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One thing that has become quite obvious is that the sister has a tendency to act on the spur of the moment without considering all the ramifications or the feelings of others too highly, plus she requires a bit of maintenance.Imo you are jumping to conclusions here too.
You don't know what happened with her boyfriend. After all she was conflicted about canceling with her brother, she didn't really want to visit her boyfriend and afterwards she said she shouldn't have done it. The dialogue is probably intentionally left ambiguous about this. Usually a woman wouldn't be like "With what happened I shouldn't have met him", after spending the night and having sex with her boyfriend. So I'd assume something different must've happened.
On that note I do think the ending of the episode is the weakest part. Canceling on your brother to see your boyfriend whom you haven't seen in a couple of months is ok, but I don't know anybody who would just stop doing what they are doing and start getting ready for their date, without giving the brother a headsup first, that seemed very unrealistic behaviour just to create a conflict between the two of them. Are ppl. here really saying they think its ok to cancel plans with somebody without telling them and maybe even asking them whether its ok?
Then the mc get's worried about his sister for not coming home, even though there is a perfectly good reason for it. And she also isn't the most responsible person, so not showing up for work in time, kinda fits.
We're probably in for some heroic rescue mission at the start of ep2, can't wait
And, that's representative of something I really like about SL: out of the gate, many of the characters have flaws, even the ones whom I would tend to like more - these are imperfect people. The sister was acting consistent with her prior demonstrated behaviors when she was about to leave without first asking her brother if it was OK (since she had promised dinner, that is).
One thing setup by this first, rather large, installment is that we should probably expect to develop love/hate for many of these characters as the story begins to wind up more deeply. Except for maybe the "The Boss" (i.e., Brodie's father), most of the characters seem to have more than one dimension and inner conflicts are evident for each.
In DMD, the Rachel redemption path is an example of bringing more life into a character and forcing us to confront highly imperfect people, plus our emotional reactions to them at different points in their arc.
In Melody, a similar situation arose for the MC's ex-wife.
But in SL, almost every character has inner conflicts with which to deal. That's setting the ground for a great deal of conflict, contention and drama. SL is already far more subtle than the prior two games and I believe we'll see a more complexity in both the game's story and our feelings for these characters over time.
