Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-158.125.243.29-20150329080244/@comment-26206856-20150419152932

I'm going to go with Winter being not only foreshadowing, but a follow up to previous foreshadowing. At first glance it's a random mention, but at what other time is Weiss going to bring up her family or that she has a sister? She clearly doesn't like to talk about her family, and they were provided a place to force that information out there without her needing to say it herself. It also lets us know that it's not just her father she has issues with, and that it's a bigger/more family-wide problem. What previous foreshadowing is this building on top of? The bunkbeds line didn't really state she had a sister, just that it was something she wished she could have. (A single child could have just as easily wanted bunkbeds and not gotten one.) You could see these two pieces of info as breadcrumbs leading up to a reveal about her family issues.

CFVY on the other hand is a little less foreshadowing, and it comes out the way it did due to the circumstances of the show. We saw Velvet being bullied and then find out she's part of an upper-class team who struggled with their mission a bit against the grimm. We (and RWBY) then get to see just how OP the team is first-hand when they show up, giving a measure to the grimm threat. Either Velvet or CFVY as a whole are going to have a major part in the plot, so naturally, they're trying to filter them in and give them some sort of background rather than just plop in a super OP team with nothing to measure it against. The fight scene at the end of Vol 2 really should have showcased everyone joining in to defeat the grimm, including many unheard of teams from the school (even if it was only upper-classmen) and all the staff. The issue here is time and resources to make up all these extra bodies fighting as a collaborative effort, plus the fact that (as Monty has even said) they need to avoid over-saturating the cast. CFVY still would've needed a spotlight as an introduction to the member's abilities and strength, but they perhaps wouldn't have felt so OP/ out of place when it was basically just JNPR, RWBY (freshmen teams), and CFVY.