Some of the quotes in that episode were unbelievable! - that one of Madi saying "Dylan expected Smoed to break when he left..." implies that he was purposely hoping that they'd fail, and was even worse than most of the stuff from the pulled episode!!! It totally negates the apology and the episode pull - and here I was forgiving them :(.
My CP reminded me that they have had people quit on them before, boys, etc., and they never acted so "omg - our team is ruined cause this one athlete left, we can't even put up our center stunt!" - you have tons of atheletes there at that showcase, you can't grab some random strong guy, or even a coach for Christ's sake (it's just a showcase remember, you can do whatever you want, no rules!) and have him fill in for that performance so you don't have your center stunt just standing there looking helpless. It's like the whole point of doing that was to draw attention to the whole auditorium how Dylan left them. And what's up w/ the announcer saying "this team has had a crazy week"?!? - they had ONE athlete leave them - they are acting like it was 5 people or something. My CP's team has had people quit at inopportune times, they just move people around and they don't act like complete babies, and they are a small gym w/ nowhere near as much available resources and talent as CALI.
My theory is they are making such a big deal because it's Madi's stunt group - if this were Angelina or Chimmy or one of the lesser "show featured" flyers, it would be no big deal, but because it somehow affected their star flyer's stunt group, it's like the world is ending. I also now have the suspicion that NO ONE can get that stunt to work, not even all the fill in's in the world for Dylan's spot and they know it cause it probably has something to do w/ one of "irreplaceable" people (irreplaceable as in ones that are stars of the show), so they chose to do this drama-filled "woe is us Dylan left us" angle instead of admitting they need to make changes to the other positions instead.
I am just so disappointed in this. One athlete left them - ONE athelete. They need to get over it. If they hadn't pulled that last episode it would have been two crybaby episodes in a row about one person leaving. Geesh.