Jenni and DeAnna are the winners + Bachelor Brad is the…

I watched the Bachelor After the Rose Ceremony to see all 3 talk about what happened. Here is the link to ABC if you want to watch it again. I couldn’t find the youtube video version of it so this will have commercials in it. My opinion has not really changed about Bachelor Brad. My wife and I talked about the show after it was over. I think he looked like a bigger jerk than before. I think both Jenni an DeAnna were looking for closure, but wasn’t going to get it from his answers. The ladies looked like they both had feelings for him still and wished they could have continued with the relationship. They both had valid questions about his idea of all or nothing. DeAnna put it best saying something to the effect of “it doesn’t make sense that you said all those things to me, then just say goodbye and walk away. You didn’t have to propose but we could have continued dating in the real world especially since we talked about me moving to Austin, settling down, having a family…” Brad never answered the question and felt he was being attacked and said something to the effect that he “felt like he doesn’t have to defend himself for not falling in love….”
Again, those are not exact quotes but just me paraphrasing the ideas I remember they were trying to express. You can watch it yourself and come to your own conclusions.

I personally don’t think either Jenni or DeAnna got what they were looking for there. I think fans had a disconnect because he seemed so honest and genuine up until the final rose ceremony. For him not to hand out a rose and say I don’t love either girl and must say goodbye now seems suspicious because it doesn’t make sense. He didn’t have to propose and if he did have a deep connection as he claimed he had all through out the series, I think dating would have been acceptable for both Jenni and DeAnna. I think if you recognize that Brad was not being truthful from beginning to end, then you can accept what happened. We all assumed he was being honest and upfront in the beginning up until the rose ceremony, that is why we can’t make sense of his actions. He was actually consistent in his character as that is the way a player would have played things out. Once he got whatever he was looking to get, he disappears never to heard from again. (Saying on TV that “I will look you in they eye and say blah blah blah… doesn’t mean you’re necessarily telling the truth. In fact, in Bachelor Brad’s case it just means he can lie right through his teeth while looking at you straight in the eye.)

I find it odd that when he broke up with them he didn’t shed a tear. At least I didn’t see any. Even in last night’s show he didn’t tear up at all. I don’t care how unemotional you claim to be, when you have a deep connection for someone you care for and you hurt them so much that they start to cry, then you’re going to cry from the pain they are suffering through or being the cause of it. I guess he didn’t feel anything for the pain he caused and fans recognized that as him being cold-hearted with steely cold eyes. On the Jimmy Kimmel show, he seemed to be happy that he didn’t shed a single tear. If you think he cried after he dumped the girls, here is the clip on Jimmy Kimmel show promising he didn’t shed a tear.

In retrospect, both Jenni and DeAnna won because they didn’t settle for a guy like Bachelor Brad. He was not worthy of their affections in his view and that they deserved someone better. I can’t agree more with Bachelor Brad on that note. In time, the ladies will probably realize that when the right guy does come along, Brad was the real loser.

I did find a nice interview with the producer Mike Fliess on Entertainment Weekly that you might find interesting.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: At what point did you know that Brad wasn’t going to propose to DeAnna or Jenni?
MIKE FLEISS: Not until the day of. Much like Jenni and DeAnna, I was convinced this guy had fallen for one or both of these girls. It was a shock to the whole staff. When we knew how he wanted to play it, it was like a morgue around here. Usually at the finale there’s a happy couple afterwards and they’re all drinking champagne. This time when it happened the staff just freaked out. Everyone shlumped back to their cars. It was really dark.

What happened? He seemed so happy. He even picked out a ring.
I don’t know why. I don’t know why he said the things he did. I don’t know why he let the girls say the things they did. I don’t know. Maybe he was trying up until the last minute to make it work. Only Brad knows for sure. And maybe [his twin brother] Chad.

Ah, Chad. You can’t go wrong with the whole twin twist. Did Brad have to tell you his decision?
It’s not mandatory. But we’re around him so f—ing much that he needs someone to talk to. I live right next door so I would see him every day. I didn’t see it coming. I thought any of the final three girls could have won.

Can you give us any insight? Or will it all be revealed on the After the Final Rose special tonight?
He’ll give it some explanation, like he just sort of woke up that day, was cranky, and sort of said, ”F— it.” He couldn’t see himself with either of those chicks and so he blew them both off.

As a producer, were you thinking you struck gold or that this would ruin your franchise?
We knew it was going to be controversial and that some people would say, ”F— that. I’m never watching the show again.” But it’s not supposed to be a guaranteed proposal. It’s about how men and women relate and date. It’s about getting into the mind of a single guy and the mind of a single girl, and we certainly got that. What he did was the thing that women fear the most — he became intimate and then split the next day. The fact that it happened to two girls at once was a unique opportunity.

So are you happy Brad was your Bachelor or do you regret it?
I think he did a great job. He’s a great guy. I wish he would have been a little more committed to making those girls happy too. I think that’s what was lost. Those girls really put themselves out there. Jenni might have been more open with her emotions than any other girl in the history of the show. She wasn’t a blithering, crazy girl. You felt like she was truly in love. I really felt for her. I felt myself tearing up, which almost never happens.

I kind of thought he would go with DeAnna in the end.
Yeah, but when he and Jenni were together they couldn’t keep their hands off each other.

Was the network upset that there was no happy ending?
They weren’t happy about it. They would much prefer a proposal and a happy couple like Trista and Ryan or Byron and Mary.

Yeah, but this was a much better ending than those were.
The original ending, before the network made me change it, was after the girls were crying we fade down and come back up to a shot of Brad sitting on the couch, remote control in hand, clicking on the game, munching on a submarine sandwich. That’s what I wanted at the end. But the network said no.

Any plans for the next installments?
We’re doing another Bachelor in the spring and a Bachelorette for summer.

Any chance DeAnna or Jenni will be your Bachelorette?
Uh, don’t know yet.