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2 hours ago, starri said:
Was he, really? He kind of had to be shamed into taking direct action, first by Delenn and then by Sheridan.
Otherwise, he was pretty much just like the rest of the Vorlons.
He did help get rid of Kosh 2
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5 hours ago, LuvMyShows said:
This is frightening me! The producers knew what they were doing when they let him have the floor, so on one hand it seems like they were letting him "audition". But on the other hand, they have to know how disliked he is both for what he did/said, and for how his affect is just so flat. I just have to hope that they gave him the "audition" time because there wasn't much else to fill the show with!
I know that this is an unpopular position but I’m not sure that what Xavier said was so awful. I mean basically he was telling her he wasn’t sure he was ready to commit but wanted more time. He did it in relationship to cheating but, if was telling the truth, he wasn’t a serial cheater but had a fling at the end end of his relationship. Is that still bad? Yes. Did his ex have a right to be angry? Yes. But he was telling someone who likely was sleeping with two other people that week. And had told two other men that she loved them.
i think Charity was so upset because like most leads she thinks that she is entitled to decide who gets to stay or go and expects them all to agree with her feelings. So Xavier had done a bad thing by not letting her dump him earlier. Instead she sent Aaron home who she is not going to pick anyway.
Xavier’s biggest problem is that someone keeps giving him a shovel.
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4 hours ago, tennisgurl said:
I think Xavier is trying to redo his Bachelor audition after he blew it, but its too little too late.
Definitely on both points
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I couldn’t stay awake. So i guess it was a good representation of the season.
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11 minutes ago, DEL901 said:
I don’t think that timeline would work. Fiji has to be, what, 12 hours from LA and then he would have to get to LA….I think they brought him out to make drama…oh no, Charity is back up to 4 guys, what will she do?
That makes sense to me. And since Xavier left she decided to have a rose ceremony by letting Aaron fill the empty box on her dance card.
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1 hour ago, Hip-to-be-Square said:
Can we just scrap all of the potential bachelor's and go straight to The Golden Bachelor and eventually Bachelor in Paradise?
Could we just go straight to BIP? Or am i the only one who thinks Gary is scary in the same way that Renfield is scary?
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I get that the producers are trying out Aaron for mext bachelor since Xavier blew his chances but that doesn’t mean she has to let him back into the show. I’m thinking that Charity brings him to the rose ceremony unless the previews were a fakeout. I guess Charity was upset that she wouldn’t get a final rose ceremony because either she isn’t IN LOVE with Joey and Dotun like she claims or she is about to let Aaron come to the rose ceremony amd send him home. She is such a ditherer.
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I’ve heard speculation that there is a new season of the Bachelorette. But it’s hard to tell since no one seems to be watching.
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My biggest topic of speculation is whether i will be able to make myself watch.
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I found out that you can watch this through on demand. I’m not sure if that is good or not.
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6 hours ago, adhoc said:
Sometimes after a season, the lead will mention how the show was edited in such a way that the audience never got to see how funny, sweet, etc., the F1 really was. And I think Rachel Linsey said that on her season, contestant Adam Gottschalk was really a lot of fun to be with (one of the reasons he lasted as long as he did, something viewers had wondered about), but the producers basically didn't show any of that footage.
That’s true. But they don’t usually give the next lead an unfavorable edit. They wait till they are the lead for that.
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1 hour ago, candall said:
I also agree that Matt is unusually clear about communicating his position. (I've had a relationship with exactly one person who could convey feelings with such clarity. A career therapist. It was dazzling.)
I think you will find that Matt is “unusually clear” only when he is criticizing Jemma.
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I can’t express how impressed I was that the experts upheld MAFS ethics by not allowing Matt and Whitney to return as a MARRIED couple but only as a DATING couple. After all, after consulting the “science” (or ratings) they knew that two people who had, by the rules of the show committed adultery, were a GOOD match. And Matt and Whitney wanted their guidance (and to be on television some more). Yet they only allowed them to date rather than giving them another all paid wedding. The moral clarity was truly inspiring.
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Finally watched. I can completely accept that contestants may not be as bad as they seem because we get only partial pictures of the contestants because of how much is left on the cutting room floor. But what is Vanessa’s excuse?
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On 5/14/2023 at 11:18 AM, Chatty Cake said:
The could rematch the two couples.Gemma and Duka seemed to get along. Plus it would be fun to see if Whitney continues liking Matt.
Seeing either Whitney or Matt seems like the opposite of fun.
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When the “experts” listed the things that they needed to consider about letting mark and whitney stay i think they forgot the most crucial one: ratings.
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Can anyone explain to me what exactly Whitney has done that justifies her saying she has “given so much” to the relationship. As far as I can tell all she has done is roll her eyes? It doesn’t seem all that surprising that she and Matt should be drawn together since his idea of a relationship seems to be that no one should expect anything from him.
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Remind me again: who was the bachelor this season? I can’t remember a thing. 😎
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1 hour ago, Welshman in Ca said:
Both have to say leave but that doesn't seem to stop people moving to another apartment or going home & being as annoying & as petty as is humanly possible until the other person also says leave.
Thanks. So basically the show is designed for even greater torture of contestants because they have explicitly announced that they hate each other. At least in the US they tend to pretend.
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So I have a question for you veterans out there. I take this rule about how if one person says leave and the other says stay they have to try for another week. But what happens if that repeats itself? Do they get to take off their 'stranger shackles" then? Or is this a rule to make it impossible to leave unless both partners say so?
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1 hour ago, Mabinogia said:
I just don't understand what discussion she expected. Did he just not sleep with her without ever telling her that was his plan? Because I am pretty sure I saw him tell her he wasn't doing the sex at which point she could have said "good, I feel the same way" and there you go, they had all the decussion that was required.
In regards to Ariel I don't think Zach did anything wrong. Gabi is a whole other story. And with what he did to Gabi it makes Ariel's whole "you didn't let me turn down sex" complaint seems kind of petty.
I don’t know but it seems different to me if you are in that situation and say “look, I’ve been thinking about this and I just don’t think I should sleep with any of the final three right before the decision. Does that make sense”
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saying “I’ve decided for sex week that there will be no sex this week without discussing it with you.”
one thing seems to me the type of thing you would say to a potential equal partner and the other seems like a one sided rule making.
not to mention he did it all before the cameras as a display of his virtue. Although that of course backfired.
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59 minutes ago, StatisticalOutlier said:
This is still on my DVR. And even better, it was a live show so what they said hasn't been edited or frankenbited.
Jesse asked what Ariel what her reaction was when Zach told her he wasn't going to have sex with anyone:
"I was on the same page with Zach. I wish he had kid of waited till we had a conversation with the two of us so we could both get to a conclusion as a couple, but I was in a place where I didn't want to be physically intimate if I knew he was pursuing other relationships. I didn't know what could happen. So I had to protect myself, and I felt like if we were to end up together, we could pursue intimacy in a totally different way afterwards."
Here's how she responded to Zach about what he called his "executive decision":
"You took away my agency in that night and that that conversation. When you come to all the women with a universal opinion on what should happen, we're no longer a couple and we're not talking as a couple or coming to a conclusion as a couple. So you took away my agency, you took away my ability to even have a conversation, and if you'd waited, you would have found out that I was on the same page as you."
Not sure if any of this illuminates anything, but there it is.
Thanks. I had the same impression. What was lacking was a conversation in which the two of them could discuss things rather than a simple declaration by one side out of the blue. Zach decided to be sean for a week (he couldn’t manage even that) but he didn’t think that he needed to discuss things. Agency is a buzzword granted. But i think that she was saying that a decision like that should be at least discussed between the two people.
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6 minutes ago, Sweet-tea said:
I noticed she looked slimmer in the last episode when she was wearing the yellow dress. Her face also looked thinner. It’s weird but her chin and jawline didn’t look as prominent in the ATFR, which made her look softer and more lovely to me.
During the season, I didn’t think Gabi looked that great but it was mostly due to little to no make-up, humidity and poor styling. I know how bad my hair looks in humid climates so I certainly understand!
Overall, I think they are all very attractive. In my opinion, I’d put Ariel first, then Kaity a close second, then Gabi. Kaity and Ariel are so close they could be switched.
I hope Gabi is doing ok. I’m concerned about her mental health. She seemed to take the rejection really hard. I know a lot of them have, but even later after some time had passed, Gabi didn’t seem to have bounced back on ATFR.
I think that there is no question but that the show treated Gabi very cruelly. Part of it was Zach’s insensitivity and his need to make sure that Kaity didn’t get mad at him. But the show also made sure that they lingered over every moment of Gabi’s emotional upset. It’s bad enough getting rejected. It’s worse getting rejected after you “were intimate” with someone. But to have that rejection and your reaction displayed in so great detail has to be worse. People were rightly upset with Zach for following her out and trying to say what he planned. But the cameras soaked up every second and gleefully replayed it. Ariel was pissed at Zach for not treating her like an adult. And she was right. But she didn’t also have the show treating her like a spectacle.
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2 hours ago, Starlight925 said:
I applied for Senior Bachelor (I’m female) the first time they advertised it. Sent in my pics, application, the whole deal. Never heard a word. Not even a rejection.
FWIW, I’m considered attractive, in decent shape, professional, educated, etc. Divorced, age 61 now. (60 when I applied).
My guess is, they comb the dating apps & approach the people they want. While there are many attractive single older people, there are a ton who turn out to be either completely fake spammers or who are looking for sugar daddies/mommies. Looking for a “nurse or a purse”.
It’s tough being single at this age because of all these minefields. You meet someone nice, only to find out they’re broke (sad at this age), or have illnesses for which they want care. Or simple “life didn’t turn out right” bitterness.
Im betting they’re just having a hard time finding quality people. Me! Me!
My theory is that since they only know how to find 20 somethings they are actually picking people now and waiting 30 years for them to become the right age for senior bachelor.
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S20:E9: Finale
in The Bachelorette
I hope that they didn’t make you sing “God Bless America” to bring them good luck.