanie, to borrow from the popular lingo of our day. Which proved to be the case as widow Stephanie did not get a rose on the episode aired on 2/2/09.

So this upcoming week we have Jason visiting the hometowns of the final four contenders for his heart.

Top Four:
Naomi
Molly
Melissa
Jillian

This is one of my favorite parts of this reality series as the family of one’s beloved speaks volumes about our futures with this potential mate so fashioned from these folk and surroundings, no?

It’s always fun to see the kooks and locate the stable.

There’s a rumor all about how this season with Jason, he formerly rejected by the also-rejected DeAnna, will end. It’s just a rumor, probably the work of an over-heated fan’s imagination. But I’ll throw it out there.

For DeAnna’s engagement with her snowboarder choice from last season’s Bachelorette, Jessie, has ended. I could have told her that kookie Jessie was but an aberration and not for females with dreams of picket fences and pretty children in their future.

So the rumor goes that DeAnna will return to this series, to the Jason who she rejected and left with a broken heart for a snowboarder for God’s sake. And Jason will reject his top four and go off into the sunset with DeAnna, as it was meant to be by the gods of romance.

I don’t believe it for a second. Brad Womack broke the mold with his walking off with NO choice of the many female offerings good enough for his fine self. A series like this that wants to succeed simply cannot lead the viewers on too often lest they lose viewership of those who are tired of being fooled.

We will be watching the visits to the home town of the top four and for now, my money’s on Melissa as Jason’s choice of a bride.

Which probably won’t happen either but that’s another story, another day.
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