Welcome back to the Valentine's Day edition of the Bachelor recap. Not that the Bachelor has anything to do with love, and more about winning, but it's Tuesday and Valentine's Day so by default it's the V Day edition, whoopiee!!!
This weeks dating challenges included jumping out of helicopters, swimming with sharks, fishing for lobsters, and climbing a huge Mayan temple. So yes we crossed the gauntlet with all sorts of fears for the ladies, but I have to admit the lobster fishing was kind of cool. As always if any of the ladies needed any reassurance to do their dating activity for the day then Ben was there to give them just enough reassurance to go through with it. OR was he??? Come on Rachel let's go swimming with the sharks, "if I'm lucky one of them might eat you and I won't have to deal with sending you home at the rose ceremony." Emily didn't need reassurance she was all about diving in and going for it, and honestly it looked like their date had a lot of chemistry just walking around the island, but I guess ABC has some masterful editors working the show to make us believe that.
On the Lindzi date the highlight of cheese for me was the message in the bottle. How much do you want to bet that the bottle will show up on "After the final rose" with some yahoo there to say that he found the bottle? I'm giving even money odds on that, and 5-2 if he ends up picking Lindzi. The message on the note, "Be truthful and honest." So Ben have you told Lindzi or any of the other women about your little skinny dipping episode with Courtney? Didn't think so. But that is the wonderful thing about TV, they have all seen it now, even whomever you picked, maybe it was Courtney that he picked afterall, damn I better take down those odds.
Speaking of our lovely "lady" Courtney she has done a masterful job of playing Ben into the ground. The spider crawling around on her during the credits was so appropriate, Kacie compared her to a black widow and there really couldn't be any better comparison, well maybe a Praying Mantis (go check out their mating habits on Wikipedia). Where Courtney has truly succeeded is how she has Ben wrapped around her finger. While on dates with other women Ben shuts down and goes into "worship me ladies", "tell me why I should keep you", "bow before my greatness" but with Courtney she has turned the tables on him (I guess sex in the ocean can do that sort of thing) so that now he is appealing to her and essentially begging her to stay. As much as Ben thinks that he's hot stuff, Courtney holds power over him and in the end will give his ego exactly what it deserves a crushing blow. The player getting played.
And as of this week I will no longer use the "ladies" in quotes, at this point I feel sorry for them. Before the rose ceremony Courtney made the comment that there were other men for the ladies, and Emily took all offense to it, "there are other men?" Really? That's just sad, of course there are other men, and that is the problem here, Ben has been elevated to an undeserved worship status by several of the other girls (Kacie, Nicki, Emily, Rachel) so that they literally are falling all over themselves for him. Courtney doesn't give a crap and to me Lindzi seems to have the most stable head on her shoulders that if this doesn't work out she just moves on. But for the other girls this is life and death for them, which is why they won't be picked in the end.
I quote Ferris Bueller, "If things don't change for Cammeron he's going to marry the first women he lays. And she is going to treat him like shit. She won't love him, she won't respect him. Because you can't respect someone that kisses your ass."
And that is exactly where the ladies are, throwing themselves at Ben to get scraps of attention, but in reality sealing their own fate. Ben wants the worship, but if it's too easy it doesn't hold value. With Courtney it's the challenge, with Lindzi there is a mutual respect (I think anyway), good verses evil. Dating verses marriage. Romance verses Sex. We've all been there, and that's why I can't completely blame Ben, even if he is a tool (seriously stop calling the wine vino, I know you make wine for a living but using that over and over again makes you look like a douche). In the end does he come to his senses and pick Lindzi? I'm not so sure now, I think he might run and hide from the skinny dipping incident, even if she looks like a natural match for him, first impression rose much?
So on with the odds, last week I correctly predicted the end of Rachel and I gave the highest odds for Emily (Courtney goes late) so I'm a winner! WINNING!!!
Lindzi - 3-2 I'm going back up on the odds with her just because I think that Courtney has a better chance than I had given her credit for, or that I've probably given Ben too much credit. Lindzi is the best fit when you look at the two of them, sure the chemistry on the date wasn't all that special, but we do see her in front of the Matterhorn so unless they take a detour through Disneyland she will be there as one of the final two.
Kacie - 10-1 It was nice to see her get a little nasty about Courtney but I still think that she is just too young to end up with Ben in the end. I was shocked that she got the rose last night, especially considering that she said that her dad might have a problem with her getting engaged. But he has given her 3 roses on group dates so he really has a thing for her. Interesting that she spoke up about Courtney after she had the rose.
Nicki - 12-1 No rose on the group date, I thought she was a goner, but surprise surprise she survived another day. I couldn't help but think while they were talking that ABC needed her to stick around one more week so that they could pump up the ratings in the Texas market. You know show us a good old fashion easy going girl, just to make the show look better compared to Courtney and the fairly quiet Lindzi. Both Nicki and Kacie seem sweet, but with how much Ben is into the bad girl side of Courtney they don't stand a chance.
Courtney - 4-1 After last night and all of the magazines starting to guess that she is the winner, it's hard not to bring down those odds. I don't feel too bad though, a couple weeks before the end of the season the Giants were 100-1 shots in Vegas to win the Super Bowl, and the Cardinals were 999-1 to win the World Series. So here is our like succubus with her claws into Ben so deep that he is hopelessly lost to her web. Their date was fitting, a Mayan temple where they probably used to commit human sacrifices, much like Ben's will. The image of them climbing the temple hand in hand was ominous, it could only have been more fitting if she had had sex with him on the alter (see Devil's Advocate for a great image of that) or just went ahead and stuck a dagger through his heart (which by the time whatever girl watches the season, that will most likely have happened). ABC couldn't have picked a better date location for the two of them, Ben's just too stupid to realize what is going on, but it makes for great TV!
Next week we will see the end of Nicki. I think the down home Texas life just won't sit well with a snobby wine country boy. Kacie's family will be too sweet and too picturesque that he will keep her around for another week.
Let me hear your thoughts, I'd love some input on what you think is going to happen.
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