Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20161106163624/@comment-14138255-20161110003151

@KINO: You must be fun at parties :P

Seriousness is certainly welcome, but there's a time and a place, for both seriousness and jolity. Penny dead, Grimm razing Beacon, and Ozpin probaby dying? Probably not the best time for jokes (except for one, just to let us breath, which some people might not want for some reason... ). Stone Grimm fighting team RNJR while Jaune's equipment is in the wash? That's a recipie for a somewhat comedic but action packed fight.

As for tone in a work:

"Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke." —Joss Whedon

I think that quote is very important for any work, especially one that wants to be dark and edgy and still wants the reader to follow the story, by having a little humanity in it, by having some relief from the oppressive nature of a work (unless it's Berserk, which has its own special rules, but even Berserk knows when and when not to lighten up).

There can only be a certain amount of characters with a driving force before we get overwhelmed. That was a problem I was worried about early on, that there'd be so many important characters that RWBY (the main characters) would get buried underneath them and it'd just be about who would normally be side characters (and shows NEED side characters, and most if not all of SSSN are those).