Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-158.125.243.29-20150329080244/@comment-25555436-20150419174817

Spiegelmeister wrote: Simply too long to quote. -That's not the point Spiegel. The point is, this has been the 2nd time RWBY had their spotlight stolen completely, in the Volume Finale. I wouldn't mind if it was done at any other point, but in a Finale one has to make their protagonists and/or villains shine, not make the secondaries steal the spotlight. Vol.1 finale: Blake tried to fight Roman, failed hard, Sun made a much better effort both against the mooks and Roman. No need to mention Penny. It's not a matter of seeing a new character use moves we haven't seen before instead of watching Blake do her thing again, but the matter is that she got the spotlight stolen by Sun hard. Like Monty didn't even think of showing Blake make as much of an effort and having nearly as much success as Sun, instead of just letting her get her ass kicked while Sun fucking kicks everyone's ass and even blocks an explosion.

In other words: Blake felt close-to-useless compared to how Sun owned everyone without even being hit, Ruby was useless because of Roman's pragmatism which is for the most part understandable and justified. Blake needed to be shown being a damn lot more successful than that. It's not that they couldn't deal with the situation just Blake and Ruby, but that Blake shouldn't have been so shitty in that fight, that's what I mean.

The point of CFVY's strength I already mentioned in that big comment above. RT could have simply shown CFVY arriving somewhere else in Vale, far away from RWBY and JNPR where some Grimm had reached. Spotlight wouldn't be stolen, and they would have showcased their new team. But nooo. Putting them right where RWBY was made them steal their spotlight, again, only this time was even worse than in Vol.1, and also felt completely unnecesary.

The Atlesian military's airships arriving was even more unnecesary, as they showed how their robots alone one shotted most of the Grimms remaining. Only this one makes sense from a narrative PoV: Ironwood seems like he wants to prove to everyone (probably even the Vale Council) that he has the Major D.

-Alright, Penny did lead Ruby there, but her role wasn't truly necesary; Ruby could simply hear how the new Atlesian Robots are being showcased in a nearby park, and she, being the Weapon Fetishist she is, would go there on her own, making the only real difference that she wouldn't be thrown into trash. Penny was only put there because they needed to tell us officially that she was a robot.