Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33053086-20171217012417/@comment-4010415-20171217164548

107.4.135.44 wrote: Volume 4 episode 5, Blake confronting the Albian brothers. She assumed that whhat was presented to her was bad and only bad. And she assumed completely correctly - says something about the maturity of the writers if Blake of all people gets to be correct about something. I mean... indiscriminately murdering tons of people and releasing man-eating monsters into places filled with said people (the colosseum and Beacon) IS pretty bad, so I don't know how you expect her to go "Well, there are two sides to this" like she did back in Volume 1.

After what she experienced at Beacon, deciding to put her foot down and say "No, what you guys are doing is not right! You've gone too far!" seems like a pretty logical and reasonable reaction, to me.

She was right there in the middle of that terrorist attack in which people she saw every day for an entire year, as well as innocent people who just wanted to have fun at a festival, were being attacked by White Fang members and the monsters that the White Fang transported there. Her reaction to that wasn't "Omg the White Fang is bad, it's so evil", it was "The White Fang is walking a dark path. This isn't the right way!"

Also...

Fennec: Young man, I'm not sure what you've heard of our organization, but I can assure you, we're not nearly as ferocious as the media would have you believe.

Blake: What we've heard? We've seen firsthand. Your fanatics slaughtered people!

This isn't "Ohmahgawd, yer all so EVUL, dont pretend ur good!!"

This is "Uh, what we've heard? Excuse me, sir, we're not buying into some biased rhetoric that the media is spreading; we were literally right there when your fanatics slaughtered people at the festival."

Note that she didn't say "You people" or "Your people", she said "Your fanatics" - as in, she's not saying "The White Fang slaughtered people", she's saying "The fanatics OF the White Fang slaughtered people".