I'm confused about the deaf girl
It seemed as if they never explained how they got away with it. Did they manipulate Chase so much as to make him think it didn't happen?
I don't get it...any explanation would be helpful.
I think they said someone changed the subject..
I can't believe they didn't choose to vote her.off after that.. that character really is a
liability...
I personally think if something like this happens they should immediately turn on the actor. Have the other cast members accuse her of lying. That way it looks like one person trying to scam the show and not the other way around... The fact that everyone else ignored it would make me really suspicious.
shareThe right answer might have been for someone to whisper, "Dude, some deaf people can hear a little still. Be cool."
shareI can't believe they didn't choose to vote her.off after that.. that character really is a
liability...
Although they have to do a lot of ad libbing throughout the show, they do have certain scripted things they follow. Who gets voted off is a big one, so to quickly change their tactics and vote her out would really mess with their plans. And once you start doing that you open yourself up to even more mess ups. Plus it would seem too suspicious given what happened.
They probably already had a backup plan for this thing, like: She actually isn't totally deaf but has been using that to her advantage.
Either way, Chase finding out she can hear wouldn't necessarily bring the whole show down. They could all just focus on how she was lying and then boot her off the show if necessary.
What they really need to do is manufacture a scene where some noise happens that everyone can hear but make it really obvious that she can not. Maybe even resulting in her getting knocked in the head with a basketball or something to prove the point. share
Exactly. That's exactly what I think they'll do if there's no longer any way around it-- claim that she was faking a disability. I think it's even been done before on one or more reality shows. It certainly happens in fiction a lot, and sometimes in real life.
As for how they got away with it, yeah, pretty simple. Everyone else just sort of ignored it and then one of the other actors swiftly changed the subject and counted on the fact that Chase doesn't like drama and he wasn't going to try to press it.
Exactly, re: Chase not liking drama. I think that's why he didn't say anything else at the time, but later talking in the confessional thing he mentioned how it was weird and he thought maybe someone was messing with him. Chase seems like a sensitive guy so he probably didn't want to press her on it for fear of looking like a mean person or something (which obviously he wouldn't be even if he did ask her what the heck just happened). It kind of works to the casts advantage that Chase shies away from probing things like that, although he seems perfectly comfortable engaging everyone about normal topics like their college history, etc. So they do have to be on their toes but may be lucky enough that he won't raise issues that are a bit edgy.
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She is cute. She's funny too. I just can't believe how hard it would be to pretend you're deaf all the time. I mean, why didn't they just give her some big ear plugs and make it look like hearing aids or something and say she could hear some faint sounds.
I'm a seeker too. But my dreams aren't like yours...
I was actually thinking the same thing. I have known deaf people to wear hearing aids on their ears. I think it would have made sense to have her not be able to hear much of what is actually going on... could have even pumped music into her ears...
One thing that actually happened close to this recently was the last season of MasterChef here in the US. The woman who won the entire show was "blind" and the show played it up that she could not see anything... It came out later that she is in fact not completely blind and can see some things, albeit blurry and what not. In this case the show actually knew but decided to play it up as if she could not see anything, even though she said in interviews that she had let them know...