Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20161204170804/@comment-26018514-20161205055510

Alhazad2003 wrote: MetallicArcher wrote: Or maybe Qrow will have to kill him. Dude looks like he is crazy enough to try to keep going at it without aura... and we just learned Qrow turned his back on his "family" of thieves and killers for the lifestyle of a huntsman.

If Qrow is forced to kill a guy in front of his niece, who not only adores him, but got the inspiration to become a hero largely from him... man I trust it to get angsty. I highly doubt Tyrian will be taken out this early in the story, and it'd be bad writing if he was. Think about it, what is the point of introducing a new antagonist only to have him eliminated mid-season? That was the main problem with the first two seasons, the villains were shown to be quite... ineffective. Seriously, if they can be taken down by teenagers, then what threat do they pose? Hard to take a villain seriously if they don't pose a threat to peace, though I'd say the Leage of Evil are a very serious threat to Remnant, no way are they checking out any time soon. Not really... it's also bad from a writing standpoint to have a full "league of evil" that outnumbers & overpowers the hero's on a one to multipe basis... If Cinder is their weakest member, we're talking Cinder, Mercury, Tyrian, Salem, Adam, and Hazel, not to mention the Lt.s that can help them.

I'm not saying this is a good trend overall to maintain, but thinning the league's membership this volume even before we know them is not an inherently bad thing, and I get the feeling his character is more of a straightforward one than the other BBEG's; Adam is rather central to Blake's development, Hazel comes off as an enigma(they need time to play that), Watts and Cinder are the only other baddies that even have a chance at dying, but they seem to have plot development left, Tyrian just... doesn't. He could just say "F*** the world" or "Why so Serious?!?" and that would explain him.

Again, I'm not saying this kind of shallow character should be repeated or common, but sometimes it is necessary to keep the narrative on track and moving.