I don't know if y'all heard but JED will be on Ellen this Thursday. This is a new show. Ellen says she plans to get to the bottom of all the rumors. It might be interesting to see if anything is said about Reid. Just thought you might want to know. Have a good Labor Day.
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Melanie
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I hate to admit this but I am rather over these two - still hoping they have a happily ever after but only because I hope that for everyone. I know corny.
ReplyDeleteBut that said let me know if anything interesting is said. I am rarely home in time to catch Ellen.
Hey Mel,
ReplyDeleteDid you watch that Ellen show? Just curious to know how those two came off...
M.
Here's the link to the JED interview:
ReplyDeleteJED on Ellen
I'm interested to hear people's views.
Bored at work, I've revisited The Bachelorette episodes on Youtube. This season just doesn't add up, mostly Reid's role. At the end of epi 6, they show scenes from the remainder of the season that include pictures of Reid in the fantasy suite in Spain!!! But in Maui, even though he indeed was already in a Fantasy Suite, he said he "got denied" from it. Sure, he was denied an overnight, but all three of them went back to the Fantasy Suite, with only Ed supposedly sleeping over. Why was it edited so we didn't see him there? Why was a line said that seemed like he never made it to Spain? Was he told to say that?
ReplyDeleteWhen I watch it compared with More To Love, the season seems contrived. Early on, we spoke of Kiptyn in the role of Dumper gets Dumped and, true to form, he played that out. (Maybe Kip doesn't register emotion like Reid does, but he just didn't seem all that into Jill nor heartbroken). Then, Reid was the "Tell Her How You Feel Before It's Too Late" which, all season long, he held true to, shown in the scenes with his pop, the train, Maui, and the proposal. The chemistry seemed very real, but could it also have been encouraged by $$$? Then, there's Ed whose lines are right out of a script.
I watched Reid's Maui dinner again. I will give to him that expressing emotions was a hang-up for him, but his trepidation that night was markedly heightened from their Spain dates. In Sevilla, he easily listed off attributes that attracted him to her. In Maui, why could he not recall that list or say anything? It just seemed like he was encouraged to withhold.
I did read that Ed, Reid, and Kip were recruited to the show. As the dust settles and the farce known as JED plays out, I just wonder if rather large sums of money were enough to persuade seemingly level-headed guys into insane circumstances.
Maybe it was all reality. Maybe I'm overanalyzing it cuz I'm bored. It's just so stinkin' annoying and weird. Remind me that I should not watch Bachelor 14.
Very interesting stuff, Leen!
ReplyDeleteI too think that this past season was contrived. I'm inclined to believe that, at the beginning, there was no love story. The bachelors and Jillian recognized that this was more about adventure, oppportunity, exposure and money.
Then, I think that Jillian, stung from Ed's early departure and enormously flattered by his return to her, decided he was the best catch. I think the chemistry between her and Reid was real and I think Reid, left to his own devices, might have declared his feelings for her earlier. Here is where I think the producers meddled. The meddling is even more obvious a little later in the filming, when an obviously confused Jillian, poised to seriously consider Reid's 11th hour proposal, is convinced by Chris Harrison to accept Ed. Why? Drama? So that Fleiss, who had to have known about Ed's philandering, could have himself another post-show crisis, a la "Jason/Melissa/Molly", which, had the effect of catapulting the show's name and profile into the media and guaranteeing increased viewership for subsequent seasons.
Sadly, finding the motivation behind Jillian's season may just be down to following the money trail.
Everyone's in it for something, the least of all, in some cases, love.
I think Reid was played by Fleiss & co. I think Ed negotiated his way all the way through. I think Jillian, who started out refreshingly real, lost herself somewhere through this process and ended up blurring the lines between media hype and real life.
M.