Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-29684190-20191116162010/@comment-26018514-20191119020144

Kaitryona Acheron wrote: Megadracosaurus wrote:

When BLMB moments aren’t included, people complain that there is a lack of development. But when RT does include moments like it in an attempt to start and develop the relationship, people claim its forced shipbaiting.

Its kinda contradictive. Its like ordering a glass of water and then complaining when you actually get a glass of water.

I agree that BumbleBee should have been developed early on, and I do still think it can be improved. But I’d like to imagine that’s gonna happen now. If Bumblee is gonna happen, I think we can all agree we want build-up and improvement. I’d rather they start with it now then suddenly have them confess out of nowhere two or three volumes later. Why is it that in anime the buildup to the confession is so prolonged and passive all the time? It's like it takes 6 seasons for the characters to go from realizing they like each other to voicing that observation to each other. That's not how it works in the real world. In the real world it's:

"Hey, wanna go someplace?"

"Yes"

It's not that hard, guys. It might Seem contradictory Mega, but the thing is there is a narrative time and place for relationship building, and RT REALLY missed it, Beacon arcs were laid-back "daily lives at school" that was the time to show it, what were we shown of BB in those volumes;
 * Blake pimped out by Yang as Ruby's first friend
 * Yang helps her partner Blake through what essentially was an after-school project... something anyone driven insane by a roomie should do, much less an outright partner with grades riding on the person performing at 100%
 * Yang asks to dance with blake to encourage the latter getting out of her funk and being functional
 * Yang and Blake aren't here... they must be doing x together... the problem being we never knew the teams full class load so this always sounded related to being school partners, and was never once intimated to be about even the most casual shared interest.

Now the cast has pretty much been at "we fail it's the end of the world" time crunch, so taking time out of a combat mission to flirt when it's kind of time sensitive is annoying, yes people wanted to see it, but taking chunks of time for awkward silences is rather vexing to people, it's one thing if it's done in an elevator or somewhere they're trapped/forced to wait, but after dropping into an active combat zone yet not around actual action just comes off as a bothersome and somewhat lazy/insensitive way to do it.