Okay first things first, The
Bachelorette aired at 12:05am this morning because of stupid baseball. I
turned on the TV, prepared for an amazing 2 hours of drama and was foiled by
America’s “favorite” pass time. Bleh. Needless to say I was not happy. I imagined
myself getting up early to watch before I came to work, not sure why I thought
I would do that. It would really say something about my instability as a person
if I was able to get up to watch The
Bachelorette at 5:00 in the morning when I can almost never force myself
out of bed for any other reason at that hour. Thankfully, I’m not as crazy as
all that (huge relief for me) and I did not wake up early to watch. I did catch
up this morning and finally it feels like the show might be back on track, I’m so
glad that Chris Harrison stepped in to force Kaitlyn in the right direction.
One-on-One Date with Ben
H.
Kaitlyn was sad about the past week and Ben could tell but he helped pull her out of her funk. She said
that he seems like husband material and asked if she was wife material and what
that means to him to which he said aside from physical attraction he looks for
joy/hope and being better and happier together even when times are tough. Good
answers Ben, I think I like you. Kaitlyn’s idea of husband materials was
someone not giving up on her when times get tough. He’s falling in love with her but he needs to
tell her about his biggest fear (that he is unlovable), which blows her mind
because she feels like he is a very lovable person that she could and is
falling in love with.
When discussing the fantasy suite he mentions that he feels
like it’s more than just sex and wants to spend the night talking to her, so
she asks him if he is a virgin. What a weird thing to ask, just because he
doesn’t want the whole fantasy suite to be “about sex” she thinks he’s a
virgin. In case you were wondering, he is not.
Group Date – 3 on 1
A group date!? I thought she was supposed to have a bunch of
one on ones to help her decide which 3 guys to take in to overnights. I guess I
misunderstood the convoluted new rules.
Shawn is first up
and they are trying to get back on track after the rough cocktail party last
week where Kaitlyn said they needed to take a step back. Kaitlyn is preparing
herself to tell Shawn about what happened with Nick because she realizes that Shawn
questions her a lot and has insecurities and trust issues so she knows she
needs to be honest with him. Just when she is about to tell him, Nick
interrupts them.
Kaitlyn asks Nick
how he feels about what happened and he says he doesn’t regret it and feels
good but can tell that she has some reservations. She tells him that she thinks
it was too fast, but then of course he uses his conversational wizardry to help
smooth things over for her. This guy is so manipulative. He might be the best
“actor” to ever be on this show.
Next up Joe gets some time with Kaitlyn and she asks him if he would be ready to be engaged
after the show. He gets super romantic with her and tells her that he’s in love
with her. She doesn’t respond very well, obviously flattered but she’s really
not feeling it and decides that she needs to “address it immediately”. She tells him that they are not on the same
page and he completely shuts down, kind of turning in to a jerk asking her “what
he should do now” and makes it really awkward for her. She just wanted to hug
him and say good bye and he gets pretty pissed at her so she just walks away.
Kaitlyn doesn’t feel right about giving out the rose during
the date so she tells Nick that she
will see him at the rose ceremony and tells Shawn that they need more time together so she will see him later
that night. Nick doesn’t feel good about this, he feels like Kaitlyn is
choosing Shawn over him. He knows he came in late and has had less time with
Kaitlyn and feels like he needed that time with her.
One on one time with
Shawn
Shawn thinks they need a night to relax from the stress of
the week, little does he know what is about to happen. Kaitlyn tells him that
she does just want to hang out and have a good time but there is something on
her mind that she hasn’t talked to anyone else about, and only wants to tell
him because she wants to be honest with him and doesn’t want him to find out
later. She tell him that it went too far with Nick on their one on one date in
Dublin and that they had sex. Shawn is visibly upset when she tells him this.
He asks if she regrets it and she said that she felt guilt and couldn’t stop
thinking about what it would do to their relationship. He excuses himself to
take a minute to regroup, basically it seems like he just doesn’t want to look
at her in that moment.
When he returns from the bathroom (where he was “so tense he
couldn’t even piss” – not sure why that was necessary to include in the show),
he thanks her for her honesty and tells her that he is upset about it, but doesn’t
want to make it about Nick and that at the end of the day he is there for her
and he will man up and try to get past it. He says, “What am I gonna do? Storm
out of here? No, because I want you.” He thinks she is worth all of it,
otherwise he wouldn’t still be there. He actually handled it with her WAY
better than I expected him to in that moment.
Instead of putting it out of his head like he wants to he
does what he always does and festers on it, and the more he thinks about it the
more he questions whether or not he can deal with it because he feels like if
she trusted him she would let Nick go. Of course. More drama. He can’t just let
it go, why would he think he could it’s not like him at all.
Rose Ceremony
Chris Harrison announces that Kaitlyn knows what she wants
to do and that there will be no cocktail party so they will go right in to the
rose ceremony. Jared is the only one
who didn’t get a date before this, so obviously he is worried. Kaitlyn tries to
give Shawn the first rose and he
says “I need to talk to you.” Not a good sign. He doesn’t understand why she
would tell him he is “the one” and then go ahead and sleep with “the other guy”.
She says that telling him that he was the one
halfway through was a mistake. She is here to explore other
relationships because at the end of it she never will again, at the end she
hopes to find her husband and he will be the one forever. She understands that
she had no business telling him he was the one because it wasn’t fair to him
since there were other relationships happening. She loves his honesty and that
he cares so much, but he needs to let her figure things out for herself and
asks him if at the end of this he will be able to trust her. She doesn’t feel
like he trusts her and he has to if it’s going to work out. This was maybe the
most real and honest “relationship-like” conversation I’ve seen on this show
this season, maybe ever on the show. He does eventually accept the rose. Man,
if he is not the one in the end, they have been through a lot for nothing.
Next roses go to – Ben
and Nick (DANG IT!). So I’m not that
surprised because the show wants there to be a lot of drama and keeping Nick
around pretty much guarantees that Shawn will be that source of drama they need.
Also, in the previews Shawn confronts Nick so it was obvious he was going to
stay. But I’m very sad for Jared. He
is a great guy and left in such a nice way. What a little sweetie. This was the
most upset Kaitlyn has been yet letting someone go.
So it feels like it should be the end of the episode,
because Jared leaves in the limo and normally that would be the end but there’s
still like 15 minutes left!!!
Moving right along we
jump right in to the overnight dates, starting with Nick.
Kaitlyn is trying to figure out if there is more than just
passion with Nick and if she sees a life with him. They share some stories
about growing up and she feels really comfortable with him and normal and
starts to realize there is more to their relationship. They hang out in a pub
and strike up some conversation with the locals and she can’t really understand
them with their accents which is pretty funny. She asks if any of them are
married and one of the old guys says he’s been married for 36 years so she asks
for his advice and he says the key to a lasting marriage is trust which Nick
identifies with. Weird that Nick would have experience with trust issues.
Later, Nick starts talking smack about Shawn, because he is
threatened by him so obviously he’s going to try to make him look bad. So Kaitlyn
turns around and confronts him about how all of the other guys have only
expressed concern over him and no one else in the house so why would no one
else have anything bad to say about Shawn, it did kind of feel like she was
being a little protective of Shawn. She seems to understand why Shawn says
things about Nick and Nick says things about Shawn because they are jealous and
these things just really don’t matter so this passes pretty quickly.
Finally, they head over to the suite and Kaitlyn feels like
she might be falling in love with him too. Lucky Nick, he gets a SECOND “off
camera” night with Kaitlyn. Gross. But apparently they spent a lot of time
talking as well and getting to know each other better, so that’s good I guess. I
think for the first time ever they show “the couple” hanging out in the suite “the
next morning”. They were just chilling, eating breakfast together. Dang it,
they seemed so normal like a real couple. Why is Nick always so convincing!!! I
don’t trust that guy but unfortunately he’s good at making it seem like he’s
decent and normal. WTH!
Isn't he cute? Don't you want him to have a chance? |
Confrontation
We end this episode with Shawn all up in his head again and
deciding that he’s going to confront Nick about the situation and his
intentions for being on the show. They basically just fight, it’s pretty clear
that they don’t like each other and probably never will. In the previews we see
that Kaitlyn is very upset about the tension between Shawn and Nick, hopefully
one of these guys goes next week and Ben H. gets a shot at the final rose!
FYI – Update on Britt and Brady, they are going to try long
distance. In case anyone cares.
Oh yeah, wanted to give you a heads up that I’m traveling
for work next week and won’t be able to watch or blog about The Bachelorette until Wednesday! Sad
face, sorry in advance for the delay, I hope you won’t be too sad.
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