@ani-matic yeah nobody should try to help alcoholics or addicts either, it's their own decision, let them fuck up their life forever.
they know what he is doing is extremely detrimental to his future, so they're trying to help him, but they're dumb teenagers so they're kinda fucking it up as they go.
They could've ended it in the dad arc,it felt like it was set up as the ending. The friggin' lovecraftian tornado of first love zombies,the kiss,but now its back to our regularly scheduled programming.
This series has always been characterized by a lack of sympathy. (That deficiency is rather perverse, given that some of the characters have an extraordinary ability to recognize feelings of love.)
I literally have no problem with what's going on and the conflict has yet to hurt my identity to the point where I feel I have to disparage what was written. These events are inevitable considering both the evolution of Eve and the feelings between him and his childhood friend.