The Golden Bachelor

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I like Faith but I don't see their connection at all. I watched the last episode after reading all the comments about it and I was really confused. Their hometown date seemed so forced.

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Anonymous wrote:I like Faith but I don't see their connection at all. I watched the last episode after reading all the comments about it and I was really confused. Their hometown date seemed so forced.

I think there was physical attraction but their lifestyles did not remotely jibe. I also wish the show would address religion differences more frankly. She's Mormon.

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Anonymous wrote:I like Faith but I don't see their connection at all. I watched the last episode after reading all the comments about it and I was really confused. Their hometown date seemed so forced.

I saw more of a connection in earlier episodes. I feel like by the last episode she, and maybe he too, had already decided this wasn’t going to work. Maybe because of lifestyles, or because she’s Mormon, maybe she really did need to stay near her dead horse, or some other reason we didn’t see. I’m guessing her dead horse was just an excuse.

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Anonymous wrote:I still can't believe he dropped Ellen. She would have been the best match for him.

I think if they had met under different circumstances they would have become friends and then eventually ended up together. But when he is presented with a buffet of women she didn't stand out to him.

I don't think he was attracted to her, hard to see that changing.

She was the only one (other than Leslie) who didn't look like she'd had a face lift.

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Anonymous wrote:Happened upon Leslie’s old Insta account, which is still up. Pics of her with an old partner, but mostly with family. She hangs with family, likes going to baseball games, likes to cook, read, work out, go out on the water. Other than faith, seems like a very good match for Gerry. I think people are too hung up on her sexy dancer Prince days. Really she’s just an unusually athletic midwestern mom/grandmom and that’s been her identity for a long time now.

I like both ladies, and agree they’re both essentially suburban homebodies. Leslie is younger and more adventurous, but seems to share the same core values. I guess my only real question is about the differences in age and religion.

I guess I also wonder whether he’ll care about Leslie’s more colorful dating history vs. prefer a woman who’s only been with one man. I can’t actually tell how traditional he is.

To me, dating for 40 years without ever getting into a stable relationship is a red flag. But he may feel differently.

She was married twice.

Uh huh. It’s not clear these were good marriages for even a short period of time. Most of her conversations, and all her brother could talk about, is how she makes serial bad choices.

I don’t doubt that he would be good for her, even a white knight. But is she suddenly ready to settle down with a guy who’s 10 years older? The only reason she’s looking at him now is that he’s the bachelor. Also, will she be good for him?

[Anonymous]

I am pretty confident the reason for the cliff hanger is because he feels terrible about telling Faith he loves her IN FRONT OF HER WHOLE FAMILY and knows he's going to drop her.

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Anonymous wrote:I still can't believe he dropped Ellen. She would have been the best match for him.

I think if they had met under different circumstances they would have become friends and then eventually ended up together. But when he is presented with a buffet of women she didn't stand out to him.

I don't think he was attracted to her, hard to see that changing.

She was the only one (other than Leslie) who didn't look like she'd had a face lift.

I’m not sure Theresa had a full-on face lift, although she’s had work done.

But yeah, he dumped Edith with the gorgeous grey hair pretty quickly.

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My prediction: the winner is Theresa and he will either dump her because she smothers him or stay with her even though she makes him miserable.

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Anonymous wrote:My prediction: the winner is Theresa and he will either dump her because she smothers him or stay with her even though she makes him miserable.

Seems like the type to stay and be miserable.

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Anonymous wrote:I am pretty confident the reason for the cliff hanger is because he feels terrible about telling Faith he loves her IN FRONT OF HER WHOLE FAMILY and knows he's going to drop her.

I’m pretty confident Faith deliberately took herself out of the running, and her family will be OK with her decision, whatever her reason. Even if it’s truly that she can’t leave her beloved dead horse, her family will understand this.

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Anonymous wrote:I like Faith but I don't see their connection at all. I watched the last episode after reading all the comments about it and I was really confused. Their hometown date seemed so forced.

I think there was physical attraction but their lifestyles did not remotely jibe. I also wish the show would address religion differences more frankly. She's Mormon.

+1. I also wish they addressed geographic differences more frankly. Leslie and Theresa live 9 and 11 hours away from him. Leslie was the only one to force that convo, which makes me respect her more. But as we’re probably going to see on Friday, geography can be a deal-breaker.

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Anonymous wrote:I like Faith but I don't see their connection at all. I watched the last episode after reading all the comments about it and I was really confused. Their hometown date seemed so forced.

I think there was physical attraction but their lifestyles did not remotely jibe. I also wish the show would address religion differences more frankly. She's Mormon.

+1. I also wish they addressed geographic differences more frankly. Leslie and Theresa live 9 and 11 hours away from him. Leslie was the only one to force that convo, which makes me respect her more. But as we’re probably going to see on Friday, geography can be a deal-breaker.

*** Faith not Leslie forced that conversation

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Anonymous wrote:I like Faith but I don't see their connection at all. I watched the last episode after reading all the comments about it and I was really confused. Their hometown date seemed so forced.

I think there was physical attraction but their lifestyles did not remotely jibe. I also wish the show would address religion differences more frankly. She's Mormon.

+1. I also wish they addressed geographic differences more frankly. Leslie and Theresa live 9 and 11 hours away from him. Leslie was the only one to force that convo, which makes me respect her more. But as we’re probably going to see on Friday, geography can be a deal-breaker.

*** Faith not Leslie forced that conversation

He's probably discussed it with all of them. They talk about lots of things that don't make the edit.

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Anonymous wrote:Happened upon Leslie’s old Insta account, which is still up. Pics of her with an old partner, but mostly with family. She hangs with family, likes going to baseball games, likes to cook, read, work out, go out on the water. Other than faith, seems like a very good match for Gerry. I think people are too hung up on her sexy dancer Prince days. Really she’s just an unusually athletic midwestern mom/grandmom and that’s been her identity for a long time now.

I like both ladies, and agree they’re both essentially suburban homebodies. Leslie is younger and more adventurous, but seems to share the same core values. I guess my only real question is about the differences in age and religion.

I guess I also wonder whether he’ll care about Leslie’s more colorful dating history vs. prefer a woman who’s only been with one man. I can’t actually tell how traditional he is.

To me, dating for 40 years without ever getting into a stable relationship is a red flag. But he may feel differently.

She was married twice.

Uh huh. It’s not clear these were good marriages for even a short period of time. Most of her conversations, and all her brother could talk about, is how she makes serial bad choices.

I don’t doubt that he would be good for her, even a white knight. But is she suddenly ready to settle down with a guy who’s 10 years older? The only reason she’s looking at him now is that he’s the bachelor. Also, will she be good for him?

Well first of all, the show comes up with a narrative for each contestant, and Leslie's is that she's had bad luck in love. I'm sure it's not the only thing she's talked to Gerry about, but it's what the producers are showing us.

Second, I'm younger than Leslie and have also made bad choices with men (though I've never married one of them), and I'd love to settle down with a man like Gerry, even if he's a bit too old for me. It seems a bit unfair to say that a woman who has had bad luck in love should never be able to settle down with a good man. (Women like me are generally coached to lie about our relationship history, the assumption being that a man will mistreat a woman who admits that she's' been mistreated. Gerry, however, seems to default to treating women well, even if they might not love themselves or have experienced love, which is why he's a mensch, and why all the women like him). She's probably wanted a man like Gerry for a long time but for whatever reason (poor self-esteem, the kind of guys she's been exposed to) has never had the opportunity to date one. As for whether or not she'd be good for him, that's up to him. I still think he's going to choose Theresa in the end, but I think Leslie is a good mix of basic and exciting.

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Anonymous wrote:I still can't believe he dropped Ellen. She would have been the best match for him.

I think if they had met under different circumstances they would have become friends and then eventually ended up together. But when he is presented with a buffet of women she didn't stand out to him.

I don't think he was attracted to her, hard to see that changing.

She was the only one (other than Leslie) who didn't look like she'd had a face lift.

I’m not sure Theresa had a full-on face lift, although she’s had work done.

But yeah, he dumped Edith with the gorgeous grey hair pretty quickly.

For me, Joan was the only one who'd had very obvious work done, because it was either done too close to filming or it just wasn't done well. Almost all of them have done botox and fillers, some better/worse than others. Kathy and Theresa stand out among the bad. Whatever Faith and Edith had done looked good.
Leslie might actually be completely natural because she's quite wrinkled, but she looks good.