Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-26512661-20200125162058/@comment-4010415-20200125184559

This episode, aaaagh.

Robyn: "Looks like he underestimated me. Again." Says the one who gets almost immediately knocked out and isn't involved in the subsequent fight. Gee, I wonder why he underestimated you.

Tyrian sitting on the console, laughing maniacally while wearing the pilot's hat made me laugh my ass off, not gonna lie. I didn't like Tyrian at first, but I've grown to love him. Even rewatching the episode, it made me laugh again! He's like "I'm the pilot now."

I like Penny and Winter's discussions about personal feelings and doing what they have to do.

Yo, the choreography for Team RWBY vs Ace-Ops is great! CRWBY have really and truly found their legs with the choreography.

Tyrian pretending to be knocked out was smart. I figured out he was dislocating his thumb riiiight before he actually did it and still cringed from the sound and the visual anyway.

I'm mad at Clover for prioritizing apprehending Qrow over recapturing Tyrian. Such a stupid decision. And I do find Qrow and Tyrian teaming up to be surprising yet believable. It was a heat of the moment thing, where Qrow deemed it temporarily necessary to get Clover off their backs. Either he works with Tyrian to stop Clover or Tyrian fights them both, which would only result in both him and Clover getting worn out at best and killed by Tyrian at worst.

How much do you wanna bet that, if Blake really is getting injured this volume, her Aura getting weakened in this fight is the setup for that?

Weiss was really the best person to fight Marrow, since he couldn't get both her and her summon to freeze at the same time. Elm's Semblance being pointless because of the floor getting smashed up was awesome.

The bit with Team RWBY freezing and then Weiss dropping Marrow's legs when Pietro and Maria show up was really funny.

We dooo get a Neopolitan fight. I still think her name should've been Nea Politan, but oh well.

Penny and Winter reeeally should've hurried up with transferring the Winter Maiden powers. Also, since Neo's not there, it looks like Neo won't be the next Winter Maiden. Booo.

"I trust James with my life." And that turned out not to be the right choice. A series of bad decisions:
 * Clover deciding to follow Ironwood's order to arrest Qrow.
 * Robyn deciding to ignore Qrow and attack Clover.
 * Clover prioritizing apprehending Qrow over recapturing Tyrian.
 * Qrow deciding to punch Clover instead of spending extra time retrieving his sword.

Those choices led to Clover's death. It's uncertain whether or not Qrow's decision to team up with Tyrian would have changed much, since refusing to team up could have led to Tyrian killing them both once they got worn out. He didn't really have any good choices in that moment.

Also, the snow and the sunrise in Clover's death scene, followed by the credits not having music at first, really made it a lot more dramatic and emotional. In all honesty, I cried. I didn't expect to cry from Clover dying, but I did. Even on rewatch, I shed another tear.