Bachelor Australia - Season 4 - Richie Strahan - Episode Discussion - *Sleuthing - Spoilers* #2

About episode 11 and 12 ... 2 dates that reminded me of the previous seasons:
With Nikki ... similar to Heather's (SamW) with the ride and some romance, and the band music that Lana got on her SD.
With Faith ... similar to Richie's (SamFro) with the »fun and let's pretend« date.
Now I don't know if that means Faith will be F5, F4 or F3 ... but Nikki's edit keeps reaffirming me she will be F2 ... while Richie's glimpses towards Olena confirm her F1 spot IMO.
More so after seeing the angle for the next episode (13) ...trying to convince me that she might not fit into his world ... and yet, he is keeping her.

It's up on YouTube already! I was only able to watch epi 11 before the kiddos nap time was over but it was so good! What a lovely ending this will be I enjoy Nikki and Olena so much. On a personal level I prefer Nikki but they are both wonderful and unique. In my opinion. Nikki's date was adorable as was Nikki. What fun those two have together. Life would indeed be roses with those two. Olena really seemed to surprise and impress Richie on the group date and their separate time. Also there is something wrong with me that I loved Rachel's bit of sour grapes over Olena getting the separate time! I just don't like Rachel. That rose ceremony was so sad. Poor little Faith her ending is going to be difficult to watch. I hope I can watch epi 12 this time tomorrow.

Hi all. I have popped the HTD Sneek peek screencaps in the screencap threads for analysis

Thanks [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]....based on the episode guide you posted, can we assume that the F3 all made it to Bali? I understand media reported that but just curious as to why episode guide for Sep 14th did not reference Bali but the one on Sep 15th did.

Sundy wrote:Hi all. I have popped the HTD Sneek peek screencaps in the screencap threads for analysis

Sundy you are an absolute legend for taping and catching those HTD preview Scaps! IMO that's Rachels Mum, very similar features.

So here's the thing. I think last nights episode was all about Richie is prepared to be a father figure and whether or not that is the case. The date with faith was a precursor to Alex showing him the pictures of the son. I don't think it was any accident that the child on the date was a toddler nearly the same age as Alex's son. The conversation at the cocktail party centred around whether or not Richie was ready for a child. Nikki suggested that only Richie would know the answer to this. Kudos to her. She is some respectful. Richie said all the right things to Alex and was quite concerned offscreen about it. In my opinion and I might be over analysing it but I think the whole episode was to set up the storyline for the coming weeks. I wouldn't be surprised if Richie let's Alex go at F5. I don't believe that he would take her to her home town dates unless he he was certain that she was his F1. Snez said this was her indicator that she was the F1 in the Sam wood season. At this point I believe his connection with Nikki and Olena is much stronger and therefore on that basis he may let her go early.

Further to this someone mentioned that they saw a commercial that said that the rose ceremony was going to be the most emotional rose ceremony yet? forgive me if I'm wrong but last nights rose ceremony was not really emotional and therefore I think they may have shown the wrong promo and actually next weeks. hence I think stronger than before that Alex may go home at five

It would be pretty emotional letting go of any of Alex, Faith, Olena or Nikki IMO.
Wasn't Richie spotted at some restaurant in the Mornington Peninsula around the time of HTD's?

Oh yeah I forgot about that well there goes that theory

darn it, I liked that theory

That said though would Richie be out and about when he's on the hometown visits. I would've thought he would've been in lockdown