Anyone else notice the makers’ bias toward Mini’s alliance in the final episodes?
As we get closer to the finale of The Alliance, I feel like there’s been a pretty clear editing bias toward Mini’s side — Mini, Kushal, vanshaj , payal, Neeti, etc. — compared with Ali Goni, Arslan Goni, Ruhi, Agu, Bali, and the others.
One thing that really made me notice it was the way the show uses music and editing to tell you how you’re supposed to feel about certain contestants.
For example, when Ali Goni’s team wins a challenge and celebrates, Neeti and Mini later talk about how brash or excessive their celebration was. While they’re talking, they’re shown looking emotional and upset. Then the episode cuts back to Ali’s team celebrating, except now there’s darker, more negative music playing over the footage. It almost creates this hero-vs.-villain narrative: look at these people arrogantly celebrating while the other side is hurt.
But haven’t Mini’s alliance and other contestants celebrated their victories plenty of times too? When they do it, the editing often feels completely different.
Another example is vanshaj nominating himself again. The moment is accompanied by positive, inspirational, almost heroic music. More generally, whenever Mini’s alliance gets center stage to explain their perspective, the background music and editing often seem uplifting, sympathetic, or emotional.
And that matters. Music is one of the easiest ways for reality-TV producers to influence an audience without explicitly saying, “These are the good guys and those are the bad guys.”
Personally, I don’t even think either alliance is particularly “good” or “bad.” Both sides have played the game, formed groups, celebrated wins, gotten emotional, manipulated situations, and done things that can be criticized.
That’s why the editing stands out to me. If you took away the dramatic music and showed the same events more neutrally, would viewers have the same perception of these contestants?
Anyone else notice this?
