Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190119003858/@comment-5430952-20190124202429

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: 1) ....Well, except for the crew in the base. I know they were ordered to stand by, but they act more like they were watching a football game (btw, the scene with them watching the battle on the screen is full of Photoshop potential). That's another reason people call them the dregs of the Atlas military, treating the battle as a pay-per-view event rather than actually doing their jobs.  If they had they would've noticed the Leviathan a lot sooner and possibly gotten on the horn with Cordo long before the end of the episode.

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11) 5) What were you expecting Ruby to do, beg for mercy? They had a mission, and couldn't let an ignorant fool like Cordo get in their way. Do you think Ozpin would've let someone like Cordo stop him? Heck no, I can imagine he's had to step over a lot of Cordos in his time, the fate of the world is far more important than one person's hubris.

And Cordo didn't even try to take them alive, she was trying to outright murder them, all because of her bruised ego. Hardly SOP, even for Atlas.

7) I personally enjoyed the choir tune they chose for the battle, to me it perfectly reflected the dramatic tension of the battle.

9) Yes, his Aura breaks while he's down in the dirt, you can hear it break along with seeing it flicker.  And it took that much punishment to finally break his Aura, just shows what a monstrous Aura Adam possessed.

10) Blake fell to her knees and broke down into tears, Adam's death has clearly affected.  She didn't want to kill him, but she really had no choice, Adam would've killed them both had she not stopped him.  And Yang was crying for more Blake's sake than for Adam's, she knew how much Adam once meant to Blake, so she's trying to comfort her in her time of need.

11) No, just, no.  If anyone's going to Atlas in chains, it's Cordo.  Seriously if she tried pulling a fast one she might find herself in handcuffs, and rightfully so for her supreme incompetence.  Honestly, she should've been discharged rather than sent to Argus, that way she wouldn't cause anyone else any more trouble.  And whoever stationed her there will have a lot to answer for.

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

4) Thing is, first of all, it was not a necesary evil. They simply didn't even bother to think of any alternatives. Like having Weiss call Winter and see if they can get a ride there legally. Weiss has no way of contacting Winter; the CCT is down and snail mail is unreliable, they couldn't afford to be stuck in Argus for weeks for months, they could've been ambushed by Salem's Faction during that time.  And that's the main issue: time.  Standing still was not an option.  Hence why they were forced to steal an airship and explain things to Ironwood when they arrived, since diplomacy was clearly wasted.