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MoaM posted:I think he was a software engineer? I don't remember. Of course he wasn't - engineer is too "nerdy" for a mainstream television show that's trying desperately to appeal to the blandest suburban whitebread. Ben is a software salesman. He works as a salesman for a boring midwestern company that makes financial reporting software. No hungry young company this is; Glassdoor says "Older technology used with a culture so risk averse they won't do the correct thing and spend the capital to upgrade necessary just to keep it secure." Every goddamn thing about this guy is boring. I know exactly why they chose this guy for the bachelor - they need a boring Christian fundie to try to re-capture the market they lost when their previous star apparently had sex on a show that is about sex. I started watching this dumb show again this season, and I'm glad I did. It's so loving awful. Worse than I remembered it being. But it's great to watch because there's one self-aware person on the thing (Jubilee, who is dark-skinned and therefore Not Going to Win). There are echoes of the Best Pretty Panda, Sharleen (although Sharleen was much more of a vocal skeptic about the whole process, and came very close to refusing the "first impression rose" on Juan Pablo's season). Jubilee seems smarter and more real than any of the other people on this show, including the bachelor and the host. She's had a legit hard life - apparently her whole family died when she was a kid and she was adopted at the age of 6 out of a Haitian orphanage. Girl is in the military and did a tour of Afghanistan. I know too much about this goddamn trash. Jubilee's a normal person with actual, non-manufactured feelings and thoughts. Watching her try to deal with sixteen copies of Lamprey Barbie continually circling around her trying to find reasons to hate her without actually saying "...because she is black" is loving fantastic Edit: one of them actually said Jubilee should leave because "she won't fit in with the other soccer moms" Thursday Next fucked around with this message at 03:04 on Feb 2, 2016 |
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Jubilee also has a legit reason for the tears that come when she goes through the requisite exchanging of hardship backgrounds. She cries, and not pretty little manufactured tears. She cries because her family died and she has survivor's guilt written all over her. The other contestants make much of their own difficult backgrounds (dead father, divorce, widowhood, etc), but Jubilee is the only one I've seen who doesn't _want_ to talk about how hard everything is. It's her pain, and it's private. I've actually never seen anyone on this terrible television series show such real, raw emotion. The other girls and their catty bullshit come across as rude, ugly bitches. And on a show that's all about watching rude bitches be catty to each other, it's really impressive that they stand out as so awful. I give a big layer of incredulity to interactions on this show because I know how much editing and producing can create a story from nothing. But they had a lot - a LOT - of unedited, single-camera scenes of the other girls being horrible to her. I forgot how much fun it is to watch this show and rip apart beautiful people.
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