About Rem/Ram's presentation?

thewiru said:
Advice: Spoilers of the first half of the anime, for those who didn't watch it

Am i'm the only who found it odd the way Rem and Ram were presented? At the first episodes we saw them, it was given the impression they were the same character and didn't have much of a personality. At leat when i watched, they didn't look much more important than Beatrice, they looked more like just NPC's Subaru would interact with within the mansion.

Yet, when i saw that i tought to myself "Wait... he cared about them?"

One of the things that made it more difficult was that their design looked, i don't know... generic? I don't know, in the fight scenes or important scenes like in episode 18, Rem's design seemed to change and give her personality... Or maybe that's just me, and i would've taken her seriously if she and her sister were more different design-wise.

Anyway, straight to the point, am i the only who was surprised when discovered that Rem was going to be a important character because of her presentation?

NitroKageAki said:

Well, having Rem and Ram be identical and 'generic' is THE point. The author is great at misleading the reader/watcher to assume the newly introduced as some stereotypical cookie-cutter (Rem, Ram are just some comedy-induced maids that rarely contribute to the progression of the plot), then get surprised how important they are to the story (like how Rem is to Arc 3 and Ram is to post-Arc 3).

p.s. about Subaru cared about Rem/Ram per-episode 8, is that he knows longer than they know him due to his Return by Death and the fact that the sisters give him the interaction that the shut-in Subaru yearn for so long and he enjoyed it.