Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-92.18.23.124-20180102213820/@comment-5426254-20180103042450

The problem is ... why do we even have to get emotionally invested in these villains in the remote sense? Because it seems as if they (Cinder, Adam, Raven) are strawmen written to fail.

Every instance of dog-kicking that they do, is there to show us that they're still around and that they're evil hurdles that are simply there to kick dogs, rub it in the heroes' faces, and then get taken down easily.

Their logic is not even remotely sound, and their motivations and characterizations are written with zero nuance, no matter how much you can imply about their pasts. There's no point in getting all worked up about them because their actions are completely predictable and you know that their crushing defeat is more than inevitable.