It is such a beautiful thing to have a friend. It’s a
relationship you trust. You get ice cream together, braid each other’s hair,
and if you’re Ashley I. they wipe away your tears. Friendship for Amanda means
she gets her tongue out of Josh’s mouth long enough to converse with you. It’s
beautiful. But, you know what sucks? When that friendship is not really
friendship. Or even when a romance isn’t really a romance. Both of these were
experienced this episode. Let’s start with the romance issue…
The episode starts with the fallout of Izzy essentially
dumping Vinny. Carly, being self-obsessed, compares their breakup to hers and
Kirk’s. Except that comparison doesn’t work. Izzy dumped Vinny because a hot
dude walked by, shallow reasons. Kirk dumped you because he wasn’t interested
in the crazy. Basically, the breakup makes me feel for Vinny because he handled
it as well as he could have. She blindsided him and not even for a good reason
(or an actually attractive male). Vinny then leaves paradise.
After this, past Bachelor In Paradise couple Jade/Tanner
return to give a date card to the couple they deem most deserving. Each couple
talks with them one on one. The most noteworthy thing to come from this was
that it caused a fight between Grant and Lace. Grant revealed to them that he
told Lace he loved her, but she didn’t say anything back. He then repeats his
feelings later, for Lace to say “I get it. You repeat yourself a lot.” Ouch. So
Lace is now questioning whether her and Grant will work. This is the first lick
of sense she has shown during this show.
Jade/Tanner flip a coin to decide whether they give the date
to Tanner’s bestie, Jared, or Jade’s bestie, Carly. Ok, not really, but we all
know that’s where their decision was going to be. Tanner wins out and they give
the rose to Jared/Caila, even after Ashley warned them about Caila’s intentions.
This brings us to the main theme of the episode that
basically was 75 percent of the show’s airtime.
I’m going to completely skip Carly and Evan’s date in order to spend
time on the Caila and Ashley fight. It starts with Ashley telling Jared that
Caila is a “robot” and that everyone in paradise is doubting whether she likes
him as much as he likes her. Look, I get that people don’t like Ashley’s
obsessive behavior and crying. Heck, even I hated her last year. But, nothing
that she said last night was false. She does know Jared better and Caila does
come off fake and not interested in Jared. Even Carly posted on twitter last
night to back up Ashley and said that MULTIPLE people doubted Caila during this
process. When there’s that much smoke, at least some of it has to be true.
Caila takes offense to Ashley warning Jared and decides to
confront her. She accuses Ashley of trying to sabotage her relationship. And
maybe Ashley is. But, yet again, there is nothing that she is saying that is
false. Hate Ashley all you want, but in my opinion, nothing about this
situation makes Caila look good. She was friends enough with Ashley I. to have
hung out with her before filming, and told her that there was no way she would
ever go out with Jared. Yet, he is the first person she goes after when she
arrives. Then, she acts shocked when Ashley is upset and aggravates this
further by not actually being that interested in the guy she threw away
friendship for. There’s nothing flattering about this. If Ashley wrote a burn book, she’d have
Caila as Regina George, and I’m not sure I’d blame her.
The episode ends with a cliffhanger of Caila and Ashley’s
fight, and with me clawing my eyes out just waiting for Wells’ arrival to set
things right. Please come Wells. You are the hero Gotham both needs and
deserves.
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