Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160214165601/@comment-64.233.172.148-20160218005543

Jeeze this arguing over Deus ex machina and Mary su is feeling tiresome (at least to me). I've been speculating on this forum since before " The players and pieces" so I can tell you that certain speculation topics bare uncanny similarities over time.

The moment the maidens where revealed in the "Fall" episode people have been speculating on this forum whether or not Ruby was a Maiden with a striking similarity to the speculating on whether Blake was a Fanus after we saw her bow twitch in "The Emerald Forest Pt.2" and the speculating on whether or not Penny was a Robot after she was introduced in "The Stray." And yes there was heated debators on every side of the arguments. Given that historical trend I conclude Ruby having a special power was just as foreshadowed as Blake being a Fanus and Penny being a Robot.

As for being a Mary Sue, I feel the need to remind people that we the audience tend to be lacking info on how truly powerful everyone but the main characters are. Despite short glimpses of Winter,the teachers, and Ozpin's Brotherhood, we still don't have a firm concrete grasp of how powerful the average graduated Huntsmen truly is.

The fact of the manner is that Roosterteeth has repeatedly said they produce their web series with each season being akin to a movie when put together (which the episodes are assembled into in my Red vs Blue dvd's). One of the Hallmarks of good action movies is to continually raise the stakes as the movie goes on, which Rooster teeth is gradually doing with RWBY. Let's use terminator movies as an example. Ruby is John Connor and her special powers, whatever they might be, are her first loyal T-800. However she'll likely have to face off and try to survive againstone or more of RWBY's equivelent of the T-1000, then eventually the TX.

-Defcon Deceiver