Hi there
As token bird says, they will look at your form any way they want to. I know people who have failed through lack of commitment/motivation etc with loads of hours whilst one guy got through having not even been in a plane, let alone flown one!! so who knows what they want. But speaking as recent rejectee, it's probably not so much what you have done recently but the reasons you give them at the interview. In my FB, my lack of flying experience was picked on severely, even though, as you, I thought it would be a waste of money doing a few token hours, and better to do my PPL in one go. However they obviously disagreed.
The advice I would give is whatever you say, make sure you have loads of reasons to back it up, even if you sort of exaggerate the point and say you have a special savings account with flying lesson money in or something, anything to make it plausible.
Good luck