Re: Brooks Forester - Bachelorette 9 - Fan Thread - Discussion #5

[sfrank]

Breaking news bulletin: There has been a Brooks airport sighting according to twitterverse.

Now back to your regularly scheduled postings...

[Guest]

Where? What's the tweet? The conference starts on the 19th. It's kind of early.

Dude gets a lot of time off work all the time.

[Piper61]

In Munich when he walked down the ice tunnel and came across her making out and rolling around with James (gross), I thought he was done at some level (on a second viewing).  Go watch that as well.  By Barcelona, Chris intensity is rising, and Brooks is fading (his feelings, not hers).  Who wouldn't be "over it" sitting around talking incessantly about that snippet of conversation Drew and Kasey over-heard in the van or whatever.  I saw Brooks starting to "lose it" -- also, look at how she handled the James thing.  Talk about wishy washy.  I'm not criticizing either of them -- it's just one of the "downs"  I think Brooks experienced in the long long drought between the Hollywood sign date and CLoud 9 in Madeira.   Each of these shows represents about a week of his life
1. Hollywood sign (feels great)
2. Nothing much
3. Dodgeball (broken finger, Chris gets the group date rose -- look at his face then)
4. Munich (Chris/Bryden show -- watches her make out with James)
5. Barcelona -- soccer date, not much time with her 1:1, but tons of gross drama and back and fro about James 



6. Madeira -- trying to regain lost ground, decides to use family visit as a test (the "struggle" is apparent in almost every screen shot if you look)
7.  HTD - freely confesses by the duck pond that he is up and down, and loses "it" when they are apart.  Des warmly embraced and received by family.  But hard questions that hang in the air.
[some internal processing / discussions off camera / decides to get out before the pressure of proposing becomes unbearable]

That's Brooks' journey.  I think he showed a lot of character and self-awareness. And, as an aside, he would never trash Chris or Des, his friends, the way some do for sport.  

People always want to say the producers and editors lie.  And they do in the smaller settings -- to participants playing the "game" of the show, etc., but most of the time the Mega Story Arc for each character tracks their actual emotional journey.  That's what the production assistants are madly logging all day long (who said what on camera, on date, in a group, ITM), and then the story folks make it into an entertainment for us to watch.

 I do think that was a turning point for Brooks. If she was even remotely interested in James, Brooks had to question her romantic tastes since he was sooooo far from James in personality. I think he became less confident in Des at that point, as far as sharing the same ideals in a relationship.

I, too, think the same thing about how seeing James and Des kissing like that in the ice igloo impacted him. I mentioned it before on the thread, and also had wondered during the actual filming if the James alone time was before or after Brooks' alone time. I don't think it would make much dfference, but we did see how she pulled Brooks in for a passionate kiss while he was in mid-sentence. That kiss, along with all of the James drama, and her keeping James around for the RC after they were all certain she would send him home had to be disconcerting and confusing.

[nannymargie]

Breaking news bulletin: There has been a Brooks airport sighting according to twitterverse.

Now back to your regularly scheduled postings...

Isn't he going to that Hotspot things or whatever it's called? What with those sighting without the pics. Damn these people need to get with the program and send pics. Even if they have to take it without him knowing.

[atem]

Where? What's the tweet? The conference starts on the 19th. It's kind of early.

Dude gets a lot of time off work all the time.

He did his photoshoot yesterday and seems like he did something with Jonathan Craft for Outdoors Magazine. Seems to me he's heading out to where the conference is happening to set up things.

[Guest]

Oh, never mind, I see where it is. Pics or it didn't happen.

He's going early. When it that baseball game that they want to go to? Like I said, he gets a lot of time off of work all the time.

[Piper61]

Wow. I don't know how legit Life & Style is, but Nate Hartsock supposedly thinks Des settled.

And if it's true that she would've settled for whoever asked her to marry them, I'm even more happy that Brooks walked away. He deserves better.

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I don't think of them as 'legit' or 'not legit'.  They are there to sell magazines, period.  Nate knows how Desiree felt about Brooks, because she told him, but the show cut it out.  

I agree that L&S is not exactly my "go-to" source but they are directly quoting Nate and not some "source" or "insider" on the settling stuff...

I've said all along that Nate was not bright but why would you say that to media even if its true?!

SMH.

Wow to reading that article. Nate doesn't seem to care about what he says, and I'm sure this isn't going to do wonders for the brother-sister relationship, but he isn't saying anything that most everyone hasn't already said. I think Nate just says openly what he's inwardly thinking, opens mouth-inserts foot at times.

[Piper61]

And In Touch mag (i trust even less than Life and Style) to the mix....more direct Nate quotes. Can they do that if he didn't say it ?!

Des & Chris: Trouble in Paradise
As reality sets in, the cracks are beginning to show: the fairy tale is fading fast for former Bachelorette Desiree Hartsock and her fiancé, Chris Siegfried ."It's obvious Des settled for Chris," Desiree's brother, Nate, tells In Touch. "She went on the show because she wanted to get married so badly." The couple are making a go of things in Seattle, but Nate insists it's because his sister is determined to be a bride, not because she loves Chris.

YIKES! That last sentence is harsh. It does make you wonder...

[Guest]

Where? What's the tweet? The conference starts on the 19th. It's kind of early.

Dude gets a lot of time off work all the time.

He did his photoshoot yesterday and seems like he did something with Jonathan Craft for Outdoors Magazine.  Seems to me he's heading out to where the conference is happening to set up things.

He's such a busy guy. I wonder if people are contacting him or he's contacting all these people. People are probably contacting him. Part of the perks of being on the Bachelorette.

Is Jonathan Craft his friend?

[atem]

Oh, never mind, I see where it is. Pics or it didn't happen.

He's going early. When it that baseball game that they want to go to? Like I said, he gets a lot of time off of work all the time.

Who says he's not at work for a certain amount of time and then goes off to do other stuff?

Yeah, I agree...no pics who knows if that is the same Brooks?

[Piper61]

Where? What's the tweet? The conference starts on the 19th. It's kind of early.

Dude gets a lot of time off work all the time.

There are some who think he doesn't have a real job....just sayin'! :shocked!: 

[atem]

Where? What's the tweet? The conference starts on the 19th. It's kind of early.

Dude gets a lot of time off work all the time.

He did his photoshoot yesterday and seems like he did something with Jonathan Craft for Outdoors Magazine.  Seems to me he's heading out to where the conference is happening to set up things.

He's such a busy guy. I wonder if people are contacting him or he's contacting all these people. People are probably contacting him. Part of the perks of being on the Bachelorette.

Is Jonathan Craft his friend?

Yes. He's a photographer that lives in Utah and seems to do a lot of outdoor sport type photography. Plus, Brooks is now following two people from Outdoor Magazine. So, I'm hoping that means he will be in their magazine.

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