Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3391158-20170904153455/@comment-92.112.45.229-20170907103338

to ChishioKunrin

Talking about Grimm - well, at least we had Oobleck&team RWBY scene. Still better than nothing.

And I totally agree with you about Weiss - such kind of scene could show that she still cares about "the moral gray area" of SDC and her later behavior could be explained better. Though, I think it would be better not to involve PapaSchnee in that. Like:

- we have this scene -  ' When she was sitting alone in her room, they could have had the camera panning over areas of her room while we hear a local news report on a TV, indicating she is listening to the news while she stares out the window. The news anchor is talking about how there has been a cave-in, in a Schnee Dust mine, with many Faunus workers trapped inside. The situation is currently being investigated before Mr. Schnee makes any decisions on how to tackle the situation''. '''

''' - than we have a conversation between Jacque and Weiss - same we had in V4. With the only difference - at a certain point Weiss gets irritated and asks what   Jacque is going to do with the mine incident (as far as that is what really important). And it could be a brilliant reference to Adam's - ' " ' What about them  ?" line spoken by   Jacque.  He just doesn't care. '''

Back to the original topic: another problem I have with Illia's backstory is it's influence at the audience.

I mean, if you think about it, I'm sure that in the end of the day both Illia and Adam share the same story: some kind of tragic past that made both of them join the WF (it's radical side). The difference is that Illia gets her backstory merely at the same time she appears in the show forcing the audience to sympathize with her - and Adam's backstory, I'm sure, will be revealed much later in the series, and probably will not be presented as a "nice moment" on the roof.

See? If we were shown Illia doing smth as terrible as Adam did in V1-3, and then she've got such kind of backstory, she wouldn't have get compassion she has now. It probably would be smth like - "I don't care, there's no return for her after what she did". Don't get me wrong: I realize that Adam and Illia are not the same, Illia still hadn't done anything to be hated for (and Adam did). Though I can't help but feel that whole this "Illia's backstory" was given just to cause a certain reaction later in the series. And to deflect us from the moment she barely killed Sun. It's just a little unfair, from my perspective.