Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-410526-20160214074328/@comment-25266931-20160221180130

Gastropod wrote: I hope that's what Blake's storyline will be in Volume 4. While the White Fang appeared in Volume 2 and 3, they acted as faceless mooks. The show hasn't really tackled the Faunus discrimination subplot since Volume 1. It'd be cool if we saw Blake trying to steer the WF back into the right direction, which would set up a confrontation with Adam.

It'd also be interesting if that happened parallel to Weiss' storyline. The show could follow her disagreements with her father on exploiting Faunus labor.

Exactly. Couldn't agree more. One problem at a time. If they solve things with the Faunus and the people treating the Faunus like shit then that's one less villain and maybe a few more allies. But it seems that while the show's gotten darker its still regulating the Faunus as the equivilant of the Foot Soldiers in a TMNT cartoon. Faceless Red Shirt Minions running around as punching bags for Sun or Nep while RWBY fight the real foes like WF bosses and Cinder's group. It's a cop out and I'm starting to feel like maybe they want to parallel it with most discrimination in games and have the PC ending of the problem just slowly drifting away on its own. Or maybe have Adam look like a raving troll who won't let it go even though most people don't see Faunus as animals or sub-humans anymore.

Kinda like how people say the Black Panthers got corrupt and just want to wave around guns and blame the white man for everything and now do anything productive to change their life or let the past go. I don't see it that way. I see th WF as having a legit point about the way they've been treated based on what's been instilled in Weiss from her family and the animosity she feels from her family being targeted. I will only see Adam and the WF as hopeless zealot terrorists if they choose to stay violent extremist even in the face of people trying to meet them halfway or trying to help them.

I don't expect them to let a human join the WF movement but if a human walked up to Adam and said he'd help him have a voice on a human government panel or ensure that Faunus could live in his town with tougher laws against people discriminating against them and he cuts them down without a thought. That's when I'll say "I give up on Adam and WF."