Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20171229202410/@comment-4010415-20180102194412

2001:8A0:D208:7601:AC9A:1ABB:6BAA:64AF wrote: 1. Actually, Orihime scked because Kubo just wanted her there to be a love interest and nothing else. Her healing powers really weren't that great and she could have been easily replaced by the 4th squad - which was a healing squad. She revived Ichigo because Deus Ex Machina, not because of her powers. At no point,it's said that her powers manage to bring people from the death by screaming their name a lot and it's something that didn't happen before or after that point. Honestly, there are a ton of semblance that could easily lead to overpower: Emerald and the Schnee, for example. I think it'sabout having a drawback. For example, Emerald gets headaches and pretty clear that she doesn't like using it more than 1 a day. So far, the only thing that it causing the Schnee semblance not to be an overpower is that Weiss is just not that great of a fighter compared to professional huntsmen.

2.1 I think you are thinking Qrow's semblance is far more effective than it actually is. When it worked on Tyrian, they're standing in a rooftop that hadn't even been completed. Also, the wooden plank was already partially broken.

2.2 Agree on Cinder being affected by SEW because of how she got the power not because of the power itself. 1. It's been literally years since I was into Bleach, but for whatever reason, I seem to recall her using her powers to bring Ichigo back after Ulquiorra killed him. Maybe that only happened in the anime. I never could read the whole manga. I did check into the manga for a while for the Fullbring arc, but that was... ehhh....

But yes, that is another reason Orihime sucked, and it's why I didn't ship IchiHime. Her literal only purpose was to stand around be all "omg i love ichigo, pls notice me". Their relationship wasn't even written that well either. He just saw her as a friend, equal to Chad and Uryu, yet sometimes I felt like he paid more attention to the latter two than to Orihime. When he went to the Soul Society, it was specifically to save Rukia, nothing else. That was his one and only goal. When he went to Hueco Mundo, his goal was not saving Orihime, and he got distracted by wanting a rematch with Grimmjow. And then that stupid moment when he was getting his ass kicked by Grimmjow again, but apparently all he needed to turn the fight around was for Orihime to yell "Don't die, Ichigo!" It's like "Oh! That's what I'm supposed to do! Got it, thanks for the reminder, Orihime!"

2.1 That was, indeed, Qrow using it strategically, but it can also make things happen when there's not as much of a cause for it as Qrow leading Tyrian to the damaged plank.

In New Challengers, the bartender randomly knocks a glass in the floor by accident, indicating that Qrow's Semblance may be able to cause momentary clumsiness.

During the Qrow vs Tyrian fight, the wooden beam that nearly fell on Ruby didn't really have anything trigger it to fall. Ruby didn't bump into the wall or anything. She just slid to a stop conveniently in the right spot for it to fall on her, and then it just fell over all of a sudden.

There was also that moment where Qrow propped his feet up on the coffee table and it randomly broke and dropped his coffee mug for no reason other than misfortune.

2.2 I feel like, if it affects all Maidens, they would've shown us Vernal getting hurt too, but they only showed Cinder getting hurt. They showed the light filling the entire room, and a good indication that the SEW powers are not limited to affecting what's in Ruby's line of sight is that the Dragon was affected despite not being in her line of sight. Furthermore, for the time being (if Weiss getting impaled really wasn't a hallucination/illusion), it appears that Vernal was still fighting Weiss, considering someone had to have thrown her to the floor.