Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-3146930-20140708014442/@comment-24198837-20140714022414

I've grown to expect spoilers, and spend so much time on the internet that I just filter them out now. At least everyone here is kind enough to warn of spoilers before they post them.

Cinder, Cinder, Cinder... I don't want her dead, because killing her seems like a major turn of character for... everyone, really. Doesn't seem like the tone RT is going with, either.

I have no doubt's she'll be developed, but the question is - can that development be enough of an excuse to hold off a fight? For example - is one or two volumes of backstory worth the wait for that final fight, if she's not even the big bad?

RT is walking a very fine line here. Too much backstory and too little action, and we'll get bored. Too little backstory before the action, and we won't care. And then we run into the problem of "What happens to Cinder when she's defeated?"

...this is why I don't write scripts. I trust the crew at RT, but pulling Cinder's characterization off successfully is going to be a challenge, to say the least.