>>150439944
Mike is having a bad case of tunnel vision, which is his fault. Mike feeling like the track team is a new start, especially with James glazing him and introducing him at the same time isn't bad on paper. I just think the way Taeshi got to this point was retarded as all hell. James couldn't have lost interest like a normal person because that would still leave him and Mike as friends. We had to get david's dumb ass to be the reason for it while making james look shitty in the process.

Personally, I still don't even think it was planned to go this way when the track team was introduced. In my mind they were an attempt for Taeshi to get people to stop hating mike so much in her fandom, but then she couldn't help piling on the drama and suffering for him, so we had the end of the movie date.