Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-70.164.250.74-20180322215425/@comment-25936766-20180327162010

Soldwolf wrote:...but you don't get any sense of how she is affected until she and Oscar have their chat Which is part of the problem. Any tiny development she gets is super subtle, and momentaneous, those feelings never last more than 5 seconds. And regardless of MK's intention, the result is that Ruby literally needs to state her thoughts and feelings for us to tell she has them, and those feelings only last until the next cut.

With Yang, for comparison, you see Red Eyes, you know "she's angry". With Jaune, he's yelling, you know he's angry, same with Ilia and even Weiss. With Ruby, you can't tell if she's even a bit mad unless she says "I'm angry :(".

And when characters literally need to state how they feel for the audience to know how they feel, there's a problem. There's this thing called "SHOW, don't tell", which is one of the most basic things a writer must follow.

And if you are going to say Ruby hasn't developed then you have to say the same about Nora.

Except that this thread isn't about Nora, it's about Ruby.