you're projecting.
You're rather defensive over a bunch of losers lol. My whole point is fishtank didn't ruin their reputations, there was nothing to ruin lol. Cole was a spergy dork and acted like a spergy dork, Brian was a burn out loser and acted like a burn out loser. Jimmy is a red pill sperg and acted like a red pill sperg. Kayleigh was a cringelord and acted like a cringelord. Tj was a dipshit dingdong and acted like a dipshit ding dong. I could go on but you get the point; these are people who had no prospects to the point they were willing to spend the holidays on a niche internet reality show lol. They were losers before, during, and after the show. Acting like them going on fishtank made their lives worse is a joke, there wasn't anything to ruin.
the entire reason Jet's reputation has been tanking and why the contestants were leery of production and mistrusting is because, yes, they all had things to lose. Everyone's life could be a lot worse than it was before they signed on to the show. They lose weeks of paychecks, there's public embarrassment. Letty, Josie, and Vance sat on a pee stained mattress and the vibe wasn't as negative as it was in S2 because there was recognition that the show can only go on with the cooperation of the cast and they trusted Jet to not abuse his role and to make the crap they go through into something worthy.
Cutting the sharks out was one of the dumbest things they did in S2.
It would've helped if the sharks were different people, since everyone would've known that it was just Jet & Ben
That's what made it great about them being voiceless and faceless. Yeah they can *guess* they're Jet & Ben but they didn't know for sure. That is until they were taken downstairs and saw the suits laying around or saw one of them putting it on.
"Oh no I went from 0 job prospects to 0 job prospects and now some weird guy keeps emailing me!"
Even on cams everyone knew when a shark was Jet. No way the Fish couldn't tell in person.
I'm fine with Jet being a shark and the sharks in general, i'm talking more about his character when it came to talking to the fish. S1 he was like the go-to guy for the fish from production side and it seemed like he was just trying to get them what they needed, and that sam was the real boss who would chastise them for their performance. Also, Jon knew Jet was the red shark very early on and pointed it out to all the other fish because Jet wore the same red shoes when out of costume.
Well that was just stupid of Jet.
Sharks kind of lost the point when the very first one made half the cast soyjak. They should 100% be back in Season 3, maybe even 2.5, but I don't really feel like having them on more in this one would've been much better, unless you like Tayleigh going "YEAAAAHHHHHHHH"
I guess the argument from Jet would probably be "Why bother dressing up as sharks when everyone already is a fan of the show and knows the staff?" but to me it just came off as really lazy.
Simmons literally had his real world reputation ruined by being on Fishtank. He was falsely accused of being a pedophile and people drove him off the internet.
The magic of s1 was the cast. The people were more interesting. S2 cast were clout chasers with no motive to compete, that's why half of them couldn't survive 1 week.
The biggest flaw with the season 2 cast was so many people weren't actually there to compete. Megan, Cole, probably Summer had no real intentions of staying the whole length of the show. They wanted to go on fishtank because they were fans of the show and wanted the experience of being there not because they wanted to win. Once the charm wore off they left. That did not happen in Season 1. The entire cast save for Damiel wanted to win. I think even Mauro would have stayed if he didn't get spooked by the Simmon shit.
Come on nigger this same post has been made dozens if not hundreds of times in this very thread. Let's wait to see how the casting agency works in 2.5.
The lack of reactions from the fish was another major issue during season 2. Because of their prior knowledge of the show they could not be shocked. Remember when Jimmy was brought back in a Fish costume and he did his reveal and literally no one but Tay cared? Most of the fish seemed utterly indifferent to what was supposed to be a big moment. I remember taking this screenshot live for this thread thinking "damn this is lame as fuck".
I don't know if prior knowledge is really behind that... Tay and Shinji probably would have had a reaction to it but being in the presence of TJ and Trisha would make them muffle it.
The Jimmy reveal probably wasn't the best example to use. He had been gone for like 2 days and it's not really shocking people didn't care.