[S22.E11: Week 10]

I've been waiting for this since the middle of January. 

 

Let's get to it!

[The Bachelorette in the Media]

9 hours ago, truthaboutluv said:

Think back to the sudden, "I am falling in love with you" just as they were heading in to meet her family, after the previous Rose Ceremony where he was made to sweat it out in the end with Dean. And then the waxing poetic to her family while staring longingly and lovingly at her to where he had her family eating out of his hand.

This.

This was the moment I decided that Peter was actually a dog. I remember yelling  "Oh Hell No!" at the television. It was the last straw for me after the business with saying he wanted to leave, his half-stepping friends, and his baby-mama encouraging mother.  But with everyone so upset about the finale, I thought surely I wasn't seeing things properly because I was the only person in America who thought the show was edited for me to see Peter as a pig. 

And This:

9 hours ago, truthaboutluv said:

My issue is that Oscar performance he pulled on the AFTR. The one that further allowed his little fangirls to drag and attack Rachel mercilessly. You know, that whole, "I am so heartbroken and upset and was backstage in tears" and "oh Rachel is attacking me and my delicate little feelings". All while he was back fucking his ex on the regular as soon as he was back home? 

This had me on fire. His showing on the couch and the support that followed made me too worked up for a reality tv show. I was furious because I thought it was an act and it was done at Rachel's expense. Bossy Brittany just let me know that this is Peter's regular business. 

[The Bachelorette in the Media]

4 hours ago, Earlfor1 said:

Reality Steve has a podcast in which he interviews Peter's ex, Brittany Hanson.  She talks about his push and pull, how she felt manipulated by him, how he told her he was going to do the show to improve his business and had no intention of falling for Rachel.  The website also has screenshots of his texts to her right before he left for the show.His podcast is here.

This podcast was amazing. I'm no Brittany Hanson fan, sounds like she and Peter deserve each other, but boy, does that back up Rachel's suspicions. Plus there are receipts. 

The emotional whiplash, the mind-games, and the fact that I thought that Peter spent the whole season withholding until Fantasy Suites all makes sense. 

It makes me question Rachel's talk with Mama Kraus, it makes me question his friends, who were sitting in the bar they'd like been to with Brittany just weeks earlier. Then the way those friends came for Rachel on Social Media?! Are you kidding me?!

This is a bit of confirmation bias for me, because I didn't think Peter wanted anything to do with Rachel romantically. Turns out it's worse than I thought. 

[S13.E11: Week 10: The Final Rose / S13.E12: After the Final Rose]

57 minutes ago, ridethemaverick said:

I'm enjoying watching them on sm. They seem to fit each other's personalities. I can't see Peter being anything other than wooden and low energy in those settings, which doesn't fit Rachel at all. I'm just going to assume she was blinded by the pretty and didn't realize she was doing the heavy lifting of making Peter interesting.

Their engagement party was this evening. 

I was not a Bryan fan for most of the season, but I was convinced that she was going to pick him after their date in Oslo. However, I like what I've seen on SM and in interviews - Bryan looking so genuine, and Rachel looking so happy,  It made me go back and re-watch some of the season.

Here's what I noticed: 
1. Once I decided that Bryan wasn't the worst person in the world, I could actually pay attention to Rachel's responses to him. She practically swoons every time he makes a declaration. I thought she was going to fall out when he told her that he was in love with her after their Miami HTD. I completely missed that a few weeks ago. 

2. I'm so mad about the finale format. Making Rachel watch the break up was cruel, and then immediately making her speak to Peter on live television was awful. She had no time to collect her thoughts, and now people think she's a horrible person because she had normal reactions to watching someone being so emotionally manipulative on TV. Plus, 40 minutes (not including commercials) on the breakup was WAY too long.

3. After watching the clip of the final rose ceremony, I really feel like Rachel was robbed. Not only was it crazy windy, but had we not spent an hour rehashing Peter we could have seen how sweet the engagement really was. The words she and Bryan exchanged seemed sincere and heart-felt, she also seemed genuinely pleased, and not just with the ring. As a viewer, it was really hard to go back to Rioja after all of the realtime studio drama. I'm pretty sure I was still yelling at the TV during most of the frc. The moment/engagement deserved better. 

Rachel deserved better.