Olivia Caridi - Bachelor 20 - *Sleuthing - Spoilers*

mysthelma wrote:I guess it was the FIR curse, and maybe thinking she was a front runner earlier on and then not getting a one on one. that probably got the best of her. But from her sm and all that she has accomplished it really hard to believe she is socially awkward.

My speculation is that she was a victim of storyboarding and producer manipulation: "Let's do a mind f**k on FIR woman. She gets two GDR (at least according to SWSNBN) but we'll block her from getting a 1 on 1, then whisper in her ear that Ben is being a kissing bandit and she should confront him. And we'll frankenbite or manipulate the editing on a "teen mom" comment (which based on sm activity does not seem to have upset Amanda). The interns persuaded us, based on their stalking of the Bachelor and Bachelorette Spoiler Fans Forum, to depart from our usual mo and actually show a love story this season, but d*mn it, MF insists we still invent some drama, controversy and villains."

I'm going to wait to see in context the alleged teen mom comment and the "confrontation" with Ben. She may well have been on Ben's "top contenders" list early on, but the point of the show is choosing one woman in the end, and Ben is required each week to narrow the field of contenders. Quite possible in my mind that Ben genuinely liked Olivia, but as time went on, fell HARD for Lauren and knew she was his F1. And not only possible but probable imo that TPTB would not show what sometimes just happens in life (attracted to a person and admire their qualities but for whatever reason, they are just not "the one") and engineered the drama\controversy\villain storyline they worship for Olivia's exit.

It's not always black and white and even if Olivia gets a bad edit, I don't necessarily think she's an absolutely terrible person who deserves that bad edit. Most of us say and do things sometimes that we end up regretting and when that happens we don't want those things to characterize us as a person. With all that said, it seems to me that Olivia is carefully manufacturing an image on SM that she hopes will compensate for the bad edit she may be getting

Or Olivia is a hard working, kind person. Do we know what her SM looked like before the show?

This is going to be a rough season of me defending my Longhorn Gal.

We don't know what it looked like bc she lost/deleted it. I'm sure she's a fine enough person but she seems very image conscious to me

stuckinsc wrote:Or Olivia is a hard working, kind person. Do we know what her SM looked like before the show?

This is going to be a rough season of me defending my Longhorn Gal.

I am right there with you!!!  And since I tend to "root for" the contestants who are singled out by the producers to be their chosen villain of the season (if they are nice people who are undeserving of the title), I already feel bad for Olivia, because of what is being said about her, even before the show airs.

There are some of the chosen villains of this show that don't let the negative comments and downright mean SM affect them, but some actually do get really hurt by all of it.  This is why I hate that the producers are only concerned with ratings and don't care what they do to the contestants lives during and after the show airs.

Olivia probably should make all of her SM private.  I hope for her sake that she can develop some thick skin.

I do think she has the potential to be less than likeable and it has nothing to do with RS. I watched that documentary about her parents planning for their wedding and her mom is very type A. If Olivia's anything like her, which I suspect she is based on her accomplishments, then I can see her being impatient and even stepping on people's toes at times. Doesn't make her a bad person, but not the kind of sweetheart most people root for.

I am a bit type A and OCD, it makes me a better scientist.

She put herself on a dating show, so she gets what she gets, but I am not going to judge anyone until I see them live.

Plus she graduated from UT, so she is on my good side already

I can see Olivia being aware of her image. She's deleted/edited her Instagram and Twitter NUMEROUS times already since she re opened/made them two weeks ago.

eversotrue wrote:I can see Olivia being aware of her image. She's deleted/edited her Instagram and Twitter NUMEROUS times already since she re opened/made them two weeks ago.

For some of us, our SM could effect or job status. Since she seems to work an actual job, not just want to sell/endorse products via SM she may need to be more careful too. JMO.

If she intends to return to\continue the career in tv reporting or a similar "in the public eye" journalism career, I would think sm image consciousness is essentially a mandatory career requirement

stuckinsc wrote:I am a bit type A and OCD, it makes me a better scientist.

She put herself on a dating show, so she gets what she gets, but I am not going to judge anyone until I see them live.

Plus she graduated from UT, so she is on my good side already

I actually like what I've seen of Olivia so far. Type A and a bit OCD works for me as well!

 Don't let this push her off you're good side, but she's a Horned Frog grad...

Mandatory career requirement or not, it makes me question how authentic the image she is projecting is. What it comes down to is that I think she's trying EXTRA hard to seem like friends with and well liked by the other contestants.