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SometimesBachelorfinales are about break-ups.
Sometimes theyre about surprising reunions.
But in every case, the finale is always focused on two or three people.
Its an episode about the Bachelor, about the person who won, and about the runner-up.
But the core of it stays the same: Bachelor, winner, runner-up.
Instead, it was original winner Hannah Ann, runner-up-turned-winner Madison, and … Barb.
They do not communicate clearly.
They fail to distinguish between genuine interest and self-promotion.
They request emotional transparency, and then often punish it when they receive it.
The issue was his own debilitating lack of self-confidence and self-knowledge.
Peter clearly hoped that might happen.
But power abhors a vacuum, so someone had to step in and fill the void.
Footage of her sobbing and begging Peter to bring her home!
Peter may have been the Bachelor, but Barb became the main character.
The finalesealed the deal.
The camera did not stay focused on them.
There was no relief of the tension, because no one knew what Barb thought.
Chris, [Peters] going to have to fail to succeed, said Barb.
Everyone that knows him knows that its not going to work.
Nothing Peter or Madison could say got the audience back.
Peter Webers lack of consistency and self-awareness throughout the season meant that he was a truly unappealing Bachelor.
But at least the franchise found someone to fill the void: his own mother.
