Forgot about how cartoonishly bad BJ's dad's writing is until I replayed TNC

Spoiler warning for the beginning of TNC.

I understand the intent of the writing at the start of the game is to drive the player to hate BJ's dad the way BJ does or set the tone of the story about bullies and the bullied, but oh boy is this just the laziest way to do it.

Aside from the cheap shock value record 4 N words in a minute, "kick the puppy" writing is widely criticized. It's actually laughable for the writers to feed into that stereotype so literally. Paused during the biggest eyeroll of pops shooting the dog to rant here.

I'm starting to remember why this game was so forgettable. For older games I found TNO have a fair amount of nuance to the story. Pretty jarring comparatively.