Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24032889-20190105161936/@comment-4010415-20190106043616

BlizzardDragon wrote:

ChishioKunrin wrote: They had to introduce him so he wouldn't come absolutely out of the blue conveniently when he's important, slowly explain why Ozpin is in his head instead of doing a massive sudden info dump, and set up that there's a history between Ozpin and Hazel early on so that it also wouldn't be totally out of the blue. Kinda one of the points I was making. Even if it was to make sure he didn't come out of nowhere, Oscar's scenes in Volume 4 were entirely disconnected from the rest of Volume 4. The only person he interacted with outside of Ozma was Qrow, and that was only in the stinger which was recycled into the Volume 5 Opener. It still impacted Volume 5 and had to be done, but from a standalone perspective, Oscar's scenes were superfluous.

The same is said for Cinder and Neo's scenes, they're important for Volume 7, but they needed to be put here so it doesn't seem out of nowhere. However, it makes them come across as superfluous from the standalone perspective. You do have a point.

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Would it not be a very Monty Oum thing to do if they have Adam absorb a cannon beam fired from Caroline's mech and then use it for his Semblance? It'd be intense.