Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-25396609-20191102162031/@comment-35199716-20191103000734

WritersblockHW wrote: Is anyone else slightly annoyed that they keep bringing back characters that we thought were dead? I mean, I love Penny and Neo, but it feels to me that bringing back characters that were supposedly dead is kind of defeating the purpose of "killing" them. I've noticed this more with Penny than Neo. If she was actually dead, then it would the main characters, mostly Ruby, more incentives to fight in her memory.

Also all the new characters! I'm so excited to see how they play out. I really hope they have more depth. And I want to find their semblances and all. Just have new characters in general makes me excited, so I really hope this volume won't disappoint me. I kinda get what you mean. I hope the show doesn't develope RvB syndrome where everyone who isn't the main antagonist of the arc comes back to the life, have it reach a point where a lot of people don't believe any deaths anymore (I can't tell you the amount of people who think Meta, Felix and Tex are still alive despite it being confirmed several times with inshow evidence that they are dead) and have to dedicate an entire B plot in S15 to hammering in that Church is indeed dead forever.

I get that at least in Neo and Cinder's case as others have already pointed out, they have explanations like Penny can be rebuilt and Neo never actually being confirmed dead. I just hope this isn't a trap the show keeps falling into from now on.