"Feelings and Drama"

Well that was some episode, huh?  Not to beat a dead horse, but I still hate not having a rose ceremony at the end and instead having some weird Britt's mom time.  And can we talk about how not only did we not get the Dublin rose ceremony, we didn't even get to see all the dates yet!  What we did get is a lot of icky Nick time and the weirdest date in the Bachelor franchise history.

But before we go to Ireland, Ian had his last stand at the Alamo.  Did you guys know he went to Princeton?  And that he's intelligent and deep and went to Princeton?

Ian and Kelsey should get together.
They're both so much higher than poop jokes and movie quotes.

Hate to break it to you Ian, but after that exit of insulting the Bachelorette and talking about how amazing you are, you are not destined to be the next Bachelor.  You are destined to go home and be single.  I did like how after Ian stormed out without saying anything to the guys, someone says "Hopefully it ended on good terms.  Yeah, right.  To the rest of the men's chagrin, Nick comforts Kaitlyn and can hardly contain his smile when saying how disappointing Ian's actions were.

Joshua and '90s boy band hair guy went home and everyone cheered because they finally get to leave the country and actually go somewhere cool! spend more time with Kaitlyn on their journey for love. Though I must admit, the Alamo was a pretty cool spot for a rose ceremony.

Onto Dublin, Kaitlyn takes Nick on the first one-on-one date, which the other guys were just soooo thrilled about.  The girl with the bird tattoos once again encounters her worst nightmare: birds.  Then she and Nick kiss a bunch of places and dance poorly.

This poor guy on the right just thought it was a lovely day for a Guinness,
but boy was he ever wrong.

Dinner in a church and a private concert follows, and then whiskey-fueled Kaitlyn makes some poor decisions.  So she brings Nick back to her place and has sex with him and some poor cameramen had to sit and film their door.  That wasn't really a poor decision in itself (except ew, it's Nick); sex is a big part of a relationship for some people and there's nothing wrong with sleeping with a guy on a first date or waiting until marriage or anything in between.  It's up to her, and being a "kissing bandit" and sleeping with a guy she's super attracted to doesn't make her a slut or a bad person.  It's really not surprising Kaitlyn slept with someone either- everyone on this show is supplied a constant stream of alcohol and sent on romantic adventures and they're only human.  But this show does have (or tries to have) rules and if you believe in the finding-your-husband-by-dating-25-guys-on-TV process, maybe trust the process and wait to sleep with three guys in the Fantasy Suites?  Also maybe wait out of respect for the other guys you're dating who are trusting in this process and would have maybe also slept with you sooner too if this was the real world.  But it's not the real world and Kaitlyn went for it and now we all get to gossip about it on the internet.

(Side note, how funny would it be to watch this show with one of the guys?)

The morning after, Kaitlyn talks to herself (well, probably a producer, but I like thinking she was mumbling to herself on that balcony alone.  She's concerned Nick will tell the guys, and boy does he want to.  It's awkward and everyone still hates him and I think Shawn might explode.

Kaitlyn, you know Nick's history!
You should have heeded Ashley S.'s advice and contained your lust!

So Kaitlyn freaks out but still has to go on a group date.  The group date is an Irish funeral for Kaitlyn and it's kind of the worst.  The guys are really good sports about it even though, as Chris Harrison points out, she's the "worst dead person ever."  Shawn won in my book for his "I'd kill myself too if I had to spend a day with Nick" eulogy, to which the other guys cheered and probably made Kaitlyn feel bad.  Then they go hang out at a Guinness store house and everyone's moody after Jared gets the rose.  Chris the dentist tries to say something optimistic and gets shut down because no, Cupcake, this totally sucks.  Then Shawn freaks out and talks to someone about how Kaitlyn said he was the one and apparently they hung out in her room once too?  He's having big issues (and he doesn't even know about Nick and Kaitlyn's sexy times yet!) and goes to confront Kaitlyn in her suite and THAT'S THE END OF THE EPISODE.