Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-174.135.62.244-20160603201323/@comment-26018514-20160803062439

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote:

... Simply ignoring it is just bad writing all around. Not really, With the amount of allusions they have following them all to their conclusions would take quite a lot of time and effort away from original storytelling, and as said before, Pyrrha had reasons to die to continue to propel the narrative.

Let's take her final battle for example: how would JNR have fared if they were involved? Jaune or Ren likely would have been killed within seconds(Jaune due to competency, Ren due to overextending his abilities attempting to either save Nora/Jaune or finish the fight early), Nora would likely die next(unless Pyrrha got killed after seeing Jaune die) after essentially entering a berserker rage while the next to die would likely be either Ren or Jaune(or if Jaune and Pyrrha are left I could see Cinder exploiting a feint at Jaune to kill Pyrrha first) then Pyrrha either wins or dies again...

Neither of those results are great for the story as if Pyrrha lives at that point what do you do with her? If Cinder survived too you can at least say Pyrrha isn't as strong a virtual god... but she then overshadows RWBY by a far greater magnitude and has no weak teammates to carry or even carry on a conversation with her.

If Pyrrha then died in addition to JNR, there really wouldn't have been any point to the screen time JNPR dominated in the earlier seasons except for Jaune's role getting the audience clued in on the basics... and RT would then be left without such a convenient patsy.

By contrast, if RWBY at full force had taken cinder on... they might have had a 50/50 chance of victory(as Pyrrha seemed to).