Benji educating me on how batshit insane the child time line I’m Zelda actually is with its implications is.
The king of Hyrule lives in that time line. He refused to listen to his daughter who has prophetic dreams, but some feral child claiming he’s from the future? Believed. Gerudo peace talks? Over. Ganondorf arrested.
Just finished watching that last episode of Heroes of Cosplay (because as I've stated, trainwreck reality shows are my kryptonite and I quite love discussing them with friends.) and I figured there'd be a tiff on tumblr and other social media sites about the whole Whovian vs Heroes deal and I was right! And the drama was delicious. HOWEVER I would like to point out a few things, since it oddly enough did actually involve something I care deeply for. (No not cosplay or the heroes or any of that crap)
Video editing.
Ya'll have some idiotic ideas about video editing, and I, as a professional (I can say that now!) video editor would like to clear some shit up.
Quite a few people are drastically underestimating what video editors can do. Video editing is not simply cutting the clips and then slapping them all together. There's such things as pace, timing, music, emotion, etc. The video editor controls the entire end project. A good editor can turn someone innocent into a demon (or vice versa) with a great deal of ease. A great editor can fabricate an entire situation that did not exist.I have seen someone take two entirely unrelated clips and make them appear to interact with each other to create an event, or make it appear they were talking shit about each other, etc. (In fact, this is a great exercise to do if you are working on being a video editor. )
Editors are master manipulators. Music does more than you know to invoke emotion. So does so many other things in a show or movie. Subtle things. While I doubt it happened here (because frankly it's a lot of effort to do) an editor CAN make someones mouth line up to an ENTIRELY different audio clip. Cutting up audio is no problem for a master editor. (Or really an intermediate one, shits not that hard guys.)
Sure, I can only work with what I have. But I can make what I have look absolutely VILE, or ANGELIC, or BORING, or whatever have you without any problems. And I'll let ya'll in on a little secret. While I doubt it was used here, Reality TV shows do in fact set up fights like this ahead of time. They either have people paid to start shit, (using either an actor who has been paid to do something like yell into a crowd or angrily approach someone, all the way to someone who pulls the talent aside and tells either tells them lies, or tells them they need to get upset or happy or whatever. These aren't hush hush jobs, I KNOW people who do this.) or they have things set up in advance to start shit. Having everything go right all the time and everyone happy with each other makes for boring TV. Boring TV doesn't make money. And that's what it comes down to.
So whatever side of this you choose, (or if you choose to go with no side like me) remember that when you watch reality TV, 95% of it is completely faked. And no, you cannot trust the talent to tell you the truth. A lot of them will be under legal obligation not to, or to only release certain information. Some talent may not even know themselves. No that's not every single talent presented you to on a reality TV show, but that's the majority of them. Be wise guys. Know when you're being fed bullshit. There's a difference between watching blindly and watching while being smart about it.
