Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3391158-20170904153455/@comment-34633327-20170907030501

/SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

KingFubuki92 wrote: The show don't tell rule doesn't always work though. What was there to show in the short? Ilia's backstory itself is sad, but seeing it doesn't really work in this case.

....uh I wasn't missing the point because that wasn't even the point I was trying to address in the first place. I was addressing the complaints of it being a flashback in a flashback, the impracticallity of the Show Don't Tell rule in certain cases, and the purpose of the shorts. I know Faunus Discrimination is something the show only brings up, but I was trying to state that even if something needs to be brought up, like the many details of Blake's past we know nothing of, this short was not the place. The short is more to allude to the future, not drudge up the past unless it pertains to the future, which in this case it did as it allowed Blake to empathize with Ilia, while also making the audience sympathize with her so her ineviatble "redemption" is a lot easier to accept.

Besides, Ilia's Flashback wouldn't really help anything either. We know already some of Atlas has a big thing against faunus, and those girls "snickering" would be comparable to Cardin being a dick to Velvet. It wouldn't bring anything new, just rehash what we saw with Blake hiding her identity while blending it with Velvet being bullied, which if anything would be a waste of time cause we already know that level of "discrimination". And again, it would be out of place here, since it would come from Ilia. If we were to get something, it would have to be from Blake. Let's say we did have a flashback, but of a child Blake walking along the streets of a settlement with Humans as she witnesses a bunch of kids pick on a faunus child. What would that accomplish? Faunus are bullied? Cardin already showed that. Kids are cruel to those that are different? Nora being an orphan and a foreigner got her bullied, so that idea is established. Blake witnessed stuff first hand? We already know she partook in Rally's, some of which probably got violent. There is nothing they could have elaborated on in the run time of the short unless it was something already covered, not bringing any new info in the process, while also simultaneously wasting a short. It be like a WOR that gave no new info, just repeated what we knew. So in regards to Ilia's past, rather than go at length with information we already knew and show it to us, they condensed it to a story in the Background so that Blake and Sun chasing the WF Member could be in the foreground, not wasting the short even though they were repeating things we knew, as they would still be alluding to what exactly Blake and Sun are doing in V5. They TOLD us because they couldn't afford to SHOW us the in depth issues without wasting the SHORT.

So while the lack of discrimination may be the core of the problem of that TOPIC, it is not the core of the problem of the SHORT. I was addressing a smaller topic, the Short, whereas you were more on the larger topic, the (lack of apparent) discrimination.