Oh 1000%. The sect of people determined to prove that RTD ruined the show by coming back before even a single episode aired were working overtime

I definitely think it is. Because the baseline quality is higher, people don't have to gaslight themselves into believing "well, it's ALL good, actually"

WOULD. IN A HEARTBEAT.

Even as someone who WASNT active in fandom during that time, there were people in, like, 2023 trying to defend that scene 😭😭

IN OUR DEFENSE a lot of it was responding to the batshit insane things other people would say 😂😂

I understand this now and yeah, this is accurate 😂😂

I'm seeing it tonight, and I can't interpret anything from this post 😭

Truly their last time breaking up. And from the Dance on, Dina is FIRMLY and CONFIDENTLY in a relationship with Ellie.

Knowing where the story goes, for her to have a relationship with Ellie, she has to cheat on Jesse. Leading to the "cheating bisexual" trope. And this is an issue that they purely created for the show, because in the game both Jesse and Dina are VERY explicit that their last time breaking up was

Making such unnecessary changes and decisions. It feels like they're only making these changes to pad out the runtime