Talk:Punished/@comment-26160399-20170918234445/@comment-4010415-20170919040637

I feel like what they were going for from the point of Tyrian cutting Qrow with his stinger up to Ruby severing Tyrian's tail is that it was supposed to be a bunch of reaction shots that all take place within a very brief moment in-universe, rather than the several seconds that it took to show it... but they didn't make that clear in the depiction and that still doesn't explain Ruby and Qrow just standing there and smiling at each other.

Building off of what Cinder Moe said, they could have had Qrow cut the beam in half, then turn around to face Tyrian, only to immediately take the stinger to his gut... with an actual puncture and injection, instead of a cut. Then, change the audio in some way to indicate slow motion while having the characters actually moving in slow motion. Like...


 * Qrow turns around, then doubles over and gasps in pain.


 * Audio changes to indicate slow-mo, while Ruby gasps, and her gasp echoes.


 * Camera cuts or pans to the stinger impaled in Qrow's gut, and the stinger withdraws in slow-mo.


 * JNR's slow-mo reactions, maybe Jaune moving toward them a little.

As for how they would've still had Ruby cut Tyrian's stinger... I dunno, the first thought that pops into my head is Tyrian attacks Qrow, who moves backward and blocks with his sword, and maybe Tyrian swings his tail toward Ruby, so she has to move out of the way with no chance to interfere. Then, Ren shoots at Tyrian and Jaune works with Ren to distract him, and Ruby takes that chance to cut his stinger off.