Re: The Bachelorette 9 - Media Discussion Thread - Spoilers

[Guest]

I feel it in my bones--my spine, that Brooks will be back next week. He's like a bad case of indigestion, you can't get rid of it. While others will be breaking out the wine--I will be chilling my mylanta!  

hahahahaha

I actually snorted I laughed so hard at this! Thanks. Much needed after reading that whole Brooks thread, even though I love the guy.

[Guest]

Tried to snip and lost the original quote - sorry

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Spoilers aside, there has to be a reason why they have Brooks at the ATFR, they moved the MTA, made it a 2 part finale, etc.  Otherwise, he could have just left at F3, gone to the MTA to sit in the hot seat, and that would be that.

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To play devil's advocate.  Could be that if Brooks doesn't return (my opinion right now), the biggest draw on finale night, even more than how Des' journey ends, will be coming face to face with Brooks again at the ATFR.  Another reason to feel sorry for anyone else picked.  That is what everyone will want to see.  "What will they say to each other now if it's the first meeting since that emotional breakup in Antigua." - said in a tv promo voice.   They could do a whole hour with those 2 to hash out all the emotions, live and unedited.  Wow.  I actually can't even imagine how that will go.

[BarbB222]

[quote="SueSt"]

I feel it in my bones--my spine, that Brooks will be back next week. He's like a bad case of indigestion, you can't get rid of it. While others will be breaking out the wine--I will be chilling my mylanta!  

Don't forget! Some will also be chillin their whine!  

[lovinlife]

It is a big difference whether he comes back next week or for ATFR. The spoiler RS puts out does not include ATFR. It will be live. So Brooks has to come back next week for RS to be correct. And as much as I always pray he is wrong, he hasnt been so I am going with they are engaged and happy. She is on Kelly and Michael the next day. All is fine in Des's world.

[momoftrips]

Ruth Myles: Chris Harrison says Brooks raised “red flags” before leaving The Bachelorette

He’s just not that into you.

Bachelorette host Chris Harrison tried to point that out to Desiree Hartsock about Brooks Forester, but to little avail. Instead, the 27-year-old bachelorette was blindsided when Forester left the show because he wasn’t madly in love with her.

“I knew there were red flags, warning signs, that something was amiss,” Harrison says in a conference call promoting Monday’s three-hour finale. And while Hartsock’s other suitors (Chris Siegfried, Drew Kenney and Zak Waddell) professed their love for her, Forester was mute on the subject.

“I just kind of kept bringing that up and she kept reassuring me that he would affirm his feelings in other ways, non-verbally. She felt sure.”

Instead, on this week’s episode, Forester broke up with Hartsock on their date in Antigua. (As much as one can break up with someone who is also dating two other people, as Siegfried and Kenney are still in the running, theoretically.) He was as wishy-washy ending it with Hartsock as he was in trying to explain his decision to Harrison.

“For the life of me, I couldn’t understand what the heck he was trying to say to me,” the host recalls. And if you listen to what Forester told Hartsock on that fateful day on the dock, “honestly, for the first 10 minutes of that talk … Des would have thought he might be about to propose.”

That didn’t happen and instead she was left crying on the end of the dock. About 15 minutes later, the host sat down with Hartsock for a talk in which she said she was pretty much done. And although Harrison considers Hartsock a friend, didn’t some deep dark corner of his heart rejoice at the prospect of some jaw-dropping TV? Yes and no, he says.

“My first thought was as Des’s friend. I thought this is going to suck and this is going to be brutal. At this point, ratings wise and drama wise, usually we’re done. . . This was more of a hindrance, more of a pain for us, as producers … The entire show was dumped upside down in the final two week of shooting.”

On Monday's finale of The Bachelorette, Chris Harrison and Desiree Hartsock will discuss what she wants to do following Brooks's departure from the show.
On Monday’s finale of The Bachelorette, Chris Harrison and Desiree Hartsock will discuss what she wants to do following Brooks’s departure from the show.

Filming the aftermath of that emotional bombshell demonstrates how the franchise has changed in the course of its 11 years on the air, Harrison points out.

Instead of stopping the action and setting up lighting and cameras to make everything pretty, the crew just filmed what went down “warts and all.”

“That episode last Monday was so different than anything we’ve ever had before … It was so organic and raw and we let you see everything.”

Well, not everything, of course. There’s still the big reveal to come. Will Hartsock walk away from it all or will she give it a go with either Siegfried or Kenney, both of whom are ready to propose? Or perhaps Forester will get some starch in his shorts and return to declare his love.

Show creator Mike Fleiss told Entertainment Weekly that Monday’s episode is “the weirdest ending we’ve ever had, that’s for sure.”

We can only hope.

(Juan Pablo as the next Bachelor is something else a lot of people are hoping for. Harrison says the popular single father from Venezuala is in the running, as is Zak W. As for Brooks’s chance, he says, “We’ll have to wait and see what happens next week. . . . Obviously, he has trouble committing to a relationship, although I think he was sincere on coming on the show.”)

 
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[Guest]

weirdest ending we've ever had...what does that mean???!?!?! I mean for past like 10 seasons he's been saying most shocking blah blah ever...but now that we did have something weird really happen (Brooks leaving) he could be telling the truth this time.

[nd4reality]

weirdest ending we've ever had...what does that mean???!?!?! I mean for past like 10 seasons he's been saying most shocking blah blah ever...but now that we did have something weird really happen (Brooks leaving) he could be telling the truth this time.

Not just Brooks leaving but Brooks returning and her taking him back. THAT is the weirdest ending ever.

[atem]

That was one short article.

[DKWillis]

? for anyone out there CH was going to do a conference call today @ 12:30 the ^^^article from calgaryherald was that it ??

[Hotmomma]

weirdest ending we've ever had...what does that mean???!?!?! I mean for past like 10 seasons he's been saying most shocking blah blah ever...but now that we did have something weird really happen (Brooks leaving) he could be telling the truth this time.

Not just Brooks leaving but Brooks returning and her taking him back. THAT is the weirdest ending ever.

Hence the 1/2 Mensink....she didn't change her mind...Her F1 did.....

[atem]

? for anyone out there CH was going to do a conference call today @ 12:30 the ^^^article from calgaryherald was that it ??  

Yeah, and it was really short.

[DKWillis]

ld say thx atem short & sweet at that why even do it nothing new

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