Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25266931-20161222164303/@comment-27082610-20161225045747

My main issue with the villains being redeemed is as follows: None of them (with the possible exception of Emerald and technical background exception of Adam(will expand on that further in a minute)) have been given any reason to want to.

Cinder: Got her powerup, toyed with the Champion before ashing her, but then got Eye-Lazered into invalidity. She'd got plenty of reason to want to fuck Ruby's whole world up, but not a lot of reason to change anything.

Tyrian: (Spoilers, will edit later, but to anyone who watched the last couple episodes this should be obvious)

Salem, Watts, Mercury, and Hazel: No remorse shown, and not enough development to even hint at them having outside motives.

Adam: Okay, Adam was actually given reason to want to reform. His girlfriend left him, most likely after weeks or months of  trying to get him to cool it with the homicide, and he could have done some introspection on the subject and changed his ways based on that. But instead he actively chose to ignore it and do the man-child thing of blaming the girl in the scenario for being an actual fucking person with her own autonomous thoughts and actions and deciding to rage against her like the angsty little pissbaby he is.

Emerald: Showed genuine horror with the events of the Battle of Beacon and the Grimm pools in Next Step. However, she's still devoted to Cinder, and as such has a lot of reason to want Ruby in pain and dead.

Neo: As far as she knows, Ruby killed her father figure. So no redemption's going to be sought from our little Ice Cream Pixie any time soon.