User blog comment:TheDipDap1234/The Ridonculous Race Finale - Team Reviews/@comment-4726418-20170331202032

I know I'm more than a year late but I still feel like it's necessary to bring this up re: Ice Dancers' karma. Now it's not an uncommon opinion by people that their karma should have been more severe but if you really take into account their actions overall, were they really that deplorable? The worst thing they ever did was arguably steal Loki from the Goths but that isn't that damaging because a) Loki isn't harmed, and B) They get Loki back anyway. Everything else they did was just dirty gameplay moves but that hardly harms people that much. Oh and I guess they ALMOST ran over Dwayne that one time but again, no damage to him whatsoever. This isn't Heather who would demean people about their personality and looks while putting herself above everything and always getting her way only to turn bald by something SHE caused herself which fits. This isn't Alejandro who messed with people's dignity and emotions and did a last minute fake-out where he turns against him, only for that same fake-out technique to be used on him by Heather. This isn't Scott who was incapable of caring how others felt only for that to be spun back on him and no contestant feeling remorse to a horrible pain inflicted on him.

The Ice Dancers' karma is the most severe for them BECAUSE it's the most severe for them as actual human beings. They lose against their mortal enemies despite several attempts of trying to eliminate them. Them getting 3rd is the worst possible thing to them because in their world, it's essentialy worse than what happened to them at the olympics, which, if people haven't guessed already, traumatized the both of them. They can never live this down. Even the subtext makes a lot of sense. They won gold in a load of different kind of ice skating games only to get silver in the olympics. Likewise in RR they get first place more times than all of the Final 4 combined but still go through losing in a location made mostly of ice, lose SIX times in a row after finishing first TWICE in a row, and lose against a team they try desperately to eliminate THREE times in a row (Surfers --> Goths --> Goths again). It ultimately culminates in an elimination wherein they try taking advantage one last time of the Cadets desperately trying to stay in the game, only for this advantage to fail against them once again and get 3rd despite it seeming to them like they could really beat them. Don't forget the Josee line "Almost. there."

Tl;dr Aaand I've just given away a quarter of the conclusion of the Ice Dancer blog, oops