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> If you wanted pragmatism...

Why shouldn't I want it? RWBY stated certain rules and principles in first seasons, and all action followed them. I'm not a war expert, but operation "Beacon" and related fights were "realistic" in Remnant. Skill, experience, preparation etc. were shown to be the greater part of success than luck, will an being-on-the-good-side things. Another thing is the fact that nothing was shown on-screen, almost all important action was skipped, so it only remains for us to make a theories and reading tea leaves what really happened. You have a point, I have too, John Doe has another one and all of them are equal, but no one is approved. Of course, "guess it on your own" is a way in storytelling unless suspension of disbelief is a thing. Personally, I can't accept the twist: 1) Good guys ambushed by owerwhelming forces and started to loose; 2) Smth happens off-screen; 3) Good guys win, villains escaped, everything is so fine it's BS.  I wanted to see how CHARACTERS solve problems, but only saw WRITERS did it instead.

> Cinder decided to add two ambushes to this.

Yes, it was her mistake. But it doesn't change the fact that villans had upper hand in final confrontation, and I still don't understand how heroes won.

> Ozpin wants all the evidence before he commits an action.

So he's too clever he's an idiot. You suspect your neighbor to be an ISIL agent. You: 1) Call the police; 2) Accept his invitation to meet him in dark basement of his house, but ask your trusted friends for backup; 3) Just go with him to basement without plan B; I don't need over9000 reincarnations to make an adequate decision.

>...and Leonardo still had to tell Hazel that it was Ozpin.

So, Oscar revealed himself to be Ozpin, didn't he?

> Hazel is a "tank." Hazel didn't care about the hit.

But Tyrain blocked Nora's charge with a smile, whereas Hazel was knocked on the floor by Blake. Tyrian alone was able to destroy all JNPR, whereas there were at least 4 enemy fighters of the same level in Haven plus skilled Vernal, Mercury and Emerald... And Good Guys won, somehow... This is the main reason for all my anger.

> As for his motivation, team WTCH seems to be a "dark" version of team RWBY.

All what you spelled is not a motivation. These are facts and basic description of characters, which doesn't explain neither WHY are they act like it was shown, nor WHY did villains become evil.

> The White Fang members signed up to kill humans... This is where you're right. It explains why WF mooks prefered to surrender rather than fighting brothers and sisters and shows how Adam obessed.

> Why does everyone assume every huntsmen is dead?

If any of your 3 points is true, then Qrow and Oz are complete incompetent idiots. So, there WERE available huntsman, but these two didn't find them despite calling the police was enough. If it were the thing, everyone who has some more intelligence then stone or tree (or main chars) should run away from them as far as possible.

>Question >The seer is a Grimm...

I don't remember me asking smth about this scene. I only stated that I didn't care about anyone in this show after such an anticlimactic BS.

> So it would explain why the villains aren't as effective as you seem to believe they should be.

There is nothing to do with my expectations. The point is a good part of Salems forces was defated by children, farmboy and peasants without troubles in fairytale style! How can I take villains seriously after that?

>(Adam) He is an enemy to be destroyed, not a friend who can be saved.

But Ilia trying to kill her parents IS - how conveniently for the story. This one is evil, this one is good inside, but nobody knows where is the difference. Again, it seems WRITERS want Ilia to be good, not she personally or Blake.

> Ilia's motivations were described in Blakes character short.

Yep. They laughed at me after my parents died => now I'll kill my fiend's family. It's obvious, how could I miss that? Are you seriously think that this implementation may justify her actions? De-facto, Blake and Ilia both broke the law. They both deserve punishment. The difference is in details. Blake WAS punished - by herself first, then by Adam. She tried to redeem herself. Ilia is a simple traitor for my eyes. She has no principles to follow and switches sides in 5 minutes. And c'mon - she TRIED TO KILL PEOPLE ON-SCREEN! Personaly I think that it's a bit higher crime than train sabotage, but she was forgiven immediately after. If it is the case, why shold't we forgive Adam Taurus? Maybe he really good inside too...

> Now though Raven could find her entire tribe dead despite working for Salem.

What was new in her active plan? She wanted to grab relic under cover of chaos and fade away, but the tribe was ordered to move before. The conditions seem to be equal.