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"  Hi. My name is Reyhan and I&amp;#039;m going to recap this season of The Bachelorette \u2014 something I&amp;#039;ve been doing unpaid for years, for anyone who&amp;#039;ll listen. (My day job is somewhat different, as I&amp;#039;m executive editor of a quarterly magazine and website called Modern Farmer.) The tenth season premieres tonight at 9:30 EST on ABC.  Before we begin our intense journey, let&amp;#039;s talk about the season that birthed our Bachelorette Andi Dorfman, also known as The Season of Juan Pablo. For as many years as I have followed The Bachelor franchise, I was almost tempted to stop watching after Juan Pablo \u2014 who was originally tossed from Desiree Hartsock&amp;#039;s man harem \u2014 scuzzed his way through a season as Bachelor. At first, he seemed like an inspired choice for the show: He was fairly adorable in his few screen appearances during Desiree&amp;#039;s season, made waves at the &amp;quot;Men Tell All&amp;quot; special, and had the advantage of being The Bachelor&amp;#039;s first minority lead. (Something had to be done about that embarrassing lawsuit that claimed ABC was racially biased \u2014 it was stealing headlines away from host Chris Harrison&amp;#039;s menswear launch, after all.) But after a few episodes, it became clear why America had loved him so much during his first time roaming around the Bachelor mansion. We never actually heard him speak.  It&amp;#039;s just really bad news when Juan Pablo speaks. Off the show, he told The TV Page some regrettable things about a gay Bachelor. (He later claimed he was taken out of context, but The TV Page wisely released audio to disprove that.) On the show, he was a liar and a slut shamer. After frolicking in the waves with Clare (the show made it seem like they boned, although it was hard to tell), Juan Pablo said it was behavior he regretted, something that he wouldn&amp;#039;t do, that they should &amp;quot;delete&amp;quot; it or some such nonsense. Clare was shocked and devastated, as was everyone watching. It was one of the most disturbing moments of reality television that I have ever seen, and I say this after having watched The Joe Schmo Show. Which is where Andi comes in. The ombr\u00E9-haired district attorney made a strong impression on JP almost immediately, having a chyron with an actual job title (unlike &amp;quot;free spirit&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;dog lover.&amp;quot;) But she didn&amp;#039;t give much evidence of being too smart for our loser Bachelor until the end of the season. After a night in the Fantasy Suite, Andi revealed something truly jaw-dropping: She didn&amp;#039;t like Juan Pablo very much and after spending the night with him, she liked him even less.  It&amp;#039;s hard to sense that the producers, having watched in horror at Juan Pablo&amp;#039;s idiot mumblings all season, had a hand in Andi&amp;#039;s confession. Telling the lead, &amp;quot;You don&amp;#039;t know who I am,&amp;quot; almost constitutes some kind of fourth wall incursion, since no one really knows who anyone is, especially when you are expected to marry someone you have been group-dating for 10 weeks. But, still, GO ANDI. &amp;quot;You barely made it here,&amp;quot; Juan Pablo growled at her. But Andi managed to push further, making some actual reality happen! You watch all season, hoping to cut through the artifice and then, BOOM. It was intensely satisfying for a contestant to demonstrate some independent thinking on the show. This bodes well for Andi&amp;#039;s season, although early quotes (&amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m a girl who wants to be courted and have the love of her life&amp;quot;) don&amp;#039;t exactly scream &amp;quot;feminist manifesto.&amp;quot; (And then there&amp;#039;s the issue of spelling Andi with an &amp;quot;i.&amp;quot;) Only time will tell if she&amp;#039;s going to start a revolution over there on ABC.  Meanwhile, here are some other things to get ready for heading into the season: Social media. Any reader of Reality Steve (and do not even click over if you don&amp;#039;t like spoilers, because that&amp;#039;s his whole raison d&amp;#039;etre) knows about the text that exists outside of the show, largely through the tweets, FB posts, and Instagram images shared by contestants, former contestants, showrunners, even producers. It can be an amusing sidenote to consider producer Elan Gale&amp;#039;s brushes with Internet fame (mostly through fabricating a fight with a lady on a plane) or a weirdly obsessive quest to guess the winner through geolocated photo posts. Also, you guys might have lives to lead. Your call. (But, at the very least, it&amp;#039;s @AndiDorfman on Twitter.) Chris Harrison&amp;#039;s outfits. Will he still be pimping his clothing line (&amp;quot;The Chris Harrison Collection by Da Vinci&amp;quot;), filled with unusually lined shirts? Chyrons. One of the great joys of The Bachelor is the first-episode chryons at the bottom of the screen. Last season, the chyrons seemed to get sentient with &amp;quot;dog lover&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;free spirit.&amp;quot; (The one that kept throwing me was &amp;quot;former NBA dancer.&amp;quot; That&amp;#039;s not a thing!) What is the best non-job identifier going to be?  Eric Hill&amp;#039;s death. A contestant named Eric Hill died in late April, after apparently being ousted from the show, in a paragliding accident. How will the show deal with this? Will he be edited out of the first episodes? Of all the ways real life can intersect with a dating game show, this is the worst.  Will Andi find love? Right. We&amp;#039;ll be watching out for that too. RELATED: The 14 Douchiest Things Bachelor Juan Pablo Has Done 15 Shocking Moments From the Bachelor Season Finale Follow Reyhan on Twitter. Photo Credit: ABC "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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