Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20170108170343/@comment-198.242.212.180-20170120174249

I found a bit of a useful anylsis floating about the net that can help the whole death fear

"I think this is going to be the catalyst for both Sun and Blake’s individual developments and their relationship development, first by patching up what they’ve been breaking. If anything, this may have been implemented to show us, the audience, and to show Blake how badly she’s been treating him. This is literally the perfect opportunity for that talk I’ve been saying they need to have and I won’t lie I will be extremely disappointed if we don’t get it, or at least something pertaining to it. Also some reasons why killing Sun is a bad idea in general:

Blake already has a reason for going after the White Fang. Several, actually. Blake does not need to experience one of her closest friends dying by the hands of the White Fang. If anyone’s going to die for Blake by the hands of the White Fang, it’ll be Ghira. I don’t even think her mother would be the one to sacrifice herself, 100% I believe it would be Ghira. And while it would make me just as mad since again Blake does not need more angst like this, and this is so cliche it oozes tropes, it’s what I could see crwby going through.

Sun is a foil for Blake. They are foils to each other. He is not only needed to the very end of her story for Blake’s own sake, but for the writing’s sake.

Sun is the only other relevant canon minority aside from Blake. You can kinda see why offing him is a bad idea? Killing him before he even had the opportunity to have his own character arc is such a slap in the face, especially when RT has painted him to be a relevant and important character. It would be like Ren and Nora getting killed just as they were finally starting to get backstories and actual developments. It would do nothing to the story but add angst to Blake’s arc and we all know this. I came to term’s with Pyrrha’s death because in the end it affected everyone and in all honesty, Pyrrha was so powerful and a symbol of hope and progression and light. When you defeat that symbol, a series becomes drastically darker. It’s like the mentor dying for the student trope - the symbol of hope being taken down is sometimes needed. Sun’s death would contribute nothing more than killing off a fan favorite (despite how tumblr views him, Sun is incredibly well liked in other media platforms), kill off genuinely kind characters, and to add more angst p0rn to Blake’s story. That could be said about Ghira and Kali dying for Blake, but at least in their case it’s not like it would be being robbed of something we were led to believe.

Can you even imagine how utterly fucked up it would be for Blake to have to go to Mistral, go to Haven, and tell the rest of SSN that their leader, their friend, practically their brother, died and they didn’t even know it? It’s fucked up enough that they don’t even know his current location (unless somehow Sun was able to communicate with them through his scroll, but I doubt it. It’s probably functioning like how your phone does while on airplane mode.) and that he did get hurt. Can you imagine the slap in the face that would be? That’s not even sad or ironic it’s infuriating. All his team knows is that he went after Blake to make sure she was ok, that’s all they know. And in the end, it got him killed. That’s not clever that is a back hand slap to the face.

Again, it will affect someone, and that’s where it ends. It contributes nothing to the story itself either. If crwby really wants to make Sun a reason Blake to go after the White Fang, a much more interesting approach would be if they had the WF capture him and imprison him. Or force him to be a member. Then Blake could regroup with her team and friends and they could take down the WF and save Sun. That would be intriguing and interesting. That would contribute to the plot. That would serve to develop Sun’s own character, Blake’s character, and their relationship as well."