-Time for Cassie’s date, which took up the last 75 minutes of the show. Remember at the beginning of the season when I laid out the spoilers I was confused on how they were going to have enough footage to fit every episode, and I even thought there would be one less episode considering there isn’t a final 3 rose ceremony, the final 2 meeting his family, the final 2 each getting a last date, and no final rose ceremony where he chooses between two women? Yeah, I think I get it now. As I mentioned last week, last night pretty much played out like Arie and Becca’s breakup. That seemed to run about 15 minutes too long considering nothing got accomplished. Cassie said “I don’t know” 100 times, and all Colton really did was say, “Come here” and hug her. Now going into the 2 night finale next week, it’s clear they have plenty of footage left to last them two nights and 4 hours.
-The biggest question and/or reaction I’ve received on Twitter and email since last night was the return of Matt F***ing Randolph, and was it staged, or was it set up by Cassie and her dad all along. That’s too conspiracy theory for me. I don’t buy into that stuff. Obviously it was set up by production. Matt just didn’t fly to Portugal on his own and make this decision to see his daughter. It was probably brought up to him, or he said it to them, that he still needed to talk to his daughter. I know some people are killing him, but I just don’t see it. Everything he told Cassie I would think is what any parent who ever has a kid on this show would say. What am I missing here? You basically know nothing about this person that you’re expected to get engaged to. Give it some more time. Don’t do something for the sake of doing something show related. That’s the message I took from it. Seems reasonable to me. The fact that people are calling him controlling and horrible parent is out of this world to me. I don’t get it. Dude is a logical guy, he sees this is a television show, and he’s helping his daughter see it through because maybe she has blinders on, something we’ve heard 1000 times from contestants over the years about how when you’re out there, you’re in a complete bubble. It’s fantasy land. All The Matt Daddy did was bring her down to reality.
-Is Cassie in her own head? Sure. I think a lot of people on that show are at that point. How can you not be, really? The only difference is, Cassie seemed to act upon it, whereas others just go along with things. Now, knowing what the end result is of all this, yeah, next week will be interesting because how does she get from one point to the next. Colton clearly told her last night they don’t have to be engaged and he just wants it to be them in the end. And she still bounced. So knowing that they end up together, what made her change her mind? And I guess more importantly, even when she does, will anyone believe her? I need to see it play out before forming an opinion. Nothing is black and white right now. I know we live in this hot take world, but sorry, until I see exactly what her reasoning is and why in a few days she went from where she was last night to where they got to, I can’t begin to speculate.
-Does she have a talk with her dad? Is Colton’s full court press too much to pass up? I mean sure, the opinion is out there that Cassie kinda likes him and Colton is head over heels for her. Two different wavelengths. And any reconciliation between the two you already know people will be saying it’s out of pity, or she felt sorry for him, or she had to take him back because she’d feel hated by the public if she didn’t. Again, I wanna see this play out next week. I wanna see if it’s even somewhat believable. There isn’t an engagement at the end, but those hopeless romantics will get some sort of “love” story next week when they end up together. Just to me, right now, it seems like it’s almost desperate on Colton’s end. Yes, I understand some people will see it completely opposite and it’s him fighting for what he wants, but I have a hard time seeing it that way. I look at it more as he wants what he can’t have. She’s pushing back, and that makes him want her more.
-Someone asked me last night, if I was in Colton’s position, what would I have done. On the show, not in real life. The thing I do agree with in what he did, was that next week he dumps Tayshia and Hannah G. That was smart. As little as I think of the guy already, I probably would’ve thought even less if after Cassie bailed, he just decided to pick between one of the final two. That wouldn’t have seemed believable at all. I know emailers last night are comparing this to the Des & Brooks situation and she moved on to Chris after being a crying mess when he left, but they’ve been married for 5 years now and have a child with one on the way. To sit here and dissect what would’ve happened with Brooks is pointless and almost doing a disservice to Des & Chris’ marriage. Who cares about Brooks and Des? So I agree with Colton dumping the other two next week. As for continuing to chase after Cassie? That I’m not so on board with.
