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9 out of 11 people found the following comment useful :-
Good looking, shallow and tacky, 16 July 2004
Author: penseur from Wellington

My girlfriend - addicted to American soap operas - wanted to watch this, so I thought maybe I should too. The concept is simple: get a bunch of attractive and neurotic young women who want to compete for the affections of some adonis and take them on one-on-ones with Mr. God's Gift to Women while the camera follows them and lets the viewer observe all the interesting and melodramatic moments (well most of them - we don't get to witness the sex). It creates a lot of questions - for example, why would women want to enter a show like this in the first place? What do they think is in it for them and what is really in it for them? It all looks good visually - the producers have seen to that - but it is also tacky, shallow and exploitative. It speaks a lot about America.

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Those poor, pathetic women., 20 November 2002
Author: (canadian_eh88@yahoo.de) from Merritt, B.C.

Those 25 women must be really desperate if they'll go on a show where the guy they make out with also makes out with and dates the 24 other women you live with. How desperate can a girl get? I don't even think that the first guy is going to marry the girl he chose. I'm watching the last episode of the Bachelor 2 right now, and hes about to choose either Helene or Brooke. I want him to choose Helene because Brooke is a blonde bimbo who needs to get a guy her own age. She's still young, she's still in collage. She's going to want to party and have fun, while Helene is more sophisticated. Also, is the guy so shallow that he only picks the sexy ones, and will pick a 'hot' wife in seven weeks? Get some normal looking girls on that show!

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Good for a Guilty Pleasure, 2 October 2007

Author: The-Office from United States

This show stars a hunk of a man that is loaded with money, good looks, charm and confidence and about two dozen women who are all dying for his affection, love, attention and sperm. Yes, sperm. These women want The Bachelor to be the father of their future children. Dare to dream.

This show is good for a guilty pleasure for viewers, but should not be taken seriously. No show-winner yet has been able to make the relationship work and head into marriage without breaking up within months or weeks of the finale. This show format is NOT a good way to find love. I mean, come on, how can you fall in love with someone who is basically "cheating" on you on national television, kissing other women, dating other women, feeling up other women, sharing dreams and futures with other women, not knowing whether he is being true to you or to them.

The relationships between the girls in the house is purely superficial and fake. No one cares about the other women or hates to see them go. All they want is that rose so they can stay on TV a bit longer and garner their 15 minutes of fame. Because once the show is over, no one remembers who was on the show or even who won.

It's fun to watch because it's a reality competition based show, but in the end, we don't really care if they end up married or in love. We want to see who wins, but don't try to tell us they've found their soul mate because everyone on the show is a 'ho. The host of the show is pimping out the women to the bachelor and everyone has to put their best show on to get that rose that means absolutely nothing in real life.

All of the roses die before the finale even airs. But this show is great for filling a guilty pleasure as a viewer. I don't watch the show for love, but for pure entertainment and drama, which the story editors do a good job on this show to keep the interests high, drama deep and entertainment strong. But don't tell me the purpose of this show is to find true love. The formula of the show goes against all the odds of finding true love.

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6 out of 8 people found the following comment useful :-
yes, its all been said, its bad, 19 October 2006

Author: bhr23 from New Zealand

Yes, even as a fan of shows like survivor and the apprentice, this show is pretty bad. I didn't mind the first couple of shows, but then realizing how pathetic everyone was to actually go on the show in the first place.The antics of Alex and Aaron giving men a bad name at the way they cheated on or dumped their choice at the first opportunity really was not a good look for the show.

Ryan, you can have Trista. She had the most annoying voice I've ever heard on television, and she definitely wasn't the smartest girl around (very media savvy, but I doubt there's much more there).

I haven't really watched any of the shows since, apart from the occastional re-run on daytime TV. I think the point of reality TV is to treat it as "entertaining trash". View it as something you can laugh over, and don't have to think too hard about ( I don't watch CSI its like reality TV-tired and clichéd, but you have to think too much anyway while watching).

A couple of thoughts on some reasons fro going on the show. At the very first 'the woman tell all" Woman such as Amy ( who had a lot of class about her) commented that she had tried every scene aka the bar and club scene to meet a guy and it wasn't happening for her. Hey Amy, how about joining a club? getting a hobby? doing charity work? changing your job to one where you meet more guys? gees, all I know is that going to a bar is not the ideal place to meet a future partner.

Amy and many of the other girls seemed to be obsessed with the idea of meeting "the perfect man'. Clue to ladies: he doesn't exist. There are, however, many great guys out there that would make great husbands, some who may be right for you! they may not earn six figures a year or be a JFK junior look alike, but they are great guys all the same. The shallowness of woman on this show is quite unbelievable. Im still a youngster, at was lead to believe that woman gradually grew out of their shallowness as they got older and more realistic about their future partner. This show is proving otherwise.

Overall this show does a lot to confirm many stereotypes of how woman view men in society. It really is a terrible show and I think all of these types of shows should just stop being made. The best dating shows by a country mile are Blind Date and The Fifth Wheel because they are fun. Nothing is manned more between the "couples" than a simple night out. the bachelor, sadly takes itself way too seriously.

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Call me crazy...., 17 March 2008

Author: sababy420 from United States

Just a thought.......but not one minority bachelor/bachelorette?? I didn't even know this trash was still on, but happened to see on the internet a new London bachelor. Are u kidding? This show should be boycotted. It is absolutely ridiculous that more has not been said about the fact that this is a racist show. I believe there is a station for shows like this, FOX news, but ABC, actually the network should be boycotted. I believe I watched the first or second bachelor and then became bored to tears when it was the same crap over and over. Why not watch Days of Our Lives? At least you know its a crock of crap. Anyway, this show is clearly RACIST! But the sad thing is, ABC would put a minority on and still surround he/she with all white men/women and stereotypical minorities. It took Hollywood forever to showcase Lucy Liu, Hallie Berry, Selma Hayek or any pretty minority for that matter. ABC.....how sad.

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3 out of 5 people found the following comment useful :-
Of course it's trashy, pathetic, and sad...that is why it's entertaining!, 7 June 2003
Author: cellomaster from Washington

Who really is more pathetic? The people that watch this show or the people that participate in it? Thankfully this is America, and we have the freedom do BOTH if we want to. And yes, the show is awful and the women always succeed in making themselves look like low-class high school girls by the end of the season premier. But hey, at least when you watch it, you can be thankful that you don't have to be there in the middle of it. No matter how bad your life seems, it could always be worse!

You know the story: 25 bimbettes vie for the love of one man. The bachelor, suave and well-to-do, dates the girls (in groups and sometimes one-on-one), and at the end of every episode he eliminates some of them. It's hilarious how serious these girls get within the first few episodes. When they're not gushing about the bachelor to the camera privately or talking about how much they want to become Mrs. <fill in the blank with bachelor's name>, they're trying to find ways to stab each other in the back and sling mud.

I'll admit I've watched all three seasons. Yes, I've been insulted and told I have no life before, but don't I have the right to watch what I want in evening after I've worked a hard day at work and already put the kids to bed? That's why this is America, folks.

The women on this show are hilarious sometimes, and I find myself often wondering if any of them are truly over the age of 16. They behave like little children, 99% of them talk like valley girls, and they all look the same...all beauty, no brains. As for the bachelor himself, the three men who have had the honor so far to pick their "bride" from among these ladies are also pretty generic...tall, dark, handsome, elegant, well-off (one of them we know for a fact is a millionaire), and making out as much as possible with all the ladies before the time comes, near the end of the series, that a ring must be purchased and an engagement proposed. So far the series is 3 for 3 in accepted proposals, but only 1 for 3 when it comes to relationships after the end of the series. I'm not surprised.

All in all, like pretty much all reality shows, this one is awful...so awful it's good and bringing in millions of ratings each season. The executives at ABC are laughing all the way to the bank.

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Who Cares, 18 October 2002
Author: metalface101 from Canton, Ohio

Is the dating scene really that bad?? Are these women trying to tell me that they can't find a decent guy without the help of a "reality" show?? So this bachelor can't find a decent woman? Give me a break!! I can't figure out why pathetic shows like these get such good ratings. I hope these people enjoy their 15 minutes of fame. I could care less if he picks any of them, and it's too bad more of the viewing public doesn't feel the same way.

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A tad pathetic, but still entertaining, 9 December 2002
Author: PrincessLeia from Auckland, New Zealand

I thought "The Bachelor" was really funny, I don't know why everyone hates it so much. I mean, 25 desperate girls, one good looking guy. Ok, ok, so it IS a little pathetic. Hey, is it just me, or aren't you supposed to marry for love? Does this guy really expect to find love in like, a month? Well, anyway, you can look forward to those times when the girls who are sure that he loves them the best don't get picked. Oh yeah, that's funny.

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Die, Reality TV, Die!, 7 May 2008
Author: Randy Coates from Canada

Reality TV was probably invented by the communists, that's how evil reality TV is. Is there anything more FAKE on TV today than the bachelors who are "looking for real love" and the pathetic, desperate women who flock to the show, also pretending they're after true love and not just some fact time on TV? This show sucks. That's really all I have to say but I need ten lines. So, anyway, the bachelors and women they end up picking (they give them romantic red roses it's so sweet and real!) never ever stay together, obviously, but what gets me is this "news" is always in the tabloids as if someone in the world 1) cares about it and 2) is actually going to be surprised that these desperate TV star wannabes didn't actually stay together once the cameras stopped rolling.

Who watches this crap? Idiots?

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Who won?, 10 February 2005
Author: Izzit249 from London, England

I watched the latest series of the bachelor week by week but was out on the final night, where Nicole and (someone...?) were in the final two for Anthony's decision. The git's at BBC3 aren't showing any replays which stinks! Any1 know who won? I hope it was Nicole.

This show had a classy sense to it this time round. At least some decent ho's...sorry, ladies inn-nit....!

they are making me write at least ten lines for this post and am out of steam so you have to forgive me for rambling on a bit here. Am sure you can understand am just trying to make up space so I can submit this bloody thing......!

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