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The Bachelor Australia 2016

Looking back I do believe this was the moment he realised what a catch Alex is.

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Have been quietly following along all this time, but ugh, I'm so disgusted I have to rant away here! Richie makes Sam Wood look like a lovely guy for only leading Heather on until the final 4. What gets to me most is that he took Nikki to the finale when she told him a couple episodes ago that she was in love with him. I know they pretend it's a hard decision till the end and all that, but surely he would have already known who he was going to choose before those final few days. Gross. Feels like previous Bachelors/Bachelorettes have at least gone with candidates who seemed less invested for the person they were going to reject at final two.

On the bright side, Nikki can do better.
 
If Richie is smart (which he's clearly not) he and Alex will go away never to be seen or heard from again. Took a look and social media ie. Australia unilaterally HATES them both with more passion than I even thought possible.

She may have been dumped by a dumbass (certified by Truth Queen Olena) but Nikki is the Unofficial Winner of this season.
 
Nikki seems like a nice person, but Faith seemed like a nice person also. He is not obligated in his role on the show to choose the nicest person, or every woman who tells him she's in love with him after five meetings. I don't know why people are so outraged by this. This is the show. Someone gets their heart broken at the end and someone gets a rose.

In Sam's season, Heather got her heart hurt before final two, but we had reasons as an audience to love her outside of the romantic hopes of the show. Was the audience in love with Nikki? Really? I certainly wasn't. I am so glad this beige mess is over.
 
Hilarious backlash stuff, insipid Richie went from loveable to detested.
Isn't that something that is accepted by just going on soft porn shows like this?
IE they are all weird doing this stuff, Richie did enjoy being horny and slobbering over multiple girls.
And girls enjoyed play acting and dressing up.
All really immature strange people.

It seems there must be a core audience of bogan fairy tale princesses who believe the farce is real.
 
He is not obligated in his role on the show to choose the nicest person, or every woman who tells him she's in love with him after five meetings. I don't know why people are so outraged by this. This is the show. Someone gets their heart broken at the end and someone gets a rose.
He's also the one doing the choosing for his mindset, tastes, desires etc. He's not choosing for Australia.
 
Nikki seems like a nice person, but Faith seemed like a nice person also. He is not obligated in his role on the show to choose the nicest person, or every woman who tells him she's in love with him after five meetings. I don't know why people are so outraged by this.

I totally agree he is not obligated to choose anyone in particular. However, I think he led Nikki on way more than necessary (even taking into consideration that this is part of the show), and that is my problem with the whole thing - it's hard to be happy for someone who does something like that, and also very disappointing, especially given he should be more empathetic as someone who was on the show before as a contestant. The ending would have been fine if there had been a bit more damage control along the way.
 
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Interesting article in The Age: http://www.theage.com.au/entertainm...-alex-in-surprise-ending-20160915-grhe1f.html

The finale was filmed in May, and he had yet to meet Elijah ... I can understand why that would be the case, but it also seems like a way to suspend reality as well.

I have zero experience in dating a single parent but the fact Richie still hasn't met Elijah seems so strange to me. Are we sure Elijah even exists?? I get that you're not going to do introductions after the first date but it's been months since they fell in 'love'. Sure get comfortable in the relationship but it's pretty much in limbo until you get him to meet the kid. If the kid doesn't like Richie or Richie can't handle/sucks at the instant father thing then the relationship is dead in the water.

Totally suspending reality IMO.

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Silly viewers, probably the same kind that go up to soap actors and scream at them for the character's sins, stalkers and weirdos.
Emotional people who have probably been bested along their way by a seductress, Alex is a very accomplished seductress.


I like this summation/article

Angela Mollard on Richie’s big Bachelor c**k-up

OPINION
news.com.au

THERE are three ways a man can choose love: via his head, via his heart or via his dick.

Last night on The Bachelor Richie Strahan chose to go with the third option.

As he broke the heart of the nation’s favourite Nikki Gogan — and that of every other girl-next-door — it was clear that this was a c**k-up.

As he told Kyle and Jackie O this morning, the strain of having to wait to bed winner Alex Nation had given him “the biggest blue balls in Australia.”

I’m sure his mum was thrilled to hear that.

Now no one is suggesting that Alex is not a thoroughly lovely young woman — and clearly gifted at getting melted chocolate out of orifices — but she was the vixen to Nikki’s sweetheart.

She kissed deeply, gazed lingeringly, stroked suggestively. She used the Princess Diana ruse of gazing out from under her fringe and regularly wore chokers — really just sex toys — around her neck. While Nikki was sitting on hay bales professing love and being tinkly and showing integrity, Alex was performing a masterclass in in foreplay.

Kudos to her — she judged it well. Because this is a guy whose job is fly in, fly out. He’s devoted to his mum and sister. He’s doubtless dated a few nice local girls — blondes, obviously. He’s done beach walks and picnics and family barbecues. In short, he’s done coleslaw and Nikki was offering him more coleslaw.


Alex was offering oysters and champagne. Naked.

But if you say you’re going on The Bachelor to find love and settle down then you really have to have got “phwoar” out of your system beforehand. Richie has clearly spent too long away on those mining sites. Or he’s done it the wrong way round — spent his 20s focused on love when that’s the decade you do lust. To let that steer your choices at 31 is, well, a bit stunted. Specially when you’ve got a meddling mum and your paramour has a child.

So, two theories.

The first: Richie isn’t mature enough to realise that lust is fuelled by limerence, basically infatuation, and that it starts to droop just like those red roses he gave so readily.

Time will do it but so will a 3417km commute to see your beloved, a mum who doesn’t really like her and a five-year-old who gets up at 5.30am and bounces on your bed wanting pancakes. Lust likes villas in Bali, and a girl in a bikini and beds strewn with frangipani flowers. What it doesn’t like is tension or delayed flights or a kid having a temper tantrum because his mum is having fun without him.

The second theory (popular with men) is that Richie knows exactly what he’s doing. He understands that finding love on a reality TV show surrounded by cameras 24/7 is a crock.

He’s smart enough to know that you can’t pash your way through a dozen chicks and not think it’s going to come back and bite you on the bum.

He’s worked out that it’s not an environment to find love via head or heart so he’s doing what any red-blooded man would do in the situation: he’s getting his rocks off and he’s chosen the girl who’ll do it for him.

Fair play but I suspect he’ll regret it. Because Nikki was the girl for him.

As I’ve said before, she was the girl with integrity; a bitch disposal expert who showed that being a kind girl is being a cool girl.

Whoever gets Nikki is the real winner.

Continue the conversation with Angela Mollard on Twitter.
 
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