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Can someone please explain to me why Colton is getting all this hate from other cast members (I mean, I think I know actually why, but...) on how he handled the Tia situation? Let's recap: 1. Colton and Tia meet before The Bachelorette and have a brief time (a weekend?) together. 2. Colton decides to go on The Bachelorette (knowing it's not Tia, I believe?) 3. On The Bachelorette, Tia tells Becca there is no issue with Becca going after Colton as it is done between them. 4. Colton tells Becca it is done between them. 5. Tia tells Becca that actually, she does have "fillins" for Colton. 6. Becca sends Colton home. 7. Neither Tia nor Colton contact each other. 8. Tia goes on BiP hoping to find Colton, he's not there, so she goes on a date with Chris. 9. Colton shows up and doesn't talk to Tia immediately. Where in the world did Colton do anything remotely wrong in that list? And don't get me twisted, I don't like Colton. I do think he is a lying famewhore even by Bachelor standards (Goose Gang reason for hating him), but Tia is completely self-centered if she thinks he owes her anything. I'm guessing the reason that other girls hate him is some girl code thing? In any case, Tia is absolutely insufferable. Moving on, I find the discussion on who finds who attractive pretty interesting, so for data collection purposes (and while I'm making lists) here's my official ranking of the female cast members' attractiveness: 1. Kendall *GAP* 2. Chelsea 3. Astrid 4. Annaliese 5. Bibianna 6. Nysha *GAP* 7. Krystal 8. Angela 9. Tia Honestly, the gap after Kendall is so large that the rest of the list is borderline meaningless. If I were on BiP and Kendall wasn't interested in me I wouldn't even try with the rest of the Day 1 cast. I feel bad putting Angela that low (and below Krystal) because she seems pretty cool, but she's just not my type. Stray thoughts: - I sure hope we don't end up hating Joe. I haven't seen anything to indicate that, but it's just a gut feeling that he does something bad. - Building off that: I always say that the Bachelor series has a lot of parallels with pro wrestling. One of these is that they try to groom characters, often have fan favourites fall into their laps (rather than be the one's they thought would be popular), then they run that character/gimmick into the ground and over-expose them to the point the fans don't like them anymore. - David seems like an actively shitty person. - Jordan's commentary is great, it's too bad that he looks like he's gonna get sucked into drama. - The Goose Gang hyping up Chris at the end was one of the funniest things I've ever seen on the whole series. - Something about the way Leo says "Have fun with grocery store bitch" in the previews seems so fake to me - Tia had work done on her boobs, for some reason. - The change to Wells' intro from last year was a nice touch. Character development and story telling! - The producers aren't even trying to hide their machinations anymore, are they?

I thought Wendell played a much better end game than Dom, and I think that is evidenced by who voted for who (first 5 voted Dom, last 5 voted Wendell). His move to give Laurel the idol and Sebastian + Angela the steaks might have won him the game in the end. On the surface it seems like Dom ran the whole strategic game, but as viewers we saw that they both ran it pretty equally (editing accuracy notwithstanding). After Wendell won the fire making I thought he had it in the bag but... I thought Wendell's jury performance was just AWFUL. I haven't watched this show in a while, but I don't remember jury performances really having a huge impact in the end, but here I suspect it did. Wendell really needed a PR person. His gimmick to the jury should have been: I am the ideal survivor. Look at what it entails: 1. Social game: check. Nice to everyone, clean game, likeable. 2. Strategic game: check. Ran the game with Dom. Didn't need to say he was mastermind, but highlight that the moves that were made were his moves. Had an alliance from the start, tried to broker peace with Chris and Dom, when that didn't work formed an iron clad alliance that ran the show. Was able to save his idol to the end and then give it to an ally. 3. Camp life: check. Friendly around camp, made it better for everyone not just to be nice but also as a strategy to curry favour (people love stuff like that). 4. Challenges: check. Won multiple team rewards where he contributed massively. Used it to share the wealth. Won immunity twice towards the end when it mattered. 5. Fire making: CHECK! This would be how I would top it off. In the end was so strong that Dom was scared and put up his best ally for elimination because he knew that I was the real winner. And then I smashed the challenge, because true survivors know that fire making is essential (as dumb as it is that that determines who makes the finale). I wish we could know how many jurors had the final jury switch their vote because if I had to guess I'd say at least one, probable more, switched from Wendell to Dom. ETA: I am not the least bit surprised that Chris voted for Dom. Before the final jury he was the only one I knew would definitely be voting for him.