When it comes to the Jill & Sage choice, I feel like I’m talking to a brick wall. How you motherfuckers can keep going around in circles on this one blows my mind.
Let’s walk through this, using what we know about the characters and their motivations:
- Sage has a head cold (worst case the flu). She’s not dying, she recovers in a few days (we’ve all been there and typically would have continued our daily grind except COVID makes people treat anyone with a sniffle like a leper these days), and she just feels like a bit of company so she rings the mc.
- If they are just friends, the mc can decline, citing he doesn’t want to catch whatever she’s got, and Sage gets it.
- If the mc is into Sage, or as a friend accepts her request, he can ultimately hang out at her joint, doing random shit for her, random shit that wasn't necessary, it was just his company that Sage was looking for, but his efforts were appreciated. If shit was serious, the other girls would be there for Sage. Like I said, she just wanted a bit of company, and she and the mc have become good friends, if not more.
- If the mc is into Jill (and she is into him), she’ll drop around unannounced to invite him on a birthday picnic. She doesn’t do this if they are just friends, she only makes this effort if the mc and her have a thing going on.
- If you're a real sad cunt, you can go for a run with Leon. This was clearly added to foreshadow the raunchy run that you would not be going on with Jill later in episode 7.
- If you’ve decided to help Sage (or are on her path and help by default), and you’re on Jill’s path and she rocks up like Little Red Riding Hood, just not so little, or wearing a hood, or even wearing red… and Jill rocks up, you’ve got a decision to make:
- Choose to visit the sick girl who is expecting you, and let the girl down who has prepared an outing for your birthday; or
- Go with the girl who has prepared an outing for your birthday, and let the sick girl who is expecting you know you’ll be coming around later (yes, the mc texts Sage to say he'll see her a little later on and she tells him not to worry).
- Those are tough but reasonable choices.
- If you choose Sage, the picnic is over, it was just bad timing. And it rains later on so there's no salvaging it anyway (even though that was not an option). Jill understands that the mc is seeing a sick friend who is a girl.
- If you choose Jill, the mc texts Sage before he goes. We know that he does that because he tells Jill right before they leave that he’s gotta quickly text someone. Turns out he tells Sage he’ll pop around a little later to see her, she tells him not to bother.
- If you choose Jill, Sage ultimately doesn’t care in the long run.
- If you choose Sage, it triggers a chain of events (or more precisely it doesn’t trigger a chain of events) that lead to the mc and Jill drifting apart.
So that’s what happens. None of it is unreasonable.
So Sage is easy to analyse here. She just wanted company. If the mc declines or suggests a rain check (which is ironic because the rain check would have delayed the visit to when it was actually raining - DPC totally intended this irony to punctuate the juxtaposition of the Jill and Sage personalities... yeah, he did, he told me), nothing eventuates and Sage is momentarily pissed but lets it go. She doesn't sit and stew about it. She doesn't see hidden meanings etc. She's not threatened that the mc doesn't like her, she either
knows he likes her, or they are just friends anyway. That's the kinda person Sage is.
Jill, not so simple (I mean the thoughts and events around the circumstances, Jill personally.. yeah, she's simple...). We already know Jill is nervous to be in the relationship with the mc. Her previous foray into the dating scene has left her uninterested, and while she likes the mc, she's not entirely sure about him. There are a lot of red flags when it comes to him from Jill's perspective:
- He gets into fights.
- She's potentially seen him running around with a dick on his head.
- He doesn't keep good company.
- He's very popular with the ladies.
- He has an enormous scary cock (she potentially saw it in the tennis changerooms).
So part of her is excited to have feelings for him, but the other part of her is scared. If he turns her down and gives her more breathing room, her infatuation for him starts to wain and eventually she decides he's not the one for her. It's possibly a relief for her to end things since she was very nervous regarding where they were headed (sex and all that), so when confronted with a "sign" (i.e. him seeing another girl instead of going with her on the picnic she organised), it's just the nudge she needed to slide back into her celibate shell.
It's not hard to accept shit just panned out that way. Sliding doors and all that. It's only difficult to accept if you don't want to accept it. Coming up with alternatives as to how things could have panned out is all well and good, but it didn't.
James has to be alive, Isabella can't be in such a damaged mental state. How can anyone believe that a dead person will come back to them? I refuse to believe James is dead, it can't be. DPC wouldn't write something so poorly done.
It's not James that's dead, it's their kid.
Indisputable evidence that they had a kid and it's dead. Also, they conceived via invitro, they never actually had sex.
