Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3391158-20170904153455/@comment-92.112.30.85-20170907061621

Talking about discrimination - it's even not necessary to show some violence towards Faunus. Do you remember Roman's speech at the rally? What he says is that Faunus can't get any post in government, military - even schools. Why not to pay attention to that? Blake was talking about SDC abusing "controversial labor forces" - why not to show Faunus' labor (almost slavery, I guess) used at the hardest and the most dangerous kind of job - at the Dust mines, for example?.. I mean, M&K had three volumes for that. We've, well, "seen" the report about Faunus' rally - but no mention of some accidents at mines. Why the fuck we have manga, which tells us that some Faunus live underground, and that stealing the Dust from SDC was to help them? Why was not that in the actual show?

Discrimination is not about hate - it's about inequality. But this had never been shown in the show otherwise then through someone's speech. This had never been actually shown.

KingFubuki92 wrote: The show don't tell rule doesn't always work though. What was there to show in the short? Ilia's backstory itself is sad, but seeing it doesn't really work in this case.

You know, what could be a proper way to "tell not show"? It's simple: statistics. If Blake, during her argue with Weiss, had told that 100% of mine workers are Faunus, that only 30% of the students in combat schools are Faunus, that there are few - very few - examples of Faunus who have any post in government/military and so on - that could be something the audience could take. At least, for a while. With showing some examples later, again. But all we have is a "judgmental little girl" Weiss, a bully-Cardin and, well, Roman. Everything else is presented by just telling.

Not easy to believe that WF (including Adam, Blake and Illia) are not just a bunch of radical terrorists. The probably are now - but they were not at the beginning. And, I suppose, there had to be some reasons that pushed them to suck kind of "drastic measures". Not to justify WF's actions - but to explain. For now we have boo-wicked-Faunus-extremists VS nice humans who show no sign of discrimination towards Faunus.