Navy Life, Navy Wife: Tessa or Bevin?
Navy Life, Navy Wife: Tessa or Bevin? by Roxanne McDonald
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Down to three beautiful women, Lieutenant Andy stresses over his choices and tears up over his decision. But next week will be even harder on the guy. |
The invitation to Tessa, Danielle, and Bevin to visit his home base in Hawaii was about living the type of life he leads, Andy says, and about her role as navy wife.
On the USS Arizona Cemetery/Memorial in Pearl Harbor, where 177 lost their lives and where more than 900 still serve the ship (I think these were the stats he gave), he says every cell of his body is impacted.
Also impacting his body is Bevin, the one with whom Andy feels the electric current run through him (which he has described more than once this season). Bevin apparently agrees with Andy’s overall naval life philosophy, as she tells us that the woman he chooses has to accept it and back him on it.
Danielle says “Oh, my God” a lot, as Andy explains the symbolism behind the design of the memorial. And Tessa is pretty quiet. During Tessa’s time on the memorial, Andy is throwing the memorial flowers into the sea with her, and offers a little girl one of the pieces of the lei to toss, telling us he right then had that sweet image: wife, husband, and child.
With Tessa it has been “a roller coaster ride,” so it seems apropos they do something bordering on giving them vertigo: they do zip-lining. Tessa loves how he brings out the fun side of her, and she is laughing and having fun.
Andy loves the “rough and tumble side of Tessa…how she’s up for anything.” Yeah, anything adventure-wise, but not necessarily anything when it comes to revealing her feelings, Andy. Woop. Wait. Here she is at dinner (after a happy hour on the beach at sunset, enjoying Hauhana [sp.], “end of the day”), agreeing to the Fantasy Suite experience. She says, “…There is nothing in the world that would make me happier….”
Andy is still chasing the opening up he feels Tessa needs to do “100%”; and is delighted when she finally confesses to how much fun she has with him, how she is always smiling and more and more “aglow”.
Tessa tells us she is falling in love with Andy.
Danielle and Andy sun on a catamaran and go swimming off the side. They discuss a psychic reading Danielle once had, wherein she was told she would have the now dead boyfriend as her first, then two more, then a third and final mate. She hints to Andy that he might just be that third.
Andy takes her to dinner and tells her he has a surprise, a psychic. The psychic responds to Danielle’s not knowing what to ask by telling her that her heart knows and the cards will reveal her heart’s questions/concerns. For Danielle that involves “past losses” and for Andy that means to do less thinking and more feeling. Andy should, the psychic tells him, “let love make the choices.”
Danielle does make one choice, though, to go to the Fantasy Suite with Andy. She tells us defense mechanisms kept her
from wanting to get too close and that her only intent was to get that rose each week, though now the rose is far from her mind, as she just wants to be with Andy.
Andy thinks he and Danielle share a lot of core beliefs. Kissing her is sweet, too, and he even sees her as his future wife. So that’s two he can envision as Mrs. Navy Doc.
With Bevin, Bevin, Bevin, however, Andy is smitten. He is going to choose her, I am willing to wager.
He knows they have this intense physical attraction, but wants to make the day reveal whether there is more. They hike and kayak (or canoe), and Bevin laughs the whole time. She says this is “fantastic”, that it’s her time with him and “the other two girls better watch out.” This could be interpreted as her being merely competitive for competition sake, but she also tells us she…giggle…is [falling, has fallen] in love with him.
Andy says Bevin is “amazing, unlike anything I’ve felt before….” He brings up the electricity he feels whenever he is with her, and we see them jumping off a cliff into a pool with a waterfall, inner-tubing, and kissing and hugging and hand-holding…alot.
And in the Fantasy Suite, while he does bring up the past “mistake” again, Bevin is ready to take her life to the next level. Andy is the man she can see spending the rest of her life with.
Okay, so all three are in love and ready to take to the seas with the lieutenant. And the lieutenant is conflicted, as he is ready, too, but not sure with whom. His best friend Gatsby flies in from I don’t know where, and does this really cool chat session with him, using the Iron Man analogies and sympathizing with Andy’s frustration over who to choose, yes, but more, over how because he is a healer who helps people feel better it is going to suck to have to actually cause pain for one.
The painful information is delivered to Danielle, as Andy gives Bevin and Tessa the final two roses. And while there is absolutely nothing he can find that helps rationalize his decision to send Danielle home, he has to, he has apparently since learned (from the psychic and his BFF), “follow [his] heart.”
And he even tears up, as Danielle departs and as the theme song from Officer and a Gentleman moves us to the end of the penultimate episode.
Bevin! Bevin! Bevin!
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