Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35199716-20190730132006/@comment-4010415-20190808021948

MobiusEternal1 wrote: Wilfred J. Pemberley wrote: They will never stop doing that. If there's one thing Miles truly loves writing, it's grief porn. He's been doing it for years (in this show and in RvB), and he's not going to stop anytime soon. Then can someone take the pen away from him more often? We’re already experiencing diminishing returns on this. And while I’m at it: Cliffhangers.

I was already slightly irked at the overuse, but when your V6 finale ends in a cliffhanger, that’s one too many. Are the writers really that dependent on them to keep people interested? Do they have a fetish for it? Stop spamming it in the later episodes Miles, Kerry. That also goes for the two new writers. I mean, Pyrrha's death affected Ruby and JNR and is something that real people would struggle with. Not to mention that at least some of the mentions and references to it have made sense. For example,

1. Ruby flashing back to it when she sees Cinder launch herself toward Jaune during the Battle of Haven. She feared that Jaune was about to die right in front of her, remembered the other friend who died right in front of her, and freaked out, filled with enough desire to prevent that from happening again to activate her silver eyes.

2. Jaune at the memorial statue in Argus. I feel like not enough people really get this scene. Imagine: You start getting into a whole big thing about stopping some big bad villain whose lackeys intend to orchestrate attacks that have high-death counts like the one your friend died in. It makes sense that you would want to help stop this villain and put an end to it, right? But then you find out that the villain is literally completely invincible. No matter what anyone does, she's just going to regenerate and continue on. Now trying to help stop her sounds utterly fucking pointless. You're thinking about giving up. But then you get inspiration from aforementioned dead friend, who went down fighting despite her very low odds of winning.

As for Volume 6's cliffhanger, that wasn't actually planned to be a thing. Volume 6 was originally going to have 14 episodes, just like Volume 5, and it was going to end with the characters arriving in Atlas and helping fight off a Grimm attack. However, due to decisions that had to be made in regards to workflow and how hard they were working the animators, they cut episode 14 and postponed it for Volume 7 Episode 1.