Every year around early spring it seems, most of the girls I know can't stop talking about how cute the guy is on the show "The Bachelor". These girls love the show and plan their nights out so they make sure that they are able to see every new episode. I personally haven't been able to sit through more than 10 minutes of the show, because of a severe lack of interest. I have asked a few friends why they like the show so much and they tell me they like the drama of the girls fighting each other for the bachelor, because of how good looking the guy is, and because of the romance involved, how romantic it is when the bachelor finally finds is true love. Funny though how the bachelor and his true love, have most of the time, split up right after the ending of the show. I can see how the show could be romantic. There's this hunky guy and many beautiful looking women that he goes on dates with. He tells them sweet things and makes them each feel individually special. He develops little relationships with everyone of them and but then slowly filters through them to find his true love. In the show there are allot of flowers, champagne, and physical affection between the bachelor and the women, all romantic things. Each woman gets to spend a special time with the bachelor where he sweeps her off her feet with romantic words and candle light dinners. The women watching the show probably imagine themselves and wishing themselves in this woman's spot, having a prince charming making you feel like the luckiest girl in the world. The most romantic part of the show is at the end when the bachelor follows his heart gets down on his knees and proposes to the one true love. This show gives to its audience everything romantic that they can think of, candle lit dinners, passionate kissing, flowers, cheesy love lines, prince charming and a heart felt marriage proposal at the end of the season. Most current romance shows/movies seem to be this way, a guy or girl is given a selection and he or she picks the best prize based on our culture's aspiration for beauty and wealth. All the while, the flowers, candle lit dinners and all the other little attributes of romance are thrown in to make it seem like a fairy tale story of true love. Hollywood's current portrayal of romance and love just seems to have taken a far different path than the days of 'Casablanca' and 'Gone with the Wind".
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ReplyDeleteThe Bachelor kills me. I am amazed when I hear how entranced people become with something so obviously fake, but maybe that's the draw? I really do not have it figured out. The idea that this man's "true love" is going to be found in a group of women selected on their measurements and facial features should kill any thought of romanticism, but apparently it's like love on steroids because people love this shit. Is it comical to them? I don't think so. I truly believe most of the viewers truly believe in true love. This shouldn't be such a surprise what with Disney raising us all to believe in happily ever after...but this is reality television! Whatever slight romance I do find in the world (let's be serious, I find it everywhere) is crushed by shows like this! If we're going to gush let it be over sunsets and nature and awesome acts of love and underdogs and music and kids saying really cute thing and family and humanity...I told you I don't have a cold heart! I just can't handle a man choosing his true love. And choosing it by the best make out session. Choosing true love, true love, true...all very questionable words in themselves...dangerous when put together.
ReplyDeleteGreat post! To be honest, I do watch this show and kind of understand what you mean when you say that your friends like watching the "drama". I do believe that viewers of this show, mostly women, hope to find "love" just like the way this show is portraying it. It is sad and a depressing thought that the "love" that we believe in is portrayed as a reality tv show when really it should be natural and should come from a real place, not for millions of viewers to watch, in my opinion.
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