BACHELORETTE 14 - Becca Kufrin - General Discussion - **NO SPOILERS** - *SLEUTHING*

General Discussion.

Have fun everyone.......Hope you have a great season!

I wil get the season preview posted when I can tomorrow.  It may take a little longer than normal, real life is busy, busy tomorrow.  Just be patient and I promise to get them up as soon as I can.

Better late than never... happy sleuthing y'all.


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Thanks for those previews, bug. I'll jot down my thoughts tomorrow sometime once I watch the episode!

After having watched this episode, I have no words.

Veg...truly appreciating Em's and Ali's guys.

Why are so many past contestants? Are there going to be past cast members every episode?

Still not warming up to Becca...too much slang swearing (i.e. Hell ya) for my liking. And she seems to me to be kind of a downer. I dunno.

Out of the guys, Colton is the only one's name I remember. Can't believe TPTB cast him and are bringing Tia on.

I think I'm just so over this show. I may not stay unspoiled, not interested enough to try to figure it out.

@Bet2Win I just watched the episode myself and this whole bash Arie he broke your heart theme is getting old. Arie this, Arie that. I Look, we get it, but you're on the Bachelorette so you've obviously moved on.

After 2 episodes I am not into the season as much as I thought.  

Initial guys for Becca are Colton, Garrett, Blake, Wills, and JP (cologne guy). Now with Tia dating and virgin things not sure which direction Colton's storyline will go.  This could either be a Bach twist where they have their "overcome" moment early in the season versus later or it is planting reasons for her to send him home eventually.  Either way it seems he is around for a while as we see him in several previews, 1on1 and saying ILY.

I too am fed up with the Arie references.  If I was Blake I would not have wanted to be on a date that focused more on an ex than the two people involved.  I am sure much is producer driven, but how can we as viewers get vested in Becca and other guys if all we hear about is Arie (??)

I am going to give it another week or two and see if I can stay unspoiled.  It might prove difficult if I don't see true potential for any of the guys to become serious, life long partners for Becca.

Finally had a chance to watch the episode.

I was struck by the fact that Becca reads much like Arie and even Nick did for the first few episodes--she's unimpressed. The Bette's typically more enjoyable, IMO, simply because the women choose early who they want. It becomes quite hard for them to hide their feelings. I haven't seen "it" yet with anyone though Becca seems to tolerate three or four of them...

All of the drama aside, the guys in that 1st group date are not on her list. If Garrett was in the losing group for the 2nd group date, that's the reason that both teams ended up at the party. I'm keeping an eye on Garrett largely because their story is very slowly building. We can see that they're very similar ("you're like the female version of me), they're attracted to each other, and he's providing her with that stability ("I'm here for you" paraphrase) in a sea of men whom she's questioning. Their chemistry seemed a bit stilted to me, likely because I saw 5 total minutes of them interacting to date. Also, I'm not sure how Becca looks/acts when she really likes a guy, but Garrett, he's definitely in the top 3 if I had to guess now. A few times there were camera pans to him (I can't remember the exact words) that pertained to the last guy standing/the one, etc.

Blake: Blake had a camera pan that said something like "push through" and then it panned to Garrett with the "finding what you're looking for" quote (I'm paraphrasing badly). Blake is interesting to me in that I think he could be this season's JoJo. I loooooooove JoJo, and I think that I'm going to love Blake (he's such a cutie). He just seems like a good egg. In the end, he's the likely person who will give Garrett a run for his money because I can see Becca/Blake connecting emotionally.

Colton needs to go. That whole thing gave me war flashbacks to Bentley and Ashely. If you don't trust him now, it's not going to happen. Some of these guys, I think, are plants to force her to confront her trust issues--that's this season's theme.

The other football player and the Venmo guy seem like good-hearted men (yes, @Bet2Win, I miss miss miss Em's guys). Jason and most of the rest of this crew drip with toxic masculinity, so I'm struggling to a.) take them seriously and b.) pay attention to them when they're on mostly because I'd hope she'd avoid a guy like that. We'll see. Still learning names clearly.

Becca reminds me of Jillian. I don't, however, think that she's in this so much for a marriage (are any of them anymore?) as much as a career transition (speculation). If she finds someone whom she likes, has fun with, and maybe even loves, that's an added bonus.

Well I fell in love with Clay tonight.  There is an area in your wrist that if you don't have surgery like within 3 days, it can't be repaired.  I'm so glad he did not wait!  

I like Blake too, even though he seemed somewhat fragile in his emotions tonight...in deep early on.  

How long do we have endure the model guy?  

But, for the life of me, I can't see any of these guys as the lead for next season as of this moment.  I can't tell who Becca likes, she's fairly equal in her distributions of compliments to them. She kisses all of them, leans into all of them, puts her head on their shoulder, etc., so I'm going to follow you @veg_out, and look elsewhere for clues of who has the "connection".

Anyone else still on this side?

It's very obvious she really likes Jason and Blake. The girlfriend statement by Blake lit Becca up.
Sad to see no interactions between banjo Ryan and Becca. Must not be anything there. I had hopes for them preseason.

I like both her 1-on-1 last night. I'm pleasantly surprised on whom she has expressed interest on. To me, they're not your cookie-cutter good looking male.

IMO, I see physical attraction to both Colton and Garrett but I'd rather she focuses on someone else.