On The Bachelorette Ashley Sends Ames Home After Visiting His Hometown

Ames did not make the cut for the Fantasy Suite Husband Auditions on Monday's The Bachelorette Hometown Date Edition.

I thought both Constantine and Ames were dressed very sloppily. Ames seemed to have a bit of a droopy drawers thing going on with bright blue underwear sticking out.

I can't help but wonder if it was that odd underwear exposure that had Ashley deciding not to take Ames to a Fantasy Suite.

The Bachelorette is a Top Ten show during the summer TV doldrums. I guess this is what motivates ABC to stretch the show out for 2 hours. I don't think I could watch it without the invention of the DVR.

The visits to the Hometowns always seem to follow the same script. As do those growing feelings that could be LOVE.

After Ashley rejected him, Ames looked a bit dumbstruck, with his mouth open and teeth blaring bright white in a perma-smile. Ames walks and stands very awkwardly, at times, sort of a bit robotic.

Of her 4 husband choices Ames, to me, seemed to be the one who actually might have truly fallen for this hapless girl.

In the previews it appears that JP messes up real bad on the Fantasy Suite date. If that is the case that leaves it down to the twins, Constantine and Ben.

However, in the previews, true to formula, someone shows up in Fiji and surprises Ashley. Surely they are not dragging back Bentley one more time. If that is the case, that is likely what sent JP over the edge.

Or is it Ames who decided to take one big risk for LOVE and fly himself to Fiji?

Ashley losing it at her sister, who is critical of the 3 guys with whom Ashley is having her fantasy, looked to be some riveting TV viewing.

The Bachelorette Ashley Sends Ryan Home In Tears & Give No Rose to Lucas

I don't quite know why Ryan's eyes were zoomed in on last night on The Bachelorette. On a big screen it was unsettling.

Moments before his extreme closeup, Ashley had dumped Ryan, with Ryan then trying to explain how devastated he was to find his search for a wife so brutally thwarted. Unable to speak, Ryan hid behind some bushes, with the camera still on him.

Emerging from the bushes the camera zoomed in for the close up, then pulled back while Ryan poured out his aching heart.

Ashley sent Ryan away soon after he spent a half hour or so explaining the virtues of tankless hot water heaters. It seemed so heartless of Ashley. Could she not have escorted him back to the bachelor pad? Instead Ryan had to wander the streets of Taipei searching for a cab.

Last night we were down to only 6 potential husbands remaining. So I can finally remember their names. Ben, Constantine, Lucas, Ames, JP and Ryan.

Ben and Constantine look related, but I can tell one from the other due to one having goofier hair than the other.

It was no big shock that Lucas did not make it past the Sacred Rose Ceremony. Lucas seemed to take the rejection well.

All the boys seemed well versed in Bachelor/Bachelorette lore, with each waxing on about the importance of the "Hometowns." It also seems to be shortened to "Hometowns" rather than "Hometown Dates."

After the "Hometown" Rituals and the rejection of yet one more of the potential husbands, it is then on to the Fantasy Suites where Ashley invites her potential husband to spend the night so she can thoroughly test his husbandly performance abilities.

I found the Group Date with JP, Lucas and Ames shooting wedding photos with Ashley to be very lame.

JP pouting before the Group Date because Ben had not made it back yet from what turned out to be an all night date with Ashley, was amusing. And maybe a little disturbing. JP may have some serious issues. But, I guess JP had reason to wonder if maybe Ben was getting a jump start on the Fantasy Suite action. How will JP handle sharing Ashley with the other boys in the Fantasy Suites?

I think it was Constantine who took the steam train from Taipei to a little village where he and Ashley made a luminaria which later a dog lifted his leg on to relieve himself, in the most amusing moment of the night. The luminarias rising in the night sky was pretty cool.

Also cool was the park that Ben took Ashley riding in, on a mo-ped.

Ben & Constantine's one on one dates seemed a lot more fun than Ryan's one and only, one on one date. Ashley and Ryan walked through some religious shrine, with Ashley in short hot pants, which seemed inappropriate. The two would-be lovers did some sort of ritual that involved dropping a rock on the ground that turned out to be a foreshadow of their doomed last date.

Ryan seemed to have absolutely no game, conversation-wise. Oh look at that big koi. Look, there's a bird. There is water behind us. I can't wait for you to meet my parents. This is amazing. You're amazing. I feel amazing.

One thing that actually was amazing was Taiwan and its capital city of Taipei. I want to visit. But not with Ashley. Or Ryan.

On The Bachelorette Ames Gets Beaten Up While Ashley Goes Insane Over Bentley

I was not going to say anything about this week's episode of The Bachelorette.

And then I saw, yesterday, that The Bachelorette is in the Top 10 at #7 in the latest Nielsen Ratings.

So, I guess I am not alone in finding this bizarre train wreck to be somewhat entertaining to watch.

This week Ashley and the boys were in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Beautiful town.

So, what does Ashley, I mean the show's producer's, come up with for us to watch? A group date where 8 of the boys train for hours in the Thai national sport of trying to kill someone via boxing and kicking.

After the training the boys are loaded on to a transit device. As they were being transported the boys were very nervous as to what was in store for them.

They got to some sort of square with a boxing ring. Soon the fighting was underway.

But before that happened the boys had to exchange their clothes for special boxing attire. This had Ames ending up in pink shorts, with matching pink shoes and pink boxing gloves. That is Ames bringing up the rear as the boxing boys head to the ring, in the picture above.

I don't know how it was chosen as to who fought who, but pink shorts Ames fought solar panel billionaire, Ryan P. Ames made it clear he had never been in a fight before. While the other boys made it sound as if getting in fights was a major pasttime for them. Ryan P. beat up Ames bad and won the bout.

Ames sat down looking dazed. All were concerned. Soon Ames was walked to an ambulance and hauled away to learn that Ryan P. had inflicted a minor concussion on him.

Side note on Ames. He is sort of goofy looking, til he talks. He is by far the most articulate of the boys.

Additional side note. Just like in the previous episode, in the latest episode, Ashley went on and on about Bentley.

Eventually the Bentley obsession led Ashley to telling Chris Harrison that she could barely function without getting some sort of closure regarding Bentley. I'm thinking to myself, he left the show, how much closure do you need?

Chris Harrison seemed a bit disgusted with Ashley for mucking up the patented process in this manner. But Harrison said he'd see what he could do.

Last week, in the previews we learned that Bentley was returning. And we were led to believe we would see that return in Monday's episode. That did not happen.

Instead, in the previews for next week, we see the same thing we did last week, except this time the door opens and there's Bentley. Who hugs. And maybe kisses Ashley.

Then, also in the previews, we see Ashley letting the boys know about the return of Bentley. This does not seem to sit too well with most of the boys. It appears much drama ensues.

Previously to the previews we'd seen Ashley take William and Ben C. on one of those dates were at least one boy is guaranteed a ticket home. And no rose. On this particular date neither boy got a rose.

Soon after the trio had floated up an elephant infested river, somewhere in Thailand, William took Ashley aside and informed her that the other guy on the date, Ben C., just was not all that in to her. That he had talked about the dating sites he was gonna get on as soon as he was released from his Ashley hell.

Ashley then marched over to Ben C. and banished him immediately, citing his crimes and giving the lawyer no chance to offer up a defense.

So, we have Ashley banishing Ben C., who seemed like a nice guy, banishing him without probable cause, while she remains smitten with Bentley, who she was warned about by Michelle Money. And who left the Ashley's husband hunt by choice.

After rejecting Ben C., Ashley and William continued on their date. William really had no chance to recover from the roast where he'd driven Ashley to tears by saying how upset he was to see he was stuck with Ashley when he was hoping for Emily or Chantall. And that Ashley needed a breast enlargement procedure. And that her forehead was too big.

After some stilted conversation Ashley decided there was no chance the chemistry with William would revive to Bentley level smittedness. And so she told William it was time for him to go.

William did not take being sent home too well. He informed us of what a living hell home was, how stupid he was, what a screw up he was, how his life was over, how he was 30 and never gonna lose his virginity now. That he was going to crawl back in his hole and pull his rock lid back over him.

If you were feeling bad for sad William, feel bad no longer. William has crawled out of his hole and is on Bachelor Pad where he once more will have a chance to lose his virginity. Maybe Michelle Money might do him the favor?

Jumping back to the 'cocktail party' that followed the boxing match. All were remorse with worry about Ames. Then Ames showed up, still dazed, but still managing to be more articulate than any of the other boys when talking to Ashley.

I would have thought Ashley would have given the Sacred Rose to Ames that night, after the living hell she had put him through. But instead, for reasons that made no sense to me, she gave the Sacred Rose to a guy I did not even remember seeing before.

At the Main Sacred Rose Ceremony she made poor beat up Ames wait well into the rose dispensal before asking him if he would accept a Sacred Rose. In the end it was between solar panel billionaire, Ryan P., and Nick, the personal trainer, who seemed pretty bland, and with bad taste, what with one of those dumb looking "soul patches" under his lower lip.

It was Nick who did not get a rose. He did not seem to heartbroken about the rejection.

I can't imagine why the show's producers did not give Ashley closure regarding Bentley by simply showing her some of the tapes of Bentley saying she was not his type, that he's not into alien foreheads, that he wanted it to be Emily, that he's not even remotely attracted to her, that her body repulses him.

I guess it was cheaper to fly Bentley to Hong Kong, that being the location of next week's rivettng drama, than simply let Ashley see video evidencne of what a scummy scumbag Bentley is.

Maybe the producers and Chris Harrison did not think of that solution to Ashley's Bentley closure needs.....