Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170708180328/@comment-4010415-20170918010116

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: RedBlaze025 wrote: Ok 1. I'm pretty sure they never hid the fact that Blake was a Faunus I mean we all pretty much knew when the original black trailer came out ............................It is a known fact that: No. It was supposed to be a secret. They just fucked up with the foreshadowing and made it too obvious.

2. Yes while I'll concede they did a poor job with Penny I'm pretty sure they could've hid it better if they designed her backpack better (they confirmed that it was a backpack) No, the problem was not the backpack at all. The problem is that Monty, being Monty, had Penny steal the spotlight in the V1 Finale by kicking their asses and slicing planes in half.

The problem being that Monty not only had no idea of basic writing, he didn't give a damn about the writing. So the camera was pointing at Penny's back, and everyone can see clearly how the blades come out of her back instead of her backpack.

Which, you know, is impossible for a person. 1. Adding onto that, Arryn (Blake's voice actress) even said in a livestream after Blake's status as a Faunus was revealed that she had been specifically ordered not to say anything about Faunus to the fans in any way, shape, or form because it would tip off fans that Blake is a Faunus. She talked about this because she had been really wanting to let the fandom know that they're called Faunus, not Fauna, Faunas, Faunice, or whatever other spellings were going aroudn at the time. But she couldn't tell them until after The Stray came out because the writers feared it would tip fans off.

Fans figured it out because


 * A lot of them initially mistook her bow for cat ears anyway.


 * The lyrics for From Shadows talks about being oppressed and fighting "ruthless human rule", and a news report at the end of the very first episode of the show talks about a Faunus protest and shows an image of people with animal features.


 * Blake's bow twitched like cat ears in the beginning of Players and Pieces.

2. Actually, that was Shane, not Monty, but you are right that Monty had issues with following Rule of Cool at the expense of the writing quality.