What's up with that edit??!!

[FairyTaleLove]

Originally Posted by freedom0506

There is another woman who wears a ring on her right pinky finger - sorry. Although, I do think Melissa won.

I thought about this...does the other person wear a pinky ring ALL the time?

Melissa wears that pinky ring all the time. Every picture I've seen that shows her hands includes it. It seems really important to her, and I know it's DCC related.

My thought is that on a day like the FRC day, when a proposal is possibly yours for the taking and a shiny, bright new diamond ring to boot, you'd keep your hands beautifully free of costume type jewelry, to make the new one really stand out... now if the ring (her pinky ring) was really important to her (and something she never takes off is obviously) then she'd keep it on.

But if someone else just wears it as costume jewelry, I'd think they'd be less inclined to wear it on such an important day. Just my two cents for whatever it's worth. LOL

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[Capegal]

Originally Posted by FairyTaleLove

I thought about this...does the other person wear a pinky ring ALL the time?

Melissa wears that pinky ring all the time. Every picture I've seen that shows her hands includes it. It seems really important to her, and I know it's DCC related.

My thought is that on a day like the FRC day, when a proposal is possibly yours for the taking and a shiny, bright new diamond ring to boot, you'd keep your hands beautifully free of costume type jewelry, to make the new one really stand out... now if the ring (her pinky ring) was really important to her (and something she never takes off is obviously) then she'd keep it on.

But if someone else just wears it as costume jewelry, I'd think they'd be less inclined to wear it on such an important day. Just my two cents for whatever it's worth. LOL

I don't think the pinky ring is 'costume jewelry' - it is from the DCC - given to senior gals - in a ceremony - after their initial year on the squad - she like it - she wears it - and on the other hand - no biggy - it won't be the focus of that FRC by any means

[VelvetRed]

Originally Posted by jlccaz

You KNOW the Bachelor editor screwed up his "supertease" preview, when FORT receives dozens of new posts each day for a week straight alerting its members to the exact same (correct) evidence of the identity of the F1.

You would think in this day and age of makeup, airbrushing and photoshopping that this wouldn't happen.

Maybe they're "screwing up" FOR us? <insert naive smilie here>

[grneyedgirl]

Wasn't the F1 known WAY before the previews came out? I don't think that Fleiss necessarily let the cat out of the bag--someone close to the situation let the cat out of the bag--at least for the people who follow the show on message boards.

[bevorules]

Originally Posted by FairyTaleLove

Was Jesse ever thought of as a fan favorite? I don't say that to be mean, I'm just curious...I know there were some people who liked him, but I didn't see a lot of posts about him until it was confirmed he was in F2 then the debate about Jesse vs. Jason was on. But I think you're right - they have story arcs that they work from and they will edit to create the character they want to tell the story they want to tell.

I think in the Mol vs. Mel thing, we've seen that Mol isn't afraid to go get what she wants...we saw her pull Jason away twice, and once from the girl who stole her from him. And we saw Melissa sit back and not approach, not get approached. They've already been edited on opposite sides of the spectrum in how they dealt with the first meeting, so I think you've pegged the story arc for this season.

No in this case the F2 was but what made Jesse the F1 of this pattern was Jason was billed as "safe" and Jesse as a "risk" whether he was ready to settle and commit. Similar for Meredith and Ian. I should have said usually a fan favorite, not always and that isn't the part that makes it risk/safety edit. Watch for any "hesitation" on the part of Jason or Melissa, some sort of issue to be overcome. This what makes this edit pattern in play, not who the fan favorite is. My bad, my roommate was calling me to dinner so I was posting like a mad woman.

[VelvetRed]

bevorules and FairyTaleLove, I really like your insight! (as well as all the other sleuthers')

My interests in the editting are self-defense from being a gullible viewer, and an avid fascination in the production side of it (and human nature).

I've said for years and years that there is no such thing as a "reality" television show. It can't be "real reality" when people know that there are cameras running. Maybe "Candid Camera" and its copycat shows, but then I don't like spying cameras (but aren't they are, really?). But wait, reality happens every day, even with unknown cameras running, some with innocent motives, some more sinister. I realize that I am in conflict.

[Bloomers]

Originally Posted by grneyedgirl

Wasn't the F1 known WAY before the previews came out? I don't think that Fleiss necessarily let the cat out of the bag--someone close to the situation let the cat out of the bag--at least for the people who follow the show on message boards.

You know what they say about payback.

Take that, Fleiss, for the way that you treated us last season with that horribly screwed up edit.

[bevorules]

Originally Posted by Bloomers

That was great! I look forward to hearing how you see this is going to play out. The only thing so far that I have seen negative on Molly is when she was in the lobby during the intro with Naomi and Megan making competitive type remarks. Even if I didn't know, I would have suspected that all of them were getting painted with non F1 brushes. Shayne got away with some of the competitive stuff, but then she was Shayne and that whole set-up.

We only had one negative that I recall and after she and Matt worked it out she was quite sweet. Caps of her being peacemaker, braiding girls' hair, comforting crying girls etc. We had clear split of good vs evil in final six ie: good: Amanda, Noelle and Shayne evil: Chelsea, Robyn and Marshanna. When you compare Shayne to Chelsea Shayne was defenite sweet vs competetive/mean Chelsea. It would have been good v/ evil edit if Noelle or Amanda were F1 also. If he would've picked Chelsea they would have cleaned her up some and made it a close good girl vs best girl edit.

[bevorules]

I forgot to add that it looks like Molly tend to throw herself at him in coming epi's and her tendancy to "cut in" if you will is very Bevin-esque. They might clean her up some but she will definitely get more negative edit than Mel in either edit pattern as the F2 usually does. If they don't make her purely witchy right away (Kirsten, Chelsea, Sara W and Krisily, and Moana) than I think they will build the risk with Melissa and somehow make Molly more of a "sure thing" to make her the "safe" choice knowing that she definitely would commit (like Bevin.) In good v evil you can have sure thing with F1 and hesitancy with evil as long as you have the stark contrasts. That's what makes that edit in play. Clearest example of this edit was way in the beginning in season 3 with Jen v Kirsten and also Shayne v Chelsea. sorry for the long posts y'all. I have studied this a long time and am keeping notes to see what emerges this time. BTW beware of the "false edit" Fleiss and his minions have used it three seasons in a row and even I 9who was right every year going into Brad season was fooled. I had Deanna, Amanda and Jason winning. He will sometimes disguise real edit behind a false one and he is very tricky with it. The good thing about this year is we have good SC's of FRC to be right with so finding true edit pattern through the false layers should be easy.

[VelvetRed]

Originally Posted by bevorules

No in this case the F2 was but what made Jesse the F1 of this pattern was Jason was billed as "safe" and Jesse as a "risk" whether he was ready to settle and commit. Similar for Meredith and Ian. I should have said usually a fan favorite, not always and that isn't the part that makes it risk/safety edit. Watch for any "hesitation" on the part of Jason or Melissa, some sort of issue to be overcome. This what makes this edit pattern in play, not who the fan favorite is. My bad, my roommate was calling me to dinner so I was posting like a mad woman.

Regarding fan favorites...I watched DeAnna's season out of boredom, raised my eyebrows in a good way about Jesse upon first sighting (getting out of the limo, first episode). His jump over the couch and allowing what's-his-name to kung fu kick something off his head were a great distraction from what I thought was the boring formula for the show. Imagine my surprise to find out that there's always "stupid human tricks", etc.

I didn't think Jesse would "win", missed 1 or 2 episodes (but caught up on them online). Jesse really seems like he has a great heart; I loved it when his voice would get so soft and tender. I don't know if his birthday morning heart-shaped pancakes (made by DeAnna at the mansion) are a true story or not, but if so and even if not, I think that many of the alleged antics by other contestants (here on this board) are based in jealousy. Oh, to have been a fly on the wall...

I still remember how after DeAnna left Jesse's room when he showed her the photo album, she started walking down the hall but came running back for another kiss. If that was staged, oh well.