but I think, like most people on the show, she's not only there to find love & she is playing up a bit, or being OTT to make sure she's getting story lines and therefore screen time? I think she's pretty self aware.. and camera aware...
And there's nothing wrong with that! Girls gotta do what a girls gotta do!
Don't disagree with you! She wants to win - either literally or by benefitting from the exposure. And she's going about it by being happy and flirty and enthusiastic. She couldn't have predicted how much of a contrast it would be to the others!
And I do think that most, probably all, of then do want the fairy-tale romance as well. There have been just enough successes to keep that as a beguiling possibility for any of them.
Some of the original boys, who I thought were a bit boring possibly because the editing made them look rather inarticulate, now seem as dull as ditchwater