Talk:Adam Taurus/@comment-1446360-20180520223103/@comment-23892177-20180703150403

The problem here, Blue, is that when RWBY has inevitably run its course, the entire thing is going to get judged as an entire series and not as individual seasons. Adam for the most part has been handled as somebody Blake needs to deal with to overcome her long term goals in terms of narrative, and when you introduce a sympathetic backstory to someone who is as much of a dickhead as Adam, it stops evoking the original intended response from people. You would not, for example, have a character who has sociopathy played for laughs by having a sad backstory, otherwise it isn't funny anymore.

For all intents and purposes, it makes no sense for Adam to even have a sympathetic backstory, much less a redemption arc. It could probably be alluded to, or they could just give him a backstory that doesn't make him AS sympathetic so that it doesn't kill the intended message, but no. Adam, unless it somehow has major consequences for the main story, does not need this.