Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14909251-20181210223145/@comment-14909251-20181222013900

73.Anon.52 wrote:

1. I'm not referring to OVERALL impact, that's why. I'm referring to a single scene, with the context we have already been given. If I were to slap someone, I know what reaction I'd get, there are various context that change that reaction, but if I'm going to slap someone on my own initiative I know what context(and thus reaction) I'd get. This is the same concept.

If we were to see Yang's friend Jimmy trying to console her, RT would need to contextualize his temperament and how we feel about what kind of friend he is(AKA make us care about him, or make him an asshole Yang righteously rejects), they then would have needed to contextualize Yang's rejection IN THE SAME SCENE(if this was as you argue a "throw away" or "quick" scene). That would make it almost impossible to not have the scene cast one or both of them as assholes. Now there would be almost no way to bring back Jimmy in V4/5/6, so this would be his last scene for this entire timespan, so if one or both of them were assholes, it would be almost impossible to make up, which goes into;

2. I was referring to when in V5/6 when Yang actually tells us she needed Blake, not during the V4 arc. considering she pretty much screamed bloody murder at Blake about not being there, had we actually seen someone try and fail to comfort her other than Ruby, it would have lessened the impact of both scenes by making Yang just seem petty. Even if she had a decent reason behind it, the scenes would be lesser for it. You just can't turn it off can you? Here, let me have a go. Let us say in Volume 3 they have a match in there with one or two of Yang's friends participating. We are introduced by having Yang say to her team "one/a couple of my friends is/are having a match" and then they show a brief match where Yang cheers her friends. Maybe we don't even see the match. In Volume 4 Taiyang opens the door and sees one of those friends and goes to Yang's room where she is curled up in bed moping. He says one of her friends dropped by and maybe she actually asks if it was Blake or Weiss or something like that, is told "no" and then just says she doesn't want to see anyone right now. Taiyang goes back and apologizes by saying she isn't up to seeing anyone. What I just described could take up like 30 seconds each and wouldn't have the faults you are claiming.