Bachelor Canada - Season 3 - Chris Leroux - Episode Discussion - *Sleuthing Spoilers* - #2

I am making my post based on the comments of those who watched the show tonight. In two of the Australian bachelor series (Sam and Richie) the families on both counts were unwelcoming and mean to the winner of the series. If Chris has professed his love so openly to Lyndsey there now has to be a huge obstacle for him to overcome to be with her. And this has happened . So unless Lynsey walks away, she has to be the winner IMO.

for me the edits are obvious... they left the I love lindsey and I want her dad's blessing

maybe... just maybe he said the same with mikaela but it was cut

however, next teaser is clear: there is something missing with mikaela

so for me lindsey was choice #1 and mikaela is choice #2

oh well... looks like mike is very very happy today so all is good.

however, lindsey with her "how to enjoy to be single" (not verbatim) does not look very good about chirs andher

Mik out first for the RC. Thinks her HTD was fantastic. She is all calm and confident. She is in love and want to be with him forever. He is the one.

Catie thinks HTD was great. Dreaming girl. She is sensing the completion of the journey. Me too, but not the way you are. No rose for you girlie....unless Lyndsay's family totally freaked him and he bails. She loves him and sees the future with Soulmate Chris.

Lyndsay on the other hand is crying. She thinks her family never game him a chance and she is willing to fight for him. She loves him so much and thinks he will be hurting if she goes home. I have to say, even cynical me...ME...believes her. This is just the beginning. She doesn't want to say goodbye even though there are so many things going against them.

Mik in plunging royal blue on one end. Catie in black and white in the middle and Lyndsay in beautiful red at the other end.

Noah comes out and says the families had a big impact on Chris. One is going.

Out comes Chris and says the usual platitudes, but says it breaks his heart that one is going home tonight. Incredibly hard decision.

I think it will be Mik, Lyndsay with Catie going home.

I'm right Mik first. All very serious.

Lots of suspenseful music and Lyndsay of course gets the rose with a little smile on his face.

Catie's mouth is hanging open because it turns out Soulmate Chris....really isn't. She just can't believe it. Want's to know if they can talk. She tells him she has never been so floored. He says this was so hard and she wonders what it was. Seriously? Does the woman not listen? He told her repeatedly...and then the journal and Soulmate Chris was the nail in her coffin.

Ugly cry....but pretty dress. She is infuriated and confused. She thinks he made the wrong choice. Funny, I don't. Girl stop being so flakey with the next one.

Chris goes back to the waiting duo and tells them they are going to Mexico.

Mik on the pirate ship and painting bodies with Lyndsay. He is naturally and not unexpectedly falling in love with both of them. I know, shocker! Meeting his parents and feels like only good things can happen. Doesn't want to break any hearts but knows he has to. Tells Lyndsay her sisters made it clear no FS and Mik is saying he is more unsure than she thought he was. He feels he should be wanting to be married to Mik but something is missing. Lyndsay is scared of losing Chris. Mik thinks she deserves to be with someone who is sure about her and he thinks he may be unable to fall in love. Dum, dum, dum....as in suspenseful music and not dumb...even thought it is.

At the end we get grandpa talking about having to beat off the Canadian girls with a stick before going back to the Netherlands to find grandma. He had a good time back in the day. Turns out grandma was older than him...33. It ran in the family. They had a habit of picking seasoned women. Laughter all around. We should have had more grandpa and less of the evil step sisters.

Omg so many emotional tears during Lyndsey's hometowns. The story with her grandfather was so incredibly heartwarming.

Aunties_Love,
Remember on her birthday, Chris posted the picture of his grandfather! I'm telling you, SOMETHING is going on!! And now I think that Lyndsey's been playing with us too with her blog and Instagram!!! Social media...I'm not your friend!! Lol!!

What's been stuck in my head are the words that Jessie used in her original blog....."just when you THINK you've got it all figured out..." "But if you look closely, you'll notice....". I thought that she was talking about herself but she was talking about her friend, Lyndsey !! She also posted on Clare (producer) Instagram on premier that "it was a beautiful and emotional journey" soooo more tears in store from me! Lol!

The hometowns clinched it for me!! Even though Lyndsey's family justifiably grilled him, absolutely no doubt...it's always been Lyndsey!

I don't believe RS spoiler now!!

Jmo...sorry I forgot to add

After show...Derek and Taylor from BIP and Lauren H.

Oompa lumpa is back. She probably has the same spray tanner as Trump. Has to make note that she also dated Ben Higgings along with Lauren H.

Derek and Taylor look so good. He is NY and she is in Seattle. Asked about a tv wedding and Kaitlyn is if they get a tv wedding before me...I swear. They are taking things slow since they have only known each other since June.

Lauren H is not dating anyone and is concentrating on her career. Thinks Chris is cute and if he is available in a few weeks....???

Discuss the latest shocking elimination. Oh please, they were all so shocked. 

Lauren thinks that Catie didn't really get to know him, she was just trying to pitch herself at Chris. Thinks that Catie talked herself right out of a relationship with the journal and the medium....soulmate Chris. Kaitlyn says a medium told her she would marry Bob and Derek says well, you're still not married to Chris. I knew I liked this guy.

They wonder how many Chris' she encounters daily.

They thought Catie's HTD was great. While the family was very welcoming the other families made him work for it.

One of the super fans thought that Catie should have listened more and talked less. The journal was the last straw.

we'll see how it goes but I am not convinced lindsey ends up with him.

prods showed us way too much. he loves her. he wants to propose. her family does not like him like AT. ALL.

I think lindsey will tell him during diner that she does not want any engagement. i do not know but i have a feeling she will accept the fantasy card... lindsey is at this point completely desperate and no shape of form will she refuse intimate moment with him. NOT. GONNA. HAPPEN. PERIOD.

But something is not right with the edits. I said it before, for me the edits shows me lindsey F2.

no wonder they told us the most dramatic ever... catie and then we shall see the major 180 with mikaela.... who will find out by chris she was choice #2 and decide to call it byebye soon after the finale.

nobody won.

Next up Lyndsay's date. Contrast between grandpa and the rest of the family.

Derek says he and Taylor's dad get along well although they were also sceptical a bit to start.

They think the dad is being realistic. I don't have a problem with being realistic. I have a problem with rude and threatening....even if you think you are being funny. NOT!

Kaitlyn points out that Chris said he is IN LOVE with Lyndsay. That is a big deal. Asking for blessing was not the right time. Lauren points out that their concerns were legitimate. I get that, but there is a way to approach it and that was not the way. They could have voiced their concerns in a more constructive way...not so aggressive, rude, condescending, threatening. Not a good look.

Taylor thinks they need more time to get to know him so he can earn their trust.

Everyone thought dad was tough until the sisters started in on Chris.

Kaitlyn was heated about their concern about hiking. I hate to agree with the orange one but yes, you can learn to hike. Bigger concerns are about how to raise kids, priorities, life decisions, etc.

Lauren thinks that Lyndsay and Chris have a different relationship to the other women. He is willing to put their relationship first above the family issues and hence why she got a rose.

Derek and Taylor think it is worth dealing with the family despite everything. They only spent a few hours together. They wish he had explained to them how he had thought about the issues they had brought up since they have discussed them throughout the show. They also wished we had heard more from Lyndsay herself since it seemed as if the sisters were speaking for her, while she seemed more open and flexible. They seemed to want to control her.

Ask the audience if the family isn't supportive, is it a deal breaker?

Audience said it isn't a deal breaker.

Super fans also have a 9 year age gap and she is the older one. Others made them feel awkward at first and she says that at first she was like Chris...very sceptical but as she got to know him more they had lots in common and chemistry. They met when he was 19 and she was 28 and they have been together for 7 years and it's their anniversary.

Next up Mik's HTD. Think that meeting the dads was good even though Chris was nervous.

They wonder if Mik is the easy, safe choice. Lauren thinks they don't have great chemistry....I agree. Kaitlyn says she doesn't see the passion and when someone brought up the fact that they kiss a lot, she said that is just what you do on the Bachelor. When you don't have anything to say, you make out. I heard this first from Ali. Yup. This is what I see with Mik....a job being carried out.

Next...Should Chris follow sisters instructions and not give Lyndsay the FS card?

Super fans...No. It's not them he is taking. Follow his heart.

Kaitlyn...No. FS isn't necessarily what people think it is. It the opportunity to talk without cameras about things that are important. 

Valentine...No. Wants to see their faces when they watch the show and find out Chris doesn't listen to them.

Derek and Taylor...No. Mind your own business. You may know Lyndsay but you don't know their relationship.

Well, that was basically a collective finger....and you know which one...for the evil sisters. Too bad we don't have that emoticon.

LeapofFaith wrote:this has just made the frc and atfr so much more intriguing - imo -

And that is the whole point!

They are having all this doubt about Lyndsay because of the whole age thing he has had throughout the season and now the disgusting family.
Now we also have something missing with Mik. Well, I always thought there was something missing so that is hardly a shocker.

Basically it seems to be being set up as if he is going to end up alone, which basically means ... IMO ... that he isn't. I'm still on board with him picking Lyndsay. I don't see him ending up alone because that seems precisely how they are setting up the edit. If by some miracle he picks Mik, then I could totally believe them breaking up ASAP since IMO it is clear it is Lyndsay who he wants and who he has wanted from the start.

LeapofFaith wrote:

HEA wrote:he said that he is falling in love with both mikaela and lindsey

but something is missing with mikaela

he refused the fantasy suite card to lindsey: your sister made it very clear

jeeez he should of still offered the card and let lyndsey decide for herself! i mean she is an adult   ....jmo

Again...I don't know that he refused to give her the card. The teaser made it appear that was the case, but in the past when something appears one way in the teaser, it ends up being the opposite. I still think he gave her the card and she made the choice. I suspect they will make it very clear that nothing but talking will be going on in there.