Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20141031002615/@comment-25725840-20141205033538

73.42.187.52 wrote:

Zephyrcoil wrote: somewhat long explanation?

Both yang and pyrrha got one off descriptions. They were both a sentence long.

Statements for or against it aren't necessary. It's not a crux for the series as time travel would be for other stories.

Yang, Weiss and Ruby do not need to have personal connections to adam, cinder, emerald, roman or mercury to have legitimate strife and opposition. Yes, both explanations were somewhat longer than absolutely necessary, they both could have been much shorter, Pyrrha's was already explained at the word "polarity"(in addition to being shown in use), and more information was added by Mercury later, and Yang's was hinted at somewhat before it was talked about twice(by Ruby and by Yang), when it was rather obvious by that episode where it was shown. As opposed to the portal, which just appeared without any explanation or comment by anyone, they were overly elaborated.

as for connections with Adam, I mostly agree with you... However his only current connections with the group are his connection to Blake...who might kill him herself, and his connection with Wiess, who would likely kill him for sport... pretty much anyone who faced him could probably kill him with a relatively clear conscience... and that seems pretty depressing for a character like Adam... especially since Blake has one of the few love triangles in the series and all of them seem to include at least 1 character with death flags

What somewhat long explanations? Pyrrha bliteraly just says her ability is Polarity, and Ruby says she gets stronger each hit she takes. Both of which are stated before being properly shown. There's no way to refine that down any smaller than what was stated. I mean before Ruby's statement. Most everyone thought yang had some pyromancy ability. And Yang never never talks about how her semblance works.

Mercury's explanation for her semblance isn't an explanation of how it works, but how she uses it in combat, and it's clearly not for the audience's convenience, and rather for the antagonists.

Both of those options you mentioned were terrible choices for overly long explanations.

Your other points just seems like a desire for unnecessary drama for the sake of it. Some people's adversaries just need to be those person's adversaries. Adam doesn't need to be the Count Rugen to everybody else's Inigo Montoya