My bad. It happened when I edited the original post. Let's try that again...

If you want to know how the Holly/Blake/Michael situation works out...

http://www.people.com/people/article...526621,00.html

The season finale is tonight. We will all get to see Vienna with her new nose, and I saw On E! that Ella got a lot of plastic surgery as well.

Don't believe everything you read. Ella couldn't get plastic surgery. She and her son are existing on the handouts of kind strangers. She needed to win that money so she and her son would have a place to live and food to eat. Didn't you watch the show at all? BTW, Ella was engaged to be married, but called off the engagement before the show.

Not letting Michael know before the show that she's engaged to Blake just confirmed for me again that Michael's better off without her.

Poor Jake and Vienna. They just can't bury the hatchet.

Go Kasey! Apologized to Jake, shook his hand, and said looking back at his relationship with Vienna on TV showed him a relationship he doesn't want. I believe they're still living together, so it's not like he walked out on her during taping, but at least he's standing up and being counted. It made sense to me what he said about there being two sides to her, and he loves one side of her and tries to find a way to put up with the other side of her. In fact, that seemed pretty darned realistic.

Melissa needs to leave Reality TV alone. Even the people she thinks are on her side mostly placate her.

Poor Jackie and Ames. That episode was filmed not long ago and it's fine if he doesn't want to tell America why they broke up, but jesus, why not tell the woman you're involved with? What is it about relationships that makes people think it's OK to treat other people like crap? You can't avoid every emotionally unpleasant thing in life, bucko. Go out to dinner and have a real conversation, hug her, kiss her goodbye, and be the gentleman you'd like to see yourself as. How do you hear the woman you were with say she couldn't get out of bed for a week and not even offer a glance in her direction to let her know you're really sorry you hurt her. You don't have to change your decision, but I don't get why people think it's better to just pretend the person doesn't exist anymore. Yeah, that feels way better.

William wasn't pulling any punches. He was brutally honest in his perceptions.

To those calling Michael (basically) a pu**y, I continue to say the guy seems nothing but decent. Maybe a little silly, but I can't ask for anything more from a person than when you're hurting, revert to your core values and do what you think is right, even if it doesn't feel right at the moment. That's a tough thing to do, and he has consistently done it.

Gia didn't say much. I wold have liked to hear Jake say that even though he was true to his mission, he did regret disappointing Gia because she's been a good friend to him. Then again, maybe I just wanted more Gia shots.

Holly and Blake seemingly moved faster than even the Bachelor(ette) and betrothed.

Kudos to Graham for being there for Michelle after the death of her father.

Erica's schtick was a lot more charming on the Finale than during the show.

Erica's schtick is anything but charming.

The silly keep/share thing at the end is the dumbest final challenge on any show. Especially when they do it for a second time.

So Ella finally got out of that cardboard box and bridge card program she was on? Phew... I thought we were going to have to start a fund for her soon. Her schtick got old quick.
I didn't see the last 2 hours yet but the "After the Rose" stuff is usually garbage. These shows tend to host only real life pukes who are so self indulged they can't see outside their own little shoebox of a life. And yes, I realize that I still watch it.

I would have like to have seen Michael wrote keep on the 250,000 dollars. Knowing about Holly and Blake's Engagement like that on tv sucks. i thought there would have been more to the Circa solei challenge, like the couple might have had to perform there routine in front of an audience, not just to judges. It was better than the DWTS tie in last year.

I ran out of steam yesterday before I had the chance to explain things to Jackie. "We're different people" is code for Jackie's a teacher and Ames is a fund manager from a family of means. When you're both in the same environment minus the trappings, you're just two people who connect, moreso because Ames is rebounding from a recent dumping on The Bachelorette. But when you get back to the real world, you go back to what you go back to, and he goes back to what he goes back to -- two completely different environments.

Of course, I could be wrong.

Michael should've kept the $250K.