So, this is our new Bachelor, Sean Lowe.

While I think he's good looking in that vanilla, "let's go get a malt" type of way, I know that I would be screwed if I was one of the the bachelorettes. This type of guy has never been interested in me and I have never been into guys like him. So there you go!

Last week was the Season Premiere and, breaking from tradition (those rebels), Sean is freaking passing out roses to almost everyone before the rose ceremony. I mean, WTH? It was totally screwing with my mind, and with the minds of the few women left that didn't get a rose.

Also, I guess the pressure got to abc, since they seemed to finally bring some women of color to the show. Wow! So impressed! Diversity! That wouldn't have anything to do with the discrimination lawsuit, would it? Nah.
So they go from having zero to 4 African American women.

Anyhoo....as each of the 25  women get out of the limo, you can practically smell the desperation.

Every woman has her own way of making a first impression. One wore a wedding dress (very bad idea), one did 1 1/2 flips (she landed on her ass on the second flip - shoulda stopped with the first, hun) and one had a creepy lacy heart since her name is lacy or she likes lace or her hobby is lace. I don't know. Another stupid idea.

Now, if I were to exit the limo, I would have to have a cigarette in my hand because that is really stresssssful and I always need a cigarette when I'm stressed.

Anyway, apparently, Sean is just absolutely blown away by Tierra right when she exits the limo, enough so that he asks her to hang on while he takes an intermindable time to go back to the house, ask Chris Harrison if he may break the rules (that wasn't planned, right?) and gives out the very first rose of the season, thereby setting Tierra up to be the official first woman to be hated by the rest of the women. Thanks Sean!

Another first for this show is that they had a woman, Sarah,  that lost part of one arm when the umblical cord wrapped around her arm while she was still in the womb, preventing the arm from growing normally. She's really beautiful and so practical about her situation, that you really can't help but root for her. She is anything but self-pitying.

As for the rest, it was the usual cast of characters:  The boozer, the crier, the master manipulator....you know. We've had them for every season.

They all kind of looked like the girls on prom day making their way into the Olive Garden with their first fancy dress on.

Tonight...we watch Sean on 3 dates and, it seems, the trouble maker is Amanda.

You go, Amanda!