James Barber wrote:
That's a good question. They may have wanted misdirection, but the misdirection came at the expense of the season, because they ended up obscuring one of the big reasons Todd won (his social game).
There were always those hints there of why Amanda would lose, but since Todd, overall, played a good game, it would have been good to have seen more of why he won, instead of the edit being more about that cocky guy who somehow manages to win. They wanted us to think he was some major asshole. I guess they wanted their gotcha win. It worked, but I think if they had given Todd a more multi-layered edit, then the finale would have been even better. Yes, Todd was smug and deluded and made some catty comments in confessionals, but he was obviously a lot more than that, and viewers did not get the opportunity to see more sides.
I also don't know why they needed to include the scenes about the miscarriage, which added an extremely vile undertone and then were never even brought up again. I think some genius must have decided this was brilliant TV and would be a surefire moment to dredge up at the reunion, and then when they actually saw the reaction to putting that trash on TV, they changed their minds.
But he WAS an asshole. you could easily see it in his dealings with other people.
