Episode 8 (HTD's) - 2/18 - Bachelor 17 - Discussion - Spoilers

reason wrote:If you all notice in the banner the only smile that reaches Sean's eyes is when he is with Catherine. All the other smiles are have smiles.

No offensive but Sean's smile looks the same to me in all of the pics in the banner. That's what's so confusing the Season, it's kinda late in the game for him to still be undecided imo.

umngirl wrote:Random questions, will Sean ask for a blessing from every girls' family? Just a few? Will we be shown him asking all or some of them? I know he asks Lindsay's dad so I wondering about the rest

Good question. I could see him asking for all, for several reasons. If he's really being open minded then I can see where he'd want to leave the possibility open. He's too traditional of a guy to give the impression of a possible proposal as the next couple of episodes unfold if we've only seen the 'do I have your blessing' convo with a subset of the gals.
And even if it's just for the 'they have a show to produce' angle, I can see him being okay with it if he were to word the conversations so as not to be promising too much to the parents. Sort of ties in with the 'keep an open mind' angle as well , which he seems sincere about.

I am pleasantly surprised how much I am loving him as the Bach because he seems open minded and deliberative, not led by his loins, and he's providing the eye candy, too! Win win win!

umngirl wrote:Random questions, will Sean ask for a blessing from every girls' family? Just a few? Will we be shown him asking all or some of them? I know he asks Lindsay's dad so I wondering about the rest

I find myself paying a lot less attention to the Bachelor most seasons than the Bachelorette, but doesn't the Bachelor usually do this in one way or another with all the families? From a production standpoint, they almost have to, because it would be a giveaway if they asked it of one girl's family (or more), but not the others.

Jaybird wrote:

umngirl wrote:Random questions, will Sean ask for a blessing from every girls' family? Just a few? Will we be shown him asking all or some of them? I know he asks Lindsay's dad so I wondering about the rest

Good question. I could see him asking for all, for several reasons. If he's really being open minded then I can see where he'd want to leave the possibility open. He's too traditional of a guy to give the impression of a possible proposal as the next couple of episodes unfold if we've only seen the 'do I have your blessing' convo with a subset of the gals.
And even if it's just for the 'they have a show to produce' angle, I can see him being okay with it if he were to word the conversations so as not to be promising too much to the parents. Sort of ties in with the 'keep an open mind' angle as well , which he seems sincere about.

I am pleasantly surprised how much I am loving him as the Bach because he seems open minded and deliberative, not led by his loins, and he's providing the eye candy, too! Win win win!

Thankfully, he does mostly use his brain... though one of his tweet response Monday night to why Tierra lasted so long he admitted he's a guy and therefore doesn't always think with his head.... I love that self-debasing Sean.

Love_Me wrote:

I think they might only show Sean asking Lindsay's dad for her hand in marriage because they want us to believe he ends up picking her at the end. JMO

sophienette wrote:Guys, gotta correct 1 thing ... Pretty sure we will NOT see Carey on-screen for HTD or ATFR. Guessing Sean asks Cynthia for Cat's hand.

Do you think they will show Sean asking her mother this?

reason wrote:If you all notice in the banner the only smile that reaches Sean's eyes is when he is with Catherine. All the other smiles are have smiles.

Those are the smiles I watch for. If his eyes aren't smiling he isn't happy. : )

Isn't it unusual to have the eliminated person to stand at the end at this ceremony (after HTD)? Seems like they are put in the middle so two people can hug them. I don't follow all the editing but seems like one pattern that's been fairly true all these seasons.

RealityEscape wrote:Isn't it unusual to have the eliminated person to stand at the end at this ceremony (after HTD)? Seems like they are put in the middle so two people can hug them. I don't follow all the editing but seems like one pattern that's been fairly true all these seasons.

I think that is normally F3 where the one going home is in the middle.

Though Sean was on the end at f3.

RealityEscape wrote:Isn't it unusual to have the eliminated person to stand at the end at this ceremony (after HTD)? Seems like they are put in the middle so two people can hug them. I don't follow all the editing but seems like one pattern that's been fairly true all these seasons.

I can pull the pictures later, but there were two season of the Bachelor in recent history (Jill forward) where the F4 was on the end: Jake's season and Brad 2.0's. In Jake's season, the other end was the F2 and in Brad's, the F1. In those seasons, the F1/F2 was in the middle, obviously.

In almost all the post-Jill Bachette seasons, the ends are reserved for the F1 and F2 at that point in filming. If things change, like F2 becomes F3, then it's after that point typically.

I'll try to post the pictures later, but it is very interesting and lends credence to the idea that maybe Dez wanted to leave like Ali. It also can send us awhirl regarding the true lineup of Sean's F3.