7/15 The Bachelorette 15: Episode 10

So Luke comes back next week for more after being sent home? Good grief.

I rewound to the part when she and Tyler separated after their date, when she made that comment about him being the most respectful man *ever* that she's been with. She got emotional talking about him, said she had to think/process all her other relationships after this, and was crying as he left, and to me it also looked like Tyler was crying as he walked away. He turned his head away from the camera, he sniffed and made a face like he was holding it in. She said it was ripping her apart to see him leave. That broke *my* heart -- I want her to pick him so he doesn't get his heart broken. He's so sweet to her!

It seems Luke P opened a Twitter account just so he could see what Hannah was saying and try to clap back. He tried to shame her again, and she totally shut him down. What she said was clever, but if she were smart, she wouldn't engage at all. When she engages, he wins. She needs to just stop! Stop saying mean things about him. Stop replying to his tweets. Stop caring what he thinks. Stop giving him any power over you at all.

people.com/tv/luke-p-talks-argument-the-bachelorette-hannah-brown-claps-back/ 

I read both of their twitter accounts, and they both seem pretty childish taking their rant to twitter. Just my opinion.

Anything for ratings...anything for drama....anything to make this season "The Most Intense and Shocking Season of the Bachelorette....EVER!!!" {said in my best Chris Harrison voice}

In his recap of last nights show, Reality Steve had this interesting perspective regarding Hannah and Luke's conversation:

"This is a conversation that never should’ve aired, or, been held behind closed doors and done in private. Yeah, it made for great soundbites all season and the show built it up from the very first promo of the season, but lets face it, any rational person that saw that last night realizes that should’ve been a conversation between the both of them that never made air. No different than Arie breaking up with Becca for 30 minutes. We screamed “Why did that have to be televised,” and same thing last night. Yes, I’m aware some of you are loving the fact that Luke got his on national television last night, and Hannah finally had her F-U moment to him that the audience has been waiting for all season. I get it. I’m just being practical here and telling you there was no point to air that last night because it was clear neither was never going to agree with the other person – but that’s exactly why they aired it because it was conflict."

(RS says a whole lot more--several long paragraphs worth that I'm not going to copy here--about how Hannah must have known all along how Luke felt about pre-marital sex, and RS thinks she overreacted somewhat for the cameras; but bottom line these were two people who were never going to agree on this issue. Neither one is wrong. They can both believe what they believe, but the clearly don't believe the same thing.)

In some ways, I agree; and in some ways, I don't. I get that it was an intimate, private conversation and it's very voyeuristic for us to be watching it. BUT I also think that it was important to see the resolution given the extent to which he was gaslighting, lying, and manipulating her all season. If we were going to see all of that, this felt like an important closure for the audience as well. And I think that's one reason that it's very different from watching all those minutes of Arie-Becca breakup video.

So bottom line, I have mixed feelings. How about you?

I hate that they're letting Puke come back again and hope it doesn't occupy a great amount of time in that episode. On another note, I thought Jed came off as looking the worst of the final 3. He's the least articulate and sounded like a high school boy when he was telling her how he felt about her decision-making. In some ways, he was doing some of what Puke did -- stating his disapproval of her behavior and that he expected her to be better than that. It wasn't as extreme, but there were some similarities, and it also made her mad, although apparently not permanently. I don't really get why she's so attracted to him and haven't really seen it in their interaction. Poor Tyler was the only one who didn't get any in the FS.

Sean was very refreshing

Yes I think this will be a first.  Hopefully the last because she had let him go once then let him come back. Then when she let him go again it was dramatic enough, why bring him back AGAIN!

Nope, it's not a first. In fact one guy actually won this way. 
Back in Jillian's season, Ed returned, I think, at Final 3, to ask to come back. Jillian let him & ultimately chose him as F1.
The only difference is that Jillian didn't actually boot him earlier. He left of his own choice for some reason or other (work, family, or something unrelated, at least that's what he said). Then he came back to ask for another chance. At the time there were many speculations why: One was that she had already decided he was her pick before he left, and she wasn't interested in the ones left. In this speculation, Production contacted him & begged him to return to "save the season". They stayed together for a while after the show, so apparently there really was something there with both of them.
Now that I think of it, I believe that Reed came back that season too, at the Final Rose Ceremony, but was sent away.

It really bothers me that I remember all of that.

You're not the only one MissScarlet ! I totally remember the all the Ed-Jillian drama. She was so crazy about him, and I was so happy for her when he came back. Turned out he was a cheater and a cad, but I was happy for her in the moment. Reed was a nice guy. I liked him!

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Didn't Reid do that with Jillian? He brought his own engagement ring.