Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-35447933-20180627105853/@comment-4010415-20180628010933

Jgamer2486 wrote: 1. I never said the show veered off course.

2. And like I said, Qrow being revealed to be Ruby's real dad can be used as a device to push Ruby's character development and maybe even the show in a direction that it was needing to go.

1. I wasn't trying to say that you did. I was saying that there are a lot of people who are saying that, and trying to discuss the show in regards to anything after Volume 2 can be difficult because those people are so dead set on saying that.

2. Like I said before, a lot of people who are against the theory feel that the plot twist would be a cliche soap drama twist, and I can't help but agree with them.

Like Spirit said, it wouldn't add much to the story or Ruby's character. Hell, even with what the writers and the show are telling us - that Qrow isn't even blood-related to Ruby at all - Ruby still considers him to be family and looks up to him anyway. It's like how I grew up viewing my parents' closest friends as my aunts and uncles, just like Ruby is doing with Qrow. Except my parents were always present, and neither of them became so depressed that they shut down like Taiyang did.

Ruby's development does seem to be more focused on the fact that she's bottling up her emotions (according to Miles) in order to focus on everyone else (according to Lindsay), thus trying too hard to be the hero who doesn't let herself get dragged down by her emotions. Allegedly, Miles said that this bottle is going to break at some point and that Ruby isn't actually completely over losing Summer (presumably because she never bothered to deal with her emotions and actually grieve).