Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190119003858/@comment-38271940-20190124032504

Alhazad2003 wrote: HotSwappableGaming wrote:I don't think it's asking too much, at all. It's like if Cinder forgot she was a maiden. It's a deliberate nerf or a forgotten tool and either way it's just out of character from everything we've seen about it. You mean why she didn't simply break out of the ice immediately and fly back? Simple, she was basically out of Aura, beaten both physically and emotionally, she gave it everything she had and it still wasn't enough. And she knew she was losing, you could see it in her demeanor after she crashed back onto the ground. Then, when she was encased in ice, she lapsed into a coma for who knows how long.

To me it sounds like you're expecting some characters to always think rationally no matter how badly they're beaten. And clearly Cinder and Adam were never pushed to their limits before, so they didn't know what to do when it actually happened. It's just human nature in action, they're not always gonna think rationally in tough situations. ...what? I'm not arguing anything about why Cinder did what she did or didn't do. I'm saying that writing a character to lose in a stupid way is stupid. Cinder lost straight up. Adam had a perfectly functional gun on his belt. And human nature doesn't affect Adam ;) In all seriousness there's a dramatic difference between Cinder and Adam - my example for her would be equivilant to her fighting Raven, Raven using maiden power and Cinder not. It would be stupid. And to write ANY character that way is stupid. "Ruby, the Leviathan is coming and only your eyes can win!" "My eyes? What about my eyes?" *Everyone dies* Obviosuly that's a dramatic example, but I believe the point comes across.