Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190119003858/@comment-5430952-20190124123356

ChishioKunrin wrote: I think probably the best way to remedy Adam's brainfart about his gun while still having the dramatic scene of Blake and Adam rushing for Blake's gun would've been for Adam to aim his rifle at Blake and pull the trigger, Blake flinches, only for it to just utter a click, like he's out of ammo, followed by him and Blake looking at Blake's gun and then rushing for it. And what if he did have bullets left, Chishio? All he'd need is three bullets and then all three of them would be dead, since none of them had any Aura left. And I'm quite sure that would not have been a better outcome, something a lot of fans (not including you or most anyone on the wiki) don't seem to understand. Alas, we'll never know now since Adam and his weapons are all at the bottom of the river.

HotSwappableGaming wrote:...what? I'm not arguing anything about why Cinder did what she did or didn't do. I'm saying that writing a character to lose in a stupid way is stupid. Cinder lost straight up. Adam had a perfectly functional gun on his belt. And human nature doesn't affect Adam ;) In all seriousness there's a dramatic difference between Cinder and Adam - my example for her would be equivilant to her fighting Raven, Raven using maiden power and Cinder not. It would be stupid. And to write ANY character that way is stupid. "Ruby, the Leviathan is coming and only your eyes can win!" "My eyes? What about my eyes?" *Everyone dies* Obviosuly that's a dramatic example, but I believe the point comes across. So people shouldn't make stupid mistakes in the heat of the moment?  Yang definitely did in Volume 3 and look what happened.  And Adam was definitely not in the right frame of mind, with no one in his corner to tell him to get it together.  So I have no problem with his downfall here, he lost his cool and eventually lost his life.