if the story involving a character is dragged out for too long and becomes boring, eventually the character becomes boring too. then also because of DPC, who in my opinion adjusted the shot as he went along to solve the credibility problems he was creating, the problem became bigger and bigger until it seemed unbridgeable.
I'm sorry, but do people seriously think that he
didn't plan the conclusion to this long in advance? You really think he didn't know what he was doing with this plot and then just made up a resolution on the fly? Because it seems to me the only people who think he was "creating problems for himself" were the people who thought it never made any sense and couldn't see a way out of it. Honestly, this was probably DPC's plan all along and just because none of you saw it resolving that way doesn't mean he didn't.
Secondly, especially the way it ended they all made fools of themselves, Maya first but also the others, for months (of play) behind a problem that in the end wasn't there. Maya and Josy practically from the beginning, MC when he was made a participant, but also Sage and then Jill and Bella who despite knowing that Maya doesn't have a loan in her name, because she can't have it (something that many players have said from the beginning, years and years ago), still needed to read the contract to establish it.
How did they "make fools of themselves"? Maya perceived the situation in a certain way because of what her Dad told her. She trusted him despite everything else because at the end of the day, she wanted to believe they could repair their relationship. Everybody else just had to go on her word over this and that's not being fools either it's just going by the information you have and knowledge you have with such things. Neither Maya, Josy, Derek, or the MC were well-versed enough to know what could really be going on here, it's only when they bring in Sage, Jill, and Bella that they get people who know more about this stuff to cast doubt on it and that's tremendously helpful in finally getting to the bottom of it. Nobody here is being made a fool of in the slighest.
and in the end it was all a bluff. to make matters even worse, even having found out about it is actually basically pointless, Patrick wouldn't do anything now anyway, Maya wouldn't even need the student loan. they just had to deal with Patrick. and instead they all embarked on a meaningless odissey, first the scavenger hunt (where they were supposed to give Maya the tuition fee for going through, not even always correctly but also cheating, stupid tests), then accepting Sage's help, then going after another tuition without giving Burke any real motivation other than that his daughter asked him to, etc etc...
This certainly did not benefit Maya's character
Who cares if it was a bluff? It was all just part of the overall story and drama of it. You think it got boring because of it, I say it would have been boring without it or if it had been resolved in like Ep 6. For those of us who gave a damn about this character, we were invested in helping her deal with and resolving this issue in whatever form that took and however long that took, because the resoution was honestly less important than the journey and I for one enjoyed that journey and was pleased the solution was what it was. Now I look forward to a new chapter for the throuple where they finally have the space to grow and develop as a relationship without the shadow of Patrick hanging over them anymore.
