Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-26512661-20200125162058/@comment-86.169.237.227-20200127171107

Glitchee123z wrote: Now on a more pessimistic note, I can already tell this is where the Volume turns to shit. Oh, all of the things are going to shit now.

Team RWBY vs Ace Ops was a fun fight, and it brings up something I've been mulling over. Yeah, the Ace Ops are better Huntsmen, but RWBY is a better TEAM of Huntsmen. They have better synergy and more skill with team attacks than the Ace Ops do. Plus, they exploited the logical weaknesses of Marrow and Elm's Semblances - Marrow's only works in one direction and Elm's only works if the floor is stable. And finally, they also deployed psychological warfare - Ruby's 'you were, then you trained us' line is less about her being cocky and more about winding Harriet up, knowing that she's very competitive. And later, Yang's line about how the Ace Ops are 'just following orders' sends Elm over the edge and lets Blake and Yang get the upper hand. Also, because of that ice wall, can we all just agree that Weiss is a killstealer now?

Clover V Qrow V Tyrian was also pretty fun, though it did suffer from the conflict ball a bit too much for my liking. Tyrian was all kinds of crazy this episode, and he was suitably hilarious. It was interesting to see how Clover fights with that fishing rod. Yes, his death was sad (but seriously, the people accusing RT of queerbaiting are lunatics, they were literally just good friends, Qrow even said they were), but it was also foreshadowed - Clover's inspiration, the Fisherman's Luck fable, had the fisherman die at the end. Qrow's probably going to slip back into alcoholism after this.

Lotta good things to look forward to next episode! Team ALPN (I finally figured out what that means and I am so happy now! Arc, Lie, Pine, Nora - why didn't I see that?) vs Neo - wonder if she'll take the shape of Pyrrha to play mind-games with them. Winter and Penny vs Cinder - you're gonna pay for Volume 3, Cindy! Qrow's probably gonna get arrested, Blake's being foreshadowed to get some major injury, Mantle's still in trouble and Salem's still on her way.

No joke, guys, I don't think I'm surviving the next one.