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Mar 4
2009
07:28 AM ET
'The Bachelor': Did Jason redeem himself on 'After the Final Rose, Part 2?'
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People! This is a T.V. show. Jason picked Molly all along. The producers came up with this scheme of dumping one girl, propose to another and back and forth we go. Makes good T.V.! Remember don’t believe anything you see on T.V. and don’t believe the media. They edit and cut to make things appear as they want you to see it.
If Jason had doubts from the beginning, he shouldn’t have proposed to Melissa in the first place! Getting engaged and married should be taken more seriously and not be jumped into light hearted. It shows disrespect for the sanctity of marriage and a lot of disrespect for the feelings for this woman, Melissa. It’s typical that what we see all around us in real life, is intensified in this tv show: take your pick and toss away when you’re done or have lost interest. Which makes me choose not to watch shows like this anymore. It was a delight to have watched Trista and Ryan fall in love but they always had a lot of respect, and that is why they’re still happy together. But I’m sure something like that is very rare on tv, because when you try to force things like these things, it can’t go well. I’m glad Ryan and Trista are happy and hope they will stay happy, but for the rest of these people, I’m done with it!
No, he didn’t redeem himself. The bottom line is the breakup did not need to be televised and Jason could have stopped it. He said that the contracts had them do this on TV but you notice that Mel did not appear last night. They have a say and if Jason where any bit of a man, he would have refused to humiliate Mel on TV. He is a loser, plain and simple. I am so disappointed that Jillian agreed and certainly towed the line for ABC and Jason. I thought she was smarter than that.
Jason is a man whore and no he did not redeem himself!
Agreed, he kept saying he wasn’t looking for a BF but yet said it 100 times last night..”she is my best friend”..blah blah…The emails posted on Access Hollywood prove that he had been talking and seeing Molly all along and if they said one more time “this is the first time you’ve talked to molly right?” or “this is the first time you’ve seen molly right?” I was going to loose my mind..So pathetic and completly SCRIPTED..I will NOT watch this again! The least they can do it own up to what the producers did!
Jason is scum. He is what is wrong with ethics in America; to exploit his child throughout all of this is disgusting! Molly showed us she has no ethics the first night she jumped in the tent with him… These two deserve each other. How quick can you say divorce and therapy for TY… oh but wait they do have money in the bank from all of this…. Thanks for making America a better place with your story…
It wasn’t only that he “outed” Melissa on TV in front of millions of viewers, it was that he was so COLD and INSENSITIVE in the way that it was done. He and Chris sat there unemotionally like raptors ready to strike. Vile behavior – disgusting treatment of a sensitive, caring young woman who did nothing wrong. Jason was the one who changed – how awful that was for her. I won’t be watching any more and I hope Jason gets nothing more than he gave to Melissa. Poor Jason has been hurt over and over according to his brothers. Well he certainly got his punches in for past hurts this time. Immature hardly is a strong enough word – cruel – ABSOLUTELY! Disgusting!
I turned it off when he said that he thought he did everything with integrity. That’s the problem with this show. They take a man (who is probably a decent person) and have 25 women throw themselves at him and it turns him into a jerk.
Sorry–we are responsible for Melissa’s humiliation as well. We watch this junk so the producers thought we would just love to see such a spectacle.
Molly will keep that relationship together – until she figures out Jason is a tool. Best for them to get out of the public eye and lead a quiet life. The majority of public hates them and how they hurt Melissa. Jason reacting to MOlly on ATFR1 – after Mel left in tears – then he and Molly are all over each other. Disgusting. Jason wants a fairy tale ending – good luck. Fairy tales are not true stories. they are not real life. Best wishes to Melissa – you actually got very lucky finding out now he was a jerk. and Jillian – if you can get out of the contract – please do. They will mess with you.
I agree with the 90% of you who said Jason didn’t redeem himself, and I found last nignt’s show attempting trying to tell us how “brave” he was to be pathetic.
For time reference, After the Final Rose Part 1 was taped January 18th. Last night’s show was taped February 27th. They showed the studio audience the first show so they’d know what’s going on.
For those who said “It’s reality TV, it’s scripted…” Well, Melissa wasn’t in on the script. That’s the cruel part. If she was, wouldn’t she be playing the part the producers wanted and being the next Bachelorette? The whole plan was to make her incredibly sympathetic. However, she’s too hurt and embarrassed to participate.
Second, for the very few defending Jason—of course he shouldn’t “settle”, but he proposed to Melissa and then continued to screw Molly the whole time (read Television Without Pity). He also dragged his kid into it. He’s a scumbag.
Yuck! He still dumped one on national television and never said why he chose to do so. For me, redemption is out of the cards. He strikes me as someone who will never be happy. The true winner in all of this is his ex-wife.
Redeem himself? Are you kidding??
If he’d been smart, he would have tucked his tail between his legs when D’Anna dumped him and that’d been the end of it.
Now, Molly looks desperate, and Jason looks like a he-ho.
Just my 2 cents.
I don’t believe ABC. I think this whole thing was fake. And, if it wasn’t, than a decent person would never have agreed to have it all go down in front of the cameras. He should have broke it off before the After the Rose: Part 1. Breaking up with someone and than asking someone out 5 minutes after the person walked off the stage is heartless and shows no respect. Yeah, it was good he didn’t drag it out for months. I do agree with that, but it doesn’t change the fact he did it all the wrong way. I wanted to punch Jason and Chris Harrison. I give the relationship 3-6 months. Molly can do sooooooooo much better.
I wonder why everyone is so suprised by this…this is a guy who willingly left his young child for 6 weeks TWICE to find a mate. I didn’t watch this season b/c I thought the guy was a tool and couldn’t understand why everyone thought he was so wonderful and sensitive. Fathering a child doesn’t make you sensitive and leaving that child to find a wife on national television shows you are incredibly INsensitive.