Fair enough, mate, you're right we just disagree. We both seem to agree on the diagnosis, but differ on the cure. You think she needs a drop in the deep end, and I think she needs a gradual increase in responsibility. Both make sense in their way.
I would take all this at face value and accept it.
The trick is to be mates with someone who buys it every year - and then when he is over it, offer to lend him a game you enjoyed (he is your mate after all), and borrow fifa in return. That way you get to disappoint yourself for freeEA says that every year when the FIFA on duty comes out that "it is the most ambitious FIFA to date"
, and your mate still gets to play a decent game.
however, it can only be one of two things.
These are two difficult ones. The guitar could have been because Dawe and his mates (not Chad) took the guitar, and they don't have an issue who they beat up - especially some ex-Jock. But the undergarments - Troy's a crossdresser? Dunno.
I still maintain that the "restaurant business" is an agreement between Steven Burke and Quinn. The "free tuition" is something coordinated between the two of them; Burke falsifies the accounts (creating fake scholarships), Quinn provides the fresh meat (the girls).
No, I don't think it's either of those two things. The scholarship was contingent upon her having sex with the guy paying for it, Burke. She decided against it and so Burke is therefore deleting the escrow for her 'scholarship'. Mona was fine to just forget about the scholarship and pay for her own way. She didn't leave because she didn't get a free scholarship. She left because Quinn was being a complete bitch and probably blamed her for Maya's outburst at the end. Just too much pressure is why she left. Or perhaps something happened off camera along those lines that finally pushed her over.
in that case it would be Mona who wanted to leave
But she considers herself married, keeps her wedding pic, her wedding ring and constantly hopes for his "return"
Well, she's also thought things like 'please come back, I forgive you' as well as asked for forgiveness. So its not that he's in a coma or unable to return somehow. He's actively gone away on his own, specifically because of what happened between him and Bella. (Unless Bella is just complete batshit bonkers, which allows for anything to happen)
I didn't say it was lack of ability nor he need to change his work. You obviously need some ability to build all those stories together and make a successful product. But it's also obvious many plot elements are only based either on character's inability to proper communicate themselves or character's abilty to make cuestionable, borderline illogical choices - a soap opera in a nutshell. This may be quite common in entertainment business and as you say there are lots of successful games, movies and TV shows riding on those elements. But people have different tolerance limits to all those writing tricks and in BaDIK's case mine was surpassed long ago. So for me it's even infuriating to see yet another one added to the mix, like 'c'mon, man, you really don't know how to build drama and suspense without this'?Indeed, however, that's not necessarily his lack of ability, or bad writing, it's quite the opposite. What DPC is doing, is that using all the well worked elements that hollywood use in every fucking tv show and movies , and implementing to in his own ideas. that's why he is good, He understand the "game" or the "playground". every television show, every movies, use exactly the same tropes he use, and it's working, its still working since decades. Shipping characters to be together, will never be old, and the "will they won't they" will never gets old.
most of the drama in every show could be easily fixed if the characters would simply just talk to each other and act like racional peoples, but they don't do that because then the angst , the drama, the suspension is gone.
and to be fair, peoples rarely behave rationally in real life to.
So in short he just does what it's working, why change that?
the "coma or something similar" bit is about the "return" word
I think it's fairly clear that Mona has dropped out and Burke was deleting the fake scholarship he had made for her. Maya snapped at Quinn after finding out the tuition was a lie and she found that out because Mona accidentally let it slip, and since Mona was already on thin ice with Quinn, Quinn may have either threatened Mona again or told Mona she was out of the HOTs. In either case, Mona's probably decided it's best to leave rather than risk gettting more caught up in all of this.
People take this to meaning that it's something dark and sinister, but it could just be a big red herring misidrection to make people think that. If Bella feels guilty for doing something that caused her marriage to fall apart, then kissing another guy in the library is going to bring up those emotions, and the MC feeling that, in hindsight, they would have called for help had they known why she was crying could just mean emotional support to help her deal with her feelings surrounding this break-up and to perhaps accept that it's well and truly over.
Original/Opening Post, actually; the first post in the thread.
My point was that you don't say 'i forgive you, please return' or 'return, please forgive me' if the person is in unconscious or brain damaged or something. The asking for forgiveness and giving forgiveness adds a component to 'please return' that raises the situation from "he is unable to return" to "he refuses to return".
As they say, correlation does not equal causation. It's possible (even likely IMHO) that both Mona leaving and Burke deleting her scholarship were consequences of something else, namely Mona backing out of Quinn's restaurant deal.
I agree with the general point, but I think Mona decided to leave on her own. Quinn was undoubtedly furious at her, but kicking Mona out immediately after inducting her into the HOTs would raise lots of problematic questions. Even Quinn would recognize that (probably).
that's why I talked about Burke / Quinn
