Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20170206193307/@comment-25936766-20170211002809

KNN005 wrote: 1-Yall keep talking about "realism". Why? This is a fantasy show.

2-How is a character who is on par with Salem in intelligence not realistic? How would that ruina anything.

3-When i write a story its filled with a tug of war. Sometimes the heroes win sometimes the lose. In this show ever victory they have they villains write off and just make worse plans.

4-Tell me it wouldnt be repetitive if every couple of seasons Salem knock over a school and snatches a relic until she has them all. 1-RWBY takes place in a Fantasy world, yes....does not mean the characters are allowed to be unrealistic just like that. The world may be fantastic, but the characters themselves are not.

This isn't some random-shit show where crazy stuff happens every 10 seconds and horrendously-bad plot twists can be excused for comedy.

For comparison, there's quite a lot of shows. Star Trek is sci-fy, Game of Thrones is fantasy, and so on. Yet that doesn't mean it's characters can be unrealistic and do unbelievable things just like that. That would be very bad writing.

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2-There's a difference between "As inteligent as X", and "Knowing what X will do to the letter". Many people are as inteligent as others, often more inteligent, and that doesn't mean they could know what those people would do, especially when they are barely even aware they exist.

The only one known so far with whom it would be believable that they could read at least some part of Salem's plan(s), was Ozpin. And he couldn't, otherwise the Fall of Beacon would've never happened.

Having anyone else reading Salem's plan, when they barely know her name, would just be bullshit. They don't even know what kind of person she is, and thus don't know what tactics she would prefer.

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3-Dude, improve that grammar.

Aside from that, that's more or less what RT said the show would be. It would have it's ups and downs. Now, victory-wise, Salem wrecked Beacon and part of Vale, alright.

But that's, like, the first round of a match, things are barely getting started. Haven is pretty much the Second Round. And for all we know, the heroes will win this time and force Salem to rewrite her plans.

4-That would be bad writing. Very dull, repetitive, would make people leave from sheer perceived hopelessness.

Hopefully Miles and Kerry won't do that shit.