No matter what, this is going to be a season of The Bachelorette unlike any other. .

Season 16, starring Clare Crawley as a woman on the hunt for love, is mere weeks away from beginning to film, in the middle of a pandemic.

Instead of starting at the Bachelor Mansion outside of LA and eventually traveling all over the world, the entire season will be shot at one resort in Southern California.

Clare, at 39, is the oldest lead The Bachelorette has ever had, and only one Bachelor, season six's Byron Velvick, was older, at 40.

Ages ranged from 23 to 42, and that 42 year-old is the only person older than Clare among the cast.

It feels like a cast that wasn't created for Clare, like perhaps the men were cast for a single former Bachelorette who is currently 25. .

Bachelor Nation only knows that Matt James, who is 28 and was originally cast on Clare's season, will no longer be a part of it, since he's jumping right to being the next Bachelor?

"I question the people who are like, I can't believe you're 39 and single," she says.

"Find that right person for you and don't settle

A lot of people have said 'you're so picky.' I've been told so many times to settle by my friends, and by other people too, and I would rather love myself enough by myself than be with the wrong person

Because trust me, I have been with the wrong person

I have been in those relationships, and they are exhausting, and they are draining, and they deplete and kind of take away from who you are, and I would rather spend a shorter amount of time with the right man who lifts me up and matches me in my energy, rather than a longer time with the wrong person."

What does dating look like between two people who are almost 40 compared to two people in their mid 20s or early 30s

This show could actually be about finding love, and maybe with a stripped-down season full of fully-grown adults, it's possible to get there