Welcome to Fantasy suite night!
Is anyone else over the fountain that we’ve seen a thousand times now? We do have the guys still sitting in their sitting room which is bizarre that they’re all going to hang out during this process because normally they are no where near each other and I think that’s a better way to be before you get engaged, then hanging out with the 2 guys she’s also dating. If we have a situation like we did with Colton on his fantasy suite where he hopped the fence for Cassie and then let the other 2 go (who I only realized as I was typing that was TAYSHIA!) the guys would know about. Whereas Tayshia and Hannah G didn’t know what was going on with Cassie.
It’s weird too because now they know where they line up in fantasy suite order and if windmilling is done, then they’ll know what order that happened in as well, where they normally wouldn’t.
For some reason we need a filler with Tayshia and JoJo having breakfast and talking about how she’s going on fantasy suite dates. I don’t know what the purpose of this is, unless JoJo had in her contract so many minutes she’d be on air this season and there really is nothing for ABC to show us, so they need to drag this out.
Ivan gets the first one on one date. Their date is going to be them in an ice bath in a horse trough and they are going to go for the world’s longest coldest kiss. We have Harrison here and Big Paulie who normally just grabs the luggage of the contestant when they’re cut and going home. We’ve never heard him talk before, we normally just see him quietly come in. And now he’s giving a commentary with Harrison while they’re kissing. He’s really moved up in the world, huh!?!?
Ivan & Tayshia both giggle when they first get in the ice bath and then they’re shaking but they kiss in this ice bath for 6:35. Poor Ivan, this is his date instead of hanging on a beach or heck even shopping in a local market of some small foreign town would be better than this!
In the night portion of the date Ivan is giddy that they broke a world’s record and then tells her that he started falling for her a few weeks ago, but he can now say that he has fallen for her and he’s sorry if he glossed over it. Tayshia is giddy and tells him that she has been falling for him as well. Then they make-out and decide to forego their individual rooms to go to the fantasy suite and have uninterrupted time the two of them. They get to go to this lil RV thing with champagne and donuts to hang out. This makes me feel better then them all going to fantasy suites in her El Presidente suite/room like I was originally worried about. Tayshia tells us that Ivan is literally everything, which means he’s not going to get chosen, because it’s going to be too easy.
We get the morning after where they’re hanging outside the RV again and rehash what they talked about the night before. Tayshia said they talked about religion and what their goals are and things you should know about someone before you’re engaged, which makes me happy she had that conversation. Ivan walks in to talk to Brendan and Zac and he is in different clothes than his PJs he was in when he walked away from Tayshia. Poor Brendan is toeing this line of being a good friend and torturing himself with asking Ivan for more details and finds out they didn’t sleep at all last night.
So Zac & her’s date is pouring paint all over their bodies while she’s in a white bikini. He doesn’t try and disguise at all where his eyes and attention are when the paint is constantly directed towards her chest. And then they just roll around and make out on this canvas and I feel like we’re already in the fantasy suite with these two. Of the 3 she has left, she has the most physical chemistry with Zac, which makes me think she’ll choose him, but only because I don’t think she actually wants to get married right now. I think she’s looking for fun because I don’t know if she’s completely over getting hurt in her marriage and isn’t ready to fully put herself out there yet, so I think that’s why she goes Zac.
Tayshia catches him in a lie when his Mom told her that he doesn’t want kids. He said oh no, he’s being honest now, but he was lying before when he said he didn’t want to be a dad. He wants to be a dad now and is willing to be her baby daddy for 5 kids. I don’t know, I WANT to like Zac, but I just have a weird feeling that he’s a good manipulator. He tells her that he loves her and she says “OH no! Because I love you too.” Exactly the reaction that you’d want to hear. They forego their rooms and go to the fantasy suite.
Their fantasy suite was in a little condo and in the morning we walk into them jumping and dancing on the bed while she’s in her robe, you know every day activity.
We get all the guys on the couch hanging out and it’s just so awkward because you can tell they’re all friends and want to be friends, but then they’re dating the same girl. Poor Brendan is feeling the pressure of this whole situation and wants to be a good friend but wants to be a good boyfriend and he just doesn’t need to be on reality tv. He’s too good for this show!
Brendan’s date is looking at engagement rings with NEIL LANE! Or as Brendan says “The Diamond guy!”
Why does Brendan have to look at engagement rings for his date, where’s his ice bath or canvas? Instead we get Neil Lane showing Tayshia all the bracelets and rings he HAND CRAFT makes. He just keeps mentioning it and Brendan bless his heart is just quietly taking it and is internally freaking out, but let’s be honest, he’s wondering what he’s got himself into. And Neil is trying to get Brendan to try on an engagement band and Brendan is just thinking about how when he proposes the next time it’s going to be for the last time.
Tayshia tells Brendan that he was the first one she felt a connection with and then feels like he hasn’t been as open lately and doesn’t know where he stands. Brendan said they were on the right path, but today showed to him that an engagement is a forever moment. It’s been challenging being on a dating show with other guys vying for her attention. Brendan gets choked up talking about how he wants a wife and children more than anything in this world and there’s a big part of him that’s still broken and needs to heal and grow and he needs to heal from his divorce still. Brendan tells her “You deserve a man who is complete and is healed from his past and unfortunately right now he’s not that man.”
I am applauding Brendan for being classy in this moment and I realize that Tayshia protects herself by putting up a guard and getting defensive and a little angry. She basically says to him that she wishes he would’ve said something earlier. When she gets him to the limo though, he hugs her and wishes her the best and that’s when she breaks down and starts crying. She tells us in her interview she thought she’d end up with him. He’s sad in his interview she’s sobbing watching him go away and I am sad he’s not going to be on my screen anymore.
We get more filler with Tayshia and Rachel Lindsay, who was our first black Bachelorette who has married her guy she chose, Bryan. As she’s talking to Rachel about the guys she talks about the 2 she has left, but Ben gets mentioned and with Ben getting mentioned I think we all know he’s showing up again. I mean we all saw it coming a million miles away last week but now it’s even more solidified.
Ben knocks on Harrison’s door and Ben tells him that he loves Tayshia and wants to tell her that he loves her because he didn’t get a chance to tell her that. He decided the way to express his love is in bowling shoes, skinny jeans and a white shirt that actually doesn’t have a weird neck, so that’s a win!
Tayshia is wearing a dress that looks fabulous on her but is something I could never ever wear because I do not have the same assets as her. Ben knocks on her door as she’s getting ready to go to the rose ceremony. She doesn’t seem thrilled to see him, she doesn’t seem super shocked to see him and even if she’s shocked she isn’t happy about seeing him. He hems and haws a little bit and talks about how he was blindsided and Ben you NEED to get to the point! He does drop that he’s in love with her and her immediate response is to roll her eyes. BEN READ THE ROOM!!!!! She tells him that she’s not alright and she needs a minute and walks away and that’s how the episode ends with her going into her bedroom and talking to a producer.
But the promo for tomorrow makes it look like Ben is in more scenes and Ivan is only in his rose ceremony clothes! So does Ivan get dumped and it’s Ben and Zac for the final 2?!? I’d go from the best final 4 to one of the worst final 2s with that combo. Ughhhhh I think it’s Zac’s to lose, but I’d still prefer to see Ivan tomorrow on my screen instead of a lot of Ben. Oh well, we’ll get the final end of this journey tomorrow night!
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