Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-174.135.62.244-20160603201323/@comment-14909251-20160802234530

BenRG wrote: My biggest objection is that it would risk creating a sort of rolled eyes attitude of: "Hey-ho, another finale another secondary character killed off to poke Ruby forwards with another trauamtic experience. Same ol', same ol'."

It's been done once and, IMO, it has more-or-less paid off. However, every time they do it, they take a greater risk of it turning into a trope or even a boring and over-used plot device. I'm not saying killing off the rest of JNPR in a way that mirrors their inspirations would inherently be "good writing" only that establishing a precedent with Pyrrha and not following through would also not be "good writing" for the series. Personally, I think it would take less effort for them to get good writing out of upholding the precedent then it would take to get good writing out of subverting the precedent. Simply ignoring it is just bad writing all around.