Talk:Ruby Rose/@comment-28099668-20171116205811/@comment-25936766-20171119010335

Then read again.

Chevkov's Gun is that if something is not important, one should not dedicate time to it. Not necesarily does it involve concealing anything's importance, it's simply telling people to stick to the Law of Conservation of Detail.

People just mistake it for "something insignificant turns out to be important later", which is just the "Set-up and Pay-off" technique used since as far back as Back To The Future as a minimum.

We were told "Ruby has Silver Eyes". Nothing else was ever said afterwards nor did anyone even give a fuck about them being Silver. However, we then saw the pic of STRQ including Summer, who also had Silver Eyes.

So if that line was the Set-up, then the revelation that Summer had Silver Eyes, and the implication that Ozpin knew her and could link both of them due to their unique eye color, was the Pay-off. That by itself makes sense, doesn't come out of nowhere, and isn't bad writing.

But then, it turns out that the Silver Eyes actually hold a power strong enough to petrify an ages-old Grimm, and scar a Maiden, even when the user is literally a rookie in the grand scale of things. And that there was a whole group of them that were so badass they became legends. NONE OF THAT WAS SET-UP, IT CAME OUT OF NOWHERE.

It's a Deus Ex Machina. Plain and Simple. The powers of the Silver Eyes, the Silver Eyed Warriors, none of that was set-up, none of that was foreshadowed, they came out of nowhere and saved the day in the long term if not the short term.

The only thing that was Set-up was the implications that Ozpin knew Summer, linked Ruby to her via their eyes, and that not only he could've been partially responsible for her death in some way, but that maybe he let Ruby skip 2 years ahead for reasons more than just her skill. 'The powers of the Silver Eyes? Never even hinted in the slightest.'