Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14909251-20181210223145/@comment-26018514-20181221070714

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: 73.Anon.52 wrote: 3. You misunderstand, had her friends come over and been rebuffed Yang would have looked like a pretty cold bitch, especially when she later screamed at Blake that she needed her. It would have made Yang less likeable and more like Raven. As it was she genuinely appears to have needed RWB because no-one her age even tried to visit.

1. What is with people here thinking they can perfectly predict exactly how a thing will play out? …

2. My takeaway from her arc was definitely not that she "needed" her team as that goes against personal growth. She needed to be stronger and better as a person before she could reunite with her team.

1. I'm not referring to OVERALL impact, that's why. I'm referring to a single scene, with the context we have already been given. If I were to slap someone, I know what reaction I'd get, there are various context that change that reaction, but if I'm going to slap someone on my own initiative I know what context(and thus reaction) I'd get. This is the same concept.

If we were to see Yang's friend Jimmy trying to console her, RT would need to contextualize his temperament and how we feel about what kind of friend he is(AKA make us care about him, or make him an asshole Yang righteously rejects), they then would have needed to contextualize Yang's rejection IN THE SAME SCENE(if this was as you argue a "throw away" or "quick" scene). That would make it almost impossible to not have the scene cast one or both of them as assholes. Now there would be almost no way to bring back Jimmy in V4/5/6, so this would be his last scene for this entire timespan, so if one or both of them were assholes, it would be almost impossible to make up, which goes into;

2. I was referring to when in V5/6 when Yang actually tells us she needed Blake, not during the V4 arc. considering she pretty much screamed bloody murder at Blake about not being there, had we actually seen someone try and fail to comfort her other than Ruby, it would have lessened the impact of both scenes by making Yang just seem petty. Even if she had a decent reason behind it, the scenes would be lesser for it.