So I was watching Daybreak on Netflix and I ended up sitting at my computer and binging (binge-ing? Bingeing?) the whole thing last night from like, episode 3 to 10 from where I was when I was watching it before my days off, and holy jesus they played up the virgin MC like a damn fiddle.
The MC (Mark? I forgot his name) liked a character named Sam in the show, and they end up getting together via stereotype, loner kid with no friends in school with the popular pretty girl in school being in a relationship. However, there ends up being a sort of "flashback episode" that shows how they got together, and for a lot of the show you're led to believe that they're in a relationship and he's basically looking for her in a zombie apocalypse in his smallish town that's been taken over by different teenage kid factions.
However, during the flashback sequence it basically shows that the MC broke up with Sam, so it showed the whole circumstances of them being together in a relationship etc. However this was basically the MC's first "serious" relationship, then they boned basically, then... he finds out that she is a very promiscuous girl. Like, "fucked a lotta dudes in school" promiscuous. Like a LOT of dudes. The MC feels betrayed by this as he thought she was also a virgin, gets pissed off, and then calls her a slut and then breaks up with her. I mean she is extremely pretty, can't really expect a girl like that to not be riding the cock carousel immediately going into high school or even midway through it.
So eventually the MC finds sam, they stop a nuclear bomb detonation, and the MC expects to get back together with Sam and says as such. But Sam just looks at him like
and then is like "No... no." like she's trying to push a dog to the floor for jumping up onto someone, gently. And then complains that he doesn't know her (I don't see how he even had any time to learn any of her likes and dislikes considering they were fucking for 2 weeks and probably didn't even talk about any deep life issues or likes/dislikes) and then...
Needless to say at she ends up falling into a tyrannical role (IMPLIED) over a lot of the kids who stopped a nuclear bomb detonation (long story I guess), but I could see a season 2 where MC flees with a handful of kids and lives in general squalor trying to protect everyone while Sam tries to track them down and kill/capture them alongside other Teenage tribes in the area.
He also fucks some asian poon so that's cool I guess? But then that gets him in trouble with Sam later after he finds her, which, again, is stupid, even though, yes, it is hypocritical of him to be mad at her for having sex with other people outside of their own relationship even being STARTED. That literally makes no sense. Like, I can't really be mad that a woman I fall in love with has had a fucking SEX LIFE, OOoOOoOooO SPOOPY! So in this respect, the MC is just being a baby about it, and I'm pretty sure at no point Sam did not explicitly say she was a virgin, he just assumed based on her image. Which, again, assuming makes an ass out of you and me, so, yknow. That and him having sex with 1 girl while, AGAIN, outside of a relationship with Sam since at this point in the show, when the show starts, they are broken up and are for the duration of the show basically up to literally the end of the show, she can't really get mad at him for having sex with 1 woman when she's been with like 50 dudes. Yes, he's a hypocrite but the issue is a lot more expansive than that, but I'm not gonna delve into that here, frankly I don't have the brainpower right now lol.
tl;dr the MC of daybreak is a pussy around women and when women aren't around, he's an okay character. The show was actually pretty good overall though, I liked Wesley as a samurai character in it. Angelica was cool too. Actually come to think of it, the MC was really the only non-memorable character. Jeez.

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