Talk:Ciel Soleil/@comment-28388209-20161209211909/@comment-25936766-20161210020152

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@Jaric: 1-Yeah, I figured she meant it that way....changes nothing however.

2-Still, it's generally better to have the audience expect something than expect nothing. Being "too obvious" is the lesser of 2 evils compared to "introduce out of nowhere AKA Ass Pull".

An idea I had for how they could've foreshadowed it, would be a 1-2mins long scene of Qrow and Ozpin talking about Ruby, with Qrow asking him if she "has shown any signs of the powers", or something like that. Then at the least we know she has some hidden power(s), while the full nature of said powers, and the SEWs, remain a secret and surprise.

@Spirit: Anything in the commentaries doesn't really count. Not everyone watches them (I bet most don't), and they know it. Proper foreshadowing, be it good or bad, is done in the work itself, in the narrative or the elements that make up said work.

@Anon: 1-We could infer her parents were members, or at least ex-members from the "peaceful WF" days. Yet nothing said her father was the previous leader. That's the actual problem, the actual thing that was introduced out of the blue.

2-Blake's "knowledge" did not even hint at all about her being a child of even middle-rank members. Hell, that "knowledge" can basically be interpreted as Anti-SDC Propaganda she got fed up for more than a dozen years since she was a kid.

3-Honestly: ''How the hell does Blake reading a book imply A.N.Y. of this? How does reading a book imply she was the daughter of WF members, let alone the ex-leader?''