Talk:Jen Brown/@comment-68.194.1.35-20161207233355/@comment-4010415-20161210050825

Cinder's plan, prior to the Maidens being added, was most likely not much different than what we got:


 * Step 1: Infect the CCT with a virus that can then worm its way around via the CCT's internet stuff and devices getting connected to computers connected to the CCT. This way, the Black Queen virus can find its way into the tournament's randomizer, so she can rig the matches.
 * Step 2: Stage incidents that make the people watching the tournament upset, so their negative emotions attract Grimm.
 * Step 3: Get the Grimm to invade Vale. Most likely, Roman's train thing was supposed to happen during the timeframe of PvP, when the Grimm started invading. It would've allowed the Grimm direct access into the middle of the city, so not only would people have to fight off Grimm coming in from the border, they would also have to fight off Grimm flooding out of a tunnel.
 * Step 4: During this chaos, Atlas robots are used to attack good guys. Hard to tell if she intended for the White Fang to pilot the Paladins while the other Atlesian robots were infected by the virus or what.
 * Step 5: Dragon awakens and helps Cinder destroy the CCT, thus cutting off the kingdoms' communication with each other.

Salem's goal is to divide mankind. What better way to divide them than to stage an incident that creates confusion and suspicion and then promptly cut off communications between everyone? That's what Cinder's goal was. The only thing the Maidens added to that was Cinder also trying to track down Amber so she could get the other half of the Fall Maiden powers.

I was just bringing up the college thing because I've seen that argument used before and wanted to get that out of the way.

You actually cannot blame all of the writing weakness on Miles and Kerry. Yes, I know they're the writers. However... Miles has actually expressed before that he had to keep reigning in Monty and Shane. Monty and Shane wanted to make Rule of Cool action scenes that were awesome for the sake of awesome but did not make any writing sense. This is most likely what happened.

Penny destroying airships in Black and White? Miles and Kerry didn't write that. Monty did that, without Miles knowing. And Miles, if I understood him correctly, said that Monty wanted Blake to cut the train itself in half in the Black Trailer. Miles said he had to keep reminding Monty and Shane that the main characters were only first-year students and thus not strong enough to do the things that they were wanting them to do.

You bring up Breach, but guess what. Miles and Kerry weren't behind Breach. Monty directed Breach.

There were things in volumes 1 and 2 that were out of Miles and Kerry's control and in Monty's control. Monty himself admitted that he wasn't as good at writing type stuff.