Anyone else feel this way? In the first game Uncle was just a grumpy, lazy old man. In the prequel he’s this energetic, nonstop joke machine who doesn’t like work. It’s also bizarre to me that he was a member of Dutch’s old gang. I can’t see why anyone would tolerate him and nothing in Red Dead Redemption implies Uncle even knew Dutch or the gang. It feels like lazy writing to me that the writers just shoved Uncle into the gang to explain how he knew John. When Uncle has practically no reason to be there.
I always assumed Uncle was just an old friend of John’s. Before Red Dead Redemption 2, I always imagined Uncle worked at the orphanage John ran away from when he was a kid and that’s how they knew each other. John tells Jack that Uncle was “Old when I was young.” which seemed to back up that assumption that John knew Uncle since his youth And why John calls him “Uncle” in the first place. I kind of wish my explanation was canon because it makes way more sense to me.
