Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-30231630-20170623181536/@comment-141.134.109.210-20170624123551

@SomeoneYouUsedToKnow

1). I in fact do worry about Ruby and Weiss. To be fair in regards to Ruby I feel justified considering her deus ex machina moment with her silver eyes. Those were not a semblance granted, but that doesn't exactly change a lot about it being a deus ex machina where a little girl (huntress in training if you prefer) managed to beat or at least freeze a what I assume is a Grimm more powerful than even the Goliaths who even experienced hunters stayed away from.

2). Didn't know that so thank you. I don't follow tweets and commentaries so all the stuff said there is stuff I don't know about. If they aren't about originality then I guess they might as well make the shield/reflect stuff canon already since it's so obvious. Jaune is clearly the paladin/knight archetype and those more often than not end up with either healing or shield/reflect powers. However I thought they did a pretty good job with the volume 3 finale and since Monty ain't in charge anymore, maybe Miles and Kerry take a more original approach.

3). A lot of people defended them in the comments saying they were kinda the voices of reason opposed to Monty and Shane, so I guess they deserve the benefit of the doubt. Volume 4 wasn't very great or even good in my opinion in terms of story, but then again they had to handle four different story lines and their episode lengths aren't twenty to thirty minutes either. Cutting one or two of the main heroines out wouldn't have been a popular option either, so they were kinda stuck between a rock and a hard place.

4). You can always trust people to mess up. Build a foolproof plan and somebody will mess it up, because foolproof plans don't exist. However you can lessen the likelyhood of them messing up and even the severity. Keeping a shield consistent is in my eyes harder than for example a flashbang.

I guess you could sum up my dislike of the reflect/shield stuff to two main categories:

1). I find it overdone with the knight archetype Jaune seems to be based on.

2). I don't trust the writers quite enough at the moment to pull it off. Preferably they either wait a volume or two so they build up trust about their competence in matters of consistency for shields/reflect or they take something less likely to be inconsistent such as a flashbang semblance.

-TheShadowOfZama