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Oh my Good!!!!!!!!!

posted 21 years ago by marie_claaude_dore
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I just watched the finale of Paradise Hotel and I'm totally shocked. I am soooooo desapointed that Charla didn't split the money with Dave. Without him, she would have been eliminated a long time ago. I know it is easy for me to say that I would give 125 000 $ when I don't have to, but I know I would feel guilty if I didn't. I just hope that Charla will feel guilty because Dave was the real brain of the game. We might not all agree with what Dave have done to win the game but no one can say that he didn't spice up!

[–] Hobbyt 21 years ago

Dave didn't deserve the money. He used her to get to the top. He lied and conived. I think when she asked him the question about what would you say if I told you I was giving you money she was looking for the response of I wouldn't accept, which isn't what he said. She could also tell he was not telling the truth about not caring about not getting any of the money.

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The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.
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[–] Hobbyt 21 years ago

I totally agree.

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The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.
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[–] marie_claaude_dore 21 years ago

I know that Charla wanted Dave to say that I didn't want the money; but you wouldn't want 125000$. Saying that I wasn't interested would have been a lie and Charla knows it (I hope so). Also, all the contestants of a reality show want to last until the end because they know that there is a prize (that's why it's a game!!!!!!!) and all they did all summer long was to win that prize. So at the end, if you have a chance to get a part of that prize from the person you help the most to win, you really want the money. I dare anyone of you to say that they wouldn't have want the money. Yes Dave had lied and make plans to get some people eliminated but that's the aim of the game. If nobody make strategies to win, the show is boring and nobody watch it!

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[–] marie_claaude_dore 21 years ago

Keith & Tara won't bring every body to Vegas!!! That would be completely insane. They said they would but that's just an happy ending to the show like : And they ended up all being friends forever and they all go to Vegas. Keith and Tara went back home, watch the tape and never talk to them ever. Would you talk to people who said they want you to experience a living nightmare and pretend in gesture to slash your throat???

Also, Dave may or may not have tempted any move on Charla. We won't never really know because of the editing. I think that he didn't try anything and I completely understand him. Nowadays, people put soooooooo much importance on physical appearance that if yon don't ''fit'', you automatically get rejected unless you get to know the people. Imagine Dave (that I consider the only normal looking guy among this group of shallow male model wannabe) trying to make a move on national t.v. when he knows he only have 1% of the chance not being turn down. If he had tried anything on Charla or anybody else, people of PH would have doubted about the sincerity of his feeling and tought he was '' playing the game''. He played the game in a very smart way (except when he told Holly and Scott they were safe) and I think he is the one you came out of this experience with the most dignity.

[–] j_captain 21 years ago

I'm glad Dave didn't win! All he cared abt was the game! Hell, after Charla rejected him I'm pretty sure the only reason he stayed with her was to stay in the game! If he didn't have a gurl gettin his back, he woulda been kicked out a loooooong time ago! Everyone was gunning for him, remember? So it was strategic to get backed by Charla - the outsider whom everyone else didn't care about. So he stuck wit her to stay in the game, to cover his own ass. Charla got his back as much as he got her's. It's not fair to say that she only won b/c of him. They mutually got each other to the end of the game but only Charla deserved it... she never backstabbed, lied or said hurtful things abt the other people. Same goes for Keith. So I'm glad the two of them won.

And if Keith, Tara are taking everyone to Vegas, all I have to say is, "WTF ARE YOU GUYS DOING???? ARE YOU SO DUMB TO THINK THAT THEY DESERVE THIS?" After spending 16 grueling weeks or a very long summer vacation in paradise with hateful people, you want to take them all on another vacation???? GEEZ!!! WAKE UP AND SMELL REAL LIFE!!! Get on wit your lives and enjoy ur money.

[–] marie_claaude_dore 21 years ago

Charla backstabbed Dave when she told him that she only kissed Zack during the kissing game. She lied in his face but I am pretty sure Dave felt it. You say that Dave stick with Charla only to win the game but she pretty much did the same thing. You also said that Dave cared too much about the game. Why would he have gone to PH if he didn<t care.... everybody care as much or even more than Dave about winning. They weren<t honnest enough to say it. If it wasn<t important for them to win, they wouldn<t have felt threaten by the Fabfour (KCTD).

One important thing to remember: this isn<t real life. A group of people isolated from the <<real world<< and place in a situation of strong competition do not act and react like they normally would. They all became a character with their personnality exagerated. Toni was really aggressive and psycho. She probably like that in real life but at a leaser degree. Zack is totally centered on himself and only cared about physical apprearance. In real life, he<s probably the same way but it might not be so obivious.

[–] lethal-9 20 years ago

I watch the whole show. Dave was playing the game. He used everybody except for Charla. How do i figure? Simple. Through the whole show Dave did 2 things..take care of Charla and win. Plain and simple. He would have won and in some rights he did but his weakness was her. You could tell Dave wanted Charla but Charla wanted all the guys in the hotel but Dave. Sad, really, Dave was stupid. He could have won. He could have been about the money and the game but instead he put his name in the game of love...idiot.