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SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: BlizzardDragon wrote:

2. Qrow dying....

4. Hazel, Mercury, and Emerald not appearing. They were shown in the post credits reacting to Salem for a reason...

5. FNKI not showing up...

6. Ozma being dormant in Oscar's head the entire volume...he needs to come out of Oscar's head again and talk with the others.

8. Pandering.

9. No Weapon Upgrades. Blake's sword is broken, Yang's arm is damaged, Maria needs new eyes....

12. Neo dying. She just came back, and people were already complaining she was brought back as fanservice. Don't kill her off already, make her useful to the plot.

13. Sitting in a house the entire volume.

14. Forced Melodrama. If there is gonna be drama, don't force it.

15. Reverting to Telling and not Showing. Do not relapse to that. Continue to and improve on Show Don't Tell. 2)

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15) I honestly hope they take notes from Gray on this. But not too many. Watching Gen:Lock, it has quite a lot of Show, but almost no Tell, to the point it has a very different problem.

With RWBY, we're told a lot, but rarely shown what we're told, so it's harder to believe or take seriously, we're just expected to believe it at face value. And then there's times where what we're told or what is even implied gets retconned, like Cinder using Dust clothing and not Maiden powers.

With Gen:Lock we're shown a damn lot. For example, we aren't told that the Union only shows mercy to their own people, we see it ourselves with how they kill everyone with firepower and nanofarts but a man and his wife are left alone once the guy shows he's from the Union. That is great.

But, because of the severe lack of Tell, we know less than jackshit about stuff as basic as why the war is even happening, and we're already 4 eps in. We don't know anything about the Polity beyond "good guys" and the Union beyond "bad guys and maybe something about the 4th Turning Theory", and the only thing we know about the war is that it's "cultural". With RWBY we at least had an infodump at the start of the first episode to give us an introduction. 2) Its more the fact his death would be pointless. If a character has to die, there should be a legitimate reason behind it.

Penny: Her death was the catalyst to Cinder's plans.

Roman: He was killed because he overstayed his welcome and the writers liked writing him too much.

Amber: She was a plot device that needed to die to make Cinder stronger.

Pyrrha: She was always meant to die and her death solidified that the story had gone down a darker path, while also getting RNJR to go to Mistral and further the plot.

Vernal: Her role in the story had ended and her death served as the seque into the Raven vs. Cinder fight.

Leo: He had served his purpose in the story and was no longer needed.

Adam: His arc and his effect on Blake and Yang's arc was coming to a close and he had little effect on the greater plot so he was no longer needed.

If Qrow has to die, and I'm aware he more than likely will die before the series ends, as part of the Mentor Occupational Hazard trope much like Maria is at risk of, it should be at a point where his death actually matters, or they have nothing left to do with him. Right now they have set up him trying to get past his alcoholism and a dynamic with not just Ruby, but Maria as well, and potentially a confrontation when Ozma comes back out. So unless its at a point where his death would have a legitimate impact and not be used for a cheap shock or forced drama, he shouldn't die yet.

4) Exactly. I'm hoping they don't repeat that. Volume 5's stinger was the first stinger to not have some bearing on the plot of the next volume. Even volume 2's stinger, which was made non-canon, still had some significance thanks to Qrow bringing up Raven to Yang. Volume 6 made very little, if any reference to Raven or Tai.

5) Give insight on the state of affairs at the Academy and how Ironwood is running it post Fall of Beacon, Flynt could serve as Weiss' link to the common folk that her father has wronged, Neon could be just a taggalong or demonstrate more of the racism in Atlas, allowing a potential subplot for Blake while also exploring just how true Neon's non-issues with racism are.

6) We've been over this SYUTK. The point wasn't that he was a "monster", its that he was asking them to lay down their lives for what amounts to a game of keep away, without telling them that fact, along with the constant half-truths, lies, and lies by ommission. They don't think he's satan, just that he's untrustworthy. And while some of their reactions, namely Yang, are a bit overblown, its why a talk between the group so they can more easily discuss things with more level heads can probably work things out. Ozma can admit to his trust issues but still defend his stance on not wanting to cause panic, while the protagonists can admit he may have had good intentions he still didn't tell them what they truly signed up for.

8) Bad pandering as in "Make my ship canon assholes! Make this character act like my headcanon! Do this plot point the exact way I want it!" When I say pandering, I mean bending over backwards to the whims of the fndm, like say.... Randomly revealing Pyrrha is alive! Something that stupid. There have already been accusations of pandering with Volume 6, and in a way, they aren't baseless. Ruby's sudden shift into Main Character mode was a direct response to the complaints she wasn't acting like one, as was the introspection on SEW's, and the the scene of Jaune meeting the Red Haired Woman that was obviously Pyrrha's mom. Its okay for them to do plot points that just so happen to coincide with what the FNDM wants, but to deliberately go out of their way to include something just to appease the FNDM is what I don't want.

9) An upgraded gun? Maybe little drills in her finger tips? tougher material so it doesn't get cut open like it did against Adam?

As for Blake, replace the blade, rebuild it from scratch, build a new weapon using what she has left from her current weapon? Skies the limit.

12) Again, see the response about Qrow.

13) Weiss will go off and deal with her family drama, Ruby will have something to do with Mr. Pollendina, Blake will probably check out Mantle and the Faunus that work in the mines, we may get some info on Nora's past if the theory she's Atlesian holds true, meaning Ren and Jaune would be apart of that, Qrow and Oscar dealing with Ironwood, Maria getting her eyes fixed, leaving only Yang with nothing to do.

14) More accusations of Whitley being the "evil child" and out to get Weiss. Show that he isn't just mini-Jacques and has depth to him. Stuff along that line.

15) IKR? Like seriously, just what is "The Union"? How is the current iteration different from the one Yaz was apart of? What is the deal behind Nemesis? How did the "Polity" come to be? Give us some worldbuilding Torchwick!