Bachelor 27 - Zach Shallcross - Discussion - *Sleuthing Spoilers*

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] He turned 26 on July 31st

Too young !
(Though I really like this young man)

Now all we can hope for is a bunch of older or mature women…maybe some slightly older single mothers to push the age range up and have a slightly more mature lead for the following season. JMO.

When does filming begin? I’m over the bachelorette season already.

Norcalgal wrote:I'm going against the popular opinion here. I started out not particularly liking Zach as I found him quite vanilla. But my interest in him and respect for him grew when he challenged Rachel. He seems very self-aware and that trait usually serves the lead very well. He's mature and has very good manners and is very well spoken. My only concern is there will be a bunch of young bimbos on his season and that is always a turn off.

ITA. He also has a strong personality, which I think will serve him well as the Bach. I can see him being very decisive, and telling it like it is.

southerngirlatheart wrote:When does filming begin? I’m over the bachelorette season already.

Guessing a few days after Tuesday/the Bachelorette finale. Usually they film Sept-Nov to air in January.

I thought Zach came across as trying out to be TB more than anything else and was probably quite happy that Rachel let him go at f3. I'm not saying that he's not a nice guy but just that I'm not sure he's as perfect as he seems to be (perfect is relative, of course). I'd rather have someone who was honest about wanting to be sure before he got engaged like Aven was, especially knowing there's another guy. I'd also have liked Logan. I will say this about Zach, he has a radio friendly voice.

Yeah his talk with Rachel on Part 1 of the finale is defiantly "Bachelor talk". If TPTB think he's going to be Sean Lowe 2.0 (nice guy who's got a look to him but won't cause any drama with the ladies) well they better think again!

I feel like TPTB are limited on men from this season to pick from because so many were not ready for an engagement within the time frame. Zach was one of the few who seemed like he would have proposed. The rest couldn’t wait to get to BIP

DARN! After this mess of a show, I was hoping they'd pick somebody else to be lead so I could break the cycle and quit watching. But I really like Zach. He was the only one who would tempt me to check it out next time.

As to the discussion about his age, I could see him picking an older woman, or somebody equal to his maturity. He seems much more mature than his 26 years. Hopefully he really is serious and weeds out the party girls early on.

Maybe Uncle Patrick will make an appearance at least once, and gets to say more than 2 sentences.

Zach is definitely one of the better looking Bachelors in a while

I’m hoping Zach will surprise us but he was super awkward and nervous last night. Honestly, only one of the women they had on last night (Bailey) seemed genuine to me. But my daughters reminded me that Hannah B looked terrible in this similar situation and turned out to be a fun season.