Board Thread:Clean up Concerns/@comment-24859393-20170401050241/@comment-366087-20170405012259

Agreed with Pendragon.

Additionally, a narrative should either be complete, or far enough along for long enough for the character's motivations to be properly and firmly established that even if a last-moment climatic heel-turn were to happen, like Vader's turn against Palpatine, it would not be enough to reverse the nature of their narrative.

For this reason, in RWBY, Whitley Schnee and his father both need for their respective narratives to unfold more before we can properly and correctly' determine if Evil, or if Only Misguided Jerks.


 * An example I'll point to is 1986 *Vanishing Act*, in wich Harry Kenyon desperately tries to get the police of a winter ski resort town to look for his missing newlywed wife. She shows up, only she is *not* his wife! But she is able to fool everyone to believe that she is and husband Harry is just upset over a marital argument. Harry tries to dig up proof that this woman is an imposter and get the police to resume searching for the real wife before the imposter can inherit the wife's fortune on her birthday in 2 days. Then in the final five minutes just as the money is to be given to the imposter, Harry says again, search for her and the police chief asks, "where should I look?".


 * Harry then gives an out-of-the-way ditch to try checking. Police chief says "Gotcha". Turns out her body had already been found, but in finding out about the large sum of money she was to receive, he got suspicious and set up a sting. The imposter was his own wife, her henchman the retired former chief.


 * So in that one climatic moment, All the roles reversed. The one we were pulling for the entire story was revealed as the Villain, and the "villains" were actually the heroes.

Optimally, narratives need to complete.

Bottom line, except for the aforementioned rare exceptions it is not the job of us in The Audience to override what the Creatives intended. Because this Wiki promotes Canons over Fanons & Opinions.