Talk:Maidens/@comment-74.96.111.152-20160915231623/@comment-25936766-20160917025057

@Jaric: While it can vary from time to time, since 1 person may miss the obvious while another may get the right conclusion out of little. The correct amount of foreshadowing that should be used, is a moderate amount: It needs to be clear enough that most people can make a general idea of what it is, but at the same time, it must not be obvious enough that people can see it from a mile ahead.

In Blake's case, it was the latter, due to the shape and the hints in her bow's movements. In Penny's case, it was still pretty obvious, given how she pulled swords out of her back on-screen, and before that her movements were rather awkward and unnatural even by Vol.1 standards.

In Raven's case it was obvious for out-of-universe reasons; even causal knowledge of tropes made it clear simply by the order of events. Her "reveal" thanks to Monty's dreadful writing decisions made it even clearer.

But in the Silver Eyes's case, it was not the latter, but the contrary: It was so subtle no one really had any clear idea of what it meant. "You...got silver eyes". That was all he said. Law of Conservation of Detail dictates that it meant they were important, but there was nothing else, and no one had any real idea of what it could mean. The most reasonable ideas of what it meant, were:

>Stronger Aura.

>Ozpin knew Summer Rose.

At no point were we ever hinted that Silver Eyes meant "great power that can freeze powerful Grimm". At no point were we ever hinted that there were great warriors with Silver Eyes. Before Vol.3, if you told any of those ideas to a rational person, they would treat it like a joke because it has no empirical evidence and sounds more like a fanfic story than a logical argument.

TL;DR: Good foreshadowing needs to give the viewers a good amount of hints so they can have a reasonable idea of what it is, yet must not be so obvious everyone can see it so quickly. Imagine you told someone to guess a painting of a tree you made: If you tell them "it's natural", they have no idea what it is. But if you tell them "it's a tree", it's so obvious there's no point.