Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160214165601/@comment-26463535-20160217161931

@77.103... Also, Pyrrha's death was necessary. If she hadn't died, Ruby would not have been upset enough to finally unlock her powers.

I don't consider Ruby's powers Deus Ex Machina since lots of people thought that Ruby was a Maiden, so we expected a sudden unlocking of her powers anyway. We knew that there was something special about her or Ozpin wouldn't have been watching her that often (the recording of the Shop fight,during the forest trials, after the dock fight before Qrow sent his "the queen has pawns" message), let her in two years early, first comment on her silver eyes, let her and her team go to a search and destroy area reserved for second-years.

(Anyone think now that when Ozpin talked about the guardian, he might have been talking about Ruby?)