Thread:CF12/@comment-4726418-20170505154826/@comment-4726418-20170505214646

I mean the evil laughter thing and the blatant cheating IS out there but that's kinda the point. They don't become real villains until twelve episodes into the season, and unlike virtually all the other main villains in the show they didn't really have that dirty style in their head. So when, from their point of view, they're record of placing really well at things has been completely shattered by RR but are saved by a curse according to them and saved by a non-elimination, it inevitably would leave to a confidence boost. As such, that's why they act so irrational with how they act and their actions. They do spontaneous laughter because the whole sabotage thing is so new to them and tempts them. The cheating thing really doesn't bother me either since, if you're a villain in RR where that kind of show is mostly challenge-based, I would assume the main villain would tweak those challenges a lot more than it might happen in TD.

As for the whole MacArthur thing, what it did accomplish was displaying that MacArthur would be willing to help anyone out even if it doesn't benefit herself, and it was also to display the final nail in the coffin that Josee isn't the kind of noble person she is. It was also done as a sort of twist that she still sticks to who she is regardless of what MacArthur does to her; "Just because she went soft doesn't mean I have to." Yes, most characters should have a shred of humanity, but Josee, and by extension Jacques, were raised to not really care about that kind of stuff. They went into this really try-hard ice dancing profession since they were only children, so developing empathy isn't going to come naturally. Just look at the finale when Josee tries to vow that she's going to be a better person only to shove an innocent old woman into a fountain with the "Or maybe now!" line (lol<3)

See, the problem with eliminating the Ice Dancers in India is that, while it might work in the sense that they get punished for cheating in the end with a ginormously long penalty, it wouldn't fully fit from an interaction perspective, since they were just starting something big with the Sisters interaction-wise, and while I'm a fan of the Best Friends and Daters, they were much better choices of being eliminated in their respective episodes than the Ice Dancers. Then there's the Police Cadets, which is self-explanatory because it fits way more for them to be the ones to finally defeat their season-long rivals; "If anything's taking you out of this race, it's gonna be me!" Like, imagine for instance if, in World Tour, instead of Alejandro being slid down a cliff on an ice cube by being betrayed by Heather, he would just get betrayed by her and eliminated over Sierra in Awwww Drumheller. It wouldn't fit because both interactions I mention would need a bigger climax based on how focused on they are.

Jacques is pretty iconically hilarious and does probably have the best voice in the show though imo.

If you want to see the Ice Dancers in a slightly better light, I would suggest reading this. It's very long so you probably won't read it in one go, but I'd suggest some of it if you can or if you want.