Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26099499-20150226151824/@comment-226878-20150318013415

DiegoAnime3000 wrote:

Storytelling, appearance, all that stuff actually works better if she was her sister instead of her mother. The idea of Raven being Yang's mother depends almost entirely on the stupid trope of Absurdly Young Mother which would not have to be the case if she was Yang's twin sister instead. It's bad storytelling to do a cliffhanger using a character whose identity we could easily guess and then just rug-pull at the beginning of the next season by claiming its an utterly new character. Mercury and Emerald had no resemblance or other ties to previously established characters so there was nothing for us to guess at. Raven's established ties to Yang (both physical and personal) force speculation, but there is no previous hint at more sisters, cousins, aunts, nieces, or clones. I'm not saying the estranged fraternal twin thing is impossible. I'm saying it's retarded. Have you ever watched Bedtime Stories with Adam Sandler? Those kids constantly interrupting his badass stories with retarded twists like Abraham Lincoln appearing or leprechauns showing up to kick you in the shin... bad storytelling. Seriously. New characters introduced near the end of a season should be hinted at in earlier parts of the season/story. If their debut appearance is at the beginning of the season, then they get a free pass because "anything can happen" between seasons. And yes, Mercury and Emerald's silhouettes in the season 1 opener counts.