Clay Harbor - *Sleuthing Spoilers*

Sharleen wrote:Sadly, the ACTUAL professional football player gets injured on this date and is whisked off to get medical attention. Brutal.
In the evening, when Clay returns, note how editing makes it seem like the guys are irritated at the attention he receives, yet how you can see them smiling warmly when in the background of actual shots from this moment...

In short, those irritated-looking faces could have been taken from just about anywhere. The tone of these faces, to me, is that they’ve already been waiting many hours for this evening to be over and then just when they probably thought it WAS over, Clay returned (which can easily tack on another hour or so). The classic use-tired-and-bored-faces-to-look-like-annoyed-and-jealous-faces trick.

When Becca presents Clay with the rose, note how editing suggests Blake expects it by showing him smile at "somebody who makes me feel like a princess". But observe how Leo's sitting next to Blake in that smiling shot, yet how Leo's next to Clay in this Group Date rose moment...

Ah, the power of editing. So you can pretty much assume that ANY facial expression or word used can and will be used to create whatever narrative.