User blog comment:Forrestib/"Breach" was Brilliant, and Here's Why/@comment-4820209-20141031224430/@comment-165.234.190.64-20141103034639

But that wasn't a hard fought battle for Ren. He wasn't tired out, he had no indication that he couldn't fight something else immediately after, he wasn't even wounded. The length of time a fight takes doesn't denote how difficult it was to a participant, but instead the amount of effort and damage accumulated. How long he fought it didn't denote that it was a legitimate threat, you also didn't note that ren's pretty low on the rwbyjnpr scale in terms of power. It was a long fight cause ren doesn't have conventional tools for overwhelming power which would be necessary for killing a KT.

On to your other points. The grimm were not foreshadowed as the massive issue in the previous episodes. That's a false equivalence. Pay attention to what the team and oobleck is truly worried about. It's the white fang. Their desire is to stop the white fang primarily. When Oobleck learns that the white fang intend to use the Grimm on top of it, he sees the scenario is a lot more serious, but the prominant issue is still, the white fang.

And I never was set on you considering the Grimm to be a major threat, because i never personally considered them a major threat, because they, unlike titans, were never framed as the massive threat. It was clear from the get go (even in the narration) that the grimm were a force that pressed humanity, but that the actual threat/tipping point/foe were human in nature.

RWBY isn't AoT where the major source of conflict is surrmounting an overwhelming force of Nature. It's a series where the major conflict is a human(or faunus) one that is simultaneously using forces of nature to further their agenda.