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I saw on TiVo last night that we were once again getting two hours of The Bachelorette, just as we had all season, leaving that final hour or programming to The Mole. What I didn’t know was that it was one hour of elimination to the final 2 and another of The Men Tell All, so when I flipped it on, I saw Jeremy already sitting with the rejected/dejected men that had already been eliminated. I realized then I had missed a show somewhere along the the way. After thinking I had forgotten to watch last week or something, I flipped through and realized that the first hour had been the away dates and the last elimination. The shock of who was voted out was already ruined, but thankfully, TiVo caught it all.

Stopping in my tracks, I returned to the first episode shown last night before I ruined anything else for myself. I’m still trying to figure out just where this gal Deanna is going with this. I’ll think I have it figured out, then she’ll surprise me again. We know she does not want a Brad repeat, and that’s what led to her surprise elimination of Graham last week. But why did she get rid of the other frontrunner, Jeremy?

Even Chris Harrison pointed out to Deanna last night in The Men Tell All that she had eliminated the two early frontrunners on the show. She didn’t really seem to have an answer to this, other than to say after her away dates with Jesse and Jason, she realized that she was falling in love with them, and not Jason. I’d believe that, except for the fact that I know next week when she chooses one of the guys, she’ll tell the other she realized she was only in love with the one guy. It happens every season whether it’s Bachelor or Bachelorette, unless your name is Brad.

Jeremy just didn’t have a good night all around. Not only was he the most recently rejected, but they did a whole spot showing how he was the least liked guy by the others. Again, there’s always one of them no one likes. So he leaves without the girl, and without the respect of the guys. How could it get worse, other than seeing a clip of one of the other guys calling him a D-Bag. All seemed well after this as even Chris Harrison pointed out only guys would high five each other after being called a D-Bag. Even Ron told Jeremy not to be afraid to get back out there, realizing that he was a jerk on the show, yet recognizing the guy was really hurting now.

I don’t blame Deanna at all for eliminating a guy she wasn’t in love with, but the problem is, she bonded with this guy over the loss of their parents. She had lost her mom, and he lost both his parents. They bonded over that, and at times it seemed it was the only common denominator, and if they stayed together, they’d do nothing about talk about loss, and that wouldn’t be healthy for either of them. Yet, now to lose her, someone that he connected to the loss of his parents, it must be like losing them all over again. He looked seriously wounded all night.

Jeremy’s elimination leaves us with a final two of Jason and Jesse. Ryan pointed out to Deanna last night that her choices don’t make sense. She got rid of Graham because he couldn’t be serious and commit, yet she kept Jesse because he was always fun and not serious, or words to that effect. She had eliminated him for the same reason as Graham, so he had a legitimate beef.

Here’s what it comes down to, though. She needs to pick the guys she sees a future with. And from the beginning, she tried hard to let guys down easy and not string them along if she didn’t see a future. She didn’t want them to feel the same way she did. However, this late in the game, these are the guys she had feelings for from the get go. Even she said last night if they looked, they would have seen that in the group things, it was always Jeremy and Jesse sitting there next to her, yet … Jeremy is now on the other side of the room.

I don’t necessarily understand her choices, but in a way I do, and in the long run, she needs to make the choices she feels most comfortable with. She’s looking for a committed relationship and a family, and she knows she’ll have that with Jason. She’s been drawn to his emotional side since the beginning. Being a father already, he already knows what it’s like to commit, while it’s still scaring the other guys off. And Jesse is just different than anyone else she’s been with, so if her other choices in life have all gone badly, maybe she needs to pull a George Costanza and start doing everything the opposite.

Deanna got what she wanted, finally, as she announced last night that there is a proposal at the end of the finale. I think she got a little more than she bargained for as well, as while she wanted to continually paint Brad as a Big Meanie since he dumped her … twice … I think she now understands a little more of what he went through. We can see that every time she breaks down and takes off crying with the guys. Eventually with this show, people are always going to get hurt, and as sick as it is, we tune in for both, to see people get hurt … and fall in love.

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