Is That All There Is?

So, the season finale of "#1 Single" aired a couple of weeks a ago and frankly it was a bit heartbreaking. Lisa finally found a (seemingly) perfect guy, in the guise of her old friend Michael Panes, he kissed her, to the shock of everyone including Lisa, they started dating, and then he had to move back to Los Angeles for an acting job. He wanted her to come with him. She wanted to focus on her career. The end.

Wha?

I thought the purpose of the show was for Lisa to find love. Which she did. For the entire season she kept talking about how getting married and having kids was a huge priority for her (and Panes came right out and said he wanted to have kids too), so her suddenly saying her career was her main priority was a bit of a shock.

Now, if the issue was whether she really thought Michael Panes was the right guy for her, then that's one thing. But the show (or its editors or whatever) didn't make it seem that way. It SEEMED like things were going swimmingly. Why couldn't she just have said, "I need to finish stuff up here, but I'll be in LA soon" instead of just...ending it?

Perhaps this was all just for the sake of the show and a potential second season (can't have a show about Lisa Loeb looking for love if she's already found it) and perhaps she and Michael Panes are indeed living happily ever after. (Can't seem to find any indication of that in the gossip pages, on her site, or anywhere else as of yet, though.) But I just feel kind of cheated. Either tell us the real reason she didn't pursue the relationship, or give us a happy ending. What we got made her seem like bit of a jerk, which she really hadn't been through the rest of the season. It just didn't ring true.