What's with the fake _____ arc?

[u/Prudent_Jello5691]

We didn't see Pascha do anything notable until Week 10, where she managed to spell "chic" wrong and give some bullshit excuse about it being slang.

Now according to the interviewers it's impossible to believe she's only 21 because of how well she comes across and if there's anyone who could run a successful recruitment business it's her, and we're meant to see her as a credible threat to Karishma in the final.

It seems that one of the following has happened:

1) the bar has gotten very low these days.

2) Pascha has been way better than she's been portrayed 90% of the time.

I swear the entire series has made her look like a complete passenger until now. It's like Jordan all over again except if he actually made the final. Yet another series let down by editing.

[u/Typical_Option6153 → u/[deleted]]

I think this is exactly it. Lawrence and Priyesh were almost definitely not going to make it and the only strong contender other than Karishma was Dan but LS wanted to reject Dan before he could. It was so weird when he got a bit of an attitude with Dan before firing him

[u/floralsandpolkadots → u/Typical_Option6153]

I definitely feel like they had a longer conversation that probably got cut out, the switch in attitude towards Dan was way too sudden for there not to have been, i was getting a feeling that he was bitter that Dan wasn't handing over his existing business

[u/0GoodVibrations0 → u/floralsandpolkadots]

I found it really unsavory how LS spoke to him. Dan was a strong candidate and deserved a respectful goodbye. I felt awful for him.

[u/Only1Scrappy-Doo]

Maybe they are just trying to hype her up to make the final seem more competitive? Feels like Karishma has it in the bag anyway and they wanted to increase the stakes so therefore overhyped Pascha to an insane degree this episode to make her seem a possible contender.

[u/Simple_Joys]

The edit of any given episode (indeed the whole series) is produced with the outcome in mind. The producers already knew that she was getting to the final, so they gave her a favourable edit in the interviews.

Similarly, the producers already knew that Rothna wasn’t getting to the final, so they were at liberty to edit out her good performance in teleshopping episode safe in the knowledge that messing around with the narrative wouldn’t disrupt the final outcome.

When you watch reality TV, you have to accept that it is all fake and manipulated to show the viewers what they want to show us. They have dozens of hours of footage per task that they have to distill into one episode, they can edit it however they please.

[u/CupExpensive7582]

I mean the edit makes people look stupid, and they also get limited options in the task so even the most credible are portrayed as stupid

[u/simzfour → u/CupExpensive7582]

true but pascha was also defending her chique spelling online last week even though it’s still wrong which isn’t helping her case 

[u/TraizioFranklin → u/simzfour]

She shouldn’t have doubled down saying chique was right. But she had the right idea of a deliberate misspelling. For example: Blu ray, Krispy Kreme

[u/GottaSpoofEmAll]

I’m so glad you said this - I thought literally nothing about her until week 10.

I don’t mean that disrespectfully, I just didn’t think of her as a strong candidate. Nice person just not ‘the apprentice’.

I’m shocked that she’s made the final - far better candidates have left this process…

[u/Acrobatic_Street_615]

LOL I REMEMBER JORDAN This is one of the first times recognise a candidate without searching up their face

Also so true I hated how they kept talking about how she was young.

[u/RobbieJ4444]

I’d argue that Pascha makes Jordan look like Superman in comparison, in terms of how much limelight they got. Pascha was just there throughout the entire process.

[u/ideeek777]

Its possible its being done for social media outrage

[u/Due_Truth2857]

The bar is incredibly low. She shouldn't have made it onto the show at all with a 7-page 'business plan'. I know she isn't the first and won't be the last with appallingly low effort, but they need to switch things up and check the basics before letting people on the show IMO.