Has reality TV run its course? I wish. When you look at the soap opera-ish moments on many shows, you have to wonder just how much is reality. With last night's finale to The Bachelorette, the question is, do we really care that Jillian and Ed are still together?
Jillian Harris chose Ed Swiderski in the finale, and accepted his proposal. IT seems somewhat scripted, however, when one recalls that Ed is the same one who left mid-season because his job was more important than Jillian. He then returned (surprise!) to win her hand.
It sounds so movie-ish, does it not? Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl in the end. Jillian and Ed, still together.
Newsweek even goes so far as to ask that question: Is The Bachelorette rigged? One need only look at this spring's Bachelor finale to see similar soap opera-ish antics: the show's star dumped the winning girl for the runner-up.
Speculation like this is to be expected when real-life seems so much like drama. Perhaps that goes to show that people who watch soap operas aren't missing as much real-life as we think. Nah, I don't know anyplace where everyone has been married or involved with everyone else at one time, as in a soap.
Here's how the Jillian Harris and Ed Swiderski moment unfolded: first, Jillian had to reject Kiptyn. Then Jillian had to reject Reid, in a surprise return. Then Ed came on for the ultimate question.
“I want to be with you forever. I want a family with you. I want you to give me a hard time when we’re 80-years-old. Jillian, will you marry me?”
“Absolutely.”
The biggest question is whether, Bachelorette finale aside, Jillian and Ed will still be together say 10 years from now?
The Bachelorette: After the Rose Ceremony airs Tuesday night on ABC.
Watch the video of the climax here.
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