Becca Tilly - Bachelor 20 - *Sleuthing - Spoilers*

metalgirl wrote:Becca is a grown woman.  She knows the deal, she signed the contracts.  When people talk about her innocence and being "scared" for her, do they think she's mentally handicapped or something?  Really, she's not.  She made the decision.  She takes the risk. She takes the heat if it goes bad.  

If her family & friends are so freaked out, then maybe they need to just step off and let the woman live with the decisions she's making.  Because if they all insist on running her life, and she lets them, then she has way bigger problems than some possible TV embarrassment.

I preface this knowing that I am overly sensitive in this area but….

I take offense in using the label "mentally handicapped" when talking about Becca since we all know she is not.   There are thousands of people, including my daughter, who work very hard every day with their disabilities.  The two simply don't compare, no need to include it in the conversation at all.

:bigsigh:        Climbing down off my soapbox now.

I repeat, Becca is a grown woman. She can vote, drink alcohol, drive a car, pay taxes, serve her country and sign a legal contract. A legal adult.

Some people are acting as though she is incapable of executing the decision-making process in an adult manner.

I never insulted the mentally handicapped, I simply said Becca was not one of them.

I'm sure not all Bach fans will all hate on Becca because a lot of fans probably didn't follow her after her season and don't know how she stood up Jared or any other details etc. IMO she'll get more hate than love though because that just comes with the territory of being a returnee. Amber coming back too does take the heat off her a little bit. I have no sympathy for her and what's to come though. She's just going to get more money and opportunities from this. If Ben picked her, I think a lot of people would be upset because he didn't need to be the bachelor and someone else could have had the chance if he was just going to pick someone he already "knew". Then you start wondering if there were other motives on both ends, such as the free ring and all the other glam that comes with being the bachelor and F1. I just hope Becca being a virgin isn't continuously shoved down our throats. It seems like she reminds us at least once a week on Snapchat or Twitter. Okay we get it, you're a virgin! We already had enough of that on BIP from Ashley I. It's worn out now so I really hope producers don't edit it to be mentioned constantly.

metalgirl wrote:

AllAboutLove wrote: but Becca was beloved by viewers last season and was still seen as boring and Ben was beloved by viewers and still seen as boring - but the beloved outweighed the boring for both of them.

I'm not sure how these blanket statements can be backed up as fact, but I would appreciate seeing the evidence found outside of this board.

My post is snipped in that quote from me of the beginning of the sentence. This is my sentence that I posted which had IMO at the beginning of it which was snipped out...

IMO, boring to me means not as interesting or not as controversial but Becca was beloved by viewers last season and was still seen as boring and Ben was beloved by viewers and still seen as boring - but the beloved outweighed the boring for both of them.

I posted IMO at the beginning of that sentence and to clarify all of that sentence is just my opinion and beloved is not fact for anyone, not even Ben since it is not possible to be universal term but she was, based on SM response to her at the time, very much beloved IMO considering articles about her that were positive as well as lots of SM (need only look up her hashtag for TeamBecca and Beccaforbachelorette). In fact, Becca was even stated by CH that she was in consideration for being the next Bette and only reason was that she hadn't been in love before so not suited. And even then, that was due to tons of fan support, obviously second to K, on SM and tweets to Fleiss and Co to have Becca for Bette as can be seen in the hashtag here https://twitter.com/hashtag/beccaforbachelorette?src=hash.

Again, that post was IMO as posted. Jmho

I liked Becca during last season well enough. But when she made it to the end, I thought it was strange that she showed no connection or emotions towards Chris at all. That kind of made me mad, because how could she make it to the end. That's fine if she wasn't interested in Chris , but why would she stay that long then? Whether it was editing or not, the way her family said she had never been in love or had any intimate emotions with any one at all...seemed odd.

I think these feelings I have about her, are a lot of viewers feelings going into this season. If it was just that she didn't like Chris, why would her family say that? And why would she stay until the end, when maybe other girls really did like Chris?

What I think is really funny is that Ben thinks he's ULOVEABLE and Becca has never been in love. So how is she supposed to make him feel loveable??

As I said earlier, Becca would have been the Bachelorette if she was F3 and Kaitlyn F2. Trust me on that. She had a ton of fan support, she was part of the discussion, and she was one of only 4 people to sign papers, meaning she was 1 of only 4 realistic candidates from last season. Also, can you imagine the reaction if Chris sent her home after their heart-to-heart when he pulled her aside in Bali? The number of "Becca for Bachelorette" tweets would have been insane.

loveactually9 wrote:RJ what is the info you received that makes you think she won't make it far? Is it because the group of girls is so great that she has very stiff competition?

I'm curious on this too. How can you know that she will only go to maybe f5 or f6, and Becca have no clue? What if Ben really likes her and keeps her longer, how could anyone possibly know this?

Max64 wrote:

loveactually9 wrote:RJ what is the info you received that makes you think she won't make it far? Is it because the group of girls is so great that she has very stiff competition?

I'm curious on this too.  How can you know that she will only go to maybe f5 or f6, and Becca have no clue?  What if Ben really likes her and keeps her longer, how could anyone possibly know this?

I can't say at this point. I will when the show is airing. You have my word on that. Becca isn't going to be F1. Not going to happen. I'm not a gambler, but if I were, I'd bet everything I own on her not being F1. That's how confident I am based on what I have been told...by multiple people.

So it is already storyboarded for her not to be F1, or sounds that way.

I'm wondering if Ben and/or Becca are in on this storyboard. I can see her being cut just before hometown dates.

The storyboard better not be leading to her being the next lead.

I still say I want her return stint to be like Kacie B's was. Very little drama, little interaction with the lead, and faded into the sunset after like 3 episodes.