Bachelorette 13 - Rachel Lindsay - Episode 5-6 - June 26-27 - *Sleuthing Spoilers* #2

After this episode, I totally believe Peter is the "challenging" one and Bryan the "has it all together".
For Peter, she is challenged to express more, get him to kiss him, and all that jazz. And for Bryan he lay it out there, says he is ready and is just willing to wait for her to get there 100%.

And I think she will let herself get there with him. Every little progress she makes as a person romantically, I think she makes it with Bryan and then apply it to others.
And you can clearly see their first date changed a lot of things.
There was a before and an after.

Also, till now, even though Peter edit seems choppy,they still don't give us real doubt. And at the same time we don't see real progress, at least not from his part.
While in other seasons, F1 is hidden, when they show him, we see a bit of progression. Here with Peter it's just banter and Rach making it obvious she is into him. Nothing agaunst the guy or his pace or anything. Just trying to see it with sleuthing eyes.

Anyway it's all JMHO.

Was last night the most boring episode of the season so far? Not sure I wanna watch Kenny vs Lee.

@bleuberry Yes. The most exciting part was it ended on a RC and not a TBC.

It did seem like a slow episode, quite few guys are gone but apart from that it felt like nothing really happened, just felt slightly repetitive, hopefully the 2nd 1on1 dates will get things moving.

Last night's epi was the first time I could keep straight who Matt is. And Rachel kept him over Alex? He doesn't even bring any drama so I can't even understand him as a producer pick. Did he stay because his was the name drawn out of the hat?

They could have literally cut out last night's episode and spliced in a test pattern and then panned to the RC and it would have been good for me.

I just feel like Rachel is not really being herself with Peter! She is not aggressive; she has said this about herself. Nick tried to pull her out. She says she is guarded in relationships until she's sure. With Peter, she is like a different person. I think its very scripted the way she is acting. It's fine. Makes the story interesting to show how opposite the two relationships are. I just hate it that we never really get to see the lead and F1 have a real falling in love relationship because they "hide" all the real conversations. I'm a Nick fan and I don't think either Bryan or Peter match up to Nick in terms of being an all around good guy, great conversationalist, passionate, genuine, intelligent, etc. Kinda makes me sad.

@KB_Mom I know. I still don't know which one is Matt and which one is Adam.

Now we see why they kept Lee around. As soon as he left along with 5 others, we may think it's getting a little dull.

I can't with Bryan either. I keep hoping to see him as charming rather than a walking cliché, but it's not happening. It's not even a matter of whether he's genuine or not anymore, because if he means everything he says then IMO he's off his rocker. A 37-year-old man who lives in the land of fairy tales and magic and responds to realistic concerns with shock and a whiny "whyyyy"? No thank you. Rachel, you're not a pessimist, just an adult woman with a grasp on reality. JMO.

Not to say she shouldn't pick him, if that's who her heart wants, but I'm just surprised considering all the talk about keeping it 100. I feel like you'd need pliers to get any real talk out of Bryan. Though who knows, maybe whoever's in charge of editing just hates him and thinks it's funny to leave in nothing but clichés, but at this point I feel like the only difference between him and Kasey Kahl is that Rachel likes him back. JMOAA.

Rachel says we will see her struggle, and go back and forth on this person, but also that he is the only one she falls in love with. But maybe we won't see her struggle back and forth. When she said that, she didn't know if the edits would show that. Maybe they will not show her struggle; they won't air her itms that show this. Because so far, I'm not seeing any struggle going back and forth in the last couple of episodes. Anyone else?

bluwavz wrote:@KB_Mom I know. I still don't know which one is Matt and which one is Adam.

Matt has darker hair and a beard. Adam is blondish. That's all I got and I had to pay close attention when their names were called at RC to get that much. And I probably only finally got that straight because Rachel really thinned the herd last night.