Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-71.84.15.225-20150807131522/@comment-4010415-20150913034554

I think part of it is just that so many of us want her to be dead because we hate what the writing would be like if she's actually alive. The writing is bad enough, and they've been trying to make efforts to improve it, but Summer being revealed to be alive has a high chance of being sucky writing.

A big part of this comes from how sick and tired we are of the crew and the show going on and on about how "Oh, this is such a dangerous world, and the Grimm are so scary and dangerous and want to destroy humanity, and they're such a huuuuge threat" while the majority of what we've seen has completely and utterly failed to really make it feel like any of that is true.

Right now, only one person is confirmed dead: Tukson. And he was killed by a person.

In the end of Breach, Ruby says that a lot of people got hurt. Not killed, hurt. Many of us are hoping that they retcon this in volume 3. At the very least, some civilians should have died in that situation. Breach gave them the perfect opportunity to show Grimm actually being as dangerous and as much of a threat as they keep playing them up to be. They could've given us a really tense scene where Team RWBY is clearly outnumbered, instead of making quick and easy work of several Grimm at a time. They could've shown civilians in actual danger, not just running away with Grimm chasing them. They wouldn't have even had to show people dying, just show them trapped, show someone getting carried away by a giant Nevermore, something. Mountain Glenn's history was a very nice addition, but we didn't see it happen for ourselves, did we? So, yet again, more telling, instead of showing. And I'm going to scream if Goliaths are easily killed.

Summer is implied to have died on her mission, and that mission could very well have been in a Grimm-infested area. If all of that is true, then we actually have someone who represents the hazard of having a career fighting monsters. But if they sit here and pretend "Hm, yes, Summer went on a mission and is thought to have been killed" and then reveal she's actually alive, then they erase that.