S23.E03: Week 3

[Adeejay]

Now I get it.  Caelyn was first runnerup in Miss USA, and Hannah didn't even place.  Gee, wonder who would be jealous of whom?!

[MBJ]

Choose your fighter

 

 

[Lemons]

40 minutes ago, GracieK said:

Mad respect for Elyse's sister!  So sad that she passed, but so much courage to bring her baby into the world as healthy as she could.

We don’t know the story but I didn’t like how she said “obviously she put the baby’s life first”.  No, not obvious.  Her sister had a child already who needed her.  I feel like she used that story to impress this apparently religious guy and it sickened me.  

Edited January 22, 2019 by Lemons

[JenE4]

Hannah: I’m not manipulative, Caelynn is manipulative. Hannah didn’t deny being toxic, though.

We’re behind the scenes, people! They hide Harrison in a metal frame shrouded in many tapestries.

[alexa]

Well, though Caelyn seems more believable he shouldn’t trust either of them. I think there are 2 sides to the story and that goes for both of them. As for the girl sent home, to be fair to Colton she wasn’t bringing anything. There was nothing there. Yes he could have waited a day but I don’t think it matters much in the end. 

[LennieBriscoe]

Colton runs to fat. Watch out for being Middle Aged, Coltee!

[tennisgurl]

"Your manipulative!" "No, your manipulative!" "No, YOUR..."

[Mu Shu]

2 minutes ago, JenE4 said:

Hannah: I’m not manipulative, Caelynn is manipulative. Hannah didn’t deny being toxic, though.

We’re behind the scenes, people! They hide Harrison in a metal frame shrouded in many tapestries.

He’s earned that.  Hopefully, there are rare and exotic woods as well. 

[saber5055]

1 minute ago, alexa said:

Yes he could have waited a day but I don’t think it matters much in the end. 

Sending someone home early via waiting limo is drah-matic and puts the other contestants into a spin, creating more drah-mah. So there's that reason to not wait.

[announcergirl]

Hannah is the worst type of woman. She needs to go home. 

Has she not noticed that every time he talks to her it’s to clear up things about the other girl.

[woot]

Who are these girls? I swear half of them at the rose ceremony haven’t been on the show this whole time.  Nina? Cassidy? tf? 

[Stats Queen]

3 minutes ago, tennisgurl said:

Your manipulative!" "No, your manipulative!" "No, YOUR..."

I know what you are but what am I?

 

[GracieK]

5 minutes ago, Lemons said:

We don’t know the story but I didn’t like how she said “obviously she put the baby’s life first”.  No, not obvious.  She had a child already who needed her.  I feel like she used that story to impress apparently religious guy and it sickened me.  

Or, maybe Elyse's family is religious themselves... or there is a lot to it we didn't hear and that is how they as a family feel about it.  

[Jax7917]

Hannah gives me Kelsey Poe vibes . 

As if Colton really cares about Hannah and Caelynns drama and “ deceitful “ nature when there are 20 something half naked women walking around having fun at a pool party where he’s the only guy . 

Cassie isn’t shown much but I think she’s the prettiest and has the best personality out of the bunch . 

Not sure why people can’t be happy with their lives and need a sob story in order to make it in bachelor world . Wouldn’t you be attracted to the drama free ones ? 

All I could think when watching each season is what a horror it must be to shop and pack for the show . 

[Adeejay]

I believe the producers told Colton to keep Hannah B., in order to keep the battle of the pageant girls going.  That is this season's big storyline.

[nutty1]

“Never been kissed” is a shit stirrer, isn’t she?!

[Lemons]

6 minutes ago, GracieK said:

Or, maybe Elyse's family is religious themselves... or there is a lot to it we didn't hear and that is how they as a family feel about it.  

She still used the story to get a rose.  Just gross.  

They are all trying to sell themselves, to stand out.  Talking about their strong grandma or their love of family, children, whatever it takes to not be rejected on TV.  They are playing to what they think he will appreciate.  

Edited January 22, 2019 by Lemons

[JD5166]

He probably sent her home because there are too many Catelyns/cayelyns/Cassidy’s etc. just get rid of one...makes it less confusing. Mostly for the viewers at home....byeeee whatever variation of c—--lyn you were! 

[PerfectPrincess]

I think the worst part about the whole pageant feud is that from where I'm sitting, it looks like NOTHING happened whatsoever. Colton keeps searching for a moment in time where the two ripped the other's extensions out, but all either girl has to say is that the other is somehow manipulative.  There was no actual fight that went down; or if there was, it'd be nice for someone to mention it. 

[GracieK]

3 minutes ago, Adeejay said:

I believe the producers told Colton to keep Hannah B., in order to keep the battle of the pageant girls going.  That is this season's big storyline.

The fact that neither of them can verbalize an incident, provide examples, or clearly indicate what their problem with the other is, just makes them both seem like drama pageant queens.  The whole conversation that Hannah was having with gums mcgee seemed so manufactured.  

[JenE4]

Hannah crying over how she has to endure Caelynn saying mean stuff about her when SHE started the whole thing by saying mean stuff about Caelynn. Jeez, my middle schooler doesn’t have this much drama.

[GracieK]

Just now, PerfectPrincess said:

I think the worst part about the whole pageant feud is that from where I'm sitting, it looks like NOTHING happened whatsoever. Colton keeps searching for a moment in time where the two ripped the other's extensions out, but all either girl has to say is that the other is somehow manipulative.  There was no actual fight that went down; or if there was, it'd be nice for someone to mention it. 

YES.. so agree!  That's exactly the point i was just trying to make as well.  It's just petty girl drama.  Every guy's fantasy.  

[MBJ]

I think Hannah Pageant reminds me of someone, I assume Elisabeth Hasselback in her Survivor days?  The prominent eyebrows?

Awwwwwww. Fake Australian Bre was eliminated!  (Not sure about the names.)  I thought she was really cute.

Courtney is really cute, telegenic.  

24 minutes ago, Jaclyn88 said:

Cassie isn’t shown much but I think she’s the prettiest and has the best personality out of the bunch . 

She has a great look/smile.  She's staying out of the drama.

Edited January 22, 2019 by Ms Blue Jay

[saber5055]

I don't know who any of these people are, except Colton. I can't remember when I've cared less about a season. Maybe it will get better?

[Mu Shu]

At this point, I think Elyse or Tayshia would make good Bachelorettes.  Both are lovely well spoken women with decent personalities. 

Bri was ridiculously gorgeous with nice boobs.  

[MBJ]

12 minutes ago, Mu Shu said:

Bri was ridiculously gorgeous with nice boobs.  

Amazing body

[GracieK]

Oh no... my Croatian girl Nina :(  We hardly knew ye... hopefully she lands on Paradise so she can shatter all my perceptions of how perfect she is.  

[jackjill89]

When has it ever been a good idea to have a pool party on a Bachelor show? No one relaxes. Ever. 

I'm not loving anyone right now, but I'm sure disliking quite a few.

[Lemons]

That whole thing with the pageant girls is stupid.  Neither girl has much to offer both kind of dumb and not all that attractive.  

[crgirl412]

I remind fellow posters on this forum of this every season of the Bachelor/ette- YOU HAVE TO WATCH BURNING LOVE!!!! 

Edited January 23, 2019 by crgirl412

[tennisgurl]

I get why they thought the pageant girl drama would be catty and entertaining, especially with low key dude Colton on center stage, but...it’s not. It’s just a bunch of boring trash talk that isn’t amounting to anything, and it means we aren’t getting to know the other girls as well. Move on!!

[Bossley]

I'm surprised Bri got cut so soon. Maybe her accent and generous genetics will be enough to land her on Paradise. She is arguably one of the prettiest women to be eliminated this early in the game.

One exciting thing about this season is that half of the remaining contestants are women of color! I don't think that's ever happened before.

Edited January 22, 2019 by Bossley

[Mambo Queen]

57 minutes ago, Ms Blue Jay said:

I think Hannah Pageant reminds me of someone, I assume Elisabeth Hasselback in her Survivor days?  The prominent eyebrows?

Awwwwwww. Fake Australian Bre was eliminated!  (Not sure about the names.)  I thought she was really cute.

Courtney is really cute, telegenic.  

She has a great look/smile.  She's staying out of the drama.

 

https://goo.gl/images/KBVDpM

This is who I think she looks like, the actress Collette Wolfe (she was in Observe and Report, Cougar Town, bunch of stuff)--Well shit, looks like the pic cut off and I'm too tech dumb to fix, but if you google her I think you'll see it

Edited January 22, 2019 by Mambo Queen

[Adeejay]

5 minutes ago, Bossley said:

One exciting thing about this season is that half of the remaining contestants are women of color! I don't think that's ever happened before.

I believe Colton has an inkling who he wants to get to know better.  Which is why he is torn over the pageant girls and was so quick to kick Caitlin to the curb..  The others are just fillers. 

[MBJ]

Oh my god yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Thank you!  @Mambo Queen

[Arkay]

For Caelynn I see something of Britt, (not sure why), and then some Jessa Duggar around the chin.

Of course we don't know what is real vs. Reality TV real, but so far Colton seems to be sensitive and patient in dealing with the women. 

The ending  with the kids asking "can I steal Colton for a sec" was cute.

[SHD]

I have no idea which beauty queen to believe. They both seem mean-girlish at times.

There's been a lack of crying limo rides/talking heads at the end of episodes this season. 

The extra clip at the end was cute. Especially the little girl who waved her hand around and sarcastically said, "Fine!"  when she was "interrupted."

[MBJ]

The cute little chubby kid 

Colton:  I think you're too young for this

Kid:  To have ice cream?

Colton:  No you're never to young to have ice cream

LOL

Edited January 22, 2019 by Ms Blue Jay

[tinkerbell]

Ok, he said it - the thing nearly every Bachelor and Bachelorette says.  He talked about "Caelynn and I's relationship."  

Hannah B is weird, she talks to Colton about Caelynn, and she's GRINNING.  What is her point?  She didn't have anything to say, unless it was edited out.  Yeah, I'm "Befumbled" by her. 

[tinkerbell]

How many of these girls are "Smitten Kittens?"  I lost track.  It is that how the kids say they have a crush on someone?

[HappyDancex2]

I’m still befumbled by the girls names this season and even more befumbled my autocorrect let me type that when it changes every other common word that makes sense.

Is it terrible that during the rose ceremony I make a mental comment on what role each girl is playing?  For instance:

Easy elimination later, 2 pageant girl drama, Fivehead Botox versus Demi, friendzone black girl, reciprocal casted virgin etc  No one escapes their role.

Colton is oddly not bugging me this season yet.  I do feel dumber each episode though.  Maybe it’s seeing so much of Colton’s probing tongue already.

[Wandering Snark]

Annd there's our first Bachelor Handshake!! Who won the pool on who would be first??

I think both pageant girls are devious and manipulative so that's just feeding the spiral. I'm currently siding with Hannah B. for no particular reason. I think they are both wired a bit too tight. But the "telling on" another 'ette to the Bachelor never ends well. You should realize you are jeopardizing your place in the competition if find that you spend all your time talking about another girl/covering your own ass.

Caitlin (the girl sent home, right?) was truly too "guarded" for this show. Her answer to "tell me something about yourself was "There's really nothing about that I'd like to open up about" (approx). Well that stops that convo in it's tracks! That is never going to get you far on a show where you have 10 minutes to spill your guts and make yourself memorable to the guy that's dating 29 other women who are happy to tell their life's story in their allotted time frame (like the redhead who spilled her guts tonight). Make some kind of conversational effort or go home! I mean this was worse than the "can't think of a toast" girl.

Edited January 22, 2019 by Wandering Snark

[Soobs]

I thought the Bachelor rules clearly state that she who smelt the drama, dealt it which means Hannah has to go.

[tinkerbell]

Kate?  did she just show up for today's rose ceremony?  I swear I never saw her before. 

Colton was a fool to get so upset over two women who are each telling him that the other is hostile, mean, manipulative, etc.   Then he tries to straighten it out.  "she says you're hostile."  "I'm not hostile."  "I'm so confused."   Colton, they don't like each other, they're replaying the beauty pageant fight they had, and they are more interested in "winning"  that fight than they are in you.  Cut them both, make them leave in the limo together.  

[Andromeda]

5 hours ago, Lemons said:

We don't know the story but I didn't like how she said obviously she put the baby's life first. No, not obvious. Her sister had a child already who needed her. I feel like she used that story to impress this apparently religious guy and it sickened me. 

 

Me, too. It used to be that there was no question the mother's life always came first. Always. Then I began hearing anti-choicers railing against abortion even to spare the life of the mother. Shocking. A mother who needed an abortion in Ireland was denied one by a Catholic hospital, and now her kids have no mother. And Ireland made abortion legal partly to prevent that outrage.

I tried to get excited about the fighting pageant princesses, I think I'm on the side of the first runner up. But I don't really like either one. Who says they have a beautiful monster inside of them? It's that a normal expression? That was the pageant chick who stayed, and roared. Weirdo. Colton should have cut them both. The stories always need examples, but I think they're cut out because they involve other people who haven't signed releases. 

I'm glad he had a chance to talk to Hannah G. She's a cutie. And I can pick her out, unlike so many of the blonde. 

Edited January 22, 2019 by Andromeda

[ByTor]

3 hours ago, tinkerbell said:

Cut them both, make them leave in the limo together.  

Or cut them both on a two-on-one so they have to sit on the cliff/in the desert/on the beach together, leave in the helicopter together, and then ride in the limo together :)

[RedheadZombie]

8 hours ago, Lemons said:

We don’t know the story but I didn’t like how she said “obviously she put the baby’s life first”.  No, not obvious.  Her sister had a child already who needed her.  I feel like she used that story to impress this apparently religious guy and it sickened me.  

I strongly agree with the bolded.   I'm tired of mother's being sainted for orphaning their living child to produce a second motherless child.  It also reinforces the flawed religious belief that a fetus's life is of greater value than the mother's.

However, I personally don't feel like Elyse was manipulating him.  He would have given her the rose regardless - he's really into her at this point.

[JudyObscure]

Yes!  Cut them both!  What are two girls who, at least by some weird standard, have been judged the most beautiful woman in her state, even doing here?  Most ex-beauty queens marry one of the local big-wig and spend the rest of their lives queening it over the community.  Neither bimbo can come up with a single practical example of manipulation or deceit, they may not know exactly what the words mean.  I don't find either one pretty, their eyes are too small.  I noticed when I was a little girl that most pageant girls were all teeth and wobbly legs in heels.  I did a great imitation for my friends with my mother's shoes and  those wax candy teeth.

8 hours ago, Lemons said:

We don’t know the story but I didn’t like how she said “obviously she put the baby’s life first”.  No, not obvious.  Her sister had a child already who needed her.  I feel like she used that story to impress this apparently religious guy and it sickened me.  

 I've never understood how this came to be considered the, across the board,  "religious" view point anyway.  I'm religious, and I go with the Bible's clear implication that life begins when the baby "leaps in the womb," usually at about the fourth month and perfectly in keeping with the doctors and their time line for safe abortions, or even when the first breath is taken away from the mother, as was believed for thousands of years.  As for mother's life vs fetus, I would always go with mother.  Not all religious people are Irish Catholics. 

[JenE4]

26 minutes ago, ByTor said:

Or cut them both on a two-on-one so they have to sit on the cliff/in the desert/on the beach together, leave in the helicopter together, and then ride in the limo together :)

You called it, ByTor. Hannah and Caelynn will be kept around for a 2:1. That’s for sure what was unseen in the producers’ makeshift room of tapestries—convincing Colton the show needs him to hang in there a bit longer on those 2. Backup “couple” is Demi and Tracie, but a long-standing, undefined, and petty feud would win out. Then leave them both to fight it out in a deserted canyon for all eternity.

[noveltylibrary]

9 hours ago, JenE4 said:

Daaamn. Who knew the sob story was a legitimate pre-requisite for a journey on this show?!? 

I feel like I'm watching Undercover Boss lol