Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28776596-20160630193035/@comment-24993958-20160713214303

SketchyOpus wrote:

VedranTheII wrote: Personally, I don’t think we as fans should be allowed to demand an author to change a story just to satisfy our needs, because it’s their story. So, all criticism should be kept to ourselves because we can kiss off and make our own if we don't like it? Or just the gay crap?

Criticism…this is the wrong word to throw at me because I don’t think criticism and demands are synonymous. You can criticize a comedy for not being funny and even suggest ways to make the jokes work, but you can’t demand a comedy to be replaced with nothing but drama.

To answer your question though…no. Criticism should very much be distributed, as long as it helps the story in some matter, and that can includes adding “gay crap” to a universe in order to help make an unfamiliar universe be more familiar to us, and as a result make the universe easier to connect to.

But, RWBY as a show is primarily an adventure series with slice of life sprinkled in in to act as a breather. You may have noticed relationships in the show in general have been either rushed or required off screen interaction, because that is not the focus of the show. Similarly, when they will introduce more LGBT characters, I do not expect, nor do I demand, the show take their time building and exploring their relationships, because that is not the focus of the show.

To summarize, I can and will criticize their reservation to add more LGBT characters, I will not however, ask them to change the focus on the show just to make their relationships believable and not rushed, because as of now, that’s not what the show is about. The former is criticism, the latter is a demand, and I believe that if a fan has to demand something from an author, they would be better off doing it themselves.