Quote Originally Posted by viewtyjoe View Post
Just watch the cutscenes and not worry about being locked out. It's what I did on my first run. I understood that it was a decision between seeing the cutscenes and fighting the bosses. Besides, the loss of a single level 50 character isn't going to seriously hamper most runs.
Unfortunately SEs solution to being locked out only works at the very start. As people were running off leaving the person behind in the early days.