Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-410526-20160206155158/@comment-410526-20160207215904

HalointheSkye wrote: Go to sleep :P If it was an old character mentioned from volumes 1-3, I can only assume it's either summer or raven... I somehow want this character to be a former love interest of ozpin. That would make things interesting :D I just feel like, if they were a new character, the writers would have to do a lot of legwork to make the conflict between them and the main characters meaningful, whereas if they already exist in the story that relationship is already there and it makes it feel more neat and tidy.

Like... Just to give an example, if Raven turns out to be the bad guy, then all of Yang's plot momentum (from the Trailers and Volumes 1–3) gets added to that, but if it's someone whose existence hasn't been hinted at before, they'll have to build up momentum from scratch.

To be honest, I actually felt like the plot about the Maidens did come out of the blue. I don't think they did a good enough job at foreshadowing it, but the episodes were so good that I was willing to look past it. So while I was happy to let that go for that plot, I'd really prefer it if they didn't do something similar again.

And yeah, I'll probably head to sleep after this post. :P