It's a fighting show, the villains have never done the simple pragmatic thing because it's boring.
No, it's not boring, it's hard to pull off, that's why people don't do it. To write such a pragmatic villain (light from Death Note comes to mind) you have to be very talented, because you now have to come up with pragmatic things the villain can do. The reason why Light's a genius like when he kills Ray Penbar, the FBI agent is because the author himself was smart enough to come up with it. That's why I'm so impressed with Miles and Kerry being bold enough to write pragmatic villains; it's not boring, it's thrilling
You want the most pragmatic way they should have approached this? Scattered dust bombs across the city. Each on with enough power to destroy a city block. Then had some in the Arena. Have it crash. That would have been far more chaos spreading than screwing up Yang and Pyrrha's fight, and bringing just as much doubt into their ability to keep the people safe.
And now that I've seen what Miles and Kerry can do, I'm on the edge of my seat to see if they do do this, if they can pull it off. Because that would've been fantastic. I adore this kind of writing, I think it takes incredible talent and I'm starting to believe they can pull it off.
I enjoy build up, not anticlimactic scenes where they ignore the established physics of the world to make a character look good.
Agree to disagree. I didn't think that was anti-climactic, I thought it was exhilarating. I couldn't believe they'd done it, and I was ecstatic that they had. I almost exploded when I saw Blake's head cut off, because the buildup had me completely buying it; at that point, I was convinced there was no line they wouldn't cross.
u/cobra1975 put it best concerning Roman: "'I'd be perfectly happy if he was actually dead -- it'd raise the stakes by a huge factor. If he wasn't 'killed' and Yang hadn't lost her hand, I don't think Blake having her head lopped off would have had as much of an impact.
I'm saying I'd want to see her show the skill she did in Yellow trailer, such as the footwork, and still lose. I'd like to see my favorite character get a fight in an episode where every other character got one.
But the beauty of it is, what they did was even better