Surprising conclusion to For Love or Money last night. (I watched glimpses during meal breaks, and while I did several sets of crunches to try to revive myself at 2:30.) First reality show I've watched to end on such a sad note (aside for the games where we just hate the winner).

That bozo. I do respect him for going with his heart, but what a pathetic sad sack to completely misread her complete lack of interest. That guy is so sad. Seems like he's been out on a date three times in his life. It has been so pathetic to watch him go through high school. I guess everyone looks pathetic going through high school, but most of us don't have it filmed, and even fewer wait till our 30s to do it.

It was so high school, and that's partly why I was so sure he'd go for the junior high girl. It was like watching the schoolboy profess his love to his stunned teacher. Hard to watch.

Unfortunately, there's a really cruel side to his cluelessness, unintentional as I'm sure it is. He has no idea how to let a woman down easily. Paige did not want to hear him ramble for a literal five minutes before he dumped her. Her face was painful to watch to, like she might reach up and slap him at any moment: "Just tell me!" She wasn't listening to a word he said, all she wanted to hear was yes or no. At least he didn't drone on after he had dumped her, like he did to one of the other women. But he did invoke the other woman's name as he told Paige she was the castoff. That was thoughtless.

First time going out with girls, though, you don't know these things. Why on earth did they cast somebody still looking forward to high school? Because they wanted somebody hot and moderately successful (though apparently he/they distorted that too), and the only will ones from that pool were the wallflowers? He was heading toward 40 and still wondering what a date would be like, so he jumped at the chance to have them set up for him?

Sad, sad guy. Sad, sad ending.

Hopefully they'll cast better on the next version. At least they won't have such a loser as the chooser, though Erin has never done all that much for me. Pleasant and pleasant looking, but that seems about the extent of her. Were the women in this cast all incredibly bland, or did he just toss out the interesting ones immediately?

They've got a great experiment on their hands, and the next twist for the next show is even better. If they can only cast it!

(My other complaint with these bachelor shows, is why the hell does the dating period have to be so short? The series doesn't have to be any longer, but why can't they give the people enough time to click for real? Because that would be long enough for the honeymoon to be over, and discover they drove each other crazy? Probably.

This one seemed particularly short, though, when it needed to be that much longer, to bond tightly enough to give up a million dollars (or half a million, the lying cheapskates). Maybe that's it: they thought it would play better if the chosen chick went for the money, so they didn't want to give her time to pull a Trista. This one seemed really rushed, though. They needed more time for each plot twist to play out a little more.)

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p.s. I feel bad knocking Paige after her humiliation--and I really did start to feel bad for her, and really appreciate her sincerity, even if she still made my eyes roll. But this line was just too funny not to post: 

"Decisions are very important!"

I kept feeling like she had walked onto the wrong set. Shouldn't she be winning a spelling bee or something?