Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20131018002934/@comment-10390252-20131018084215

Okay, first I want to get over my smug moment. Waaay back after Episode 4, I stated, explicitly, that Pyrrha's magnetic attraction and Ruby's speed were super-powers. Everyone laughed or just ignored me. Well, tonight, we had 'Semblances' introduced, the RWBY equivalent of metahuman powers. Imagine my total lack of surpirse to learn that Ruby has hyper-speed and Pyrrha is a magnetokinetic.

Onto the rest of the episode:

1) CRDL seem to be a busted flush right now. Up against unarmed bunny-girls when they have a 4-to-1 advantage, they're tough. In an actual fight, they're not so hot;

2) Jaune has gained the greatest thing he possibly can out of this episode - a measure of self-belief. He now knows that he can fight on his own and that he is capable of facing injury or death in the line of duty with his chin held high (that's why Pyrrha stopped Weiss and Ruby from interfering of course);

3) Something about Pyrrha's smile in the closing scene worried me. It might just be an ArcSpear proof but it didn't seem warm, it was too... calculating. It reminds me of my earlier theory that Ozpin has ordered Pyrrha to be Jaune's girlfriend and mentor for some higher purpose. I hope that her relationship with Jaune doesn't turn out to be false but we have a very long way to go and who knows what may come out of this?

4) Ren makes pancakes... Nora drinks syrup. Am I the only one totally unsurprised that Nora likes sugary things in overdose qunatities?

5) What next for Cardin? Well, he's had a bad shock; it remains to be seen how this may affect him but, at the very least, he'll be drilling his team pretty relentlessly so they never leave him to die ever again;

6) Ruby the Leader - She starts snapping out orders and everyone is jumping to obey. In a time of crisis, it is impossible to overstate the importance of there being someone who sounds like he or she knows what to do to maintain calm. A quality like that saves lives.