The Bachelor: Finale and ATFR1

Chris says it all the time but really this WAS the most dramatic finale.  I have changed from being irate, to sick to just sad while watching tonight’s episode.  So I read all the spoilers ahead of time.  They predicted everything that went down tonight.  The difference though is that #1 Jason doesn’t admit to seeing Molly in the 2 months since the finale and #2 Steve suspects the entire thing was planned between ABC and Jason.

I really can’t decide which I’m more mad at…the fact that I knew the spoilers and it COMPLETELY ruined Jason’s proposal to Melissa for me or the fact it went down.  I mean, I’ve been rooting for Melissa since Day 1 and he ACTUALLY PICKED HER.  I should be ecstatic! But no….I knew he was getting ready to dump her and it just made me SICK to watch that proposal.  And of course Melissa was SO happy. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of the bachelorettes so entirely happy she was getting proposed to.  He finally got to say I love you.

And then the ATFR came on.  I thought it interesting Melissa seemed to already know something was up.  That was DEFINITELY NOT the hellos we’ve seen from Melissa thus far.  Jason says they’ve talked about them so maybe she already suspected.  Steve seems to think she already suspected he had been seeing Molly although Jason blatantly denied it.  Which even if the whole set-up is false, I seriously doubt that is true.

Set up or not why did he have to do this on camera?  He clearly said they’d been together during the holidays and on trips…why not then?  The only thing that makes sense is this was planned from the get-go.  Which seriously makes me go through the roof.

Tomorrow night is ATFR and I’m not even sure I can watch.  And I really liked Molly. I really did.  But now I can not stomach seeing them. I really thought I might puke when I saw them kissing at the end of tonight’s show.

I said it in Twitter and I’ll say it again, Molly seems like a nice girl, but I’ll be happy when I hear they’ve broken up.

*Update*

Two good reads

Chris Harrison’s Blog

Kristen’s Recap

After reading those I have to be honest and say I want to believe Chris and say it wasn’t scripted.  Steve NEVER said that was 100% true…that was his speculation.  I like that Kristen names him a conspiracy theorist and trust me, with all the blogs I have, I certainly have seen my fair share of them.  And usually…I don’t agree with them.

But Chris verified, yes, they came up with the idea to do it on camera and I think that’s where some of us are having issue even if it wasn’t scripted.  Also, Chris swears up and down that Molly and Jason did not see each other but that doesn’t mean that they hadn’t communicated in email/phone calls, etc.

In the end, I still feel so bad for Melissa.  They (probably not by mistake) had made it clear her old boyfriends had treated her like crap and she had been dumped over and over.  And now this time, it had to be done for the whole world to see.  I know ABC thought they “owed it to us” to see them break up and as much as it made for good TV, sometimes you have to draw the line.  If this show is really about love, then give it a little respect.  It’s one thing to show their first few dates and even the proposal but when someone is being hurt so deeply, draw the line.   Yes, at every proposal someone is hurt but they sign up for that and prepare for that.  But being blindsided like this on camera?  Not expected.  Not cool.