You better believe I'll keep B8 posted, thanks!
Time to make use of the new spoiler-tags.....
I hate every main character in the play, personally, so I'm glad it comes across to others AND remains compelling; it reminds me of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia in that regard. If s*** is going down between two people, sometimes it's best not to be too immediately invested in either person! Lucas is the protagonist by virtue of having no other more admirable characters around him. He felt wronged and picked on even three years after the fact, so he made a bad choice early in the narrative that shouldn't be defended...but despite that, he also grew the most of any major character by apologizing for his mistakes and redeeming his previous loss that held him back for so long. You can see Josh fall back into the same trap Lucas grew out of by the end of the play, but they're quite similar douches outside of how they recover from their mistakes. I don't like to think there's a clear protagonist/antagonist, but the differences between how they handle their losses are probably enough to choose your side accordingly.
Anna also no longer accepts Lucas AS easily...in that she now only asks him to find her online before he wins the championship instead of meeting him for dinner after he wins it all. I also built some more tension around her and Josh's relationship in how he doesn't play games with her like she once did with Lucas. Anna's always been the toughest challenge about this two-act version of the play because I couldn't seem to make her remain the same character between acts, but by changing the timing of her last scene she's begun to make more sense.
I'd be glad to send you the most recent version of the play if you'd like to see those differences for yourself; I think they fix a lot of issues from the recent stage-reading and almost make the show complete. =)
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