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21 minutes ago, JudyObscure said:
The state of Minnesota is thinking about banning Arie. Wow. I got dumped in junior high and no one even thought of banning that guy from home room.
I just don't get it. Becca volunteered to go on a show where 28 women got publicly rejected while she held a rose and smiled. Now she's more to be loved, supported and pitied than cancer victims, just because her rejection came a few weeks later, and after a proposal.
If this is what happens to Bachelors and Bachelorettes who make an unpopular choice, or change their minds, I think anyone going on the show is taking a huge chance. Except Becca of course. The show knows when they've got a "star," more beloved than Julia Roberts and Meg Ryan combined, so I'm sure she'll be edited with the greatest of care.
The MML household is thinking about banning Becca ?! I hope she finds happiness as much as I would anyone who thinks she’ll find it on this franchise, and Arie certainly got the maroon edit, but I told Mr MML I just don’t care about her and don’t think her season will be entertaining, and he agrees that we’ll most likely be a Bachelorette-free zone next season and perhaps forever.
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1 hour ago, Boofish said:
No it's not just you. Me personally think that 95% of the people on the Bachelor is "ok looking." None of them have been a great beauty in my opinion. The only Bachelor I could see 25 women actually vying for is Brad Womack. And the only B'ette I could see a bunch of men vying for is Emily. Now don't get me wrong. To me there is absolutely NOTHING SPECIAL about Emily. But she is what American men find attractive.
On a normal day in a normal setting no one would barely turn their head to get a second look at Ashley, Jason, Desiree, De'Anna, both Ben's, that fake Prince .. I could go on.
Totally agree. Lauren is conventionally pretty imo but wouldn’t stand out in a crowd, and (yes, I’m going straight to hell) Becca’s face is proportionately odd imo and she has a clompy walk. She could be Gal Gadot’s sister. I’m real curious about how she’ll do as the B’ette—she seems like she’ll be an Ashley, where she worries no one really likes her and picks a JP right away. She looked great on ATFR, though.
Baby Bekah can go as a girl Beaver Cleaver for Halloween forever.
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1 hour ago, Jazzhands said:
Having never purchased space on a billboard, I can’t say for certain, but I’d think you’d need to make arrangements in advance, right? It doesn’t seem like you could just get one up in a matter of a few hours. Which makes me think it was The Show.
Totally a marketing move by the Show or the local ABC affiliate or someone else making money off it. Good one too, deflecting the hatred from the real villain (the show) to a dumb puppet on it. No one seriously believes Arie lined up the film people and producers and put this on the air himself, I hope.
ETA: Yep. Minnesota’s MyTalk 107’s owner also owns the local ABC affiliate: “Hubbard Broadcasting is a leading television station operator with about 10 stations in Minnesota, New York, and New Mexico. Its portfolio includes ABC affiliate KSTP (Minneapolis/St. Paul) and NBC affiliate WHEC (Rochester, New York). The company also has three radio stations in the Twin Cities market; including myTalk 107.1, ESPN 1500 and KS95.”
Well played.
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4 hours ago, slowpoked said:
This. Not to take anything away from what Arie did, but I wanted to punch Chris Harrison's "awww shucks...." face a lot of times last night. Never mind that they are playing someone's humiliation and heartbreak for everyone to see, but heck, this is the most dramatic thing ever on reality TV show history!!!
He might as well have said during the show: "Do you think Arie could humiliate Becca even more? What else could Arie say that would make things worse? Will we finally see Becca CRY? Find out after the break."
“And now that I dragged Becca to the gates of hell and back by orchestrating the worst breakup ever by pulling the strings of the Arie puppet and make sure everyone blames HIM.... tune in next season to watch me become her best friend as I ‘help’ Becca try to find true love—or will I?!” Evil leer.
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If we are mad at Arie, we should be equally or more angry with the franchise and stop watching it. And one could say the people who keep nursing at the Bachelor teat are complicit too in enjoying considerable compensation from up on their high horses (cough Sean Lowe etc. cough)
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From a People article about Becca, who speaks fluent Bachelor:
QUOTE“I just knew it was me — that him and I were going to be together.”
But more seriously, I don’t think she was completely blindsided:
QUOTE“I never thought for a million years that once the going started to get tough that he would throw in the towel and jump ship and say, ‘Oh sorry, I changed my mind.’ I didn’t think we were at that point whatsoever,” says Kufrin
Just very curious imo her comment about “once the going started to get tough” and “I didn’t think we were at that point”—wonder if life together after the final rose wasn’t the bed of roses (hah) it should have been so early in the relationship or if the bloom was already off the rose (double hah). She’ll be just fine.
(note I had put this in the Spoiler thread but it has no spoilers, so moved here as it relates to this episode)
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From a People article about Becca, who speaks fluent Bachelor:
Quote“I just knew it was me — that him and I were going to be together.”
But more seriously:
Quote“I never thought for a million years that once the going started to get tough that he would throw in the towel and jump ship and say, ‘Oh sorry, I changed my mind.’ I didn’t think we were at that point whatsoever,” says Kufrin
Just very curious imo her comment about “once the going started to get tough”—wonder if life together after the final rose wasn’t the bed of roses (hah) it should have been so early in the relationship or if the bloom was already off the rose (double hah). She’ll be just fine.
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Becca to me always seemed to be playing the part of the perfect F1 candidate—I never felt chemistry between Arie and her and perhaps thst’s why she seemed so dull. So it may not be too hard for her to move on, plus she comes out of this breakup smelling like a rose (hah, get it?). If she is the B’ette, I hope she finds someone to bring out her sparkle!
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I wonder if Show pressured Arie for a proposal.
(I’m know I’m going straight to hell but I loved every awkward moment of the breakup.)
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48 minutes ago, hyacinth said:
It's just reality TV, and damn good reality TV! I wish I could watch other people break up in the privacy of their own homes. I am a flat-out, unapologetic wrong reasons viewer.
And the now-sainted Becca will be fine. She will soon have 29 hot men after her, and make approximately $150,000 for her continuing lack of privacy in her dating life.
Yes to all of this. Not to mention they all signed contracts and know exactly how this show work. Arie didn’t leave right away because he had to wait for the producers to tell him to leave. Becca had to cry (she didn’t do a very good job of wailing off camera). Nobody died, no permanent damage.
And when Becca is Bachelorette we’ll get to listen to her boohooing how hard it is to be on the other side of the rose table as she breaks hearts every week, unless she picks someone the first night and is allowed to ignore everyone else.
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3 hours ago, weightyghost said:
I wish they had been more clear on what the programming is. A few friends and I were planning on getting together to watch the end, and now it's on two nights which we don't want to devote to it but we can't figure out which night would be worth it to get together. Three hours of an after show is just crazy. Nothing Arie has or will do is worth that much discussion unless he has chosen no one and is now dating Peter.
Show does so much recapping that I bet the second night would include the previous night's highlights, so that's what I'd watch with a group.
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4 hours ago, dleighg said:
is this a new acronym I don't know? There are so many....
Drybj is the right hand moved one key to the left. It might be a typo BUT I’m going to start using it, I think. ?
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Lauren did mention earlier that her parents’ bad relationship affected her—perhaps the quiet awkwardness during the hometown date was because the people who were there all hate each other. Maybe her parents aren’t even together.
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Also, Lauren could be gorgeous off camera—she might not have a photogenic face (but I do think she’s as pretty as anyone else this season). She and Kendall have been more “hard to get” with Arie than Becca, which appeals to some people.
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I'm going to bet telling each of the F3s "I love you" is producer driven now, like picking up the rose on a one-on-one date even if the date is going to be sent home. None of the F3 seemed particularly giddy at Arie's profession of love. "I love you" here is as meaningless as a square of toilet paper (unless you're Becca stuck in a tent in the sand, in which case that square might be mighty nice to have).
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16 hours ago, sasha206 said:
Really? I thought it was a pretty accurate statement to show the ridiculousness of it all. It's like the times on reality shows in which someone makes a comment about a woman being menopausal as a slam -- as if they'll never be that old some day. Bekah is not much younger than most of the women on the show.
Bekah curated (as she defines curated) her shtick to come across as the youngest woman. She was much like Ashley I, who cornered herself into the virgin shtick with whoever the Bachelor was that season. Our takeaway re Bekah is simply that she is way too young for Arie. Not a slam, it was the role she brought to the table and seemed to enjoy playing, for instance by pointing out herself that she is the youngest by mentioning when she was born (no one asked her to volunteer that). We didn't see age defensiveness or even a mention about their ages from the young women who are only a few months older than Bekah (much like the Becca on Ashley's season who also happened to be a virgin didn't feel the need to play it up). I agree it was ridiculous, and hope Show is done with it.
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Show was really pushing both Tia and Seinne in TWTA, filmed after the Becca breakup went down. I will be very very surprised if Becca is the next Bachelorette—perhaps the one after that. I could definitely see Tia being cast only because she is so different from Rachel, the last B’ette, and I don’t think most people think Tia is a bad person or harmed Baby Bekah in any way. Personally I would enjoy Kendall—she’s a possibility too—but I’d bet on Tia.
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23 minutes ago, Ms Blue Jay said:
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"I'm simple, no drama, and easy to please." Who said that? Krystal? Tia? No, it was Bekah, who spent the entire show curating a presence of I'm an easy 22 year old Marilyn Monroe, don't you want me , oh you can't truly have me, giggle giggle. AGUUUHHHHH
Bekah is the most immature 22 year old who’s ever been on my screen. She seemed more like a precocious 15. “I’m sorry I was born in 1995.” Give me a fucking break.
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2 hours ago, Mabinogia said:
I have the feeling she has more personality then we were shown. Every once in a while there was a glimmer of a sense of humor, a little bit more there....
I think Show just totally downplayed Becca—she was F1 when filming ended and they wanted to keep her appeal under wraps so viewers wouldn’t guess early in that she “won.” We have no idea what she is really like, but she wouldn’t have been cast if she were as dull as Show has edited her. F8 through F3 or so usually get treated well imo to make us surprised when they get sent home. If Becca is a serious candidate for Bachelorette, we should see some mighty sympathetic treatment in ATFR and a little spunk and I hope humor from her.
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If my kid went on TB he probably wouldn't even tell me about it :)
Not to mention these people are not virginal teenagers (yeah, an oxymoron these days, but I digress). They are all out on their own (okay, except maybe Baby Bekah whose mommy put out an APB on her) and supporting themselves. Who cares what the parents and siblings think? Do they seriously bring dates home to meet their family?
I'd rather see them where they actually live, doing what they actually would do with their friends. Lauren for example lives in Dallas--let's see what she'd do with Arie for fun there and what her friends think of him.
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2 hours ago, leighdear said:
As usual, what we THINK they are showing us in previews and clips aren't necessarily things that actually happened at that moment, in that place or with those people.
We see the fake edits EVERY.SINGLE.SEASON.
Baiting & switching is their specialty.
EVERY.SINGLE.SEASON.
And I wonder if maybe Arie is not absolutely 100% at fault for the shift from Becca to Lauren. Nobody was at the safe house visits. Nobody knows what she may have said to him or him to her. Nobody knows how they behaved together when the cameras were off and they were alone. Maybe she has a nasty streak behind that pretty smile. Maybe she decided SHE made a mistake as well, but refused to take any joint responsibility. No, he didn't have to move right back on to Lauren, but I think plenty of men would do the same thing. Hell, we see them do that on this franchise in every show.
It may well BE 100% the fault of Arie the man-child, but I've known pretty, smart and seemingly perfect women that can turn into vicious bitches at the drop of a hat. And while that probably isn't Becca, we'll never know for sure.
She wouldn’t even have to be bitchy—she could just have buyers remorse after being caught up in the competitiveness and realized she didn’t love him. Plus her fiance showing up the day of the final rose ceremony trying to get her back may have had a delayed reaction for Arie, if he later felt Becca’s and his hearts belonged elsewhere.
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7 minutes ago, ljenkins782 said:
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I haven't even bothered to watch this week's show yet and don't really care. I'll definitely want to see TWTA, but FS show or finale? Don't care. This season was a bust, IMO.
Oh, based on spoilers, you might want to watch them—it sounds like this might really truly be the most dramatic final rose and after the final rose ever!
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On 2/20/2018 at 10:49 AM, Meowwww said:
Does anyone else think they went back after he dumps Becca and re-filmed scenes with Lauren and her family to strengthen the viewers’ beliefs that they are meant to be? And added them in? Cuz I do.
No need to—I think they have so much unaired footage from every episode that they could easily reedit the scenes with Lauren and her family (or any of the other b’ettes, too) to make it appear she is or isn’t Arie’s true love.
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6 hours ago, leighdear said:
At least we saw some more spark with Lauren this episode. She had a liveliness that seemed hidden before, ala Catherine in Sean's season.
To clarify with her dad being impressed with Arie's trip to Iraq and "flying" a C-130, it's a huge transport plane, not a sexy turbo jet. It transports supplies and troops all over the world, so his "flying" it is the equivalent of your 7 year-old going to the cockpit of a 747 and the captain allowing him to "fly" the plane from the co-pilot seat. And then giving him a spiffy pair of plastic wings.
That being said, I think Lauren's dad was impressed that Arie went on a goodwill trip to literally one of the most dangerous places on the planet. Not that being a race car driver is without risk, but supporting the troops that way obviously impressed him more.
And frankly, I was impressed. I don't know of any other leads that did something like that.
There was Luke Pell, who was supposed to be a lead, who actually served in Afghanistan, but Arie (I like Arie) probably is the only lead to tour in a war zone. (Jubilee and Alex, I think his name was, and Chad were also veterans of course but never in the running for the lead.)
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The Bachelorette in the Media
in The Bachelorette
· Edited by MakeMeLaugh
Most likely Arie’s not planning a trip to Minnesota (nor are many other people—omg it’s COLD there ?) but sure, much younger “friend” of Becca who happens to be in the state legislature, spend your state’s taxpayers’ money on a publicity stunt and watch Becca and her family show up for the nonevent so People magazine will cover them. Next, sponsor a bill to what, keep wild tropical birds from nesting there? Cause that’s probably not going to happen either.