After the first couple of episodes of rejection, stereotypes and televised polygamy in “More to Love,” I stopped watching.  It was just too sad, and fairly stupid, I thought.  Not to mention exploitative of the female contestants, and of overweight people in general.  However, when I heard that the final episode was this past week, I had to take a last look.

I’m happy that Luke picked intelligent, sophisticated Tali over Melissa. I thought for a moment that Luke, who seemed to be a truly good person caught in a TV game-show ethos he couldn’t get out of, was really making the most of a fairly awful situation.

All of the contestants were pretty.  Tali, I think, is beautiful.  Some were clearly in it to win it, and really into being on national television, and couldn’t have cared less about real romance, or love.  Melissa seemed to me to be in the “contestant” category.  Tali seemed to really want to find love, and really did fall in love with Luke.

A lot of time was spent, yet again, on pointing out fat people clichés such as “size doesn’t matter,” and “love me for who I am” stuff.  That’s all skin-deep.  A lot lot lot of time was focused on ethnic and cultural differences.  Luke’s dad liked American, (Christian) Melissa, to the expense of the Israeli, Jewish Tali.  That was painfully obvious.  Luke’s mother liked Tali’s intelligence and tenacity.  So did I.

What I liked most in this final episode, was that intelligence and multiculturalism won out.  Luke made the right choice, and Tali, too.  They’re going to make a really great couple, because they are different.  Opposites attract beautifully.