Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-6500074-20130829103240/@comment-14909251-20131209022556

Andrew S-997 wrote:

Or the fact that earlier in the same episode, Weiss moves from being somewhere right beside the Nevermore to hanging off it's claw, and then, upon slipping off it, doesn't use her "Landing Strategy" that was mentioned two episodes earlier. In RWBY time, it's literally been a few hours, max. Does Weiss have short-term memory loss or something?

Now, don't get me wrong, I love the series... It's the things that stop me from loving certian parts that I hate. I want to say that RWBY is perfect... problem is, it's not. That isn't so complicated. She did not have a firm enough hold on the Nevermore and slipped, but managed to grab on to the talon. As far as her landing strategy, although we now know the glyphs she used in it are her Semblance and not some aspect of Dust where the explanation for her not using it would be simpler, it is not clear how she uses her Semblance in the first place. She may not have been able to use it in free fall conditions where her maneuverability was limited.