Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-87.102.2.235-20160720090052/@comment-5430952-20161028222547

BenRG wrote: Specifically, Watts said that defeating a neophyte (Ruby) should have been effortless, which led to the implication-heavy exposition by Salem about the limits of Maidens' powers. This wasn't a reference to how easy or hard killing Summer may have been. Indeed, Hazel's comment suggests that a fully-trained SEW is a serious impediment and one that they should really try to avoid allowing to happen in the near future.

I strongly suspect that the problem here is that they're assuming that,just because Ruby is still young, she must fundamentally be weak. That may cost Tyrian his eye too, when the time comes. It definitely won't happen in Volume 4, if Ruby tries fighting him now she'll be overwhelmed, I imagine Qrow will jump in before that happens. That would be realistic, since we know he's watching her, if she manages to match or best a superior opponent, that would further scream Mary Sue, and I'm hoping RT is better than that. If the heroes keep encountering enemies they can't beat and need one DEM after another just to survive, that would hurt the story in the long run, it's the same thing that happened in Owari no Serafu, the heroes were either fighting wimps or powerhouses, there was nothing in between.

Now I'm also hoping Ruby doesn't lose an eye, though I fear she'll be kidnapped nonetheless, most likely in the Seaon finale, would make for the perfect cliffhanger. And the same thing happened to Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, she was captured by the Wicked Witch's minions and brought forcibly to her castle. How she gets out of it, we'll just have to wait and see.