My take on Ali (spoilers ahead!): Three Strikes

We've all heard by now that possibly Ali chooses no one. I'm here to say good for her: I get her, I really do.

First we have the Bachelor, and that bitch Vienna. They sure didn't get along, and it didn't make Ali's time on the Bachelor any more fun for her. Then she made that fateful decision to return to work.

Hell, she knew Jake knew all the bad things about Vienna, but was keeping her anyway. To Ali, no doubt, that meant Jake was attached to V. So why stick around and watch it play out, if you're going to lose what is probably a very neat job?

She didn't. She bailed.

What comes next is pure guesswork. Did she really want to go back to Jake? Was it a Fleiss-ism? Who knows, really? But he turned her down, in any case. Giving her the benefit of the doubt, let's say she DID want to go back to him. He says no.

Strike One.

She agrees to become the Bachelorette. For what reason, I'm not sure. Let's again give her the benefit of the doubt, and say she is in it to find herself a man. I can buy that.

She is immediately attracted to Frank, in a big way. Justin gets the bad boy edit, meanwhile. And she's told about Justin by numerous guys, you can bet. But muchly like Jake keeping Vienna in spite of all he heard from the other girls, Ali has found something she likes in Ratboy Justin.

Enough of a something to keep him on the show, in spite of what she's heard. Mind you, he's cute and he's fucking slick, he really is. =I= might have fallen for his BS, and hello, I'm gay. LOL

I say Ali has fallen for him, a bit or a lot, I'm not sure (and neither is anybody else.) What we all DO know (Thanks, Steve) is that Ratboy Justin has not one, but TWO women waiting on him to get out of that house. TWO women, mind you. Neither of whom knew about the other, but both of whom knew about Ali. (Dummies, to let your man go on the Bachelorette show. Pure dummies. But that's another story.)

One of these women gets in contact with Ali via another woman she slightly knows (I think she knew her.) And... things go BOOM in Turkey. Ali learns that Ratboy has two other women, one of which is crying on the phone with her.

Ali literally chases his ass off the show (I can't WAIT to see that!!) and there's an end to Ratboy 1.

Strike 2.

Finally, in a date on Tahiti (as I understand it,) Ratboy 2, Frank, pulls the rug out from under Ali yet AGAIN. He has a girlfriend he loves and misses. Now this one really hurts her. She was really into Frank, where she was probably only bad boy into Justin. She clicked with Frank from that first date under the Hollywood sign. Really clicked with him. No matter that most of US think he's an ugly geek, Ali had the ferocious hots for him.

And who knows? She may well have that the ugly, quirky geek was her safest bet not to have her heart broken. After all, you can BELIEVE Justin has two other women chasing him. But FRANK? It's a stretch for ONE other woman to be chasing his ugly ass, if you ask me. But it happens, he ditches her...

Strike Three.

She's out. Of love, that is. She was into Jake: he didn't take her back. Ratboy Justin had a flock of women waiting to call her. Ratboy 2, Frank, had some ex lover he wanted to get back with. So =he= ditched her, too.

If it was you, how much trust would you have in men, right about now? That's THREE strikes. Three legitimate strikes, inside one year. I'd say she has a wall up around her heart that NO ONE is going to get past, for years, if then. I truly feel sorry for her.

Why should she believe Chris L. or Roberto, when they profess to love her (if they do?) She just had three strikes. Even the ugly geek dumped her, bless her heart. So I can see her withdrawing into her shell, and picking no one. Can't you, really? She was terrified BEFORE that someone wasn't going to love her back. She obviously has a not good history with men. But NOW? No way. No way is she going to trust somebody in so brief a time, and being jerked all over the planet into the bargain.

We all know that strenuous travel is THE ideal way to fall in love. All those passport lines are so romantic (especially in a place like Turkey. Could they have found any more odd places to drag her? Iceland and TURKEY?) I used to live in Iran. They're not big on blondes in that neck of the woods.

When it comes down to it, likely she's exhausted from all the travel, the stress of meeting various families (and who knows what happens on THOSE dates? Families can be so charming - NOT. So that's more stress for her.

And finally, all this stress and the three strikes leads her to be standing in some beautiful spot with a single rose. Waiting to be proposed to. Or allowing the dude to propose.

What if she lets Chris go, and Roberto, in Strike Four, simply will NOT propose? Can you imagine? It would make her feel she was right all along, he's too hot for her. (News flash: he ain't ALL THAT.)

What if somehow he DOES propose? After three strikes like that, what would YOU do? I'd tell him I need time, badly. That I'm exhausted from all the travel and the BS (might not put it like that, but you get the idea.) Then I'd tell I'm gay and to stick the rose.

No, that's another show entirely. On our show, I'd say I need TIME. And lots of it. That's if I haven't completely lost faith in mankind at this point. I'd say if you can wait a while, we'll see what happens when we get back to our normal lives.

If she had BALLS, she'd say this to Chris L too. Tell him she's not giving out a rose, she needs more time with BOTH men. (Who knows? Her contract may not let her do this. But knowing Ali, she could find a way.)

So there you have it. She could: Pick neither (and be totally justified, 3 strikes later) Pick both (and ask for time) or just pick Roberto, and beg for time. What do I think she's going to do?

Those three strikes are pretty damning. Along with a trip around the world to totally wear her out.

I think she's going to pick nobody. At most, she'll dangle Roberto off the end of the Lets be Friends and See Where It Goes chain.

But that's just me. What do YOU guys think?