And we’re back! For all the right reasons!

• Good news for fans of FANDOMONIUM:

I will probably never be able to afford my last semester of college, so you’re going to see a huge increase in blog posts, which will probably get more and more manic and desperate as my job search continues.  Hooray for new content!

• Bad news for fans of FANDOMONIUM:

I really like The Bachelorette.  I mean, I REALLY like The Bachelorette.  A lot.  I look forward to Monday nights like Christmas morning.  More, actually, because at least on Monday nights my family doesn’t gather to speculate about whether I’m anorexic.  So, sorry guys, I’ll eventually get to why X-Men: First Class is my favorite movie ever, but first…a detour.

Don’t worry, I’m not going to go into a ton of detail here.  There’s a new episode tomorrow, and plenty’s been said about Jeff’s mask and Bentley’s….I don’t even know.  I just wanted to talk about William, who somehow won me over by crashing and burning spectacularly on national television.  I think he summed it up best himself when he stared balefully into the camera and said, “I’m an idiot.”

From his sweetly pitiful belief that the Bachelorette Roast would somehow rocket him to stand up comedy stardom, to his misguided  and undeniably cruel string of unfunny cracks at Ashley’s expense, watching William obliviously knock himself out of the running went way beyond hard to watch.  And I pretty much figured that was that – no way was this clown getting a rose after that trainwreck.  But here’s the thing… he stopped spouting off cocky bullshit for long enough to realize what a jerk he was being, and then he actually had the decency to feel bad about it.  Really bad.  So bad that he actually got choked up and ran off to berate himself in… various stairwells and entryways around town (because it’s still The Bachelorette).

Hey, I don’t know.  Maybe I’m as bad a judge of character as Ashley (who fell for the biggest asshole on this show in like, 10 minutes even though she’d been warned about him) but I like William.  He recognizes his mistakes!  He feels remorse!  And okay, so he thinks he’s going to find true love on The Bachelorette, but we all have our delusions.

Just look at his face when Ashley gave him the final rose of the night:

 Now, that is the face of a guy who has learned something.  gets to be on TV again next week.

Any Bachelorette fans out there?  Who are you rooting for?  If your answer isn’t “JP, because he is the sweetest and most adorable human on the planet,” then there’s probably something wrong with you.  Am I right?