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I'd definitely call it a major misinterpretation. He sees a cluck by a woman he doesn't know saying Zoey fucked the woman's ex. From that he concludes that Zoey is in an ongoing relationship? The MC has never had trouble distinguishing between sex and commitment, why this one exception?
It's not a major concern, just a frustrating detail sacrificed on the altar of DPC's need to surprise us. He should have had the MC tell Bella "I saw she hooked up with someone."
Eh, it's not going to be much better towards Sage or M&J. The Interlude isn't enough for Zoey to challenge the MC's waifu without making the MC's choice look meaningless.
At least not as things currently stand. So let's get a bit of prognostication out of the way. If Zoey is indeed intended to tempt the MC (and I believe she is), I think DPC intends to play the long game. Zoey's return will shake the MC up quite a bit, but he'll stick by his choice in Episode 9. Zoey will settle for rebuilding her friendship with him.
But as the season goes on problems will develop in the MC's relationship, eventually leading to him either breaking up, or being on the verge of doing so (sort of like Maya and Josy in Season 1). That's when DPC will club us over the head with Zoey. If we're lucky, Zoey will be optional (or based on our previous decisions). If we're unlucky, the MC will give in automatically and that tryst will the be the catalyst for the MC's actual breakup. Either way, Season 4 will be about picking up the pieces and making our final choice.
So there you have it. That's my Zoeypocalypse prediction. And for the record, I think that's a potentially valid approach (assuming he handles the breakups well, which will be no mean feat). I just think it's not going to hit as hard as DPC would like because even with a few more episodes' buildup, Zoey is not as tempting as the other girls.
The idea is fine, it's the execution I find dubious.
Absolutely not! We dedicated an entire Interlude to Zoey's road trip; there's no way I'm going to headcanon in a whole other series of off-camera adventures for her!
I agree it's silly Zoey was out there for <mumble> months and only met 4 (platonic) friends, but better to stick with that. At the end of the day, this is still effectively a flashback; we can assume it's a streamlined version of the important events and elide over the rest.
The only major detail I find problematic is that we know the cluck happened some time before Episode 3 (up to 6 months), yet Zoey never reached out to the MC once she realized Bret's advice to break contact was in fact terrible. That's quite a stretch, and it makes it harder to avoid cynically ascribing her return purely to being out of money. Just one more sign we'd have been better off incorporating Zoey into the game much sooner.
I'm not really social media compliant so I'll take your word for it working that way. But the cluck was only up for a short time. The MC doesn't generally come across as someone who follows Rooster obsessively, so it's fortuitous (for DPC) that he managed to see the cluck, then ignore the implications of its removal. Come to think of it, however, it would have been nice of Emma to post a retraction if Zoey talked her down, right?
Josy's always had the odd contortions when she smiled broadly, but it's much more noticeable recently. I'm guessing it's a side effect of his newer lighting/rendering setup.
The dialog changed with the release of Episode 6 (though Scrappy's mod apparently preserved the original lines, probably unintentionally). The Interlude is technically compatible with the retcon, it's just best not to ask any questions about exactly when the MC and Zoey started having sex.
