Talk:Our Way/@comment-35455126-20190404194237/@comment-4010415-20190415054002

What do you mean we have no proof that Maria told them the story that we saw in the flashback?

ChishioKunrin (talk)

Tock: (chuckles) Well, I respect that, a fighter to the end.

''Tock readies her saber to kill Maria, but Maria manages to find her other sickle. She clicks the switch on it, calling the other blade back over. Tock, in its path, gets the blade of the other sickle embedded into her back, causing her to fall forward. Maria then uses the sickle in her hand to slash at Tock as she falls forward...''

Back in the present day...

Maria: But I wasn't... I went into hiding soon after.

ChishioKunrin (talk)

Plus, there was the cliffhanger in the previous episode where Ruby asks Maria how she knew how to get Ruby to "make [her] eyes do that", and Maria responded "I had silver eyes".

It's too easy for WBY to put two and two together.

And yeah, no, it's not lazy writing to have things like that be explained to other main characters off-screen. It's very common practice becasue audiences don't want to sit through the whole-ass explanation two, three, even four times just to see that the characters have gotten caught up or informed about something. If it's something that the character should reasonably be informed about, then it's fine if it happens off-screen.

However, there are special circumstances where not showing a character being informed about something is lazy writing, and those circumstances are usually "Why would this character be notified about this, and where were we when it happened?" Big example: ''Jaune knowing about Raven. Literally what the fuck.'' That one counts as lazy writing because literally the only reason MK had Jaune automatically know that Yang's mom is a woman named Raven was just so no one would have to side-track from the current conversation to tell JNR. As far as we know, Raven was the least of RNJR's concerns and Ruby had literally no reason to divulge Yang's personal information about Raven to JNR. They could have easily just had the conversation go like:

Leo: Raven...

Ruby: *Smol gasp*

Jaune: Who?

Ruby: Y-Yang's mom. I'll... explain later.

Boom. That works better.

It's perfectly within reason for Ruby to inform JNR and WBY about her silver eyes, but not for Ruby to tell Jaune about Raven.