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TAR 20: Art Velez and J.J. Carrell *Border Patrol Agents*

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starrynight:
They admitted that they churned things up intentionally at the airport to get their 'juices flowing'.  Explain that.  In the context of the show they are surely villains.  Outside of the race in real life I don't know what they are like, but they are at least acting the role of villains in this show.

Bluesky:
We have different thresholds for villainy, that's all.

For me, a little verbal harassment isn't enough to consider someone a villain. But that's just me. I've taught my children for a long time that if you respond to an insult with a smile and a soft answer, the insulter gives up and goes somewhere else, because it is no fun.

But if you respond to an insulter by getting all torqued up and over reacting, you will continue to get insulted, because you have done just exactly what the insulter hoped you would do.

A lesson, by the way, that was apparently not taught to a couple of the remaining racers.

starrynight:
I'm talking about in the context of the race, I don't want to confuse it with real life.  It's an entertainment show in which people have their roles and in which there are peculiar pressures which we don't have in real life.  Outside of the show I doubt some of these people will ever come into contact with each other again, but on the show they can't avoid each other and the stress of the race is likely to have an effect as well.  And of course the whole thing is very heavily edited and manipulated by the producers as well. 

BayBay:
Ok I understand that TAR is heavily edited and stuff is picked and chosen to be shown however nothing significant can be manufactured! The furthest their manufacturing goes is harmless things e.g. someone on TAR 17 said that Brooke and Claire was probably laughing at their asses, cut to a scene where Brooke and Claire are laughing at something totally unrelated...that's pretty much the threshold of manufacturing (in my eyes)!

I think if the producers were genuinely trying to make out this team as villains than they would have cut out the scene with Art and JJ giving them the money. However I genuinely believe that they are just GRUMPY men with RIDICULOUS expectations and ruthless tactics in this game.

I realize my grammar is like TERRIBLE in this post so please excuse it!  :lol: :lol:

starrynight:
I'm sure they do have some of that arrogance in real life, though exactly how much is hard to say.  And certainly they can't deny things that they have said.  They would say they are just playing the game, though whether churning things up and aggravating people is doing that is questionable.  That's why I would say they are being like villains, or the team the audience loves to hate on the show.  They do seem very over the top so that makes me wonder whether some of it is put on for the cameras.  I really believe that all teams do things for the cameras at one time or another and that it is encouraged. 

My point was partly about the loyalty aspect someone brought up though.  This isn't real life, it's a game there is no loyalty as they are all in it to win it.  So their point about Dave/Rachel not having loyalty to them is a bit ridiculous.

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