Bachelorette 2016 Recap: Episode 6

The Group Date

Before the date begins, James discusses how he’s not going to blow anybody away with his looks or his abs. He’s right but his humility is excessive and annoying. I do not want another season of The Bachelor where the lead thinks he doesn’t deserve love. It was somewhat tolerable with Ben because he was so easy on the eyes but James does not have Ben’s looks to fall back on. There’s a huge difference between Ben saying he doesn’t know why 25 girls would want him and James saying it. One sounds like false modesty and the other just sounds like reality.

Jojo and the boys end up at a community basketball court which looks like it’s in a poor area. They have a random soccer match with some locals. Another truly inspired date idea. :I

The guys play a penalty kick off match to compete for a kiss from Jojo (I guess that’s where the “boca” part of the date comes into play). Aren’t there more interesting things to do in Buenos Aires? They’re in Argentina for goodness sake and they look like they’re in South Central. Come on, Bachelor producers! Show these boys a good time before they ship back to the motherland.

The Group Date Cocktail Party

Luke and Jojo have another crazy make out session and Jojo lets us know that her and Luke’s chemistry is off the charts as if we didn’t already know. He’s not going anywhere except to the fantasy suite.

The two-on-one date card arrives at the hotel: “Derek, Chase. It takes two.”

Derek: I wish it weren’t you who’s going home. LOL!

Chase:

Back at the cocktail party, James throws Jordan under the bus. I’m not exactly sure what he was complaining about. It was something about a card game and Jordan and making up new rules or something. I didn’t get it. It certainly wasn’t damning. I guess the gist of it was supposed to be that Jordan thinks he’s “entitled” ’cause he’s famous.

Jojo pulls Jordan aside for a chat to get to the bottom of this unintelligible nonsense.

So it turns out what REALLY happened between James and Jordan was a different perception of the rules of poker. I think it’s a little strange that James would consider that a big enough deal to report to Jojo. Sometimes people just disagree. I still don’t trust Jordan’s intentions but stating his belief about what the rules of poker are which run contrary to what James believes the rules of poker are isn’t exactly enough to condemn him.

Jordan claims he isn’t entitled and his mother didn’t raise him that way. Okay, sure. But the deck of life is definitely stacked in his favor. Does being entitled always mean acting entitled or are some people just naturally more entitled than others? Jordan is privileged at the very least as are most of the men on this show.

Jordan is not happy when he returns to the cocktail party. He and James quibble over the incident to no avail.

Luke gets the date Rose.

Derek and Chase’s Two-On-One

Derek is really cocky about his chances. I’m not sure why he thinks his connection with Jojo is so strong. But I don’t like Derek so I don’t really care and I’m glad he’s going home.

Big surprise. The note on the date card, “it takes two,” referred to tango dancing. Another date where guys have to learn a dance. Dear God, this is boring.

Both guys seem to think they have a good connection with Jojo but at least Chase has the humility to recognize maybe it’s not what he thought it was. Derek is completely delusional about his connection with Jojo.

During the night portion of the date, Derek tells Jojo that he’s falling for her. And Jojo responds, “I appreciate that.”

We find out during her time with Chase that Jojo’s love language is words of affirmation. If you don’t know what that is, it would be worth your while to look into it, especially if you’re having relationship struggles. A lot of problems between couples come from not speaking each others’ love languages. Most people love their partner the way they feel loved instead of loving their partner the way he/she feels loved. My top love language is also words of affirmation but there are four others: http://www.5lovelanguages.com/faqs/love-languages/

All that is to say that Jojo doesn’t feel love from Chase because he’s not giving her words of affirmation. It’s probably not going to work out between them if they’re starting off this way. Generally, you don’t get into that until you have an established relationship. Luke and Jordan excel at giving words of affirmation (especially Luke) which is why Jojo is likely to pick one of them.

A lot of guys struggle with words of affirmation even though they’re the key to unlocking most women’s hearts. That’s why smooth talkers are often good at getting women into bed. They know what to say to get women to fall for them.

Chase gets the date rose despite his poor communication skills because Derek is a wanker.

I like Derek even less when he refers to himself in the third person during his exit interview which is full of self-pity.

Ironically, Derek cries while Chase and Jojo dance to a woman singing “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina”. I’m sure they didn’t plan that AT ALL.

Cocktail Party

Jordan says he wants to “do life” with Jojo. Was he talking about marriage or prison? Same difference?

Also, I didn’t know they made skinny suit slacks.

Alex flips out because he’s the only one who hasn’t had a one-on-one with Jojo.

Jojo doesn’t want Alex to feel like he’s behind but let’s be honest, he always has been and he’s never gonna catch up.

I really can’t wait for him to go home. If he gets the one-on-one next week, I don’t see him getting the rose unless the producers still need him for something.

Rose Ceremony

Luke and Chase already have roses. Robby and Jordan get the first two roses of the three that are left but then Jojo runs outside in the middle of the rose ceremony to tell Chris Harrison that she doesn’t want to give out the last rose.

Psych! She wants to give out two roses. Good one, ABC.

It’s a good thing Jojo wanted to conveniently spend more time with James and Alex before inevitably kicking them to the curb because ABC would have one less week of the show than they need to cover the standard season.

Both James and Alex believe they deserve fifth place over the other.

Alex is not happy that he and James got pity roses. Well, at least he’s consistent.

I wonder if all the talk about Jordan potentially being a fame whore was to clear the air for a potential Bachelor season for him. Because it needed to be addressed if he’s going to be the Bachelor but the problem is I don’t think anybody who’s a fan of the show is buying it. I don’t think there are that many Jordan fans out there. He hasn’t exactly done anything to convince me he IS a fame whore but he hasn’t done anything to convince me he isn’t either.

At the very tail end of the show, James and Robby quibble over the correct spelling of “margarita” in terms of the pizza. It’s Margherita. I looked it up and it turns out there really isn’t that much difference between a plain old cheese pizza and a Margherita pizza. Margherita pizza has fresh basil leaves on top and it’s named after an Italian queen. The colors on a Margherita pizza are red, white, and green like the Italian flag. Mystery solved.

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