Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190119003858/@comment-5430952-20190124001910

HotSwappableGaming wrote:I don't think it's asking too much, at all. It's like if Cinder forgot she was a maiden. It's a deliberate nerf or a forgotten tool and either way it's just out of character from everything we've seen about it. You mean why she didn't simply break out of the ice immediately and fly back? Simple, she was basically out of Aura, beaten both physically and emotionally, she gave it everything she had and it still wasn't enough. And she knew she was losing, you could see it in her demeanor after she crashed back onto the ground. Then, when she was encased in ice, she lapsed into a coma for who knows how long.

To me it sounds like you're expecting some characters to always think rationally no matter how badly they're beaten. And clearly Cinder and Adam were never pushed to their limits before, so they didn't know what to do when it actually happened. It's just human nature in action, they're not always gonna think rationally in tough situations.