[ SECRET POST #3614 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3613 ⌋

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[Project Runway + various reality shows]


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[sex scene from The Wolf of Wall Street]


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[Ace Attorney]


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Comments

[philstar22]

I am generally suspicious of portrayals of people on reality tv, but in this case I'm not really. Because for most of the time he was portrayed as nice. And then he and Erin were total dicks to Cornelius. I don't think that was a sudden change in portrayal. I think they actually did that, and then the producers went with it.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. There is a lot of ripping things out of context and cutting in the editing prodess to make people appear meaner than they are, but if you say certain things that make you look like an ass, it's not the editing's fault alone.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah.

I also felt like he and Erin got really cocky after having a couple of wins. I honestly can't believe Erin's still in the competition after having sent so many bad looks down the runway. But footage editing doesn't change the fact that they wouldn't listen to advice. And let Cornelius do most of the work. And that they threw him under the bus at the end.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. In fact, it was clear to me that early on, the producers were rooting for Erin definitely, and building up Dexter, too. Then that one particular episode happened, and everything did a 180. If Erin and Dexter had at least taken responsibility for what they had done, they would have looked a lot better. Instead, they made themselves look like assholes. The camera was only there to capture it.

Which was really disappointing to me since I was rooting for both of them until that point.

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[(Anonymous)]

I just don't really see what the big deal about that particular episode was, and why people call it 'bullying' or 'mean girls' or in this case 'being total dicks'. Dexter and Erin were a bit cliquish, maybe, but bullying would be something much worse and more continuous. And the potential cliquishness probably only happened because Dexter knew that Cornelius had been saying all kinds of less than nice things about him earlier in the competition (in episode 2 in particular). They just didn't get along, but there definitely wasn't bullying on either side. As for the 'throwing under the bus' - they had to pick someone, neither one of them wanted to answer that question, but the judges loved Erin's coat so Dexter did have a pretty good reason to choose Cornelius. Again, not bullying, not throwing someone under the bus.

Also I'm sure D&E didn't know they were 'acting like dicks' in the work room, since Cornelius didn't seem to even try communicating with them. He could have just said 'hey guys we still have work to do, I already made one skirt and I could use some help finishing this second one' or 'Erin that coat looks great, we don't have time to be too perfectionist about it so I think you could start working on another piece already'. He voiced all his frustrations to the cameras but none to his actual teammates so for all we know they had no idea there was an issue.

So yeah, it was a disastrous team with really poor team work and communication... but I don't see the dickishness, the mean girls, the throwing under the bus or especially the bullying :p