Bachelorettes, Bevin, and the Buts and Shouldacouldwouldas
Bachelorettes, Bevin, and the Buts and Shouldacouldwouldas by Roxanne McDonald
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How pitiful was the mood on the “After the Final Rose” reunion show? As if we didn’t cry enough or see enough sobbing and sadness in the final episode. |
Damn, we fans take the show “The Bachelor…” seriously, as it is, but when Bevin had to return for a command performance, still raw of wound but dignified in her dejection, I was sure I was going to lose it all over again.
There’s still something not quite right. Sure, the set up for the reunion show gave us a happy and glowing Charlie and his girl Sarah and a happy and glowing Trista (pregnant with her man Ryan’s babe), and we should have been just as delighted for the happy and glowing Tessa and Andy. But there was something off, some emotion two degrees left of center that seemed, well, postured for the cameras.
Maybe it was me, having residual resentment over Andy going the more conventional route and proposing to a woman who would likely fit in better with his family and naval doctor/officer world. Maybe it was how that whole Officer and a Gentleman lift the damsel in arms thing was feeling overplayed.
Or maybe it was how Bevin was visibly still hurt, how Chris perfunctorily milked the hell out of that hurt, and how Andy reiterated the chase factor. Okay, so you have all the tailoring of a triathlete. You have the class and
come-uppance and etiquette befitting a gentleman. But do you have to rub in the biological imperative of having to go with the one who was harder to read, harder to court, harder to handle, really?
And do you think that reticence is not going to show up in later years, and drive you bonkers—making you wish you had gone with the one who consistently and confidently electrified you? The very essence luring him will likely be that which drives him mad later on.
(Interesting how a group of naval nurses/corpsmen [women] who knew Andy when he was interning watch the show each week and root for Tessa, saying how Bevin couldn’t handle his being gone so much. Hmmm. Was I watching the same show?)
But Bevin was not so pissed, was not so resentful that 1) she refused to show up for the reunion or 2) pulled an Elaine and stuck a fork in the guy’s head.
Nope. Instead, she trundled on stage in her pink cast with rhinestones, sat through the grueling recap of her “journey”, and fielded Chris and the audience’s questions—chin up, tears held back.
And while she admitted her true sadness, how she was shocked and pretty hurt at the same time, she also commented on her respect for Andy’s final decision, likened the experience to a gift he gave her that she can now take to finding the guy truly right for her, added that she still
considers Tessa a friend, and said how silly it would be to go into the shouldacouldawouldas.
Cue the ideaperson, here: how about either at least giving Bevin a consolation vacation or, yes, her own “Bachelorette” season?
Now, tell me Andy won’t privately reel from remarks that reinforce what a mistake he has made.
No offense to Tessa, dear Tessa. It’s just that the girlishness seems lacking next to the womanliness. It’s just wrong, somehow. I may be speaking out of turn and wrongly predicting a less than perfect future, but only time wounding all heels will tell.
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