You get handed the reins of the franchise. What realistic improvements do you make?
I was thinking about what could make the show better as the audience seems to be getting more disillusioned with all the shenanigans. I'd think about:
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making 27 the floor and 35 the ceiling for the contestants. Not too young that commitment is a sort of vague nebulous thing that's secondary to your Instagram numbers but not so old that you're maybe a demonstrated commitment-phobe.
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Employ a proper vetting agency. Release the contestants well in advance of filming to facilitate proper vetting and people coming forward.
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Allow the lead access to the internet and friends. Modern dating starts with googling the name of the person that you're going on a first date with. Why expect anything less of someone that you're straight up going to be engaged to?
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I'd maybe make the process a little longer so people can spend more time with their contestants.
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Engagement would be less of a focus so that people don't feel that pressure. Instead you leave with your person and what happens next is up to you.
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No contestant is allowed to shill on Instagram for three months after the show ends.
I know that this isn't fool proof and anything can happen, plus people can be immature at any age. So it's all up in the air mostly. What changes would you guys make?
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Someone suggested in another thread, but I can’t remember who ( if someone knows please let me know so I can credit them!!), that hometown dates should take place in the city the contestant is currently living in and not where they grew up. I like the idea of the lead being able to see what their current life is like and if they get along with their friends.
But then how would they ask the girls' father's permission????
Lol Provided we are still into archaic things like this, that's what Facetime is for.
Most girls still are. It's not as important as it used to be, but most still care about it.
Fly the families out to where the contestant lives if they aren’t in that area
That would need to go.
Yesss. I talked in a different thread about how not everyone has a kind or “normal” family. Family ties may be broken, parents may be divorced, people have died etc. Contestants shouldn’t have to take someone home to a possible train wreck of a family if they don’t want to. Source: has train wreck of a family and will never go on the show
I remember Rachel telling Dean that she just wanted to meet the people that were a part of his day to day life and that it didn't have to be his family. The producers totally pushed that one on him.
There should not be any exceptions. All parents have to be on camera or no parents. Stop renting homes and condos for contestants. It's false representations. Not that the show is real.😘
I think the use of rented homes is in part to protect the security/privacy of those families who don’t want their real life location to be broadcasted to the world, so that some unstable individual might be able to figure out where they live and stalk them or whatever.
My family is the main thing keeping me from applying for the show. There is 0% chance they would show up for a hometown date and they’d probably disown me for going on this “evil” show. I’d definitely want a hometown with just friends because they would probably know me better than my family does.
Did you grow up in a cult? If so, I feel your pain
I suppose I did, now that I think about it. My mom was a Quiverfull nut and our church was pretty crazy. In my early childhood years, we were mostly cut off from the outside world. We were homeschooled, weren’t allowed to use the internet, TV and movies were restricted. We could only read Christian books, listen to Christian music etc. It was rough. I remember getting spanked for not singing in church and I was only 4 years old.
But since my mom kept having kids and had two jobs, she didn’t have to teach us all individually so eventually we started doing computer school and thanks to a lovely invention called WiFi, I was able to discover a whole new world through the internet and it saved me from being completely socially inept.
The way we were being raised became less and less strict, as time went by. During the last few years of her life, my mom had pretty much switched to the “All you need is love” style of parenting and stopped punishing us for anything. After she died, my dad left the crazy church, and the way my siblings are currently being raised is so drastically different from how it was when I was their age.
But even though my family’s beliefs aren’t quite so extreme anymore, they still look down on shows like The Bachelor and are very slut-shamey people and if I went on the Bachelor, they would be so ashamed of me, especially if I made out with the lead in a bikini or something like that. They’d probably have a heart attack 🤣
I think about this all the time. I’ll never go on the show because when the lead asks about “my struggles and my scars” how am I supposed to talk about my family’s emotional abuse on television? That would just make things worse when I go home, or just make it so that I can never go home again. I cannot imagine a hometown date...
Yes! I wish hometown dates were more like this. What their life is like currently is much more relevant.