Talk:RWBY/@comment-25936766-20180606171424/@comment-4010415-20180606174305

Interesting. We looked at another summary of the commentary that was written in a Google Document, and that one's slightly different but still says a lot of the same stuff, just phrased differently and containing different details, and it also includes a few things that Reddit post doesn't.

For example, winged Faunus and fish tail/mermaid Faunus are rare. The Shallow Sea helps the mermaid type Faunus live easier lives since it's hard for them to go on land.

Another example: The first episode was originally gonna go from Qrow saying "I need a drink" immediately over to the gas station attendant asking Yang "Aren't you a little young to be drinking?" But then Miles and Kerry worried that people would be confused about when, in the continuity, the Volume 4 stinger happened. It should be pretty obvious when it happened, but then again, there are people in this fandom who pay so little attention that we get things like "Jaune will become the Fall Maiden" and "So, Summer left and Yang's mom died, and now Yang is looking for Summer. No wait, Yang's mom left for a mission, and Summer went somewhere, so Yang is looking for... No no wait!"

Anyway... Ozpin putting Lionheart into the headmaster position to try to make people like Faunus more is probably due to the fact that, like they said in the commentary, Mistral is one of the places that is less friendly toward Faunus.

"(Mentioned in an earlier episode) Yang detaching her arm was planned out for her scene when Mercury grabs her arm specifically, and they did the arm wrestling scene of Yang vs. Nora so they could set up her arm could do such a thing." <- I figured as much. Sometimes, Miles and Kerry are good at setting things up before they're relevant so that they don't come out of the blue. They're best at this when it comes to characters, but they're down to only having been good at it with characters 99.90% of the time, since Whitley, Tyrian, and Hazel came out of nowhere, though Watts was hinted at by the W on Cinder's Scroll.

Also: "Being able to turn into a bird is a big thing. In this world, transforming into an animal is not normal magic- it’s weird. Makes it seem like Oz was doing something a bit more shady." I already saw this, but seriously?!

SERIOUSLY?!!! They should've presented this more clearly!! All it would've taken is a line like "This isn't fairy tale stuff, it's just... weird!" Have the characters actually address the fact that it's considered weird and beyond typical fairy tale magic in their world!