If you truly think that then you haven't been paying attention to Tommy's character like at all. 5 episodes in and if there's just one thing Tommy genuinely gives a fuck about it's the DIK's and their traditions. We've been consistently shown that since episode 1. We're all aware of Tommy's endless list of reasons that him unlikable shit person but like the people who MC talks to says-Tommy getting upset and lashing out isn't anything new he'll get over it and come around like Rusty states, he doesn't have another choice and he knows that.
Tommy going against the MC and the rest of the DIK's wouldn't be a "missed storytelling opportunity." it'd be a bizzare plot hole that would go against his character.
I personally don't view Tommy as an antagonist like some do but more of an annoying thorn on MC's side.
Tommy befriended Rusty because he had money. He latched on to him like a parasite, and even though Rusty is the one to suggest starting a fraternity, it looks a lot like Tommy was leading him towards that thought with the "I told you so" about the Preps, and then dismissing the Jocks and Nerds as viable frats to join. It's as though he was saying without saying, "Oh, if
only there was a way to set up our own frat, but for that we'd need money and where, oh where, are we going to get that?" *wink-wink*. It feels quite manipulative, like he's using Rusty to get something that
he (Tommy) wants.
The DIKs, for Tommy, seem to have always just been about him being able to have fun, mess around in college, and to not have to have any responsibility for its upkeep, and when something threatens that, like what has happened with Rusty's Dad cutting them off and the MC's plan of self-sustainability, his true colours are revealed. It honestly wouldn't surprise me if the real story behind Vinny "dropping out" had to do with something he'd done that threatened to disband the DIKs, and Tommy convinced everyone to throw him under the bus in order to save the DIKs.
Tommy may genuinely care about the DIKs, but only in so far as he cares about the frat itself because it's his ideal party frat with zero responsibility and accountability and he wants to keep it that way, but the MC threatens to change that. So Tommy might just do something to try and oust the MC if he were to see such an opportunity because he feels like more of a dark horse antagonist than someone who will become a true friend to the MC.
Far from it, do you imagine only a Billy Big Bollocks could go to the college administrators with the footage of MC and Jade? That's a bitch move which is exactly what I expect someone tp Tommy to do.
I understand not everyone will have had that scene (or showed it if the did), the footage is just one example of what a weak antagonist would do.
Exactly. Tommy might seem like a "dog with no bark", but maybe he's the type who prefers to mess with people indirectly rather than directly, like for example, setting up fake Tybalt accounts to troll him or sending pictures to the Jocks of Arieth fucking every DIK. I could see Tommy being the type of person to do something like that, like he's someone who acts tough on the outside but then he pulls these kinds of sneaky, underhanded moves under the cloak of anonymity. But when things boil over, like in Ep 5, he does something rash and impulsive which he then immediately shrinks away from when it comes back on him.
