User blog comment:Gundam Legilis/Philosophy in RWBY/@comment-24333330-20150208233235/@comment-24891101-20150209002313

Not going to work. The endgame solution has been all but outright stated to be innocence, simplicity, and honesty, and those things brought about and along by the aforementioned. In other words, idealism. Those are character traits which cannot survive such a darkening, and cannot be reclaimed from the darkness. Therefore, there must perforce remain a core of light, so that the darkening is illusory, since it cannot touch the core.

That said, the show does need to get darker. Just not that dark.