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You're probably right, though hopefully the MC will at least inform Maya & Josy that he's ready to attach strings if he's on their branch.
I suspect Zoey is going to be playing as the 'loyal opposition' for the season, the temptation to whichever branch the MC has chosen - including Quinn if the MC is romancing her on Others, otherwise she'll be the opportunity to stop playing the field and settle down. I still think that's a flawed idea because it's effective a lower-stakes repeat of Season 2, but it's the only realistic route I see for her at the moment. If we're lucky the emphasis will be on her being the MC's friend and the romantic feelings will only become an issue near the crisis point at the end of the season; that would maximize the time we spend romancing our chosen girl(s) and give us a chance to get to know Zoey before it all goes down.As for Zoey, what's happening with her is a total wildcard for me. I got none of my predictions right on how her backstory might make her relevant to the current story. By now DPC has gauged her popularity and obviously has big plans for her (though I wouldn't have believed that if she didn't get her own interlude episode for some reason
The catch is that to keep the chosen girl from pulling even further ahead of Zoey, the chosen romance will probably suffer from some serious flaws that escalate throughout the season until the crisis point. But that can potentially work as long as DPC *does* develop the relationship alongside those flaws and keeps the root cause of the strife relevant and justified. That way Zoey will feel like an alternative to the drama rather than the cause of it. I'd prefer if we used the other LIs for the role, but I can live with Zoey if it simplifies the branching.
Of course understating the drama isn't exactly DPC's calling card, but we'll just have to hope for the best because I'm not up to spending the next 3 episodes with the MC moping about how hard it is to move on from Zoey.
I appreciate the idea, but I can't get behind it. Zoey just isn't a threat to the chosen girl(s). Quinn et al have better cause to be jealous of the other LIs the MC didn't pick; they all had a more meaningful romance with the MC if he pursued them. Hell, I think Josy and Maya had a more meaningful romance even if the MC turned them down! Zoey may have started with the inside track, but she blew it by leaving the MC high and dry then wasting the Interlude learning trigonometry instead of coming to terms with her feelings for the MC. She's going to need most of Season 3 to play catch up, and as I said, I'm not sure DPC can pull that off.As depressing as it is, we won't be getting an answer to the really interesting stuff until near the end of the story. It's much more rewarding to just look forward to the character developments and interactions than story progress in my opinion, which is why I've paid about 0% attention to the diary and all that family mystery stuff because it's secondary to the characters for me. Imagining how the MC will react to, for example, Neil not being his real dad, isn't interesting to me because I care how the MC will feel or react to it, but rather how the people around him will support him through that sort of revelation. Zoey's reintroduction to the story as the MC's ex-girlfriend who was his first everything is another good example, because we get to see how each of the girls react to competition in a relationship context, which we haven't seen up to this point. So yer it sucks that there are distractions to the progress of the relationships, but I'm happy to patiently wait for the payoff. I want my cute Quinn jealousy scenes, and I'll skim through as many Zoey scenes as I have to to get them
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