The Bachelor Week 6: Home Sweet Hometown!

I'm keeping this short because I'm sick and I need to get to sleep, so I shouldn't stay up very late past my bedtime!

Hometown Date Week! I think they always make these dates look like bigger disasters in the promos than what they actually are in the episode. But some things were just as bad as advertised this season.

Jillian - Oh, Canada!
First, I love Canada. And I love how proud Canadians are of their country. So I was extremely glad to see Jillian's family greet Jason like an Olympic champion and wrap him in a big Canadian flag! I also got a kick out of their accents, especially when they said the word "again." It seemed like Jason got along really well with everyone, and Jillian was able to be herself, which is very cool.

Molly - Michigan WASPs
Jason meets Molly at the Country Club for a round of golf, bringing back memories of their first meeting. Molly is really pushing the WASP look, in an argyle sweater and hot pink polo with popped collar. Wowie. Then you meet the rest of her family, all of them in sweaters as well, and we find out that Molly's mom either is or wants to be a child psychologist because she does several tests to evaluate Jason including wearing different hats, drawing a picture, and a Rorshach test. Just kidding about the last one, but I was half-expecting her to try that next.

Naomi - Cali Crazy
Naomi meets Jason dressed as a cowgirl, which he mentions several times. They meet up with Naomi's mom, who has taken a page out of Michael Scott's book of crazy and wants to hold a funeral for a bird. Jason is assigned the "honor" of giving a eulogy. The ONLY other place this would happen would be on The Office. We see what may have been a big reason for Naomi's folks splitting up; Dad is a Judeo-Christian and Mom is an adult Indigo. You can tell from Dad's conversation with Jason that he's worried about his daughter being equally yoked. And I think it's very interesting that Naomi later says she wishes she would've talked to Jason about her religious beliefs before this point. Ya think?!!! Get with the program, sister! You think you're "in love" with someone and you haven't even talked about this?! Well, Mom is equally as passionate about her beliefs, and I had to look up what it means to be an "Indigo" because I didn't really get her explanation. According to New Age beliefs, Indigo children are kids who have an indigo-colored aura and are of a higher level of human evolution; they may have paranormal abilities like ESP. Huh. Mom believes Naomi is an indigo child.

I just wonder how I would've turned out if I had been raised in this kind of spiritual environment?

Melissa - Texas...Friends in Low Places
Mel drops the bomb on Jason that her parents don't want to be on TV, so he'll be hanging out with all of Melissa's married friends instead. Mom and Dad just aren't comfortable with all the "publicness"...which, by the way, is not a word, and if they were gonna show that clip ten times, they could've at least let her have a do-over using "publicity" instead of the word she made up.

I'm sorry, but don't you think ABC could've arranged for the parents to meet Jason off-camera and then just film the friends stuff for the episode? What's really going on here?

I do have to say that Mel's friends seemed like really good people to have around; they are obviously very supportive of her and I would imagine they are just as hard on her boyfriends as any parent would be! But they also said they'd never met Melissa's family, which I again thought was fishy.

I think Jason knows something is up too.

Rose Ceremony
Woah, is that a big room or what?!!

The roses go to Molly, Jillian, and Melissa. Naomi goes home, telling the limo cameras that she's done with having a romantic life after this heartbreaking experience.

Next week Jason takes the girls to New Zealand! And oh, yes, the big D herself is coming back to spend a little time with Jason. They show a clip of him saying, "Well, what brings you to New Zealand?" Don't you just hope she says she was in the neighborhood? That's what all stalker-ex girlfriends do, right? We know Shannon would! I miss her.

OK, time for bed. Until later!