Okay. I was wrong... but I did say it
was just a guess.
Brooks was not the last-man-standing.
Brooks and Desiree are not engaged. In fact, Brooks never even made
an appearance in the 2nd part of The Bachelorette finale.
Honestly, the ending, I did not see
coming. I would have never guessed that Chris would be the one with
the final rose, nor would I have ever imagined that he and Desiree
would actually be engaged.
I really have to give props to ABC and
The Bachelorette producers for creating a scenario that many people
(including myself) were absolutely convinced was going to play out in
the Final Rose episode... but yet never happened.
After watching the show and sitting
there stunned at what just happened, I went looking for spoiler
sites—as I mentioned yesterday, I never read any spoilers during
the run of the show, but now I was curious to see who they said was
to be the final guy.
The most popular and detailed one I
found had said (weeks ago) that it was going to be Brooks at the end,
and in reading the backdated posts on the site, I was pretty
impressed. Week after week the spoiler was right, little details were
spot on, and the outcomes were accurate. So what happened with the
finale? Why was the spoiler off? Why were so many people so very,
very wrong?
Spoilers rely on sources, so why the
spoilers were wrong is simple... misinformation was received. You
have to remember The Bachelorette began taping in mid to late March
and lasts for only six weeks. This leaves a little over three months
between the taping of the finale and the actual airing of the
finale... three months to keep the secret! I’m sure ABC does
everything possible to prevent leaks which lead to spoilers popping
up all over the internet. So, it wouldn’t surprise me if some of
the ‘spoiler sources’ are actually ABC plants who leak specific
and predetermined information. Whatever the case, the secret remained
just that for three months, and in a day of instant information, that
is quite the accomplishment!
Now, why was I and millions of others
wrong? I can only credit that to the producers of The Bachelorette.
Between The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, the show has been around
for eleven years now and cumulatively have 26 seasons. The fans get
smart and learn the patterns of the show, but this season, those
patterns were altered. Specific conversations and events that got
more airtime than others stood out. Brooks and Desiree seemed to have
more airtime and the conversations seemed more intimate. The big
change, however, was Desiree’s confessions about how she felt about
Brooks being shown to the public. This has never been done before, so
once we added this to all the intimate interactions that were aired,
we ‘assumed’ their relationship was very important... but, no!
Needless to say, the producers, knowing
the outcome, carefully and purposely edited footage and aired all the
important Brooks comments. By allowing us to see how strong Desiree’s
feelings were becoming, and by making those feelings the focus of
each episode, the only natural thing most of us could conclude would
be Brooks is coming back.
So, I was wrong... in fact, I wasn’t
even close. Honestly, I am surprised that Chris proposed. I am even
more surprised that after Chris watched the show back over the past
three months and saw Desiree’s strong and clear feelings for Brooks
he still wants to marry her. He’s either much more of a trusting
man than I, or he is way more stupid that I am. Desiree professes her
love for Brooks on more than one occasion, and within days of Brooks
leaving, she is suddenly and completely in love with Chris. Really?
You going to trust that?
I guess something must be there (or I’m
betting a very strong illusion of something being there), because she
is moving to Seattle this weekend to move in with him. She isn’t
just moving into his place... they are “getting their own place,”
so they can have their own start. Really?
Don’t get me wrong. Desiree seems
like a very nice person... smart, attractive, and fun. Chris seems
like a good guy, but remember people, they have only ‘dated’ for
six weeks and then spent three months semi-apart. I guess time will
tell. I really do wish both of them well, and I do hope that
everything works out for them, and they are happy together. But...
In the meantime, I think I’ll peg my
being so very wrong up to being blindsided by ABC and fooled into
following a pattern for The Bachelorette that was no longer there.
In a related note... Juan Pablo is the
next Bachelor. The man with the least amount of screen time but got
the most attention and reaction. The next season of The Bachelor, I
think, is going to be filled with way more drama, multiple ‘cat’
fights, and a whole lot of tears... gee, can’t wait!
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