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Multiple shots of Trina with the odd coloring and wrinkles at the rose ceremony gave me flashbacks of Zelena (when she was green with envy) on Once Upon a Time ages ago. Trina looked even older than the older we thought about her last week!

This ep wasn't as stupid as last week, until it got to Ashley I, Meghan and Mackenzie crashing Jillian's hot tub party of two...Jillian steamrolled the three with their too-polite wallflower demeanors there. I'd love all four of them to leave asap. However, I did chuckle when they were pouting in the driveway waiting to oust Jillian (again): Meghan: "do I look cracky?" [referring to her makeup, not drug ingestion] Mackenzie: you mean "like a crack whore?" Some of the women didn't even look familiar to me, so I couldn't recall their names. I liked what they showed of Carly and since I liked her brother Zak on his season, I liked her a smidge more. Jillian and Britt were very close and hanging on each other in many of the shots. Very friendly. Very. Amber saying she doesn't like warm and salty in her mouth. My mind went there... No need for Juelia to get so detailed about her husband's suicide at this point, and in the midst of the fun pool party...notice no one interrupted as usual, production has to wring every ounce of drama out of the sad situation.

Loved Adam in season 8 and think he did a good job on the judging panel. Nice how Harry acknowledged Adam's unique perspective from being both a former contestant and judge, and good cue to show some of Adam's audition back in the day. :) I like when there aren't many really awful "singers" (jokers and delusional narcissist types) presented at this stage of auditions in front of celebrity judges, sent through to them for silly entertainment/humiliation. I enjoy people who audition because making music is their THING, regardless of Fame and Fortune. Humorous clips are fun too.

Yep, "big shoes".

My first thought when the guy exited the limo was: long feet. The skinny pants may have just exaggerated their length, ha. I'd forgotten that Jimmy said he was making an appearance in episode 3, until they showed him waking up Chris (I would not be happy being woken up like that). Speaking of pigs, that's what I thought of Jimmy and Adam Carolla when they teamed up in the '90s when I lived in L.A. and didn't think highly of their humor. But I digress. I have a higher opinion of Jimmy now in general and I'm interested to see how it plays out Monday night.

Girls in bikinis driving tractors didn't make me say ew like Jillian straddling Chris's motorcycle rental while thonged, though it looked like the black box was an exaggeration and played on the hairy crack account from drunk Jordan. Don't they all go through a psych eval before being cast. Just sayin'.

The show is devolving into chaos! There are no rules! ha The group date was several shades of weird, we didn't see much interaction beyond his private time with Ashley I. and her lashes and then whisking Mackenzie off for an impromptu one-on-one (wtf casting a 21-year-old with a child for a 33-year-old, notwithstanding his evasion of her "is your farm organic" query last week).

Tonight's episode was OTT stupid, it's like the show is parodying itself. Ironic that Ashley I. likens herself more as a Kardashian type, yet she's a virgin. But I get what she meant. I think. Some of these girls (hard to call them women) go beyond happy-hour drunk, it's more like brain injured or on hard-core drugs. Or selling their dignity to act a ridiculous part. Is this what typical 20-something behavior is nowadays...? I would've thought whiskey-loving sport fishing enthusiast Tara had more appeal or things in common with Chris than some who got to stay. She came across as a mess, but I found her far less annoying than many others.

I'd like a season with people no younger than 26 and who actually have some desire to marry (since a proposal is the alleged endgame--though I prefer a more realistic vow to continue seeing each other "in the real world" and see how it goes before proposing, but that doesn't make for exciting reality tv, ha). Don't have 95% of the women fit some long hair, teeny size, over-made up version of each other that we can barely tell them apart for weeks. It was a nice change to have Chris mingle with 15 women, instead of overwhelmed with 30 in one go...how about the next installment having no more than 20 total and showing more of their interactions and backstories, to alleviate some confusion and up the involvement of viewers from the start. Perhaps leave it up to the B/ette how many roses to give out at the first ceremony, shield the tray so no one can tell ahead if everyone gets a rose or not. Mystery! All but the most certifiable would be kept anyway because of the fear of potentially booting The One after such a brief stint. And the first impression rose, meh. Would be nice to see more truth in editing. It's a foregone conclusion the "obvious" forerunner is not the actual F1 anyway, let's see more of the real stuff between everyone and don't warp people into someone they're not (some deleted scenes and interviews can give such a different perspective of people from how they're edited for the show).

I liked Nick V. and we were shown lots of chemistry with Andi, but I honestly didn't think she'd choose him over Josh when seeing/hearing about how much her father loves Josh's pro football-playing brother and their family pedigree, cut from similar cloth so to speak. Comparatively, Nick was some skinny, Northern smart-ass type who ran track (albeit very successful, it's not Georgia football). Maybe Andi was enamored with thoughts of living the Atlanta power couple fairy tale with real-man Josh, but something changed and may eventually come out--but how many will care.

https://twitter.com/bustle/status/552834991722598400/photo/1 Coincidentally, Nick V. the day prior to Andi and Josh's break-up announcement wrote of break-up tips. I hope Nick is over Andi and isn't still pining away for her, she's a barracuda. I was of the impression she and Josh were much alike with quick tempers and controlling attitudes, so it doesn't surprise me at all that they fizzled. Or that the article upthread called 30-year-old Josh her "former baseball-playing beau". Retire the baseball glory days descriptor already.

I was thinking the second group of 15 was g*****, in terms of them having 30 women clamoring for Chris's attention versus the relative cozy first group of 15 who had him to themselves for a seeming extended time...so I'm mildly curious* as to how many women from each group were gifted a rose... *but not curious enough to research the answer, because it doesn't really matter one whit It's amusing how there are always women who've sat around the cocktail party for hours, growing indignant that they haven't had a chance to talk to [insert bachelor's name].

zombie paint balling sounds like an amped-up version of his ghosts in the graveyard game--I was sure we'd see an iteration of it this season :p Britt's acting is ok in that Innocent Attraction short, but the content/theme left me a bit...unsettled.

Many pretty women this season, but I'll never understand the desire to spackle SO much makeup on your face every day. It would be a big turn-off if I was a guy, but I'm not, so it's a moot point. :)

That must've been some hella party if the non-rose getters are leaving at sunrise.

Yes! I hoped he would give Tara a rose, I think she would fit in with him in Iowa better than most of those girls...fishing, drinking, wearing what she was during the first limo exit...

Strikes me funny that the woman with a son named Kale has never heard of alfalfa. Tara as a fly fisherwoman would probably have a good shot if she wasn't getting plastered. Good choice of giving Britt the first impression rose, she actually seems kind and balanced (we'll see how that progresses), but now she'll have that target on her back. Michelle Money throwing shade on Britt, ha!

I got a chuckle over how crisp and clean Chris's motorcycle outfit was--the boots and leather jacket hardly looked worn and his jeans seemed pressed. Nothing had a speck of dirt or dust on them, despite riding along Iowa dirt roads.

Red carpet live event, good grief...fun to see a boatload of past contestants milling around. Erica Rose in a tiara, I would expect no less. Even Neil Lane is hanging out taking selfies. I didn't realize Arlington is even smaller than my town, and though it seems he's sincere about finding a wife I'm having a hard time believing many of these women who have good careers in big cities would honestly want to uproot to farm land Iowa. I'm guessing they don't think they'd actually make it to F1 so they're just along for a good time and free stuff. And a slice of the Bachelor family pie.

It's just over an hour until show time and I'm still on the fence whether to watch this season. The promos soured any small desire I'd had to tune in. tick, tock, tick, tock...

whirlingdervish, thanks for posting that Grantland interview--I like hearing about behind the scenes stuff, and Chris seems articulate compared to guys who grunt a few words attempting to express themselves. I don't find Chris physically appealing but his radio voice was nice. :) Maybe he'll grow on me as the season progresses, his humor and personality could negate an awful smile and bad haircut. Bo is described as a plus-size model from CA--what do you all think, a size 6? ha

Good move for Bruno to wear the rollers, it got people talking and, like me, to check out the Uptown Funk video and there he and Mark Ronson are, wearing curlers in a hair salon...so it all makes sense to me now. :)

Although I prefer Matt over Craig, I am kind of glad Blake got the win over (as he lovingly called him) "Look At Me (It's All About Me)" Adam. :) My standard gripe for singing competition winner announcements applies yet again: the home audience gets shortchanged on being in on the celebration, can't even get through his song without cutting out to commercial. Geez. See ya, bye, thanks for watching us all season and we can't even get an extra 30 seconds to share the joy (or sorrow, depending). Is men wearing rollers in public a trend I'm out of the loop on? eta: I hope Gwen isn't kicking herself for letting CWB go, because I doubt he would've gone all the way on her team.

Also way too many "there's no one in the music business who sounds like you" and "you're the best [fill in the blank] I've ever heard" type of comments that make me roll my eyes because it renders the compliment almost meaningless when it's so over-the-top absolute. Blake, though, has no issue admitting when he isn't familiar with songs on the show, so to his ears some of it is quite new and different.

Ha! That's all I could hear for the longest time back in the day, when douche referred to feminine "freshness" issues. But I digress... I didn't care for Matt's falsetto in his duet with Adam, but thought maybe he sung it that way to match Adam in that part of the song? Matt gets a good share of squees from the audience--I wonder if Chris had been knocked out earlier or if he and Matt didn't share a coach, would Matt have gotten more of a cute-guy edit for the younger vote? Singing Beach Boys and Judy Garland is fine for my older ears, and likely wouldn't siphon votes from alleged heartthrob Chris. I think I need to be in a different thread with this musing...