Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32346149-20190505185133/@comment-26018514-20190507224004

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: Sentry 616 wrote: ... This would necessitate getting her out of the story, at which point she may as well have been dead from the start. There is something to be said about having the hero believe a parent is dead, learn the parent is alive, and then have the parent die in front of them instead... but the problem with that is that without them then being alive long enough to explain themselves... would it really be worth it?

Lets say we find out that for some reason in a fictional world after 50 episodes they tell us "hey guys the sky isn't blue, it was green all along because the yellow was hiding..." then on episode 60 the yellow dies and no further episodes are affected. Can we really say the world is darker at that point? Yellow didn't do shit before so it's absence doesn't mean as much later.

In other words unless Summer was doing something this whole time as important as the MC's... she really might as well be dead, the audience has to empathize with her and with what Ruby's loss of her means to be truly impactful... and we really don't at this point.