Bachelor Australia - Season 5 - Matty Johnson - Media Social Media - *Sleuthing Spoilers* #5

Bobette wrote:

Miyala wrote:

Bobette wrote:Admitting what I suspected all along: the other girls never stood a chance.



Harsh man.  HARSH.

Source

Maybe he meant he would have spared the other ones the pain then? One can only wish that is what he meant.

Uhh, well, you may not want to read the next line in the article then:

While the Bondi-based Johnson understood viewers wanted “ a nail bitting finish,” it was always going to be no surprise.

“On the one hand you appreciate there is a TV show being made and you want to be entertaining but at the same time I got what I came for and I don’t care,” the happily in love Johnson said.

Not my favorite thing to hear him say, but even he alluded to it elsewhere and rephrased it (can't remember where I read it now...)

But the I don't care was clearly in reference to whether the viewers got an entertaining show. Taking a phrase out of a sentence is not ideal either, especially when it changes the meaning a lot, jmo...

Era just got up to your post, Renee....totally agree...

Mommyof2 wrote:

Dirty Street Pie wrote:

Bobette wrote:

Uhh, well, you may not want to read the next line in the article then:

Oh Matty, that is cruel. And weren't you the one who was whinging all over the media last year about how you wished Georgia had been more considerate? The sending the others home on night 1 comment gets a pass because yes, it would have spared the other girls pain, but "I got what I came for and I don't care"? You have shown your true colours with that comment. A spoilt wannabe socialite who got his Georgia 2.0, and gives zero sh!ts about anyone else.

This.  Honestly, I want to be happy for him and Laura but the comments he is making are sounding like such a pr*ck.  Remember that Elise was hurting for months and had to relive it all over again.  He is not a nice person.  At all.  #freelaura

Don't know if anyone else watched Bachelorette Canada but at their ATFR the Lead was STILL upset about dumping the F2. She sobbed when she saw him, said she still had love for him, embraced him warmly. It was super awkward to watch since the F1 was sitting right next to her but you could tell she really cared about the F2 and felt awful for hurting him.

Matty, not so much.

ssin0547 wrote:

peggy0221 wrote:

Bachiegal wrote:I agree that he is acting a bit strangely. I also think Elise dodged a bullet. I really expected more from Matty. He knows how it feels and I feel like he has been so disrespectful to her in what he has said.

IMO, it's a damn you do, damn you don't situation.

If he's all about how hard it was to break up with Elise, people would say there must be trouble in paradise, and people would also say how disrespectful he is to Laura, how he just BS and pretend to have feelings for other girls, etc.

He can't win at all, IMO, so I think it's wiser to stick to "It's only Laura from Day 1" because that is the only truth IMO.

Disagree. I think the best way to handle it is to say "I value Elise and I valued my connection with her. However, it couldn't compare with what I felt for Laura". Similar to what Georgia said. Watching the interviews back, I stand by what I said. Tara was his true F2 and he saved her the heartbreak. JMO

I respect your opinion, just as much as I respect Matty's decision.
IMO, everyone is different, it's hard to use the same formula for every lead to handle the breakup/post show interview.

Bobette wrote:

Mommyof2 wrote:

Dirty Street Pie wrote:

Oh Matty, that is cruel. And weren't you the one who was whinging all over the media last year about how you wished Georgia had been more considerate? The sending the others home on night 1 comment gets a pass because yes, it would have spared the other girls pain, but "I got what I came for and I don't care"? You have shown your true colours with that comment. A spoilt wannabe socialite who got his Georgia 2.0, and gives zero sh!ts about anyone else.

This.  Honestly, I want to be happy for him and Laura but the comments he is making are sounding like such a pr*ck.  Remember that Elise was hurting for months and had to relive it all over again.  He is not a nice person.  At all.  #freelaura

Don't know if anyone else watched Bachelorette Canada but at their ATFR the Lead was STILL upset about dumping the F2.  She sobbed when she saw him, said she still had love for him, embraced him warmly.  It was super awkward to watch since the F1 was sitting right next to her but you could tell she really cared about the F2 and felt awful for hurting him.  

Matty, not so much.

Dude, that sounds awkward! That's the other extreme and not nice either IMO

What about your top-secret code names, what are you saved in each other’s phones as?
Matty: I need to change it, don’t I? Laura’s saved under the name as Cindy. It’s the name of my bicycle.

Quote from the article. Here I was thinking it could be some connection to Cinderella. Jeez.

https://soundcloud.com/mix1023/the-bachelor-matty-j-laura-reveal-they-had-isolated-getaways-in-secret

Bobette wrote:

Mommyof2 wrote:

Dirty Street Pie wrote:

Oh Matty, that is cruel. And weren't you the one who was whinging all over the media last year about how you wished Georgia had been more considerate? The sending the others home on night 1 comment gets a pass because yes, it would have spared the other girls pain, but "I got what I came for and I don't care"? You have shown your true colours with that comment. A spoilt wannabe socialite who got his Georgia 2.0, and gives zero sh!ts about anyone else.

This.  Honestly, I want to be happy for him and Laura but the comments he is making are sounding like such a pr*ck.  Remember that Elise was hurting for months and had to relive it all over again.  He is not a nice person.  At all.  #freelaura

Don't know if anyone else watched Bachelorette Canada but at their ATFR the Lead was STILL upset about dumping the F2.  She sobbed when she saw him, said she still had love for him, embraced him warmly.  It was super awkward to watch since the F1 was sitting right next to her but you could tell she really cared about the F2 and felt awful for hurting him.  

Matty, not so much.

Having said that though, it shows that the lead is actually a compassionate, decent person and I guess thebF1 can be assured that if their relationship went belly up at least he would have that respect for her and their time together. JMO.

https://www.popsugar.com.au/celebrity/Matty-Johnson-Laura-Byrne-Interview-Bachelor-2017-44025062
https://www.acast.com/chrissiesamandbrowny/wechattomattyj-lauraafterthebachelorfinale
https://www.acast.com/chrissiesamandbrowny/elisesharesherexperienceasthebachelorrunnerup-

Call me crazy but I still think these two are cute together.

mjoy wrote:

Bobette wrote:

Mommyof2 wrote:

This.  Honestly, I want to be happy for him and Laura but the comments he is making are sounding like such a pr*ck.  Remember that Elise was hurting for months and had to relive it all over again.  He is not a nice person.  At all.  #freelaura

Don't know if anyone else watched Bachelorette Canada but at their ATFR the Lead was STILL upset about dumping the F2.  She sobbed when she saw him, said she still had love for him, embraced him warmly.  It was super awkward to watch since the F1 was sitting right next to her but you could tell she really cared about the F2 and felt awful for hurting him.  

Matty, not so much.

Dude, that sounds awkward!  That's the other extreme and not nice either IMO

Oh yes it WAS!!! The F2 was an absolute sweetheart while the F1 had been portrayed to be a jealous hot-head (they had several fights during the series) and suffice to say he did not have wide popular support. Many people including myself thought she'd made a terrible mistake, and then she's there on stage bawling and basically saying she is legit still in love with the F2. It was bizarre.

That series was actually the first time I realised TPTB have NO idea how to tell a good story. Her background was that she had been with people who teated her badly and then she ended up choosing the exact kind of guy she usually goes for, instead of TOG who was just utterly beautiful, adored her, had the sweetest family (OMG his Dad, I loved him!). I was outraged! Like, why bother setting up this character arc for her to realise where she has been going wrong in past relationships, and then repeat the exact same pattern?! It was the least satisfying ending ever.

And here with Matty we have a similar situation - he says he wants to settle down and have a family, he says he doesn't fall in love at first sight and it's the conversation that matters, and then he ends up choosing a doppelgänger of his ex-girlfriend, who IMO has very little intention of settling down and having children in the near future, instead of someone who ticked literally every box on his list.

This is NOT a satisfying ending, IMO. If TPTB knew that's where it was going to end up (which they obviously did since he's admitted it was her from the very beginning) then I wish they had crafted the story better to fill in more of the gaps of why he picked her and why the audience should support them as a couple. It's the same thing every season - build up the F2, make the F1 look bad, leave the Lead to suffer the backlash.

Anyway.... Sophie's season starts next week so maybe that will be different - she is NOT going to follow anyone else's script, IMO!

I think the producers have actually been quite good to Laura. She was actually edited and portrayed very well. It's her SM and interviews that are really, really offputting IMO where it's quite obvious she is an overbearing person (talking over people, bringing the conversation back to her and her weird jokes).

IMO they've used Matty's season as a precursor to Sophie's season. Haven't pissed off the audience but are so ready to watch someone else's story after having it pushed down our throats.

Along JMO.

ssin0547 wrote:What about your top-secret code names, what are you saved in each other’s phones as?
Matty: I need to change it, don’t I? Laura’s saved under the name as Cindy. It’s the name of my bicycle.

Quote from the article. Here I was thinking it could be some connection to Cinderella. Jeez.

Sheesh. I was totally joking when I posted that I thought he named her after his bicycle but looks like it wasn't a joke. F1 named after his bicycle. #goals