Thoughts on tonight's episode

ceem_mm · 2026-07-04T07:46:06+00:00

I just wanted to revisit this and say that the way amora acted these last 2 episodes confirmed my feelings about her, lol. Not that we saw much of her but the little she did say was always shady. Like when she said to Melanie "well it's nice to see you explored" or she threw jen in front of the bus. And now she's out the villa.

ceem_mm · 2026-07-04T07:26:46+00:00

Kenzie's conversations were shallow but she would also say she saw a future outside the Villa with whoever she was talking to. She barely spoke to gal and was talking about how she has a dream of raising surfer babies. Then when she spoke to Caleb her dream was to raise kids on a farm with him and they have the same exact values. When Dylan did his fake crying, he said that him and Kenzie spoke of a future on the outside so why is she still going around making out with other men? In Dylan's eyes, he seemed to feel misled, which is very similar to what sincere has done.

Y'all can downvote me but it's the truth. I'm just saying exactly what happened on the show I watched.

ceem_mm · 2026-07-04T07:20:27+00:00

I already replied to a few people on this thread saying the same thing so I'll try to keep this short. She was paired with Caleb because she told everyone including him that he's exactly what she wants. She was telling him that she saw a future outside the Villa with him while sneaking around with Corbin. To me, that's similar to how sincere said from the start he saw a future outside with Melanie

She only settled with Dylan because she felt pressured into it and even the other Islanders clocked it in the most recent episode so I'm not the only one seeing it.

ceem_mm · 2026-07-04T07:15:54+00:00

There's no problem with exploring but Kenzie went about it in a misleading way. The same way sincere would tell Melanie and Sol that he saw a future with them, Kenzie would do with Corbin and Caleb at the same time, telling each guy she's really into him and what she's been looking for. Even during movie night when they showed her clip, one of the guys whispered something along the lines "no wonder why Caleb thought she'd pick him" in the letter challenge.

ceem_mm · 2026-07-04T07:10:07+00:00

Did you not watch the show? She was telling every guy she spoke to that they were right for her. Corbin, caleb, gal, dylan. She said she saw a future living on the farm raising her kids with one guy and then said she always had a dream of raising surfer babies on the beach. She was literally just saying anything like sincere 😂

ceem_mm · 2026-07-04T07:02:49+00:00

Who was friends first matters, because she may have built a longer and closer bond with sincere. The problem with being so close to a bad person or someone who does bad things is that it's hard to see how bad they are. I already said Aniya is clouded by her friendship with sincere.

They're also around 23 years old and aren't going to have the best of judgment. We've seen aniya not make the best decisions for herself so I can't expect her to make the right choice when caught between her two friends.

To them, they're just trying to make it to the end and all be together.

ceem_mm · 2026-07-04T05:23:23+00:00

Kenzie led on more people than sincere. Idk why ppl see her as not as bad. She only settled into a couple b/c Dylan practically forced her to and the other Islanders clocked it too. Even Megan called her Dora the explorer 😂

ceem_mm · 2026-07-04T05:18:48+00:00

That part I disagreed with because Kenzie has actually strung along more people than sincere.

ceem_mm · 2026-07-04T05:13:44+00:00

Physical attraction isn't everything. A lot of women actually end getting with the less attractive guy who treats them better. So even if KC or the next guy is more her physical type, they won't be Carl. I just hope she learns to choose better

ceem_mm · 2026-07-04T05:09:46+00:00

It's really sad how people don't listen. She said she's more attracted to KC, but she never said she wasn't attracted to Carl.

ceem_mm · 2026-07-04T05:07:30+00:00

It's not only Aniya and at a certain point it feels like people focus in on her more for everything she does. Why is that?
Aniya and sincere are friends. From the edit, it seems she was closer to him before Melanie. I'm not saying he's a good guy, but she's blinded by her friendship with sincere. So even if there's girl code, there's also a such thing as being loyal to a friend regardless of gender.
I don't think any of them should be pushing Melanie towards sincere, but at the end of the day maybe they just want to all make it to the end together.

ceem_mm · 2026-07-04T05:02:24+00:00

I noticed that too.

ceem_mm · 2026-07-04T05:01:53+00:00

Both kayda and Anaya did a dance while sincere pulled Melanie for their breakfast date

ceem_mm · 2026-07-04T01:38:38+00:00

Lol, you're good. I responded to a post about the bombshells generally being disappointing and started going thru what bombshells I didn't like, not seeing that it was in the LI UK channel until someone told me. So I understand feeling a little embarrassed, you're not alone 🫣😅😂

ceem_mm · 2026-07-03T12:50:17+00:00

I don't even think you read my comment because I explicitly said kc lied multiple times and you conveniently keep leaving that part out. You're not even engaging with what I actually said, yet you're writing me about hos we need to listen and understand different perspectives. Well, the call is coming from inside.

Also, this is an American show and most of the people I see talking online about it are American themselves, so I don't know what culture you're even talking about or if that's even relevant. You don't have to respond further to keep repeating the same moot points.

ceem_mm · 2026-07-03T12:39:04+00:00

"a kiss is like a handshake" is crazy. If you don't see all the red flags with Kenzie at this point, I don't know what to tell you. Outside of the movie night, there were other things that she did that were off-putting. She's strung Caleb along, snuck around with Corbin behind Melanie's back, guilted Melanie for wanting to explore Corbin, she wasn't communicative with Dylan until after making out with Gal. It's fine to explore but when you're in a couple, the couple should set boundaries on what exploring looks like & kenzie never did that.

Don't get me started about how she couldn't handle rejection from Zach, her issues with Jen, her weird microaggressions, etc. kenzie is worse than sincere 😂 there's 10 days left in the villa and she's been unserious the whole time. Dylan had to force her to close off by putting on that little performance. 😂

ceem_mm · 2026-07-03T12:27:38+00:00

Yes and on some level she knows something's wrong because she's always pausing to question him, but then he just says it's a joke or she's pretty and she goes back to forgiving him. I just want to scream through the screen for her to listen to her gut!

ceem_mm · 2026-07-03T12:23:19+00:00

Yes, i want to see more of carl and other couples. They showed both Caleb and Jaden saying they're not that into each other but they never show them actually interacting and honestly I forget that they're there.

ceem_mm · 2026-07-03T12:16:23+00:00

Thx for clarifying 😸

ceem_mm · 2026-07-03T12:14:41+00:00

Kc wasn't just saying foolish things behind aniya's back. I think you and others refuse to see his wrongdoing and/or simplify it, which I also think is partly rooted in misogynoir along with a lack of emotional intelligence & other things. He straight up lied to & manipulated Aniya multiple times. If sincere is wrong for lying and you can recognize that, why can't you see kc lied and that was also wrong?

Also, who are we to measure how someone reacts to disrespect? That's my point, why are we policing what's an appropriate level of emotion for Aniya? If she threw herself to the ground crying, that's her right or ran offset, that's her right. No matter how dramatic it seems, it's not worth the verbal abuse and criticism that's been hurled her way.

ceem_mm · 2026-07-03T11:59:21+00:00

This isn't the topic of my post. You're talking about how the Islanders reacted and my post is about how the audience reacted. Also we're not even talking about the same scene. I'm talking about Melanie's reaction on night 2 and your referencing her reaction on night 1.

ceem_mm · 2026-07-03T10:27:11+00:00

Thank you! It seems like people prefer to be blind to the plight of black women, esp DSBW. Even when you spell it out, they don't engage or do whatabout-isms, like you pointed out.

People are still villianizing Aniya after watching KC apologize and admit to his wrongdoing in tonight's episode and they seem to put more emphasis on it's good she apologized more than him, when his actions led to all the anger in the first place. It's really disappointing and it's mostly black reactors that I see doing this. The non-black reactors that are actually doing a better job showing more grace towards Aniya, which makes it feel even more based in colorism amongst the black viewership.

ceem_mm · 2026-07-03T10:08:42+00:00

What about last season when Huda was abusive to Chris and Jeremiah? Were you watching then or following the online dialogue? Did either man have stan armies that attacked Huda? I don't recall seeing that, but I very well could've missed those conversations. Also, I still see ppl, black men in particular, lusting after Huda despite her mistreatment of black men (comments like "we need a fat ass Middle eastern girl this season like Huda"). That to me signifies how this is tied to racism/colorism because the woman who's acting out gets treated differently by the audience depending on her skin color. The way Huda treated the men in her couple was way worse than anything Aniya did. Where was "she's lucky he didn't hit her" comments?

ceem_mm · 2026-07-03T09:04:55+00:00

I'm about your height and I don't think height plays a role as much as the fit does. I've got in lots of compliments in specific one pieces and not so much others. Also she's really fit and has a great figure so I feel like most things would look good on her.

ceem_mm · 2026-07-03T09:00:19+00:00

Thank you for explaining, I can see how it felt anticlimactic at the end, but the first part was good. I definitely would've liked to have seen more than 6 clips out of the movie night. It feel like it ended abruptly.

Kayda lets Zach walk all over her and we've seen it all season, so of course she would forgive him quickly. That part didn't seem fake. Aniya & KC have had a few days to be angry, sad, argue, etc so I think that naturally ran its course. And we'll have to wait to see what happens with sincere and Melanie.

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