Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24573226-20161003151422/@comment-26397825-20161004125447

DiegoAnime3000 wrote: But what if it's not a sunset and the camera is simply looking at the scene from the right side? What if the sun is actually coming out and what Blake is seeing is the morning light? Then why didn't they compose the scene so that the sun was on the right side of the screen, which is the side subconsciously associated with the east and therefore sunrise?

I did say that it all makes presumptions and assumptions, but I based my idea off the composition of the scene (the sun is to the left, which is the west on a compass when viewed top down, therefore suggesting in my mind that it is setting).

And personally, even if they did skip the drama, I'd prefer that they at least started the series with her starting her journey to Mistral so that we know that she's going there to face her demons rather than skipping to halfway through the journey with no indication of what she's doing. So I'd much prefer, from a viewer standpoint, for her to be standing on the docks because she's about to board a ship to Mistral, and we get a small infodump from her talking to the ship captain about how the ship is headed to Mistral. This sets the scene, lets us know that she's worked her way through her demons somewhat, and is on her way to deal with them or perhaps even join up with Ruby at a later stage. Not drop us into the middle of a scenario and leave us going "wtf is going on, I'm so confused" until the scenario stops and we get an infodump.

It works with RNJR because we got to see at the end of V3 that they were setting out on their journey. It wouldn't work so well with Blake because we had no prior indication of this. EVery other scene in the trailer played off what we were shown at the end of V3 - Weiss is locked away at home because her father picked her up and took her there. Ruby is in Mistral because RNJR set off on a journey there. Yang is at home because she was still recuperating at home. Blake was shown hopping across the rooftops of Vale; to follow the trend set in the other three scenarios, she would have to still be in Vale, or just about to leave it to deal with her demons. Not halfway across the world with no indication for us as the viewers as to what is happening.