#Sorry I kept bringing up Balloon & Nickel but hey! It's similar! And handled much better!

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genq cuz I’m confused. why do u think ii15/act 1 made suitcases and baseballs dynamic weird

Okay so in EP14 of s2 they'd already started healing. They talked about stuff and were getting better. It seemed like Baseball really got what happened. “You're here, you're listing. So, thanks.”

But in EP15 for some reason Suitcase is. Mad at BB? For how he handled eliminating Test tube? And they end the episode on worse terms then they started it on.

The way EP15 is written it feels like it completely forgot they already starting talking things through. It's a step back. All they needed to do was talk about how their relationships with Nickel effected their own.

Now characters getting worse before they get better isn't a bad thing just look at Balloon & Nickel last season. The problem is this conflict is incredibly pointless, and feels forced/mildly ooc. What purpose does it serve?

I thought before act 1 maybe it existed so that Baseball and Nickel could learn that they had a toxic relationship at the same time, to avoid heavy conflict with Nickel. That'd make enough sense, his arc is mostly over don't want to give him to many problems.

But no it seems like Nickel knows it already and then he dies 👍 so all that is thrown out.

And you might be thinking "Well Suitcase needed to be upset with Baseball to choose Knife" but no she didn't. Did Balloon need to be mad at Nickel to vote him out in iii17? Nope they literally hugged.

Suitcase could've voted BB out because she didn't want to compete with him, trying to avoid causing problems for their healing relationship. Or maybe because the game was hurting him and she didn't want him to be stuck here anymore. Even a mix of both could work.

And it can't be "Oh they both still needed to have problems in act 1!" cuz fixing your relationship with one person doesn't fix all your life problems. Behold! Balloon post iii16, who despite having a healthy loving relationship with Nickel now still has one million insecurities

EP15 causes conflict between a healing relationship and then act 1 doesn't do anything with that conflict. BB & Suitcase's relationship isn't resolved yet but it's being put on the back burner, which is extremely frustrating. Act 1 would've worked at lot better if BB & Suitcase got closure, then it wouldn't feel like an interruption. Just a natural switch of focus.