Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-64.134.69.156-20160430205955/@comment-27082610-20160512180914

V3 is the literal first time anything genuinely bad has happened to any of the characters on-screen besides Yang's brush with death as a child. Just because a massive wave of bad things happened at the end doesn't mean that it's just been happening over and over throughout the series.

And it's good that what's happened has happened, because we get to see the characters grow from it. Giving them a happy ending every time something bad happens is just terrible writng because it takes away any reason you might have to care about the characters when they're in a tough situation.

There was no other way for V3 to go down because Cinder held all the cards but didn't show them until the very end, you know, like an actual competent villain. A happy ending stemming from that wouldn't have been possible without something ridiculously cheap.