I just don't get it.
- Did people skip the mc introducing his dad and his family situation at the beginning of episode 1? Who cares about Neil anyway!
- Did they bail on the scene with Jade and Stephen fighting at the beginning of episode 3? I mean who wants to see domestic issues between a husband and a wife!
- Did they completely ignore the camping scene with Maya, Josey, Derek and Lynn that made up the episode 4 prologue? I mean, why introduce Lynn, we'll probably never see her again!
- What about the episode 5 prologue where Rusty & Tommy form the DIKs and we get to see Vinny and Nick joining up? Was that too much to endure? The mc hasn't even met Vinny, so what's the point?
- Then there was episode 6's prologue where we got an insight into Rox and Buddy, did people want to skip that the first time too? Rox is dead, and Buddy is just a low life drug dealer, why bother?
- Then in episode 7's prologue we got to meet Lana. Did people just fast forward through that scene? I mean Lana's dead, we can't fuck her right?
- And most recently, the library scene with Bella and James made up the prologue for episode 8. Did it kill people to sit through that? I mean fuck James!
The Interlude is just another one of these prologues, giving us a back story for a character we know of, but don't know much about.
The thing is, the mc knows her very well, but we the player, hardly know her at all. If she showed up on the mc's doorstep, he'd be all kinds of things, thrilled to see his close/only friend from years back, maybe scared that he still has feelings for her while having (mildly) committed himself to another girl, maybe horny because she was indeed a good lay.
I mean the mc is gonna have a complex reaction to her return because she means a lot to him. But this, "Fuck her, I'm not interested in her" attitude means some players have failed to understand there is a story here.
We're slowly learning about the people in the mc's life:
- His new acquaintances (the gang at B&R),
- His old acquaintances (Zoey, Neil),
- People he hasn't met yet (Vinny, Buddy); and
- People he missed out on meeting all together (Rox, Lynette).
DPC has a story to tell here. Each character is part of the story. If you don't let him tell the story, the story is gonna be fucked up.
The most ironic thing here is we're getting the episode 9 prologue much sooner in the development cycle than any of the other prologues were released. Definitely a reason to be whining like little bitches...
