Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-25396609-20191102162031/@comment-4010415-20191102225715

WritersblockHW wrote: Is anyone else slightly annoyed that they keep bringing back characters that we thought were dead? I mean, I love Penny and Neo, but it feels to me that bringing back characters that were supposedly dead is kind of defeating the purpose of "killing" them. I've noticed this more with Penny than Neo. If she was actually dead, then it would the main characters, mostly Ruby, more incentives to fight in her memory. 1. They never implied Neo was dead. It was never their intention for us to think she was dead. Sure, she flew away and disappeared, but notice that not a single Grimm made a move toward her as she fell. The Grimm ignored her, and that probably remained the same as she made it to the ground below, probably aided by her illusion Semblance.

2. I mean, Penny's a robot. Practically everyone in the fandom believed that she was gonna be rebuilt. The purpose of "killing" Penny was to spark more negativity among the people in the colosseum and the people watching the live broadcast.

Cinder's entire reason for destroying Penny was to tell the world "Look! A robot disguised as an innocent girl! The Grimm don't care if you're a robot or a human, so why would Atlas even need a robot who looks like a child?! Unless they're planning to launch a surprise attack on another kingdom with an army of cleverly-disguised military robots!!!" <- That's what her speech implied, and it freaked people out. It made people distrust Atlas, especially since the Black Queen virus made Atlas' robots start attacking civilians, which Cinder told Mercury to show on his hijacked version of the tournament broadcast. She manipulated everything into making people think that Atlas attacked Vale and could attack Vacuo and Mistral.