call me ishmael

You probably didn’t miss an episode, just blinked. Once Victoria decided to stay with James he went back to the nothingness of bachelor nation in waiting.

Thanks! I will burn incense in the hope that you are right.

I'm a bit confused about where we are now. I thought that this week was the finale and next week the reunion. But don't we need them to bring in more men so that Kate can cruelly decide that Logan isn't up to her standards? Does anyone know the schedule? How long is our long national nightmare going to continue?

Is the season over yet?

I thought that was Romeo

The best thing about this episode is that it’s the only one this week.

Have you noticed that even Primetimer TV Today can’t be bothered to mention BIP anymore? It’s that boring.

I'm going to have to dissent on the Shanae love (sorry). Yes she is more attractive than Kate. But if you bracket out everything we have learned about personality (which you have to with Shanae) I think that there have been plenty of more attractive women on the beach this year: Brittany, Danielle, Eliza, Serene, Genevieve (remembering I am bracketing out personality), maybe Sarah. And those are just considering the women who are there now. If you went back and included Hunter and Sierra for example the list gets longer. Shanae has a typical dating show look I think. And that gives her a lot of confidence. But really in the end? She is pretty. I just don't think that she is as interesting as many of the others who have something less commercial actress going on.

I'm pretty sure that I have seen at least one Love Island where the guys moved. You notice that on Love Island they never refer to the guys as "the gentlemen."

I agree. The whole point of the twist was to create conflict and drama at the reunions. Since neither of them would do that by escorting one of the “girls” back there was no point as part of the producers strategy to create as much angst as possible.

Maybe they meant Baby Yoda and got confused?

Honest question: do you really think that the producers think of success as having couples stay together on this show? They go out of their way to make it difficult. And back when it was fun there was little expectation. I take all of the official comments about love as basically being said with implicit eyerolls.

Wells seems to have forgotten that, really, his biggest claim to fame is that he married someone.

It's BIP. That's the kind of bullshit it is. But it also explains why they haven't been having women come to the beach outside of Salley who they arranged to have driven off by the ritual ostracism. They have been building up the anxiety of their being all of these men who won't survive and given the women a sense of power and now they will pull the rug out from under them. Let the anxiety and crises begin!

I wonder if Genevieve will ever realize that coming on this show was a huge mistake. After the bachelor she still had some mystery. Not to mention respect from realizing Clay’N wasn’t for her. But now that she has joined Shanae in the BIP police she looks bad. I also think we need to recognize that wells set salley up. It was moderately funny when he did his routine the first time. But repeating it right when she arrived was asking the forces of Mordor to attack.

They were drawn together by their matching eyebrows.

It doesn’t get any better.

I think that part of the craziness is due to last season when people coupled up faster than they opened their suitcases (trademark Salley). Now they are all terrified that they will be ostracized and thrown off the beach to be devoured by the crabs. Add to that they all know each other and some may have, gasp, met at Stagecoach, and you have a potential tragedy of Sophoclean proportions. Hailey just doesn’t understand that the Chorus isn’t supposed ro be involved.

I think that Timm gave them a name, they looked it up, and then showed her the hologram to make sure it wasn’t a phony.

How do bachelor years compare to dog years i wonder?

This seemed to unusually dull for BIP. They all came in with their intended roles and unfortunately none of the roles were new and different. Even the crabs seemed to be going through the motions. I felt bad for the grains of sand that had to put up with the BIPers.

I think the problem is that if Timm had loved once Bix and everyone knew what would they do with him. He clearly couldn’t stay there where everyone knew he ratted out Cassian. He wasn’t wrong, i think, in believing that Bix still had feelings for Andor so she wasn’t going to forgive him. And if she was already anti-imperial that would make it worse. So would Timm go somewhere else and be shoehorned back into the plot? Especially since in a sort of way this whole show is about Andor’s redemption arc.

I, too, didn’t shed a tear for Timm. But it all seemed a bit pat to me. Everyone was running away from the private security guys. Why did they seize Bix? They had no way of knowing she was connected to Andor. It seemed less reasonable in narrative terms than a plot means to keep her from warning Andor and also to get Timm killed. I didn’t get the sense that young Cassian was particularly upset on the ship out. He seems to leave a lot of messes and people behind. That is certainly a worry. On the one hand, he should get canned for causing exactly the disaster he was warned against. On the other did that look like a face engaged in self-reflection or rage. Even the fact that Andor didn’t kill him should have told him something. But I doubt it did.

I think that the key thing about Kenari must have been whatever the ship was trying to do. The official line was a mining accident that caused a toxic planet. But unless that happened after the kids, the crash, and the sweeping advanced structure something else was hidden there. i wish it hadn’t been so obvious from last week that the boyfriend was going to turn him in. I guess the question is what happens when she finds out.

Maybe all the members of the audience will have to declare if they are ready to propose to Gaby or Rachel.