That relationship is one of the most unbelievable things in the game. These two girls (and I choose the word girls deliberately, not women) who supposedly love one another so much fall apart after a couple of month's separation? And why were they apart, they live a 30 minute train ride from one another. They couldn't have contrived a meeting? Does Maya's Father have a GPS tracker on her? Does he watch her 24/7, I mean presumably the man has a job. They couldn't meet at the college? They both have perfectly valid reason's to visit there. Truly DPC is a master of badly contrived plots.
There are elements that are rather contrived, but it's not totally unbelievable. These are 2 teenagers, after all, and at that age everything tends to seem and feel bigger than it actually is, like a high school romance. It's common, particuarly with girls, to consider this kind of relationship to be something that will last and that they and their partner are madly in love, but high school relationships generally don't last once they get out into the world and meet new people. So for Maya and Josy's relationship to crumble due to the forced separation of Maya's Dad and the difficulties he causes seems believable given that this is a teenage, high school romance experiencing its first bout of adversity.
In terms of them meeting up, he could certainly impose strict rules, like only allowing her to go out with members of her own family and never alone to ensure she won't meet up with Josy. Derek may have helped them meet up though, we can't say for sure, but Josy did say on the date with the MC that it was hard not seeing her "every week", so perhaps they were able to secretly meet up occasionally. Also, her Dad could certainly track her phone as that does happen these days. He also might not be aware that Josy was planning to go to the same college and he believes Derek to be his little spy who will tell him what Maya's up to, so he's OK letting her be there. Perhaps they could have met at the college when Maya got there, but Josy might not have wanted to since she was still grappling with the idea that she might not get accepted and didn't want to visit the place she might not get into.
Also, what you are saying is that we must believe it because that's what DPC wrote? I don't buy that. As I've stated before the burden is upon the author to make their story something that a reasonable person CAN believe, and on this DPC has failed miserably.
On this, I do somewhat agree, because although some things have been written a certain way, they could have been written another way, and just because things are written as they are now does mean it's the best way it could have been written.
Writers aren't infallible and can often be guilty of a few mis-steps in their approach. DPC has, I think, done a good job making characters that people can get attached to, that they can feel for, and who they can believe in, but the forced drama and contrivances can overshadow this and sometimes even contradict their own characters' behaviours in order to force particular plot elements.
Ho shit, I didn’t realize how far back I was. Is there anyway to get both Maya and Josy at ep. 4?
Sometimes I envy people who aren't as obsessed with this game and can miss a few updates without realising it.
A while back in the thread someone suggested that Mel and Troy could be brother and sister, and that Mel was in on their secret. That could explain the dialogue at the end of episode 5.
Then it's basically the male version of M&J with Mel in the Derek role. I don't think DPC would do that.
I said only at the end of the episode because Im expecting Sage to hesitate and have doubts about moving the relationship forward with the MC. Because lets face it, my MC in a manwhore and she knows that. She will have doubts if the MC is "boyfriend material" and if she is good enough for the MC (because Chad broke her confidence in herself and her emotions).
Even if it's not specifically for the "manwhore" reasons, she's seemingly been obsessed with Chad and her relationship with him for many years and feels very betrayed right now, so she'll have trust issues and perhaps will not be willing to open herself up to that sort of thing again. This could be something that remains a FWB arrangement with the 2 of them becoming closer friends and looking like it could be more, but Sage continues to resist her feelings and the MC doesn't push it with her. She may then eventually admit it in an explosive confession and this would be the crucial decison point for the MC, particularly if he's still seeing other LIs.
We can only hope that Josy need a short toilet break before go in and MC & Maya go in alone, this way they could atleast sa that MC is her Boyfriend
I do too, but that seems too easy and DPC doesn't tend to do easy. But I would be pleasantly surprised if they did.
Depends on what her father is really like. Is he evil, like fuck a puppy in the ass while it cries kinda evil, or just overbearing and misguided due to religious beliefs.
Is he contemplating an honor killing, or does he truly believe homosexuality is wrong and he's trying to "save" Maya.
My guess is he is a typical, overbearing, bible thumping, narrow minded turd (no offence to anyone in to thumping bibles), and he's just doing what he he thinks will make his family wholesome.
He's definitely overstepped the mark of how involved he should be in his adult daughter's life (not the first parent to do that and he won't be the last), but would he be prepared to lose his daughter for life over this?
She should stand up to the fuck knuckle and if he refuses to release the funds (that he should have no control over in the first place), then she just flips him the bird, drops out of college, gets a job earning minimum wage, and shack up with some friends for a while. We've all been there...
I imagine her Dad is probably more like those radical Evangelical televangelists than he is, say, John Lithgow's character in Footloose. I doubt he would go as far as an "honour killing", but he probably has very bigoted views on homosexuality and would perhaps consider sending Maya to one of those horrid "pray away the gay" camps.
It would certainly be nice to see her stand up to him, and given what just happened with Quinn she might pluck up enough courage to do just that, but I think seeing the MC stand up for her would give her the extra push she needs.
Pretty much this, my greedy hope is we get more Lily and Riona scenes before that then I am strictly on the "Path of the Sage", DCP has to pull some major bullshit to make me dislike her at this point.
Well, he did it with Jill, so he could certainly pull some "major bullshit" with Sage too.
