Anyway, the fighting was dumb. Someone could have been hurt even more than Ames was. I'm sure those men all signed a lot of papers before they went on this show but I don't imagine any of them expected to have to actually "fight" for a woman.

Kind of like Popeye and Bluto fighting over Olive Oil. And would I be out of line to say that I find Olive Oil more attractive than Ashley?

*snort*

William's a lovable goof ball. He's cute and funny, but maybe a little too immature. I find I'm liking JP more and more each week.

I thought it was a little douchey of William to screw Ben like that. Did Ben really say those things or did Ashley blindly believe a lie that William told her?

Agree that the fighting was dumb as hell. What if somebody Ashley was seriously interested in had had to quit the show due to getting too badly hurt in the fighting? That would have been really stupid. As for what William pulled, even if he was telling the truth, that couldn't have made a good impression to Ashley that he would stoop to such aggressive tactics. And as for the "30 year old boy" issue, Ashley has enough emotional issues here without having to deal with a man who's not ready to be serious, and I think she made the right move getting rid of him.

Well - didn't William turn out to be a little scary? The first impression of him was that he was such a good looking, happy guy with a great smile. His dialog as he was departing in he limo was really dark. Sounded like he was off his meds, and even dangerous. It made me shiver.

Yes, the fighting was really, really stupid and they are lucky the injuries weren't worse. I have to say, though, that all the guys looked great with their shirts off (Ames, definitely), and I was happily surprised by the lack of tattoos considering the age group. I think only Nick had tattoos, and even his were subtle, and now he's gone anyway. I think Ashley has a tattoo on her forearm. How strange.

How much do you want to bet hers says "Bentley 4-evah!"

Soooo funny!

Thanks.

Ben Date: Meh. While I like him better than I did in the beginning of the season, there's no "wow" factor there for me. Then again, I'm not the one dating him.

Group Date: Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid date. Poor Ames. He's quite a good sport.

2-on-1: Is it me or did it appear we are missing a LOT of footage from that date. William and Ben C. have two of the very first dates with her, which both seem to go really well. I somewhat understand what went wrong with William. But the whole Ben C. thing is out of the blue. I felt really sad for him. Nice guy, definitely deserves better. It's almost like they played all of Bentley's comments for her and edited them to come out of Ben C.'s mouth. I still like William. I like that he's a big kid. I like that he tries to have fun. I think he derailed after the Roast and could never recover, and his trying to hard to do so actually did him in. I thought she was such a b!tch to both of them.

Nick. Meh. Not surprised he's gone. I kind of wondered why he was there anyway.

This season is just such a downer. She is not the same Ashley from her first date with Brad. She is probably the worst bachelorette ever. Ever. I really want the whole Bentley, Bentley, Bentley thing to just end.

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Sadly, the producers will look at the falling rates and decide that they need to manipulate the process even more to get MORE DRAMA. What is next? Identical twins that swap on and off (Oh wait, been done on BB), room full of ex's (ditto), unknown relatives (ditto and EWWWWWW!)

qwerty, unfortunately I think you are probably right. Who knows what those conscienceless lowlifes they have for producers will pull on future Baches when they see the ratings going down the sewer for this one? And the hell of it is that the ratings drop is their own GD fault, because the stupid b@st@rds cast an insecure Bachelorette, then cast an evil heartless a$$hole that everybody was warned was there for the wrong reasons as one of her suitors. Anybody with the brains God gave a gopher would have known GD well that that whole deal was going to go badly, and somebody needed to have the balls/spine to stand up and say "NO!" And none of those spineless b@st@rds did, and a woman got her heart broke and a TV series got ruined because of it.