Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24573226-20161224121458/@comment-4010415-20161224173734

Omg omg omg gaaah. Wellp, time to rewatch and type up my post with my first impressions and anything I notice upon rewatch.

Did not expect it to start on Oscar. And Oscar is actually having a normal, reasonable reaction to suddenly having a voice in his head. And... the thing happening to Oscar happened to Ozpin? Their souls are combined, so... will Oscar slowly absorb Ozpin and become the new Ozpin? And Ozpin, or whoever combined themselves with Ozpin, helped build Haven Academy. Also, we get a description of the headmaster's office in Haven, so are we gonna see it later? It's really bugging me that Oscar's door is crooked. It doesn't seem like he opened it, so was it just cracked open this whole time?

So, Jacques really does care mainly about their reputation. I'm so glad they have working mirrors in this show now. Though, the first instance of a working mirror was in End of the Beginning, in Ruby's room. And holy shit, when he slapped Weiss...

You know the most frightening kind of anger? Calm anger. Jacques went from yelling to calm anger after slapping Weiss. The first thing that came to mind with the whole grounding thing was "He's keeping the princess locked in her tower." And honestly, even though so many of us saw it coming that Jacques would want to move the title of heir to Whitley, I still got an "Oh damn" feeling when he stated Whitley's the heir now, especially when he revealed his intentions to lie to the public and say that Weiss herself handed off the title to Whitley due to trauma. And Whitley, the little snake, knew about this plan the whole time.

The tune of Mirror Mirror Part 2 starts playing, and Weiss decides to stand up and fight instead of crying on her bed! You go, Weiss!! For a second, I thought she was gonna jump out the window and use glyphs to escape, but uh, yeah, best to grab Myrtenaster and make room for practicing bigger glyphs first, so she can summon the full Giant Armor. Heh. Oh hey, I just noticed that the box Myrtenaster is in is on the vanity mirror next to her bed. It even has a Schnee snowflake on it.

"I should be free now..." *Opens box* "I should be fine..." *Myrtenaster~* "But the life I fought for--"

And now, the moment we've been waiting for, Qrow vs Tyrian! I have to say, I actually quite enjoyed this fight. At the moment where Tyrian was blocking Ruby's bullets with his tail, I was like "God, Tyrian's such a freak." It's amazing. And Qrow can fight unarmed! I was delighted watching that, thinking "He's such a badass! What a frickin hero!" New song! Too bad I can't understand a word of it! Dude, such creative uses of Qrow's weapon, I can't even deal!

So, Qrow's and Tyrian's Auras both shimmered. Considering that they both get injured at the end of the fight, I guess their Auras definitely hit 0%, but what about Ruby's? Their Auras shimmered over their entire bodies, but Ruby's only shimmered in the spots where she was hit, and it shimmered 4 times in the fight. What even? Also, Qrow's Aura is apparently red, and Tyrian's is... blue? And I can see people trying to use Qrow's Aura color as evidence that "He's Ruby's real dad!!!!1"

When Qrow got cut, I actually gasped and started to tear up a little, thinking "No, don't do this." Then, I was like "Damn!" when Ruby actually chopped Tyrian's tail. And how surprised I was that Tyrian actually said "bitch"! RWBY is definitely moving further and further away from what we once thought was a 100% kid-friendly show, that's for sure.

Qrow's hand was shaking when he held it out...

"What's your favorite fairy tale?" Heh.

So, Qrow has venom in him now, right? But Tyrian was gonna use that venom on Ruby in Tipping Point, so it's likely not lethal, right?