Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160214165601/@comment-66.102.6.180-20160218014333

LiveandSound wrote: 64.233.172.148 wrote:Ruby having a special power was just as foreshadowed as Blake being a Fanus and Penny being a Robot.

As for being a Mary Sue, I feel the need to remind people that we the audience tend to be lacking info on how truly powerful everyone but the main characters are. Despite short glimpses of Winter,the teachers, and Ozpin's Brotherhood, we still don't have a firm concrete grasp of how powerful the average graduated Huntsmen truly is. -No. Not even a bit as much. In fact, it almost feels like they tried avoiding being too obvious, and in the process ended up being too subtle. We knew Ruby's eye color had some sort of importance. But, we were never given any hints that her eye color meant she had powers strong enough to defeat the Grimm Wyvern and a Maiden at once, in a flash.

We were never shown any foreshadowing to Ruby having those powers, the closest to that is Ruby causing the vortex, which was just Ruby showing she's getting better at using her Semblance, which is unrelated to those powers and by the way she wasn't the only one who got better at their Semblance (Weiss says hello).

Another thing, and the one that annoys me the most, is that we were given even less hints about Ruby being part of a previously non-existant line of Warriors more powerful than even Maidens. A line of warriors that had not been mentioned or hinted at existing before. "Some legends are true", you may say, and yes, the Silver Order was a legend....a legend that was never mentioned until Qrow info-dumbed it all. If we were ever told a legend about Silver-Eyed badasses before then, you'll have to tell me when.

-Not too important, but, "being absurdly powerful" is just a trait. You can be absurdly powerful and not be a Mary Sue. Or be a Mary Sue yet not absurdly powerful.

So your just upset you didn't get enough hints drops or this has nothing to do with a previous explained lore? News flash, no matter how long it took because of production reason, we just got done with the opening act. We know for sure Volume 2 was broken up into Volunes 2 and Volume 3, and it's possible the acts of Volumes 1-3 where all part of the first of several seasons Monty had outlined before he passed. Somerhing that is even more then likely given how the Volume 3 final episode was titled "End of the Begining." To use Naruto as a refrence, we just completed the Waves mission (or in the second stage of th chunin exams if we're striclty following episode list guides even if it cuts off in the middle on arc).

There is still tons of things about the world's setting and lore that emain hidden to us that still need to be gradually introduced to us, and unlike a traditional anime RWBY doesn't tend to drag things out. Which I'm thank full for, can you imagine if they let Weiss' jealousy drag beyond the badge and the budren?

-Defcon Deceiver