I think that was the way it was before the events across this year @Zoe7 ...... now I think it is annoying him a little because it seems unfair (not having a real understanding about what the dynamics are that keep causing it to derail) .... but mostly now just confused by it ..... probably thinking that it is a random outcome, but pleased that it actually happened without foregoing the movie for the two of them.
If S2 didn’t end up going, wh wouldn’t have either ..... because he couldn’t sit there in a movie that was intended to be a family event, with S2 excluded, and feel in any way okay .....