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Maggot brother, you might want to to step back from the opinion pieces for awhile. Opinions are fine, but you seem bent on one-upmanship. You're starting to make less sense.Sure, some events can. And you can connect anything to anything.
But without proper setup, a consistent theme or conflict, of "this character is about XY and Z", you're fishing for random scenes of conflict, and then have to read into them to make leaps in logic. Think red string on giant picture boards...there is no throughline with Josy's issues to cause her to have an emotional or identity breakdown. You'd have to have some serious, consistent events, pretty much every time we see her, to make these micro conflicts into a big one. In reality, she's one of the happiest most mature main characters, almost stereotypically into the MC, very similar to Zoey. In fact, she may be a Zoey 2.0 later on if her crush continues and she goes through her own Interlude (oh god no).
And what you listed with Jill? Simple forms of conflict.
-Bunch of friends that covet her bf -- as with every path
-Rusty -- not even an issue till he brings it up during Episode 9's Hallowe'en party, and even then, has no impact on Jill's conflict or character
-Sister and Jonathan -- her sister is a thing with her entire family, and whatever her "moon" focus is in relation to seeing the MC as her "destiny", and that's core to her family problems and drugs. But Jonathan was just introduced via 2 flashbacks in Episode 11, and just an event she was hoping for (and it's a good thing of plot development, not a form of conflict).
None of these are related, or have a consistent theme to show a flaw that Jill possesses that is constantly attacked, where she'll have an emotional breakdown over.
You're also missing the Tybalt nonsense, which got in the way of her relationship with the MC, and brought them closer together, along with Tybalt's presentation which caused her to cry, since she is now realizing other women are after him. Tybalt is essentially a sacrificial lamb of comedic proportions, and thankfully fuels Jill's relationship with the MC, and Sage's.
DPC does have an outline, but he's filling in the blanks as he goes...
For one, Jill contacted Jonathan in the middle of season 2 (Chapter 6 or 7?) about starting a campaign in Lana's honour. We didn't see his character before chapter 11, but he was introduced before then. So, yes, DPC "outlined' plot for that character (for one example).
You tell others not to make assumptions, and then make a judgment call on several things in this post alone. For example, how do you know Tybalts story (so far) is just "nonsense" or that DPC only wrote him so that he will only play the role "a sacrificial lamb of comedic proportions"? Who knows where DPC is taking the character. There could be a ridiculous plot twist with Tybalt, who knows? (Or it could just be nonsense and you'd be right and can crow and tell us all about it later!)
All I'm saying, respectfully, is that opinions are fine, but try not to sound so condescending about it. Step off the high horse, as it were. We are all just guessing and grasping at straws at this point. Have fun with it maggot brother, that's all we are trying to do!
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