Wow, take it easy, Sage! No need to curb stomp
Zoey's previews from the Interlude this badly!
Really? As you noted, the MC's nascent relationships are beset with dangers (except maybe for Jill's, which is merely riddled with them). I don't think we *need*
Zoey to instigate drama.
I never said
Zoey would be a minor event. I said the MC can't just abandon his new girl because
Zoey bats her eyelashes at him, and I stand by that.
First, this isn't real life. It's a story. If the MC keeps repeating the same arc over and over again, the story gets boring. Season 1 and Season 2 both ended with the MC deciding he needed to take a potential relationship seriously and not act on autopilot. If he goes right back on autopilot the instant he sees
Zoey, well, you don't need me to do the math.
Second, I'm not sure real life is all that different. If I commit to a girl only to immediately backtrack over an old flame, I think she would be right to question my sincerity.
But again, we're explicitly told
Zoey is still in school at the start of the Interlude: it's the reason she can't visit her grandmother.
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Unless we think
Zoey was signed up for summer school, this takes place during the MC's senior year in high school. This can't be the tail end of his senior year, because then there isn't enough time for him to have lost contact with her 6 months before Episode 3. It can't be his junior year, or else it would be more than a year before he could join
Zoey (and, you know, the age thing). This has to be in the fall semester, which technically matches the retconned timeline.
As for
Zoey being a bitch, the whole point of the Interlude is that she ignored what she had in search of greener grass. She felt like she needed to prove herself to her grandmother and had a pile of money burning a hole in her pocket. Waiting for the MC (when she didn't even realize how much he meant to her) was the adult move, but
Zoey was still young and naive.
I'd say the real question is what
Zoey learned from her time in San Diego, but we'll have to wait until at least Episode 9 to learn that.
I expect we'll get updates on Friday fairly routinely, if that's what you mean. I very much doubt DPC will return to regular render counts.
The caption isn't talking about the branch (the choice of girlfriend during the crossroads breakfast scene), it's talking about who the MC slept with during the run. The middle image is if the MC slept with Sage OR slept with Jade. Did your "Others" path save fool around with either of those two (even if he didn't ultimately pick Sage)?
It's a rather significant distinction, both in terms of our expectations and in terms of how the MC sees
Zoey. The issue isn't the MC moving on, it's him assuming that
Zoey had a long term partner based on learning she fucked a guy. If the MC had a history of conflating sex and love that would make sense, but that's one thing the MC does not seem to have a problem with.
In the short term? No, definitely not. Jade is not the most well adjusted person and the MC's "betrayal" is pushing a very sensitive button. In the long term? She still probably won't be as gracious and introspective as Bella was, but I expect Jade would grudgingly appreciate the MC taking a relationship with Sage seriously (not that she'd tell him so).
