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The Bachelor 16: Episode 8 Recap

Posted on 02/20/2012 by Gina in The Bachelor

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The Bachelor 16: Episode 8

 

by Gina Scarpa

 

Ben kicks off his Girlfriends of America tour with Lindzi, who pulls up to meet him on a horse. Just the way that they started things off back at the mansion on the first night. She teaches him how to guide a horse to lead a carriage, which they ride to her house to meet her parents. Her mom and dad are definitely the most down to earth of the evening and they seem to hit it off best with one another. After a fun carriage race around their yard, Ben sits down with her parents to figure out the most important question: Is Lindzi ready to settle down? It wasn't that long ago that she was dumped via text message, a story I'm still having a hard time believing.

 

Kacie B makes a grand entrance for her hometown date with Ben. A marching bands leads the way across a high school football field while she holds up the rear, twirling a baton and actually, it's pretty impressive! She is overly excited to see him and it's starting to feel like maybe she's more sure about him than the other way around. One major issue to overcome is her very conservative parents - her dad doesn't even drink and with Ben being a winemaker, that doesn't seem like a match made in heaven. Though Kacie insists that she's in love, that's not enough for her father, who pulls Ben aside to say that he doesn't want anybody to get hurt so he should let her daughter go now if he's not sure that she could be his wife.

 

The last time Nicki brought a guy home, she married him, so there is some added pressure here. After a stop at a local saloon (who knew they had those anymore?), Nicki sits with Ben and opens up about her divorce. Perhaps it was important for Ben to hear that Nicki truly felt she gave everything she had to that relationship before walking away from it. Back at her house, she tells her parents that she's sure that she's falling in love with him and relays those same sentiments to Ben. She's ready to have a life with him in San Francisco - is it me or have you felt like these two really haven't had much time together to be at that point?

 

Courtney starts off her hometown visit with an admission that she feels badly for the way that she treated the other girls. This is a much more subdued, softer Courtney and I'm not gonna lie. I'm having a hard time buying it. Even her family seems skeptical when she tells them over lunch that she's in like/love with Ben. Her dad pulls Ben aside and asks if he's ready to take a gamble on marriage with his daughter and he assures him he's ready for a serious commitment. That response is good enough for Courtney's dad and he seems immediately sold on having him as a son-in-law. Afterwards, she takes him to a park where a wedding is set up - for them! They wrote vows and he calls her real and honest (really?) and she says she's in love with him. Oh, she's definitely playing to win. As my grandmother once said to me once, "If I can't win, I don't wanna play."

 

After talking things out with Chris, Ben gets ready to hand out roses to the women that he potentially sees a future with. Courtney gets the first rose, of course, and the remaining two go to Lindzi and Nicki. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't shocked that he sent Kacie B packing but perhaps her father's words rang in his ears before the ceremony got underway. If she's not the one, let her go now... not later. It would've been nice though if Ben had more to say than, "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." I think she deserved a little bit more than that, don't you?

 


The Bachelor airs Mondays at 8/7c on ABC.

 

(Image courtesy of ABC)

 


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