Was anyone else frustrated with the amount of times Sean wasn't given the option to fight back?

[Half Light]

I'm by no means a fan of life is strange. I was gifted this game and so far playing it all the way through I can't relate to the protagonist at all. Throughout the story people ♥♥♥♥ on him and he either just takes it or get pummeled to the ground. For example the scene in which you get Daniel back from the cult he decides just to send a message by just getting the ♥♥♥♥ kicked out of him without retaliating at all; even his mother is egging him on as if saying "yes sean keep getting your ass kicked its the only way to win your brother over!" Then she proceeds to do nothing and just watch you be beat savagely by the white man.

There are two more examples I want to state because I never find anything on these discussions. The scene in which two white men accost sean for being parked on the side of a freeway. Sean legit just takes it, you can do the whole back and forth with them but you cant raise your hand against them. Did it not cross anyone's mind for Sean just to say "♥♥♥♥ off im on the side of the freeway! You can suck my ♥♥♥♥!" then just proceed to drive off? Lastly Sean can effortlessly brain an innocent security guard with a metal arm bar but he can't just decide to throw hands with people ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on him and physically abusing him?

The first couple of episodes I could see how he wouldn't try to defend himself but I thought it was quite a stretch to go the entire series not toughening up from the situation around him. Like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ he didn't learn anything from the FIRST episode when a random white dude accuses of him of stealing then straight up knocks him out, kidnaps him and chains him to his wall in his house (I didn't steal anything on my play through mind you.) Since I was going the whole "don't use your powers willy nilly daniel" route you'd think it'd be imperative that Sean at least learns how to be competent in protecting his brother. I imagine his idea of protecting his brother is letting himself get the ♥♥♥♥ kicked out of him by people and hopefully daniel will solve the issue with his fancy smhancy powers.

I'm not looking for a debate or any arguments I simply want to hear other people's opinion on this matter since it seems that no one is talking about this topic in particular.

[Aurian]

Personally I wasn't frustrated, no. I appreciated that there was a vulnerable main character for once - realistically, going up against people with firearms when you only have fists is a really, really bad idea. And I prefer realistic games where the main character doesn't just magically dodge all bullets and win against near impossible odds because they're a videogame character.

We already have plenty of games where the MC is some near invincible superhero who defeats hordes of enemies and barely gets hurt. Vulnerable heroes are a tiny minority that I appreciate. The only one who had any realistic chance to go up against guns was Daniel. And at the side of the road there was a real risk of those dudes calling the cops on him if he didn't play along, which might have prevented him from his goal: reaching Daniel. Made total sense in my book.

As for the church scene, there was an option to kill the cult leader but I don't know how to achieve it as I didn't go down that path. There is also an option to open the cell of the two racist vigilantes near the end and kill them.

[Scorpion242]

I'm the first to admit that a LiS2 without the characters that made this franchise worth a damn, Max and Chloe, was a terrible idea.
But I still played it and I can see where you are coming from, because if anything, Sean´s existence proves how important relateble characters are for this franchise.

Sean is a whiny, little b****. His tone, his demeanor, his actions, he was a punching ball the whole game, to a level that it was so stupid that I never felt bad for him because I did not care for such a loser.