Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-192.230.165.112-20140420035210/@comment-6383956-20140617152910

Your definition of a throwaway line is a little odd, given that the whole scene stops so he can state that he knew the bus driver from when he lived with his dad. But okay, whatever.

But, watch other times when he refers to pre-dad leaving events. Like, in the next episode -- "It wasn't the most awkward. There was this one dinner where my parents told me they were getting a divorce." There's a period of his life when he thinks of his parents as a single unit -- as most children do when their parents are living together. But when he's talking about the bus driver, he doesn't. (I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt that Scott's parents were already in the process of divorcing when the whole stair incident happened because otherwise that's another inconsistency.)

There's a few other holes: if Scott bikes from his mother's house (which she definitely could not have afforded to get on a nurse's salary and it's pretty clear from 3b that his dad used to live there) why was he taking the bus? Because he wasn't going to the same school -- elementary school? Then why didn't he say "when I used to take the bus in elementary school" especially since he's sitting with a bunch of people he doesn't know particularly well (and some of whom he doesn't like at all)?

Like, good on you for trying to make it work, but it's a stretch to call it "consistent".