User blog comment:Jkphantom9/Some of my honest opinions about RWBY so far/@comment-25405817-20150608020045/@comment-25555436-20150608020846

In other words, Monty and co. tried to pull out foreshadowing related to the characters, twice, but ended up making it stupidly obvious, twice. And instead of pulling surprising un-twists here and there, they just kept going and made it official.