What’s Aged the Worst?
Old video games; Susan’s reaction; hiring failures; sexual office politics; thin Susan characterization
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- Primitive 1988 text-heavy video games are an aged-worst choice, defended as thematically preparing Josh for fantasy and consequential decisions.
- The unexplained improvement in Josh's clothes invites a proposed shopping montage; another reading links the change to his relationship with Susan and imagines her directing it.
- Susan dismissing Josh's detailed confession is criticized; her later that-explains-it remark is interpreted as a sexual joke about his inexperience, not an established explanation outside the discussion.
- The office's sexual politics and Susan's tender response after learning Josh is thirteen have aged badly; she did not know during the relationship, but the final reaction still troubles the panel.
- McMillan's hiring process is an aged-worst failure: an incomplete Social Security number and unverified college claim should prevent immediate recruitment.
- Susan needs fuller career and relationship characterization beyond Paul's list of partners; deleted workplace scenes might help, but a dissent says much of the cut material merely repeats her hostility. Her undefined relationship with Paul remains confusing.
- The entire final scene is an aged-worst choice because Susan accepts the revelation too calmly; shock, distress and concern over consequences would be more plausible.