Nick Viall - Bachelor 21 - Episode 1 - Jan 1st - Jan 2nd - *Sleuthing Spoilers*

luvstx wrote:Was anyone else a bit surprised that they clearly showed Rachel in Finland in the previews?  Guess they don't care about the suspense anymore.

Yeah. It wouldn't be so surprising if they hadn't made it totally clear that the FRC is also in Finland. When it's on some beach somewhere it's harder to guess which scenes are from the same place, but there's no mistaking this time. Maybe they're trying to hook more people into watching by showing that he took a WOC to the end? Just the kind of cheap tactics I'd expect from this show.

I always enjoy watching the intros of contestants -- I was a little disappointed that if RS is right (they intro'd F2, F3, F4), but not Vanessa (aka F1) plus some others. I just don't think it is right that she is left out. I would like to know more about her. Are they going to repeat these same intros tonight or include different ones? I would think if they have already someone in mind for the Bachelorette like Rachel then they would repeat her segment for the people who missed last night's episode. Looking forward to tonight's episode. Nick is on GMA now.

As far as the "was he rejected again?" storyline, my opinion is they knew that was the theme they would use before the ink was even dry on his signature when he signed the contract.

nutty1 wrote:As far as the "was he rejected again?" storyline, my opinion is they knew that was the theme they would use before the ink was even dry on his signature when he signed the contract.

Totally agree.  Regardless of the actual outcome, this was always going to be Nick's storyline because of what happened to him before.  And I also agree that it works well to draw in his fans and detractors alike.

You would have to be blind to miss the fact that Rachel made it to FDs.  Maybe the producers left that in since this is the first time an African-American has made it this far, and they wanted to proudly advertise this to the world?  If so, it makes it more likely that they are looking at her as their next lead if things go according to plan IMO.  I certainly hope so.

Corinne is really obnoxious and immature from what we saw.  And clearly not the type Nick is looking for IMO.  And Nick would have to be really stupid to succumb to her advances, knowing everything he does about how that would negatively impact not only his reputation, but his chances of a happy ending with someone.

Not surprised we saw very little of Vanessa.  If she is the very obvious winner, they probably are already hiding her as much as they can, in order to get people to talk about other women early on, like Corinne, Elizabeth and Raven (OMG, her voice grates, hope her personality doesn't).

suzq wrote:I always enjoy watching the intros of contestants -- I was a little disappointed that if RS is right (they intro'd F2, F3, F4), but not Vanessa (aka F1) plus some others.  I just don't think it is right that she is left out. I would like to know more about her.  Are they going to repeat these same intros tonight or include different ones?  I would think if they have already someone in mind for the Bachelorette like Rachel then they would repeat her segment for the people who missed last night's episode.  Looking forward to tonight's episode.  Nick is on GMA now.

According to RS's summary of the first episode, they show more intros and one of them is Vanessa, where she's shown at her job. I also think the intros we saw in the special may be different in the episode or maybe longer because it is Corinne's intro that talks about her having a nanny and we didn't see that last night.

Thanks for the info! Glad to know that!

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@nickviall was so excited to meet the ladies he watered down the driveway himself. Happy #TheBachelor premiere day!

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at the Rose Parade today there were 9 contestants of the show, here is one of them, Dominique Alexis

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Be on a float in a parade... Bucket list check #thebachelor #bachelornation #tonightsthenight
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Thanks. Who were the others there?

Briana Guertler was also there, I've seen the girls, but I don't know their names, let's see who else will post pictures...

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