Why does anybody watch The Bachelor(ette)? Can anybody explain this to me without me getting violent? (Answer: no.)
Who among ye is so cynical that you believe "true love" means picking the most acceptable of 25 reality show contestants? The one saving grace of these shows (besides the fact that their advertising money keeps me employed) is that they never work. Wikipedia has a helpful guide (which you can totally edit to contradict me) shows that only two out of twelve couples from the show have stayed together. One is from the most recent season, so give them time; the other has already been involved in a hilarious domestic battery arrest. Last season's winners? No...last season's LOSERS.
What brought this on, of course, is the season finale of the latest Bachelorette (thanks again, Wikipedia!), in which the woman pretended to be surprised as she was dopily proposed to by a man that couldn't possibly love her, because they're both hollow and soulless.
Oh, and how nice -- they've set the date! May 9th, 2008! Right during sweeps. How romantic.
You're missing Trysta and Ryan, but yeah it's not surprising that peer-pressured time-compressed desert island based romances fail. I hadn't seen any of these until last month when VH1 started running marathons during my "have the TV on in the background while I do work" time.
I don't have a great answer for why I watched them, except that I like to mock bad TV.
i hate love. but i still won't watch it.
Lets face it. If you have a few dozen attractive people walking around in front of a camera other less attractive people (though probably also less pathetic) will watch.
Plus then you get to talk about the hot pathetic people with your coworkers the day after.