You pitched your idea as having explanatory value, as making sense of the plot so far. My point is that it really doesn't.
I pitched it as a
theory, based on a line of dialogue which I may
certainly be reading too deep into. So your "point", that
my point is probably wrong, should go without saying. But why don't you engage it directly, and offer an alternative to my take on David's writings?
What do you mean? David already has the role of an absent father figure. And having him be Lucia's absent father, in addition to already being Sterling's, Brenna's, and Catherine's, wouldn't be a "poetic" parallel; it would be a completely literal commonality.
I believe the word you're looking for is "redundant", but yes, that is
exactly what I'm suggesting: by committing the same actions, Sterling more or less
becomes his father, first by fucking his sister, and then by fucking Ophelia. In my
opinion, this would be consistent with the central themes of this whole game. Did you complain this much when Oedipus fucked
his mother?
I meant "legacy" in the prosaic sense of "bequest", not the figurative sense of "memory" or "posthumous reputation." The stuff in the safe left for Sterling.
The reading of David's will, the mystery of what's in the safe, is all built up to as something momentous. And the payoff for that buildup is the revelations contained in the journal. Your proposal would make that payoff for naught, a pointless red herring. I'm not feeling this as a cool, interesting twist.
Yes, the journal was a surprise and made us have sympathy for David, but do you still feel the same amount of sympathy after finding out he was cheating on Ophelia with Drew?
If you're just not feeling my idea, that's totally fair. I'm not trying to say my idea is the "right" one, just that it's "possible".
That doesn't really answer the question.
I assume you've seen the teaser where Sterling shows Ophelia something on a laptop which cause her to cry? I'm just
guessing (as I've
tried to convey throughout these posts, if you could just see the forest for the
trees) that this being the reveal of the affair might be too
obvious. I also want Drew to stick around longer. But hey, maybe it
is exactly what it looks like, and Drew leaves, or doesn't, whatever?
That assumes that Sterling goes to Ophelia with these revelations right away, as opposed to, for example, trying to play the hero and foil Drew and Hunter's machinations on his own while shielding the "girls" from what he's learned. There are all sorts of ways to spin out the drama without needless fake-out twists that negate previous setups and payoffs (e.g. Surprise! David's journal was all a lie! Surprise! it was all a dream!).
Are you this trusting in real life? David's credibility has been called into serious question due to the affair. That doesn't mean what he wrote is
untrue, just that he may have chosen
not to write about everything.
You led with the idea that assigning blame for Lucia's "neurodivergent issues" is some sort of selling point, then turned around and congratulated yourself for being "sensitive" in how you handled said issues. That's not a strawman; that's what you said.
You got me. It's because *I'm* really Lucia's father.
Why does there have to be "blame"? I'm just trying to "connect the dots", something I enjoy with mystery stories. Lucia is clearly different (mentally), and I thought this
could be a "Chekhov's Gun" scenario where there would be a narrative reason for it. I'm not passing judgement on anyone, and I'm too told to give a shit about getting credit for my sensitivity, but I
am starting to wonder about
your brain, given how focused you are on this particular topic. If I hit too close to home, then I apologize. If you're moralizing to me, consider you're on a porn forum. If you're just being an obtuse contrarian, F off.
