Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-26512661-20200125162058/@comment-90.206.57.232-20200125185745

Making up for lack of fights with lots of fights. All good, with caveats.

Firstly - Qrow teaming up with Tyrian (kinda) was very...wuh? Like, I get that he needs to fight Clover but working with Tyrian seems very....out of character. Now granted it was pretty minimal teaming up (they just fought Clover rather than each other, wasn't really team work) but it just seems an odd decision to make? Like a straight 3-way would have been perfectly reasonable - Clover had no issue attacking Qrow when Qrow was going for Tyrian, for example. Really people in general were being a bit dumb here - Robyn didn't help by escalating and Clover should have focused on Tyrian and tried to talk more to Qrow. I suppose Qrow is mad at Clover but it still makes little sense for him to prioritise Clover over Tyrian, if anything I'd think maybe he'd try to get Tyrian to fight Clover and then make a break for it while he's distracted. The 3-way also makes more sense because all three characters are so focused on their own personal goals (Clover wants to arrest Qrow, Qrow wants to avoid arrest, Tyrian wants to mess things up that nobody works with anyone else).

As someone observed, Qrow's brain must run on alcohol because his IQ seems to have dropped since he stopped drinking. Really this is all Robyn's fault.

I did see Clover dying this vlume, thought it would be next episode though.

Tyrian with the hat was just perfectly in character for him.

RWBY vs Ace-Ops was fine, we see some team work from RWBY. A bit cliche that they win because they're friends but it works.

Neo fight happening offscreen, at least we'll get it next episode. Nice punch though Oscar.

Choreography was fine.

With one episode left, either it will be an ass-pull of a victory for the heroes or a defeat. I'm actually hoping for a defeat - perhaps they just manage to stop Cinder but then Salem turns up personally and utterly wrecks everyone's shit.