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Re: [RC] OT Wife Swap - Linda Marins


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elizabeth Chase" <elizabethchase1@xxxxxxxxx>

The link states the show is unscripted....

...I think I'd put some money
down on her maintaining her integrity and dignity. She has some interesting
ways of getting expressing herself, to be sure.  

Pardon me, but this is naive.  Of *course* the show is scripted.
The basic script is "People make fools of themselves."   The worse
it gets for the families, the better the Producers like it.  If they really
are casting for an endurance family, the script already
reads "Swapped in wife tries to ride horse at an endurance ride
and cameras follow her for miles as she whines and courts
disaster."  That's why they are insisting on *two* riders in the
family:  so that the other riding family member can accompany the
swapped wife/victim during this climax segment.

...I could also see her walking
away if the line in the sand were crossed.

You *can't* walk away.  You've signed a *contract*.

I guess you can tell I hate pseudo-reality shows.  The only
one I've seen where the people seem to be respected is
"Little People, Big World" and that's because engendering
respect for little people is the point of the show.   The 10
minutes I could stand of the wife swap show made it look
like it was one of the most egregious violators of its subject's
dignity.

With pseudo-reality shows, primitive people got it right,
the camera steals your soul.

Linda Marins









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