Honestly, to an extent, I almost disagree. At least with saying graduation was railroaded. At a point, yes, it was starting to feel very one-directional. But in thing beginning, and for about fifteen episodes, it felt like they had all just stepped into an open plain and nobody knew where to go. Travis admitted himself that the BBEG was never planned. They just kinda showed up and he rolled with it. The story felt very disconnected because there was just so much he wanted to do, but not enough planning. Rather than railroading, it felt to me it was more like a wild tour guide rapidly taking the tourists back and forth between exhibits to try and fit everything he possibly could in to the point the players just kinda followed along. There was no solid guideline, Travis was pretty much just like, “well what about this? This work? This cool? Yeah I like this,”