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I don't think agreeing to be available to represent the franchise for a year is much of a hardship (and there is probably compensation for it). I doubt Show could or would demand the lead stay fake-engaged. It's a business, no more, no less. The brand isn't really affected if Emily and Jef split or Kaitlyn and Shawn stay together, as ratings are pretty consistent through the years.

pretty sure it's been discussed that it's in their contract that they have to be at Show's beck and call for a year? or so after their season, so public office isn't even possible. Ben should have realized that before throwing his hat into the ring. Mr MML asked what channel number is Freeform? I told him it's just after No one really cares.

More thoughts-- Personally, I think Joelle's wardrobe, including what she wore on ATFR, was age appropriate. And her hair. She's 25. And yes she is a real estate investor/flipper, so she would probably be able to take care of finding a house for the two of them. It didn't bother me that her mother told Jordan she was their princess (which obviously was true)--she was being honest, and that was an opportunity for him to cut and run if it bothered him. Apparently it didn't. Ditto with asking her parents' blessing if he were to propose. Not my style either (but both my kids did this--go figure) but apparently it didn't bother him to do it. I think Joelle would have picked him anyway. Chad's former Marine status was brought up earlier, I remember, at least on the ABC site, that he received an honorable discharge (which I remember discussing here as a weird thing to call out--virtually everyone gets an honorable discharge so no need to call it out, unless speculation was that he was kicked out with that temper). I always thought the Marines especially were such a tight brotherhood, so for both him and Alex to be Marines but to treat each other like shit was most interesting to me. Never mind the happy couple's People photo--that picture of Luke in the corner was so unflattering. Really curious to see if he wants to be the Bachelor. He could be interesting--getting into West Point is so hard (even athletes like him would have to qualify academically, physically, emotionally) and surely the candidates are pretty stoic as their Army officer careers require leadership and strength under fire (look how his dad teared up telling him how proud they were of him, and he was able to just listen without also tearing up). So his season could be dealing with those walls and finding the right person to get through them. OTOH those traits could also make him not interested in being the Bachelor. I think his still waters running deep are much more interesting than having to put up with Chase's whiny side, at least to me. But also, he like Joelle is from Texas. Perhaps Show might want to expand its geographical reach next time, or perhaps focus on his current Nashville home and music if he is the Bachelor.

Once again I'm sucked in and hope those crazy kids are in love if they want to be. Curse you, Show. I really like Chris Harrison but come on, leave the poor Rodgers family alone. What is up with proclaiming a "family feud" and suggesting perhaps it can be mended? How is this of national importance? MYOB, Show. Just when we were going to hear some thoughts on the next Bachelor, we barely heard the names Luke and Chase, and BAM, here's Chad un our face again. Go away please. He must feel lke his BIP behavior (which does look awful on the previews) will lose him the last of his fan base so now he's trying for a redemption arc with both the dead mother card AND he was a Marine. Okay, thank you for your service, sorry for your loss, now just go away. Robbie didn't seem nearly as upset as Luke and Chase at being dispatched. I'm squarely in Luke's corner for the Bachelor if he wants it.

Personally, I like the seasons when the guys pretty much are all infatuated with the lead (definitely Emily, and Jojo too, and of course Trista). That's the setup--the lead has to decide which hearts to break each week, and that's what I like to see happen. I personally don't like the seasons where the guys seem like they aren't that happy to be there for whatever reason, perhaps because the lead is too obvious to them about who she will choose too early or they were disappointed in who was cast as the lead (that would be the majority of Kaitlyn's bachelors, some of Gillian's boys, and Ashley's). One thing Emily's season had going for it too were that the guys seems to be having a lot of bro-fun in a group (hello, men in kilts throwing giant logs challenge). Pathetic as I am, I watched Celebrity FamilyFeud this weekend, which featured a Bachelorette team vs a Bachelor team. Andi was the team captain and was just as smug as ever.

I can only hope Jordan won't be a Bachelor.

I had to stop and laugh at imagining Wells on a rugby team. Ross Geller's team?

Chad gets this season's Most Likely to Have Restraining Orders against Him Award. Oh, heck, he gets the All Stars version of the award too.

Never mind, post triplicated and then they all disappeared.

In shallow news, Vinnie looked 100 percent better with his new haircut (but Mom was just a stupid interruption) and I thought Santa Nick looked very hot--has he been working out? Wells failed me--he was fun on the show for me but not so much here. I withdraw my support for him to ever be the Bachelor and give those delegate votes to Luke who has reclaimed me heart. I cannot see Chase in that role, however.

Luke was very sweet in saying he wants Joelle to find happiness when she came out to sit by Chris H. Compared to Luke, Chase sounded like a spoiled brat following that up by rehashing his hurt feelings at being ditched. I was taken by how truly happy all the guys except Chad seemed to be just to see her when she came out. I think they really like her, which says something. Not to mention no one on this season sent themselves home, did they?

Just watched this. I found the Luke-cutting really moving for some reason--he was in such shock that she didn't get his love, and she did seem distraught hearing that. And her comment to Chase that had they met outside this show without the other guys that they would have had something was telling to me, as he seems like a real guy to me (but she really needed to save his pride with the old line that she had deeper feeling for someone else and so had to let him go). Jo's hairstyle is exactly like all the b'ettes on Ben's season--that's just how girls wear it these days. Same for Jordan's awful wardrobe and almost all the guys' hair--it's just fashion. Neither really bothers me.

Don't they always play someone (usually two people) in the fantasy suites? Is Jo supposed to demand the show end halfway through if she has feelings for only one person by then? I really don't think this season is much different than any other, and after all it's just a dumb reality show (that I love watching)--Chase (and everyone else) knew exactly what happens on this show (many baches show up, hearts are broken for most, dramatic rose ceremonies and ea h is the hardest thing the Bach(ette) has ever done, etc., etc.) when he signed up for it. There are no surprises this season.

I'm pretending the first season's cast "stole" the Bentley, and Rachel and some random person saw it. Rachel might have followed the car with a camera to capture this lighthearted lark to get footage for the show, but she wouldn't have called the police. This season is so bad, so ridiculous, and riffing off the Black Lives Matter storyline is just insulting to the viewer. I don't like anyone on this season except Darius. IMO the characters are all one-note this season. Hit me over the head with sad sack Rachel, vulgar Quinn, etc., etc. Pick an antihero, any antihero. We forget to watch this series and then remember it's still on and catch up on-demand. I think we're done with that.

Among everything else on his resume, Hot Luke is a musician who actually lives in Nashville--these are "hometown" dates, not necessarily "where I live now" dates. Personally I would rather see "where I live now" dates.

I told my doctor I was WebMD-certified when I brought something to her attention. She liked that. I don't use my powers for reality TV shows, though, so I have no idea who has what syndrome. I thought these were the weirdest hometown dates ever (yet still the most dramatic!). Chase (that was Chase, right? With the puffy forelock and the scruffy chin?) used his date for some family counseling with his father (the old rascal! Yeah, we know what you were up to while still married to Chase's mom). I can't even with Jordan's family (that was Jordan, right? with the puffy forelock and the scruffy chin?)--they should get together with Chase's family. Run, Aaron Rodgers, run, as far away as you can. Robby (okay, puffy forelock, scruffy chin, yes I think I'm hilarious) is suuuuch a liar. Luke (yeah, puffy, just a little scruffy :)) you were my favorite and then fell out of it but now you're back in my good graces, but you definitely are a player--the old hold-her-face-in-your-hands kissing is a classic romantic move. Too bad I'm not picking up on a single molecule of chemistry between the two of you. Ten bucks says you don't live in Burnet, though, so she wouldn't have to either. Kudos to Robby's mom for having an open wine bottle next to her place at the dinner table--I believe that is a nod to Jo's mom and drinking right out of the champagne bottle (my all time favorite moment in the history of The Bachelorette). The "to-be-continued" is pathetic. Show is making one guy wait to find out he won't be getting into Jo's undergarments in the Suite experience! Not nice. But seriously--this show is a lot more fun to watch if you don't take it seriously or have a favorite. It has gotten more fun this season to me (although I see why some are bored, but then again I just don't watch shows that are boring me, so there's that option) since it doesn't seem to be taking itself too seriously either. And Jo has a gorgeous wardrobe.

I don't really care why or if the Rodgers family isn't perfectly happy. I especially don't care about people's sexual orientation and can't believe "rumors" are even a thing in this day and age. I like Jo and I don't think she's connected with anyone but at least she is having fun. Her final four are probably most like the alpha-ish guys who come on to her in real life so she's comfortable with them. The beta guys in real life probably feel she's out of their leaugue, like many did on this show. It was interesting on Ben's show that unlike in real life, she and some of the other alpha-ish girls had to compete for him (she mentioned this during the pig date last season), which resulted feelings she might not have had for him otherwise. Not sure if a guy ever broke up with her before Ben, so those feelings seemed real too. Her sadness at letting some of this season's guys go seems because she didn't want to hurt their feelings, not because she might have felt something romantic. This season? Maybe someone in the final four cares, but it seems to me more like she (or being the next Bachelor) is the grand prize, but they all seem to know she and her F1 are not going to be the loves of their lives. I'm okay with that--much more fun for me to see this show as being about human nature and group dynamics and not as the manipulated love story the editing monkeys think they are giving us.

Mr. MML still thinks Joelle is charming and one of the best B'ettes ever. He did think she should have ditched Alex and gone for Carlos in the first date. He wonders why Alex, the shortest bachelor ever, is the only guy NOT sporting the tall-hair look. I thought this episode was actually one of the better ones. Luke wouldn't do the gaucho date because he would never have put on the gaucho costume like Alex did (and why? very cool clothes but pointless). I love seeing people who are so at ease with horses--so, to me, Luke's slightest touch of the reins to guide his horse was awesome. I don't think he has the personality to carry the Bachelor, though. Still holding out for Wells here. Tired of Jordan but oh well. The show is really tiptoeing around the Aaron connection--there must be lawyer letters flying about not using him to promote the show and the editing monkeys are probably deleting any hint of defamation too. Jordan's father is a chiropractor (so says Google) so probably earns a decent living to support the family's lifestyle without needing help from Aaron. Mr. MML also thought Robby already went home. Or Chase. He thinks they are triplets with not-Jim-from-the-office. At least we know who Luke and Jordan are. James Taylor is lucky to have lasted as long as he did. I don't think he was really upset with being sent home. Looking forward to the hometowns. And again, please, please, please, Mrs. Fletcher, when the boys come to your house, have full bottles of champagne in place of the wine glasses at dinner!!

I think these are Caila's guys.

I take everything on this show with a giant GIANT grain of salt. James didn't look like he believed for a minute that he had something to call JorJor out on; Jo didn't look like she thought the "crime" was worth discusing (vs Alex's tattling on Chad about threats of physical harm to JorJor et al.); if JorJor was upset with James, he sure didn't carry the hard feeling very long as he gave James a friendly half-hug when James got his pity rose. It's all fakety-fake and fed to the cast. I'm just waiting for the Fletcher family hijinks when they meet the final two.

A little Betty White goes a long way. Ha ha, jokes that have being old as the comic theme. And dirty. Ha ha. Every time she speaks. Even she must be tired of them.

I think the promotion of his band may come after the show, if it rides on the coattails of the Bachelorette name (I like Luke the most and have no problem with anyone riding Show's coattails--it's the least they can get out of it).

Yeah, I know re Luke's band. James already took the role of singer songwriter singin' and playin' a couple of times, so I'm hoping we don't have to hear Luke if James leaves.... The only person who can pull off tight pants with a slightly pigeon-toed walk is that other former competitive swimmer Timothy Olyphant playing my imaginary true love Raylan Givens.... These guys are no Raylan Givenses.

Maybe Alex, because any girl who could be the B'ette probably wouldn't give him the time of day outside the show to even meet him, but he thinks he's all that (at least that is the impression I get) and perhaps is hoping once she sees what a catch he is, she'll be head over heels in no time. But pretty sure Luke has a band and is on the show to further his music career. At this point in the show's life I'm not only okay with "wrong reasons" contestants, I think I'd be shocked if someone seriously thought they would find their soulmate on this show, so I don't hold any ulterior motives against them.

I think the tattling is all producer shenanigans. It's so awkward. Maybe the tattler gets thrown a treat for doing it, like "James, we'll keep you another week if you complain to her about Jordan." Derek is probably sorry he didn't volunteer to do it this week. Bye, Wells, I'll miss you. Derek, not so much, although you look even more like John Krasinski now than ever. Go find an Emily Blount lookalike and live happily ever after. Alex looks like he has gained a few lbs. but James looks thinner--yeah, those are pity roses. Is it Robby who was in the off-white skintight suit at the rose ceremony? His pants looked even tighter than Jordan's. I still like Jo but this season has become a snorefest. Nobody is fun. Hometowns better be good, and I will be drinking from the champagne bottle myself if Mrs. Fletcher flues her party again again and makes me laugh.