S29:E06: Week 6

[DEL901]

Home towns with the F4

Edited Tuesday at 01:05 AM by DEL901

[dizzyd]

Haven’t been watching this season but wanted to tune in for HTs. Can’t believe Litia is still there.

[DEL901]

Juliana didn’t do the Bachelor handshake.  Come to think of it, has anyone?

[JenE4]

“We’re going to Little Italy!” Pass a red, white, and green fire hydrant, and enter a basic, dumpy pizzeria.

Edited Tuesday at 01:13 AM by JenE4

[DEL901]

He has a small family.  This has to be very uncomfortable for him, and a glimpse of the future if they end up together.  

[Lamb18]

Dominique looks like Cher in Moonstruck.

[DEL901]

This is going far differently than previews implied. 

[WatcherUp2]

8 minutes ago, DEL901 said:

He has a small family.  This has to be very uncomfortable for him, and a glimpse of the future if they end up together.  

I had a very small family - parents, one sister, no cousins except two out-of-town ones we seldom saw. My husband's family is huge and close, and I first met them on Thanksgiving at one of the brother's house, where his mother was brandishing a butcher knife in the kitchen when I met her. It took a little adjusting for sure! But we've been married almost 45 years, and I love his big, fun, noisy family.

Edited Tuesday at 01:24 AM by WatcherUp2

[JenE4]

“Modeling is my creative outlet.” Is it? I can see it being creative for the creative director, photographer, fashion stylist, hair and makeup artists, etc. But how creative is it to give squinty eyes and lean to the left?

Edited Tuesday at 01:34 AM by JenE4

[DEL901]

9 minutes ago, WatcherUp2 said:

I had a very small family - parents, one sister, no cousins except two out-of-town ones we seldom saw. My husband's family is huge and close, and I first met them on Thanksgiving at one of the brother's house, where his mother was brandishing a butcher knife in the kitchen when I met her. It took a little adjusting for sure! But we've been married almost 45 years, and I love his big, fun, noisy family.

Oh, I’m so happy for you!  Hopefully, if Grant picks Juliana, he will thrive with the big family.   I have a very limited socialization clock, and would have a challenge.  

[dizzyd]

I’m not seeing much chemistry so far. It’s like everyone is playing for the camera and it’s just a show, nothing feels like there could be potential for anything real.

[DEL901]

Just now, JenE4 said:

“Modeling is my creative outlet.” Is it? I can see it being creative for the creative director, photographer, fashion stylist, hair and makeup artists, etc. But how creative is it to give squinty eyes and lean to the left?

I was thinking the same thing. 

Just now, dizzyd said:

I’m not seeing much chemistry so far. It’s like everyone is playing for the camera and it’s just a show, nothing feels like there could be potential for anything real.

Yup, and all the conversations are so stilted.  

[LakeGal]

Zoe was really pushing it with the wedding photos.  I think Grant felt a bit set up with the engagement photos.  

[DEL901]

Hmmmm.   Letia is keeping him away from her family home…to avoid the question of religion again?

LOL, the horses have Go Pros on their heads.  

[dizzyd]

Ok WY for the win, that’s the only thing I liked so far this episode. 

[DEL901]

Why did he have to lead when they were riding.  She organized this date.  She should lead.  Joey would have wanted the woman to lead.  

And I take my other comment back.  Good for her going to introduce him to the religion so he has an understanding of what it would mean.

[JenE4]

The baby is not allowed to watch the bachelor because of “kissing” and yet they taught her to wag her tongue all around to demonstrate kissing?!? Uh…

Let’s move on to the big tug-a-war competition. 

I don’t think “Mormon” is necessarily the issue with this family—they’re just kind of weird. It’s like a chicken or the egg question here—which came first the weirdness or the religion? I guess individually they’re okay. But I just think Grant is fitting in the least with this group. Is anyone even talking to him? We’re just seeing litia’s conversations.

whelp, Grant is falling in love with everyone! So who knows?!

[Lamb18]

I knew a little lamb who had a Go Pro on his back one time. The lambs and their mothers were let out of the barn to the pasture. That little guy ran so fast, he got there third behind two of the mothers. That was the cutest video.

[JenE4]

Did Grant just say eleven siblings?! And this is not the Mormon family?!? Oh, dad is a pastor, so this might be some fundamental Christianity.

[JenE4]

How many women are here with Dina? I’m unable to count them all. She brought the whole damn sorority. They can’t all be your best friends?! Surely there are a couple that are a friend of a friend and you don’t really vibe with but you have to invite them and just try not to get cornered by them…

Dina is the only one who did not get a “falling in love” declaration. Bye, girl.

[LakeGal]

This is different.  We do not usually see the 4 final women sitting around talking about their hometown dates before the rose ceremony.  

[dizzyd]

This was the most boring HT episode I’ve seen. Joey had more emotion and passion in his 2 minutes than Grant and all 4 women.  Meh on whatever the final result of the season is.

[DEL901]

1 minute ago, dizzyd said:

This was the most boring HT episode I’ve seen. Joey had more emotion and passion in his 2 minutes than Grant and all 4 women.  Meh on whatever the final result of the season is.

Yeah, I’m not sure how they can spin this as the most dramatic season ever. 

[LakeGal]

I expected Zoe to flash someone with that short skirt on her rose ceremony dress.  

The Joey visit was the most interesting part of the episode.  I miss Joey.

[dizzyd]

3 minutes ago, DEL901 said:

Yeah, I’m not sure how they can spin this as the most dramatic season ever. 

Maybe the storm brewing in the preview will cause havoc and someone will drown or be blown off and the rain will make it look like all the botoxed faces are crying.

[WatcherUp2]

I fell asleep at some point and when I woke up, I had no idea if it was the same woman he'd been talking to when I zonked out. It's four interchangeable BORING women, with a robotic bachelor. The only slightly interesting thing was that the woman who didn't get a rose was no more upset than if she hadn't clicked with someone speed-dating.

[Bluesky]

15 hours ago, JenE4 said:

“We’re going to Little Italy!” Pass a red, white, and green fire hydrant, and enter a basic, dumpy pizzeria.

Little Italy is in Boston not Newton!

[DEL901]

13 hours ago, LakeGal said:

I expected Zoe to flash someone with that short skirt on her rose ceremony dress.  

The Joey visit was the most interesting part of the episode.  I miss Joey.

Yeah, the visit from Joey highlighted just how boring Grant is.

[Bluesky]

14 hours ago, JenE4 said:

The baby is not allowed to watch the bachelor because of “kissing” and yet they taught her to wag her tongue all around to demonstrate kissing?!? Uh…

Let’s move on to the big tug-a-war competition. 

I don’t think “Mormon” is necessarily the issue with this family—they’re just kind of weird. It’s like a chicken or the egg question here—which came first the weirdness or the religion? I guess individually they’re okay. But I just think Grant is fitting in the least with this group. Is anyone even talking to him? We’re just seeing litia’s conversations.

whelp, Grant is falling in love with everyone! So who knows?!

It’s the Mormon religion.  They’re always smiling even with all those rules.  They won’t be able to get married in the Mormon temple.    No coffee, no cigars, no caffeine, no soda, no alcohol.   Whites only until the 1970s.   I doubt Grant is that religious.   

[DEL901]

12 minutes ago, Bluesky said:

It’s the Mormon religion.  They’re always smiling even with all those rules.  They won’t be able to get married in the Mormon temple.    No coffee, no cigars, no caffeine, no soda, no alcohol.   Whites only until the 1970s.   I doubt Grant is that religious.   

And it is one thing to say they accept him as long as he has faith and another to have to raise your kids Mormon and to have all family activities work in accordance to their religious beliefs, e.g. no booze or even coffee at get togethers.  Will he even be able to have those in his own home?  Maybe these are compromises he is willing to make, but he needs to be sure.  

[Quickbeam]

I loved Litia’s grandfather. Sweet guy. Zoe’s segment was just odd and cold. I got zero feelings either way. 

[Alexander Pope]

How is modeling together a good date for a couple who has never had alone time?  Zoe is way too concerned with appearances--she is beautiful but she seems very shut down and perhaps even a little depressed?

[tennisgurl]

It was amazing to see Joey, its like this dull season just had life blown back into it. In his five minutes on screen I actually found myself getting invested, I saw chemistry, the conversation was actually real, I miss him so much. 

I still feel like I hardly know any of these people and I don't see much chemistry between Grant and any of the women, all of their conversations seem so shallow like they're following a bachelor script, even when it feels like they should have a real conversation, like Dina's family not showing up, they just kind of move past it when you would think that this would be a real moment for a heart to heart. 

I thought that Grant looked a bit put out during the engagement pictures date, I have no idea if Zoe picked that date or not but it came across as pretty cringe. Its hard to tell with Grant, he always has the same sort of look to him. 

This season is pretty dull so far, which I guess is better than the last Bachelorette season which was just depressing, but its just not pulling me in. 

[DEL901]

9 minutes ago, Alexander Pope said:

How is modeling together a good date for a couple who has never had alone time?  Zoe is way too concerned with appearances--she is beautiful but she seems very shut down and perhaps even a little depressed?

Yeah   That’s a group date activity   Especially for someone who isn’t get a 1-1.   They needed more conversation and bonding fun.

[b2H]

I thought Joey looked a whole lot thinner than I remembered.  Is there any intelligence as to whether he lost weight?

[DEL901]

34 minutes ago, b2H said:

I thought Joey looked a whole lot thinner than I remembered.  Is there any intelligence as to whether he lost weight?

I think he lost a lot of weight doing Dancing with the Stars as most folks do, and that would have been filmed around the time the Bachelor was filming.  

[mommalib]

Why are some of y'all hating on Grant? I think he's a pretty likable bachelor. What makes Joey superior to him?

Oh yeah and Juliana is definitely his best choice.

[Artsda]

Dina should not have made it that far if she was going to have no family for hometown. Obviously she has family issues there to deal with and not being on a Bachelor reality show. 

Zoe's activity was so fake. 

Preferred the hometown pizza making. Juliana seems like the best one. 

[ljenkins782]

16 hours ago, Alexander Pope said:

How is modeling together a good date for a couple who has never had alone time?  Zoe is way too concerned with appearances--she is beautiful but she seems very shut down and perhaps even a little depressed?

Zoe might just be dull. She’s pretty enough to get attention, but if she were ugly, she’d be a total wallflower. Her only significant screen time this season was when the others were mad at her and she showed a stunning lack of personality on that one group date when everyone else was joking around and giving funny answers, she was sitting there like a bump on a log giving straight, dull answers. And Grant doesn’t have a strong enough personality to draw her out.

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I still feel like I hardly know any of these people and I don't see much chemistry between Grant and any of the women, all of their conversations seem so shallow like they're following a bachelor script, even when it feels like they should have a real conversation, like Dina's family not showing up, they just kind of move past it when you would think that this would be a real moment for a heart to heart. 

Yeah, the season feels short but I also have zero interest in seeing any more of it. I expect any engagement resulting from this season to last less than a month. I’m assuming it’ll be Juliana and her ever present implants shoved up to her chin*, standing there spouting instagram cliches and babbling about fairy tales just long enough to get on tv a few more times before they part ways because they have no actual interest in each other. 
 

* on that note, was she wearing actual underwear on her 1-1 date? That looked like some kind of shapewear, except that she didn’t wear anything over it. 
 

Between Jenn’s disaster season and this dud, the show desperately needs a refresh. There’s not a single contestant from this season that I could even fathom as a possible bachelorette, maybe that’s why they’re taking a break. Possibly going to dig back to a prior season to find someone with a personality.

[Hip-to-be-Square]

This episode was incredibly boring- but It was interesting to see Juliana and her mom's matching lip filler 😅. Dina's friends all were wearing varying shades of brown and beige- they should've worn name tags to tell them apart. 

 

Edited 22 hours ago by Hip-to-be-Square