This show offers the rare occurrence where a dude can conceivably sleep with multiple women, with each woman knowing (or suspecting) that he slept with the other girls, and yet will face few negative consequences. Call me old fashioned, but I usually don't bed multiple women in the same week (except for Lent of course...). Trying to figure out who he should award an overnight to and in what order reminded me of the prisoner's dilemma, of sorts...kind of. Jake needs to carefully consider which princess he wishes to make his bride.
Some of the things Jake should have had to take into account prior to cavorting with all three women:
If Jake awards an overnight to all three of these girls, the specialness of each overnight would, potentially, decrease for each subsequent girl, especially if you were the third girl (unless its Vienna, because she doesn't mind being the last kid down the slide). Originally I thought that if he wants an overnight with Tenley, it would be best for his selfishness if she was either the first overnight or the only overnight, as she would be less inclined to accept an overnight if he was handing them out like candy. We now know that she was second and that each chick got night in the suite.
The other thing he should have had to consider is that, while the paths of these ladies may not cross at St. Lucia, surely they must text or communicate some how. If you're the first girl that goes to bed with Jake, maybe you don't share your good fortune (or forgone conclusion-ness) as a matter of bravado, but maybe you share the news with the other two women to make them feel as if they will just be another notch on Jakes belt, and therefore, maybe girl #2 does not accept the overnight which then makes Jake dislike said girl. Given the way Vienna crooned when she returned from her bungee jump with Jake, I guess this is why she was the third and final broad to lay with him, as she would have surely told everybody. Jake, meanwhile, must be hoping that his minute-man qualities stay private from each of the other ladies, and from America.
Dismissed: Poor Gia. I think she knew she was going home, and she may have been ok with it. Jake kept complaining that she wasn't opening up to him. Maybe she didn't open up because Jake's a d-bag and she doesn't trust him. Whatevs. I think she's the most mentally stable of the three remaining contestants and I would have been happy to let her open up on her own schedule. It was obvious how detached Jake was when talking to Gia on that bench, and I think Gia could sense that. I think her tears were more anger-driven from his phony-ness than they were of sadness that she's going home. Then again, she may have recovered... Ali (again): When Jake said that he was trying to process what just happened, what he meant to say was, "I'm trying to kick you to the curb again without feeling like the bad guy." As pointed out here, he should have told her last week that he wasn't feeling it.
Soon to be Dismissed: Tenley and Vienna are both leaving this fiasco empty handed. Jake has a hard time seeing Vienna as anything more than eye candy and Tenley's too grown up when it comes to relationships. Query: has Tenley ever been married before? (If we were playing a drinking game with the trigger being anytime she mentioned her previous marriage, we'd be dead by the end of the second commercial break.) I love it when each girl tells Jake how she feels about him and all he can do is say thanks, or move in for some weak-ass hug/kiss.
One other thought: if a staffer was removed from the show for hanging out with Rozlyn, the camera man that taped Jake getting ready for the rose ceremony should be dismissed too; he zeroed in on shirtless Jake, for no apparent reason, just to get a glimpse of those abs. Classic.
Until next time,
Chuck W.
