Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-15108745-20130811001851/@comment-130.18.107.85-20131111214645

@BenRG: A lot has changed aesthetically since the Red Trailer: just look at the dramatically different design of the beowolves. I don't think it's safe to make assumptions based on Ruby's appearance. Additionally, Monty has admitted that Ruby's personality was not yet developed by the time of the Red Trailer; that's why she seems so much more mature and depressed than the bouncy, energetic girl we've come to know. Perhaps her change in costume was to reflect the new direction they had taken with the character.

I think our strongest clue that the Red Trailer occurs pre-series is by simple comparison: with all three other trailers almost certainly taking place before episode 1, it seems likely that the fourth trailer would follow the pattern. I also can't help but notice that the trailers were all released before episode 1, as well. That alone is flimsy evidence, but with all the other support we've arrived at, I don't think it's at all unreasonable to apply Occam's Razor and make the leap to assuming that the trailers occur chronologically like any other episodes.

Side note, also @BenRG: I have long been a proponent of the idea that Summer is Ruby's grandmother. It would mesh with the Little Red Riding Hood allusion quite nicely. I also feel intuitively that Ruby either never met or barely knew Summer. Her attitude toward Summer's tomb seems somehow pensive to me; more like an orphan wondering what her family was like than a little girl who dearly misses her mother. Essentially, I see in her demeanor what I see in Harry Potter's attitude toward his parents.