It doesn't mean that we will get content with Jack at the cost of other characters from now on - nor does it mean that Eva is getting lazy and will be copying more and more scenes.
I'm not calling her lazy or even impliying it. But there has been more recycled scenes in the last chapter than there were before, that's a fact.
I mean Mike dating Gillian makes more sense than ever now,he is fucking around hard but never breaks up with her small breast girlfriend?
He thinks everyone is a hoe except her gf?
At this point i will be very surprised if Mike gf is someone random.
I don't get how it's so obvious that Gillian is Mike's gf, maybe I'm forgetting something or didn't catch it. If I remember it right, Gillian tells Ian she went back to Baluart around the time where you start at the beginning of Chapter 1 because his boyfriend found a job there. I don't remember anyone mentioning Mike is new in his job at the club.
At this point it's either 1 or 2. 3 would EK having no fucking clue to really why having Gillian return only for the sake of possible drama, which again, would be pointless.
The point for Gillian returning is Ian confronting her, getting closure and getting over her (or not). The same as Lena with Axel. It's the main plot of this game, Ian and Lena getting over their past together and hopefully ending at a better and healthier place than where they started the game. Or failing to do so.
Jeremy was acting very uncomfortable when Lena has asked him whether Mike still has a girlfriend. He was similarly evasive when Ian has questioned him if he saw Gillian's new boyfriend at the club. So, while identities of these two aren't confirmed, Jeremy very likely knows who they are. Though i think he genuinely wants to just avoid the drama and believes he's helping (or at least prevents things from getting worse) by keeping stuff under wraps. Just like he doesn't tell Wade about Ian fucking Cindy.
Let's say that Mike's gf is Gillian that would mean that Jeremy knows that. Also, as it seems that Jeremy knows everything in this game despite being the dumbest character, it would be reasonable to think that Jeremy knows about Mike and Lena (if it happens in your game, obviously). So the situation would be that Jeremy is not telling Ian that his ex has come back and he's not telling him that the guy who "stole" Gillian from him is also now fucking Lena, his new girlfriend. That would be fucked up beyond words, like cruel and unusual kind of fucked up. I'm not the biggest fan of Jeremy as a bro, but that would be really awful even for my low expectations of him.
Yes he has right to withhold information as he wants. BUT what kinda friend is he if he does this? they grew together, been together from college(i believe) and than goes on telling wade "I don't steal in friend house" bullshit and guess what he does with Lena? If Ian had given him a chance to score with Cindy or Cindy herself, what do you think he would've done? He would've jumped on her? He should've told Wade about it or should've made Ian end IanxCindy like the man he projects himself. Bullshit at it's peek. Fucker just an opportunist nothing more. How he behaves in-game is his character and he ain't no friend. He just tries to keep himself out of danger by not telling Wade.
As I said before, I'm not Jeremy's biggest fan but IMO not telling Wade about Ian and Cindy is the right move for a true bro. It's a conflict of loyalty between his friendship with Ian and his frienship with Wade and he's shown during the game to have a much closer friendship with Ian. From a "broship" pov it's not a matter of morals (clearly Ian is the bad guy) but a matter of loyalty.
Although, I mostly agree with your Cindy point. I think he would not pursue her actively but if she presented herself to him like Lena does on her Jeremy path, he would absolutely fuck her. 100%.
EK may implement this to keep things from getting too obvious and Mike may have Eli or some other girl as girlfriend. WHO KNOWS!
