Talk:Summer Rose/@comment-73.182.7.3-20151030052727/@comment-183.179.237.237-20151118161736

Of course, on the other hand, maybe the author wants to make her death more dramatic and impactful, thus why everything has been mysterious thus far. It would be a very interesting addition to the plot when later they revealled by Summer was in fact murdered by Cinder's faction. But for now, we can't make the call in terms of if Sumemr was actually dead, or faked her death for a later plot reasons.

I am a bit more in favor of faked death, simply because there hasn't been enough foreshadowing to make her death significant in the story. This show has been ALL about foreshadowing tons of stuff to build up suspense and makes you wonder a ton about the significant characters' backstories. But so far Summer has very little significant in the show and close to zero foreshadowing in her significant to the story. Maybe her death is indeed insigificant to the story beyond giving Ruby and Yang a somewhat tragic childhood, but I would be sad if that's the case. It comforts me more that Summer is actually alive and faked her death to protect Ruby and Yang's world in the dark, thus making it more reasonable to keep Summer in mystery for so long. But if they did in fact want to make Summer's death meaningful, I don't think they have done enough to make it more impactful (i.e. they could have hinted earlier Summer was murdered, so audiences will always be speculating who's the murderer... maybe Ozpin killed her, or something, and he is the final boss, for example. But nevertheless they should have done a bit more foreshadowing if they want to make Summer's death meanginful to the current story).