The Bachelor Australia - Season 2 - Blake Garvey - *Sleuthing* - *Spoilers* - General Discussion -

sophienette wrote:It's funny, I can find good reasons for all F3 to be F1

Lisa: least but quite compelling, i.e. her interview. Set-up? Also Sam's IG comments that she is team Lisa...
Louise: best fit on paper, that SC where they look so content, etc... plus some things Blake said in interviews that match her well
Sam: the necklace on IG, counter balanced by most of her SM behaviour which seem to try and convince all she isnt F1.

TBH, the reason i feel it has to be Sam is simple: we always say "look who is chasing the Bette, look who the Bach is chasing..." Blake has always chased Sam, insisting to talk to her when she was throwing a tantrum and refusing to talk to him when the new girls came in for example.

here are some note I jotted down when watching HTDs last week, the voice-overs/ITMs as Blake was saying goodbywe at the end of each HTD in particular:

- Louise: her speech to Blake at the end of the HTD felt exactly like that, a speech. Almost like an ITM, saying all the right things.

- Sam: the only one not showed kissing Blake as they met at the start of HTD (that threw me). Blake saying " our life together"

- Lisa: " a possible future together" ... not using "us" but pretty close...

I have to say to me Sam is still the one I see for Blake, and I think we need to remember that what we see might not be the full truth... remember the "trust" issues with Josh and Andi... the jealousy with JP and Ash... i think the insecure/not opening up from Sam might be editing related.
Or she would have looked a lot more worried at the last RC IMHO.

Sundy wrote:Gosh. How long is Wednesday taking!!!!  I was watching Sams HTD today again and it struck me that Sam and Blake are each other's missing piece. Blake never experienced a large family and obviously enjoyed the experience and SAMs ideal man will possess the same qualities as her dad had. I'm assuming because her two younger brothers have a different surname that the man that was her dad was not her birth dad. Thinking this, the level of love and respect she has discussed in relation to him you can assume that he must have been AMAZING!  Sams apprehension now makes perfect sense to me. She is looking for one hell of a guy!  She also knows the pain of loosing someone she loved completely and is protecting her heart from that until she knows she is right. I think we are in for one exciting week. I just hope that the producers don't obviously give away the result in the final ad on Wednesday night like they did last year. All those candles in the ad for Anna and not a single candle for Rochelle. 

aerina wrote:I don't know if there's a livestream... Usually episodes of the show are uploaded a few hours after the original airing on tenplay.com.au (which, unless you have a browser extension to access blocked sites, you can't really access it if you're not from Australia) but you can also watch it on watchseries.lt or YouTube. Luckily, Aussie times run one day ahead of the US, so you'll get the episode on Tuesday. (Which is so lucky because I always have to wait one day extra to watch my favourite TV shows!)

emusha wrote:

I picked out two things that stuck to me that made me think of this... in a preliminary interviewBlake was asked to described what love is...

he said early signs of love - "when your breath catches in your mouth a bit and your heart starts to speed up and you all of a sudden forget what your name is..."
I do believe there are several times where he described what he has with sam is what would have them both "lost in the kiss" I do also think he and jess had that when they felt like they escaped into a bubble together...the difference being imho with jess the chemistry creates a fog/cloud of disorientation and attraction while with sam i think they both become more intimate and exposed ...i think they each push the other to peel off their masks with each other not only because of the attraction but because of the chemistry that's beyond physical as well

I think Blake is an emotionally intelligent guy and what he described as "losing yourself" while with someone is an intangible thing of feeling unselfconscious/free/invincible/fully vulnerable but also happy -- so far I think his mask comes down while with sam...and used to with jess cos the attraction caught them unawares... i would even say the trappings of life weren't primary to the mind while with either them but where as with jess they never got to the point of discussing and taking it to the next level cos they got lost in a fog of attraction (jess admitted as such in a recent interview where she said they got so distracted every time they'd meet that they wouldn't even discuss serious things)...with sam i think both of them become exposed as their true selves so they share certain desires in life and connect to a point they both naturally progressed in that direction...and both wanted to take it to the next serious level ...blake was pushing sam to commit to him by exposing her feelings (gosh the guy wants her to tell him she loves him SO badly ) while sam was pushing blake by saying "i thought last week we'd gotten to the serious end of the stick" when she described her discontent when the intruders came in...

in either case I do think Blake might have KNOWN with Sam hence what he said about how he feels about here being different from anyone (on their second date) -- I'm a bit split in my reasoning here about Blake possibly having the feeling of knowing sam was it early on and hence setting it up for her to be more open and pampered and even trying on rings with him and exploring the appeal of the other women... the only reasoning that works to make sense of these two things is that sam was his undeniable connection and he HOPED she would love him/want him back (which he only got to find out about after that bachelor pad conversation with lisa present) but I also think blake through life experience knows that LOVE IS not enough and that all the things around it also help make it work...up till that point he was sensing it could be  sam with the deep emotional connection and was trying to push it deeper with jess... the other ladies also gave him the option at the life he wanted and the appeal being strong enough and love not being enough he continued to explore...i think he was smart/practical/have gone through diff relationship enough to realize that there's a chance sam might not have been ready to fully let go and be in love with him and jess not ready to build a life with him and so i think he moved forward. when sam told him she was falling in love...things changed a bit and he started going for broke (big risk + big reward -- though it could be argued he was already doing that by giving her so many dates and roses which the other girls can obviously see) ... I think all of these things will be unveiled slowly if not in the coming episodes then in post season interviews

i'd said there's a chance he used rhetoric with the media by saying he was exploring with multiple women and kept an open mind thrughout and it not exactly true -- i think it's truer than I originally thought but mainly i think cos he's ready for a life long love and if the girl he wants isn't and can't give him the love he needs i think he's mature enough to know that he has to walk away. i think we'll continue to see the complexities and unravel them as the season closes...

anyhow all this to say -- there are multiple sides to this story and i do think the appeals were there from multiple angles...the question is will blake follow his heart with several unknowns/unexplainable connection(risking heartbreak), follow his mind and build a great companionship or follow his mind + desires and build a family -- want to add one last thing that I do think he's ready for committment and building a family and what he has with the ladies I think with each of them can grow into love even if it's not instantaneously making him forget his name...that's my humble opinon..i think with sam he's not in control -- he's falling and it scares him...with the other ladies i think he is walking in eyes wide open and i do think he can see himself happy with them....