Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20170129165318/@comment-30530552-20170202234745

LucasVerBeek wrote: Sorry, right so to explain I'm pretty active in the Google+ scene of the fandom and I'm starting to dive in the Reddit part and Good Brothers Grimm let me tell you! Death Flags left and right! Ren's gonna die saving Nora! Nora's gonna die saving Ren! They'll declare their love for each other! Jaune is gonna die because he's weak and nobody likes him! Ren got hit with a literal death flag!

It is so utterly grating on my writer sensibilities that people can't see how cliche it would be to do something like this. And if Miles and Kerry do it...I will lose all respect for their writing ability, but since their competant I'm pretty sure they won't. If they do it, it'll be like what FOB has said: "I'm every cliché, but I simply do it best."

Ren dying, no. He just took a level in badass, he doesn't need to die.

Nora dying, no. Who else will be the responsible for a break in the 4th wall for Chibi? Besides, a canon romance would be nice so I can have some new ship material to drown out any Lancaster vibes for now. Kali'd be proud.

Declaring love? Unspoken as of now, but they did say Renora shippers would be going crazy, no? Reserving judgment on this point.

Jaune was the main character of JNPR and a main character of RNJR. He's got literal and figurative (plot) armor.

Hilarity insues until he dies. Then it goes back to square 1.

As for the writing aspect, many clichés can be overused in and of themselves, but are sometimes necessary to move plot points along. Literally doing anything in a novel other than not doing anythign is clichéd, so it kinda loses its meaning overall. Just have faith.