Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20171110205409/@comment-4010415-20171114180431

92.112.25.69 wrote: 1. She is fine with the idea of "necessary sacrifise" - till it comes to murdering with her own hands/hurting her friend/murdering someone else's parents/all these reasons at the same time.

2. Begging Blake to leave was the worst part - she reminds me Adam here, with the message "if you stay here and keep on messing with WF I/we will have to hurt you, so run, run, run".

3. I don't like this character and I'm not OK with the fact that RT push Ilia and her possible redemtion arc that much. Once again: why did we need Ilia-centered Blake Character Short, if the fact that both Ilia and Blake don't want to fight was shown in the end of V4 and in the beginning of V5, Ilia's "terrible past" was mentioned both by Ilia and Blake in V5 etc?

4. I don't know. I was complaining a lot about Blake's arc in V4, but now I suspect that it's not just Blake - RT seem to fail with the whole WF arc - including Blake, Adam, Illia, Sun, Ghira&Kali and so on. For now, the only interesting and intriguing couple of characters in this arc are Albain brothers, IMO. 1. It's natural to feel hesitation when it comes to being told to sacrifice something that's personal to you. Her hesitation shows that she doesn't have a blind, zealous dedication to what the Albain brothers order her to do. She may have been merely falling for manipulation.

2. At least Ilia is saying it out of "I don't want you to get hurt", while Adam is saying it out of "I want to hurt you for leaving me!" Ilia is saying it to protect her, while Adam is saying it to scare her. They're saying it for opposite reasons, which even lines up with Blake's statement that Ilia isn't like Adam yet.

3. Yeah, I'm not happy about the Blake short being basically the Ilia Character Short either. I knew they couldn't just tell us Ilia's backstory in that short and then not tell it to us again in Volume 5 because that's such an important part of her past that it'd be stupid not to bring it up in the show proper. (Though, even right now, the only thing that explains the White Trailer is the friggin' manga, which you have to buy... Ugh...)

4. They fail at the Faunus stuff in general. There's a lot of "telling, not showing" going on with the Faunus discrimination. And, to be honest, I'm also more interested in the Albains and what they're going, than I am in Blake and Sun's efforts. I'm interested in seeing them execute their plan to try to kill Ghira and Kali. I'm curious how they're going to go about it.