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thebachelordiaries · 6 years

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The Shit Show..I Mean ‘The Bachelor’ Finale Recap

Editor’s Note: I wrote 90 percent of this recap right after the finale came out. Did I post it? Nope. Why not, you ask? Because I just didn’t, ok? One of my friends even called me out on it/ shamed me for not having my recap up. (Hi Feroze, this post is dedicated to you.) Anyway, I’m posting my recap now because I have an inkling the cast list for The Bachelorette is coming out soon and I want to have this posted before that happens. I like to plan in advance. I’m a very organized person. Clearly. Without further ado, read my recap of The Bachelor finale and weep....

No matter what happened on The Bachelor finale, you’ve got to admit that it was good television.

Becca Kufrin is am amazing woman who would make the best wife.

And that’s why Arie chose her.

But he went against his heart when he was so obviously in love with Lauren.

And now he’s paying the consequences.

I honestly can see why he was so torn. I recently watched Bachelorette Canada (great show, please watch it) and Jasmine had to choose between Kevin and Mikhel. For those who don’t know, Mikhel is an amazing dude who would make the perfect husband. He’s sweet, handsome, emotional, smart, blah, blah, blah. Jasmine knows this, but her heart wanted to go with Kevin. And that’s what she did. She got a lot of slack for not going with the ideal man (Mikhel), but maybe following your heart is the way to go. Arie proved going with the logical choice didn’t work out so well. (And let’s just ignore the fact that Jasmine and Kevin broke up like nine months later...that’s irrelevant to my point.)

Oh my gosh there is so much to say about the finale! I’m overwhelmed.

Meeting The Parents

Lauren B goes first. While she’s not a big talker, Arie’s parents seemed to really like her.

But Arie’s sister-in-law asked a question that got Arie reconsidering things: “Could you stay up all night talking to her?” His response showed he wasn’t so sure Lauren could do that.

You know how I know that Arie’s parents liked Lauren? Because they couldn’t stop talking about her to Becca. Poor Becca was obviously bothered by it, but at the end of the day, she’s the type of girl who “crushes” meeting the family.

Arie’s family came to the conclusion that Becca was more “wifey” material and would challenge him more than Lauren. While I don’t think their opinions should matter that much after only spending two hours with the women, a conflicted Arie definitely took it into consideration.

Fun fact: Ben Higgin’s mom actually preferred JoJo but admitted it was just based on first impressions and didn’t matter much. Ben convinced production to not air that part on the show. However, it did end up as a deleted scene.

After meeting the parents, Arie was suddenly on Team Becca.

That is....until his next date with Lauren.

Final Dates

Despite knowing he isn’t going to pick her, Arie goes hiking up Machu Picchu with Lauren. Here, they have such a good time that he changes his mind...again.

Plus, Lauren finally opens up and starts to become more vulnerable with Arie. In an ITM he said he fell in love with her early on and couldn’t explain why (sounds like Ben Higgins.) He says if he could propose this second, it would be to Lauren.

However, he has one more date with Becca. And he once again changes his mind...again. Surprise, surprise.

Another surprise: I don’t remember what Becca and Arie did on their date. All I know is that Arie changes his mind for the final time.

Engagement Day

This was hard to watch. I think Ashely I. said on her podcast that the woman who got rejected by Arie would be the most led on in Bachelor history.

Each girl was so confident going into the end because I think Arie truly didn’t know who he was going to pick. He claims his final decision was made that morning.

Arie dumped Lauren and said he gave their relationship “all he had,” whatever that means.

This man is holding the woman’s hand he dumped up to his heart.

Here are the three sentences Lauren said after she was dumped:

“I’m extremely confused.”

“Why did you do that?”

“I still love you.”

In the limo, Lauren said Arie chose the easy route. And I completely agree.

Takeaway: I guess this is a lesson for all of us that we should follow our hearts and not our minds.

Arie then proposes to Becca K. I’m not sure whether it was because I knew it wasn’t going to work out, but I didn’t feel any passion in this engagement.

I also barely looked at the ring, which is like, very out of character for me.

Becca and Arie say they’re going to start making babies that night, acting all happy and stuff. However, we knew the [upcoming] truth.

Apparently right after they left Peru, Arie started regretting his decision.

Happy Couples Weekend

First and foremost, ABC does not record happy couples weekends. Yet Becca was somehow convinced that nothing was out of the ordinary that weekend. The devil works hard but Bachelor producers work harder.

Becca and Arie got engaged in mid-November. From there, they got to see each other every-other weekend at a “safe house” typically in LA with no cameras involved. Just them.

At this time around mid-January, a producer tricked Becca into believing they were doing a “happy couples update” or something. But instead of an update, Arie dumps Becca for Lauren, and we have to watch Becca’s heartbreak in real time, sans editing. It was hard to watch. Mainly because Arie was so awkward, showed little empathy for Becca and stayed long past his welcome.

On top of “feeling like [her] future was ripped away” from her, Becca was sent home and sat in the middle economy seat back to Minnesota. Brutal.

Virginia Is For Ex Lovers

Now that Arie is free of Becca, he travels to Virginal Beach to win back his woman, Lauren B.

But let’s be real here. Arie knew Lauren would take him back before he even broke up with Becca.

Despite having a panic attack before meeting Lauren at her parents’ house in Virginia Beach, she jumps into his arms without hesitation. I know she probably had more questions when speaking with him on the phone, but she took him back a little too easily in my opinion. Make this guy sweat a little. Like, he led you on more than any other person in Bachelor history, broke your heart and got engaged to another woman because you weren’t “marriage material” enough; make him beg.

BUT ALSO: He did ruin his public image for her.....how many men can you say would do that for YOU?

So, while some people would rather die alone with lots of regret than take someone back who broke their heart, Lauren sucked it up and forgave Arie. I give her major props.

A Timeline of Arie’s giant fuck up:

Mid-November— Arie proposes to Becca

Late November to December— Arie starts missing Lauren (apparently he posted an IG story wearing socks Lauren gave her. (Wait, is Arie 21-year-old me giving subtle signs on social media to the guy I like?) Lauren watched the video and says she was “confused” by it.

New Years Day— Arie slides into Lauren’s DMs (with Becca’s alleged permission)

One Week Later— Arie dumps Becca in front of cameras.

Mid-January— Arie travels to Virginia Beach to get back with Lauren.

Mid-March— After The Final Rose airs live. Arie asks Lauren to marry him in a very cringeworthy proposal (don’t worry it wasn’t the same ring.)

Still Mid-March— Becca pretends to be over the breakup so she can be announced as The Bachelorette. Becca meets five men who will be vying for her love. America loses their shit.

Did Airing The Breakup Cross The Line?

Most people felt that Arie’s “real time” breakup with Becca went too far. After all, nothing like this has happened before on the show. Becca went from happy, to shocked, to upset, to utterly heartbroken in front of our eyes. Somehow she didn’t curse out Arie or smack in him the face, which by America’s standards means she exudes class.

I agree that airing the breakup was messed up. But it had to be done. How else would Becca become The Bachelorette? No one would understand her storyline. Everyone would complain that she wasn’t emotionally ready to find love again. To be honest, it probably is too soon, but after watching Becca have her heart broken, America is emotionally invested in her love story. We all want to see her happy. And I will argue she has the best storyline of any Bachelorette in the history of the show.

So, to answer my own question: Yes, but it was necessary.

Do You Support Arie and Lauren’s Relationship?

I disagree with the argument that he loved Lauren and Becca equally, regretted his decision and then went back to Lauren.

He always loved Lauren more. He just went with the “on paper” choice.

Based on what was shown of the season, Arie was completely infatuated with Lauren. I wrote this in one of my recaps without knowing any spoilers.

I am clairvoyant.

Arie RUINED...RUINEDDDDD his public reputation to get Lauren back. He is hated by America now. This man decided that having Lauren was more important than being liked by millions of people. That takes some balls. Politically correct Ben Higgins would never. Nick “put me on another reality show” Viall would never. Farmer Chris Soules will allegedly kill someone, but still, would never.

You can hate Arie all you want, but you gotta respect him. He literally destroyed any speckle of pride he had left to get back with Lauren. Find you a man who will throw away all his pride to be with you.

I hope they last and have lots of Arie and Lauren babies. I find their love story really romanic. Sue me.

#The Bachelor #Arie Luyendyk #arie the bachelor #becca kufrin #abc #photo credit: ABC #chris harrison #arie and lauren #laurie

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herokita · 4 years

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wildstormoralhistory · 7 years

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At SDCC this weekend is a special WildStorm 25th Anniversary signing at the San Diego Comic Art Gallery. It looks to be quite the event and I’m looking forward to seeing many of the people I interviewed for Wild Times which has led to sad thoughts of how WS artist Oliver Nome won’t be there. Oliver passed away this past March. He had a very fun journey getting to WildStorm and was an integral part of the book in that his early interview helped attract other WildStormers to see what the project was all about. Others knew him far better than I so I didn’t believe it was my place to post a sort of eulogy earlier this year so instead, in honor of Oliver during the biggest annual event of our industry, I am posting a large segment from Wild Times- Interlude VIII: Modern Age Secret Origin Stories. It is a fun chapter that looks at three different artists that came to WildStorm during very different times and in the later era of the studio. It is one of the few spots in the book that has long, uninterrupted quotes from the participants as their stories were so great, I wanted to shine a special spotlight on them in their entirety. I hope you give it a read. Enjoy.

Oliver Nome (Artist): It all started in, gosh I believe it was maybe December of 2005 when the Wizard Magazine was still around, and they announced Jim Lee was doing a WildStorm talent search, which he hadn’t done in a long time. I’d been trying to break into the industry. Going to Comic-cons for a decade trying to break in, and I saw this and was at a crossroads in my life, quit a job, move to a new city? I was deciding, “I would try this one last time, if I don’t get it I am just going to go back to school.” I was applying to fashion schools, and I would just pursue that because I’m turning 28, and I haven’t broken in yet, so it’s probably not going to happen. But I told myself I’m going to do this contest, and I’m going to win it because this is my last chance.

I got the tryout assignment. I did the first round of tryout pages, and then I had turned them in. The first round of tryouts was WizardWorld LA in March of 2006, and I went to that, dropped off my sample pages from the sample script everyone had to draw from. So I dropped that off with Scott Dunbier at the DC booth at WizardWorld.

I went back the next day and stopped by to see Dunbier again, and he said, “Yes. I remember you. You’re here. Be in this conference hall at this time.” There was two separate stacks. Obviously one was no’s and one was yes’s. So I was on the yes stack, and that’s when I knew. I thought, “Okay, I might be one of the finalists.” It was only like five or six portfolios. So I’m like, “Okay, cool. I guess I’m up against five other people.”

So I went into the conference hall. It was pretty big and pretty packed. Up on the main stage were tables, and Jim Lee was up there, Scott Dunbier, Scott Lobdell, I believe Alé Garza and a few other people. And they had two big screens set up, and they did the introduction, and there was a lot of people in there. They said what they were going to do was call you up one at a time, you’re going to sit up here, and we’re going to interview you, and while we’re interviewing you, we’re going to start to show the five page tryout that we asked you to do and the audience will see.

So people went up there one at a time. I can’t remember what number I was, but I remember being nervous. “My God, I’m going to sit up there next to Jim Lee and these people.” And I said, “You know what, I’m an outgoing person, and I’ve got a personality. I’m just going to sell my personality.” Because all these other guys, no offense, but they all seemed pretty timid. So when I got up there—I don’t know, it was weird—I didn’t feel intimidated at all. I felt comfortable, even with all the people in the audience.

They started asking questions, and I was making them laugh and just selling my personality, telling them what I did and this and that. It was pretty quick, and I showed them the art. And then afterwards they’re like, “Okay, good luck you guys, and we’ll get back in touch.” Afterwards, we all disbanded and Dunbier came up to me right away and gave me his card and said to follow up with him.”

A few weeks later, this was about April, I got an email, and I guess they were trying to do it American Idol style and doing a second round in Philly, and then they sent me a script. They’re like, “Here, do this script because you’re going to go up against this other guy or these other people from Philly.” And I remember it being five pages from Authority #1. I was just like, “Damn it.” The last thing I wanted was to do a script from something like The Authority which Bryan Hitch had done, and I knew in my head and which was so amazing. I was like, “Oh God. How am I going to do this? How am I going to do my take on this?” It’s already there on the page.

But I busted my ass and did the pages and sent them in. It was a long process. I made sure I was emailing the editors, especially Dunbier, like, I swear every week. But there was a lot of personal stuff I had also going on at the time so the process took forever.

I thought it was over with or I didn’t win. By this time I had left my job in Austin and moved to Dallas and started a new job, and I was still applying to schools. But it was about six months later and Dunbier had called, and I said, “Gosh, finally,” and he did the whole spiel like you know, “You should be proud you made it this far,” and this and that, you know that whole spiel, “Don’t quit.” And I was thinking, “God, I lost.” But then he was like, “Just joking. You won. I’ll get in touch with the HR people, and we’ll do all the paperwork and this and that and head on out to San Diego.” So the process took a couple of weeks then I packed up and moved to San Diego.

Luckily, I really didn’t know anyone, but my friend from Austin had just moved there a few weeks before, so I stayed with her for a couple of weeks until I got my own apartment and then I started off as an intern. I didn’t know what I was getting myself into. I remember being there the first day right on time, at 9 o’clock. Of course none of the other artists starting showing up till normally 10, 11, 12. People started trickling in, and I’d never met any of them except for Alé, and I’d met Alé at a New York Comic-Con in January of that year.

Then Dunbier showed me around and introduced me to everybody, showed me the studio. I was just in awe. I was just like, “Well what do you want me to do?” He said, “I really don’t know. Just sit here and start drawing something. I don’t know.” And then it was lunch time and Jim still wasn’t there and the guys came in, and they’re like, “Hey, Jim wants us all to go to his place.” He’d gotten a new place and had lunch there, and I’m like, “My God, we’re going to Jim Lee’s house to have lunch,” and we went and had Chinese food. He had this really nice house by the beach. I was blown away.

So we just chatted, and then I interned for three months, and I ended up finding out my job was helping design the DC Online game that they had started. They’d already been working on it for a couple of months and then I got hired based off of—Jim was most impressed with my background skills, and that’s what they really needed, was people to design background environments for the video game.

I was just practicing all the time and drawing on the weekends. I learned the most from Carlos D’Anda because he was such a master, and it got to the point where to this day he still thinks I outdo him. He says, “I learned so much from you and your backgrounds.” I still think he’s amazing. It got to the point where he would ask me advice on how to do backgrounds, which is flattering.

From Jim I learned just dynamics and his way of thinking and even the way he does backgrounds. He’s like, “You know backgrounds. Don’t be so anal like some people. You know your perspective. Do what I do, just if you know it, eye it. That’ll save you a lot of time, and it looks more organic. It doesn’t look so labored and so stiff.”

I learned techniques from everyone. I think mainly JJ Kirby taught me the most because he’s a great colorist, but I learned little things from Carlos and Ed [Nuñez]. Everyone there pretty much colored so I learned techniques there. I learned that. It was a great time.

You couldn’t ask for a better location. We’re like a little brotherhood. We were the artists in the art section. There is a whole entire section in the office of editors and management and production people, colorists, all these other people in different parts of the studio, but we were working on the other end. We were also working with inkers like Sandra Hope, Trevor Scott and Scott Williams—three of the biggest inkers in the industry were pretty much there every day working too, and I would go hang out. Obviously I inked myself, and I started off, once I got my first gigs I was inking and people liked the way I inked, and I would learn techniques and ask them about what particular tools they use, and I learned a lot inking wise from them. I just tried to absorb whatever I could from the best people in the industry.

Obviously I’ve got to say that it opened a lot of doors just being there right off the bat. Once I got started being able to go on the blog, it opened me to a whole new audience. Just being under WildStorm got me into Comic-Con right off the bat when artists have to wait years to get in. I’ve been going to Comic-Con, this will be like my, seventh or eighth in a row now finally, thank goodness. And it opened a lot of doors. All of a sudden I had access to all these editors. Like any industry it’s all about who you know. So I took advantage of all that. Once I got to the point to where I was equal to everybody I started making my contacts and slowly trying to build my career. And that’s what I got from WildStorm.

The irony is even though I’d go to different comic events for years and years and years I would show every publisher my work and get, “No, no, no”, the only person I never would show my work to was Jim directly because I was like, “All the other people said no. There’s no way my idol and the reason why I draw comics [is] going to see anything in me and hire me.” And the funny thing is, he’s the one that ended up being the one to give me my first break, and he’s the one that saw something and gave me my chance and nurtured it, and that was that, so that played out in a nice little way. It all worked out in the end.

#wildstorm #oliver nome

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