Anyone have any ideas for how the Maya/Josy storyline could be "fixed"? I've thought about it, but I just don't see any sort of redemption for those characters happening for me. I'm not saying it was necessarily badly written (though some think so), but this episode kind of ruined those characters for me (though again, some loved it).
With enough imagination, M&J could be redeemed at anyone's eyes, but there is no way whatsoever of redeeming'em in everyone's eyes.
DPC wrote a movie, but made a game; the core problem isn't writing, it's the mechanics. A movie asks you to empathize with the protagonist's feelings, a game asks you to feel the protagonist's feelings.
Unless you felt exactly what DPC had in mind at every turn of the game, it didn't work for you; unless you feel exactly what he lays out in a future redemption arc, it won't work for you and, if it does, it won't work for somebody else.