The Bachelor: Jason Mesnik (Episode 7) Recap

Last week, Jillian saw Ogopogo, Jason drew a creepy clown Molly, Melissa’s family ditched her, Naomi’s mom threw a bird funeral, and Naomi left without handling ANY bitches with smacks. I mean, I’m glad she left, but I’m still not over the fact that absolutely no bitches were smacked. This week they’re all headed to New Zealand to walk the trail through Mordor to Mount Doom. Let the overnight dates begin…

The Fantasy Suites (and my review/recap) begins after the jump.

To start this episode, Jason says he doesn’t know which girl is “the one”. But wait, doesn’t he get engaged in like...a week? I don’t buy it. But then again, I never believe them when they say they don’t know up until the very end.

Anyway, Jason is super excited to take the girls to New Zealand. He says that he wants to figure out which girl is the one. He’s falling for each of them, but in different ways. According to Jason, Jillian is fun and funny, but he’s worried that she’s too independent. He’s now seen her soft side, but he feels that their connection might not be romantic enough. Again, Jason says that Molly has beautiful eyes. I can’t believe that he can even see them through all that eyeliner. He’s very happy that Molly’s family liked him and thinks that their approval can take their relationship to the next level. Melissa reminds Jason of Deanna and his ex wife. I guess that means she’s his type…but we saw how well those relationships worked out. He was worried she wasn’t ready for a family but she’s proven that she is. He is also worried that he didn’t get to meet her parents. Ugh...seriously...that just bugs me. IT’S NOT HER FAULT.

The girls and Jason are now in Queenstown, New Zealand and Jason says he knows his wife is in this group of girls. Jason’s first date is with Jillian and he’s picking her up in a helicopter. Oh, how cute, they’re wearing matching flannel shirts. How Canadian. (Ou, “Quel canadien,” pour tout notre lecteurs Canadien, qui parlent seulement le français, naturellement). They fly over a snow-capped mountain range and Jillian described it as walking on clouds. No pun intended. After the copter ride, they sit down on a cliff and compliment each other. Jillian still sounds like she’s going to cry every time she talks. Maybe she has an issue with her nerves or something? Jason says he thinks Jillian is someone who he could be friends with forever. Oooh...that doesn’t sound good for Jillian. He says he’s looking for that passionate connection with her. Jason compares their relationship to being on the edge of a cliff. Like...you could easily fall to your death? Awesome.

The next part of Jason and Jillian’s date is dinner by fireside. They talk about how much fun their date was and how great their conversations are. They sure love to compliment themselves, don’t they? Jason asks her how she feels about him and she piles on compliment after compliment while Jason silently waits until she’s said enough nice things about him. Then they kiss. Jillian, quite the forward one, asks Jason if he has something to give her. Whoa...calm down there. When they get to the fantasy suite Jillian throws a couple more compliments Jason’s way and they go at it a hot tub. Like, seriously, they really go at it. Man, The Bachelor is getting pretty risqué.

The next date is with Molly, and Molly says she wants to take their relationship to the next level because so far they’ve mostly been playful with each other. Jason takes Molly to what he describes as the most beautiful view in New Zealand and then tells her to jump off it. Jason screamed and before they were even done swinging Molly wants to do it again. They make out while hanging upside down and Molly compares bungee jumping to falling in love. Why are all our love comparisons in this episode so...dangerous?

After the bungee jumping, Molly pulls out a list of questions to ask Jason. She says that she wants to know the little things about Jason if she’s going to become engaged to him. She doesn’t want to be engaged to a guy whose favorite ice cream flavor she doesn’t know. That’s a fair point, but I think one flavor is a lot to ask, there are so many good ones. Through Molly’s questioning we find out that Jason likes Greece, Elvis, peanut butter chocolate ice cream, and old Air Jordans. Molly has one question left on her list (the most important question), but she’s saving it for later that night.

As they head into the night part of their date Molly and Jason both muse to the camera about how Molly needs to open up and tell Jason how she’s feeling. At dinner Molly says that New Zealand is her favorite place ever, I assume because she hasn’t travelled much. I’m not saying New Zealand wouldn’t be amazing, but if you’ve only been there a day, how do you really know? Unless the only places you’ve been are like Topeka and Spokane.

Jason tells Molly that he noticed that Molly’s parents weren’t very affectionate and Molly says that her family isn’t very mushy gushy and that it’s hard for her to open up. She then tells him that she’s falling in love with him, and Jason seems very, very happy. Molly and Jason both tell the camera (separately) that this was a turning point in their relationship, in a good way. Molly then busts out the last question which was asking him to spend the night with her. She’s the second girl in a row that didn’t wait for Jason to ask her. What skanks. Jason and Molly go to the Fantasy Suite and drink wine in a bathtub. Molly says she’s looking forward to “sleeping next to Jason tonight”. Riiiiight. Sleeping next to. Yup.

Jason’s third, and final, date is with my girl Melissa. Jason is still fretting about not meeting her parents. To start their date, Jason and Melissa go out on a lake in Winston Churchill’s old boat. Melissa tells Jason that she’s scared about the future, but she thinks that Jason is worth it. The whole time Melissa and Jason are intertwined and touching each other because they have the best connection, and we all know it. After the boat ride, they go into a hot pool and talk about Melissa’s parents. Jason tells the camera that he’s falling in love with Melissa and that her parents can’t affect how he feels for her. This is the only girl that he’s said specifically that he is falling in love with them, but he ruins it by saying “I can fall in love with Melissa without meeting her parents, but it can only go so far”. So does that mean he wouldn’t propose to her?

The next part of Melissa and Jason’s date was in a private room of a restaurant and they talk more about her family. She says she talks to her brother almost every day and sees her parents a couple times a week. She asks him if not meeting her family was a huge deal and Jason is pretty evasive about his answer. Jason presents Melissa with the fantasy suite card and she happily accepts.

Melissa tells the camera that she wants to tell Jason that she loves him, but her insecurities are getting the best of her. She talks to Jason about how this experience brings out the insecurities in her, and she’s worried about what she could possibly lose. She says she’s never felt the way that she feels before. And tells Jason that she’s fallen in love with him and Jason looks thrilled and kisses her. He tells the camera that he was so happy when he heard that and that any doubts that he’s had about her are gone. I’m guessing she’s staying then.

Okay, it’s Rose Ceremony night and we still have like 35 minutes left in the episode. That’s a lot of time for them only having three girls left. We see Jason getting ready (shirtless, of course), while reflecting on what a great week it’s been and how he could see himself with each of the girls. Chris Harrison shows up to talk to Jason.

Jason mulls over his dates with Chris Harrison and basically rehashes everything that he’s been saying throughout this episode. Chris Harrison asks Jason if he knows yet who he’s sending home, and Jason says he doesn’t. As a fun bonus, each girl made Jason a personal video saying how they feel or whatever, to help Jason make up his mind.

Jillian talks about how she’s “in awe” of Jason. She hasn’t connected with anyone like she has with Jason, and she thinks they’ll have an incredible life together.

Molly talks about how she’s ready to take the next step with him. Oh, and she says she’s “madly” in love with Jason. Really? On a video?

Melissa says that spending time with Jason has been some of the best of her life because of Jason. She says it was hard for her to tell him that she was falling in love with him, but seeing him reassured her concerning that. She ends it with, “I miss you and I love you”. Awww.

Jason tells the camera he’s falling for each of the girls in different ways and he doesn’t know how he’s going to pick. He think they each could be great in his life and in Ty’s life. He says getting rid of one of them will be incredible tough. Eh...seeing Jillian go won’t be tough for me at all (fingers crossed).

Now it’s Rose Ceremony time, and Melissa looks happy, and the other two girls look nervous. Chris Harrison tells the girls that the two who get roses will stay in New Zealand and meet Jason’s family (including Ty). And, obviously, one of them will be going home.

Jason comes out and says that he’s falling for all of them (again), but that one of them has to go home. “I have to do the most selfish thing that I’ve ever done...and that’s break one of your hearts tonight. And that really hurts me”. Yeah...bet it will hurt her even more!

Now it’s rose time! And the first rose goes to:

Melissa (The One): I knew it! You can just tell that she is the one he is falling in love with.

And the second (and final) rose goes to...wait. Did Chris Harrison not come out to tell us that this is the final rose? What’s up with that? Anyway, it goes to:

Molly (Bungee Girl) Wow!! I am very surprised, but that definitely works for me.

That means Jillian is going home! I really did not see this one coming. Jason walks Jillian out and starts out by apologizing. He says that he’s never met anyone like her before, “like ever”. Jason thinks that their lives are too different though. Jillian disagrees with him. Jason doesn’t really know what to say because, um, it’s a really awkward moment. Jason brings up the whole wanting a best friend AND MORE thing, and Jillian’s all, “I think you and I had that”. Well, I guess he didn’t. Jillian tells Jason that she had fallen in love with him and she tells him that she had a dream about Ty wearing her high-heeled shoes and then taking a nap with her and Jason. Maybe she should have told him all of this before he sent her home. Just a thought. At least Jillian says that what she’s looking for most of all is someone who likes her for her, which is good. Aw, she’s crying and I feel bad for the girl, especially because I mean, what does she have to go back to? Canada?

In the limo Jillian says that she thinks she was better for him than either Molly or Melissa. And then we see Jason sitting on a bench crying. Poor dear. Jillian says that her life hasn’t been easy, and she doesn’t really expect anything. Ew...are they going to make her the next Bachelorette? Could they even find 25 guys who would be willing to go to Canada?

Okay, they toast and the show ends, but we still have at least five minutes left, so this must be the longest next episode preview in the history of the world.

As we all know, next week is The Women Tell All, so get ready for some bitchiness. After that, we get “the most dramatic season finale in Bachelor history”. And oh, Deanna finally comes back. It all looks very intense.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just like I told yall a couple of episodes ago....you are rooting for Melissa who is going to accept his proposal and then dump him. That is why the "after the final rose" episode is going to be an intimate gathering "out of respect for those involved" instead of in front of a studio audience. If a studio audience was there to witness the announcement of Melissa breaking off the engagement, the audience would claw her eyes out. There will be a part 2 the next night to "after the final rose", so my guess, is after being dumped by that perky beyatch, he will have proposed to either Molly or Deanna since ABC has guaranteed that he is engaged and happy. Remember this finale took place 4 months ago. Poor Jason...he keeps on choosing flakes.

Anonymous said...

What if Jason ends up with his ex-wife? Now that would be outrageous ;-p

Alissa said...

Haha, that definitely would be crazy Shavon (Didn't you spell it Siobhan before? Am I going crazy? Anyway, we've missed your comments!) But yeah, Kristen and I were discussing possible crazy scenarios...like him proposing to Melissa and Molly ending up pregnant. Or um, them both end up pregnant. Apparently we discussed pregnancy a lot.

And you definitely may be right anonymous. I've talked about your theory with people since you posted it. I still don't want it to be true. I want my happy ending, dammit. Although from everything they're saying, that's not going to happen so much. Your theory definitely would fit with everything they've announced! Heh, I'm still going to cheer for Melissa until I KNOW she does something to piss me off though. From what I've seen (and I know it's not nearly everything), I still like her the best. That could easily change though. I mean, I liked Deanna on the Brad season, but during/after her own season...not so much.

I'm kind of excited to see what the real drama is...but I'm afraid I'm just going to be annoyed when I actually see what happens. Some guy apparently is posting everything that will/has happen on his blog tomorrow morning...or today, whatever. I've totally avoided spoilers and screencap analysis and all that this season the best I could, but I'm soooo tempted to go read it tomorrow. I'm still going back and forth about whether I will or not. I kind of want to be surprised...but I also just want to know what happens NOW. Stupid spoilers.

Anonymous said...

i think melissa's parents agreed to come on the show and defend their actions and to celebrate her engagement, but only if there is no studio audience

Anonymous said...

I have never missed a Bachelor episode, but after this season, I will probably never watch the show again....The overall show was so drama filled and LOVE should not be so hard ....as a matter of fact it should be great. Jason seemed to be so sweet at first but by the end of the show,I changed my whole opinion of him and do not like him anymore! He has some issues and I even feel sorry for who ever ends up with him!

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