User blog comment:Videogamep/Why is Sabo Such a Big Deal?/@comment-972068-20131213072410/@comment-1595565-20131213233349

You mean the SBS where someone asked about the cups and bottle on Ace's grave, right? Also, yeah, those teases seem obvious now, but they could easily be argued down at the times they appeared, from Dragon bringing some mysterious injured guy back to the ship to the cups on the grave. Don't call teases obvious when they're not meant to be. That's why they're teases and not explanations. Yes, we can choose to treat them as indicators now if we wanted, but you would be saying the exact opposite about them as you are now at any time before last Tuesday. Treat them as foreshadowing a revelation and not indications of a mistake. We played it as it laid, and I have no regrets for doing it that way. I'd rather stick with a decision and be wrong rather than just be a bunch of indecisive babies who don't have the balls to take any initiative about anything. Contemporary evidence pointed one way, so that's the way we went. We had no way of knowing 100% if or that he'd turn up later. The same goes for Vergo and Monet. If they're both miraculously alive, then whoopdegoddamnfucking doodle. It still wouldn't change my opinion about how we should have treated them. You have to think about this from multiple perspectives. Put your mind a couple years in the past, after Sabo exploded but before Tuesday, and ask yourself, are we right to do this now? If you ask if we were right to do it then, you're going to be disappointed. Retroactivity is the enemy here. I realize that for some people being wrong is a mortal sin, but you have to stop living in the past about this whole thing. We done goofed. It happens. We have to play these things as they lie, not how they laid or will lay.