Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24573226-20170121144613/@comment-27265101-20170122180146

Arkantos95 wrote: BenRG wrote: @Arkantos95,

That would be a useful way to emphasise how powerful this thing is, assuming that your assessment of their strength is accurate and their success rate and reputation is not just a reflection of their canny use of surprise against mostly-untrained opponents.

@Alhazzad2003,

Actually, a 'moot gesture' would be a nice way in narrative terms of smashing Raven's pride and force her to confront the wrong path she was on. No, it wouldn't be either of those things. It would be one of the biggest "tell don't show" fuck-ups this series has ever comitted. Not to mention there were absolutely no signs that that place had ever supported actual life. Everything in it indicates that it's a place for the Grimm to lick its wounds before jumping after the next village. Ren finds his father's arrow so obvious those weapons aren't from the bandits their from previous victims of the village it attacked.