Talk:Seeing Red/@comment-28171999-20190129205343/@comment-38270714-20190131175133

I agree with most of this. I too have a problem with Oscar always going through stuff offscreen. There's no introspection or process of emotion with him.

The mech fight, while very entertaining, dragged for too long. Ep11 should've just been the mech fight, and Ep12 should've been The Bees v Adam.

And, oh boy, then there's Adam. I've seen lots of comments on the RT site saying he doesn't need development, but I wholeheartedlty disagree. Adam isn't just this one dimensional villian, he was an anti-hero doing whatever it took to further Faunus equality. His methods were wildly flawed, but as Blake said, they garnered results. His M.O. was clearly spelled out in Heroes and Monsters, he wasn't mad that Blake left him, he was mad that she abandoned his cause. To him, she abandoned her race.

His death wasn't earned in that scene. The reveal of his face came and death were too close for a lot of people's liking. I'm not a fan of the 'fighting and cutting to flashbacks' trope in anime but if it gives a big bad villain like Adam proper lore before his send-off, I would've welcomed it. We never saw the birth of the human-hating monster he became.

His power level was nerfed, that's obvious. Yang and Blake still could've won by baiting him the way that they did and disarming him. If anyone would be able to take him on it would be Qrow, and that goes for killing him too. That's how it would it would've been earned. Give him proper background lore, and have the strongest member of the gang take him on all out.

But now I can see that Shane letter coming back into the spotlight with the scrapped fight with the Bees and Adam in V3 and the high risk/high reward move of just having Adam one-shot Yang. They should've kept the fight in, maybe postpone the episode a week or something.