User blog comment:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/SYUTK's V4E8 - Questions, Answers(?) - Impressions/Recap/@comment-4010415-20170103015639

Loving your graceful Weiss pics.

Actually (not-so)-fun fact: When a nuclear bomb goes off, it does so in such a short instant that the people around it don't even know it went off, unless they survive and wake up to see the damage. At least, that's how it was with the ones in WW2, according to survivors.

I think Qrow gave a recap of volume 3, not just the stuff about the Maidens. So, I'm glad they skipped that part of the explanation.

Eh, the thing with Ozpin is, it turns out he's not implied to be 80 years old. Rather, he has the knowledge and memories of his predecessors, the previous people who died and had their souls pass on to the next person and the next and fuse with the next-in-line's soul. So, somewhere along the way, Ozpin's predecessor died, his soul fused with Ozpin's, and Ozpin ended up absorbing that guy's knowledge and memories, essentially becoming that guy + all the guys before him-- ehhh it's basically like the Avatar from The Last Airbender if Aang's soul was just gonna plant itself in Korra instead of Korra being born the Avatar, and she had the memories and knowledge of literally all the previous Avatars already instead of needing to have spiritual meetings with them.

Also, WoR: Vytal Festival Tournament (I think it was that one) said that the academies were built at the end of the Great War, and Ozpin said the Great War ended 80 years before volume 2.

So... yeah.

That is actually a pretty interesting idea, that the Great War started partially over the four Relics.

Regardless of whether or not it really is his Semblance, he certainly believes that it is. He wasn't lying to them to cover for his crow transformation thing. His theme song in Punished talks about him believing he's a bad luck charm. Also, his Semblance opens the way for random little silly bits like the Crow Bar's bartender knocking a glass in the floor. "Aw, gee darnit..."

And I just realized that Qrow's speech to Yang in volume 3 came from experience: "Sometimes bad things just happen. I say, it's time to move on."

I've seen people think that the Menagerie scene takes place days after they arrived or something. I suspect that Sun's epiphany with Kali went something along the lines of...

Sun: *Has gotten to the Painting the Town section of the story* And we went into the rally, right, blending in 'cause we were wearing Grimm masks--

Kali: Grimm masks?

Sun: Yeah, the masks they wear.

Kali: White Fang members wear Grimm masks?

Sun: You didn't know?

Kali: No, they don't wear them here.

Sun: But- wait- but- uh oh.

Eh, I liked the creation story with the two gods. They're probably brothers because of the Grimm brothers (two brothers who became famous for being among the first people to create written records of fairy tales). At least it ends with the brothers coming to a compromise instead of the god of light going "You know what fuck you *Banishes little brother to Remnant's equivalent of Hell, where the god of darkness makes Grimm goo bubble up to the surface and make beasties because he's angry*" I like the bit about humans being given those four gifts.

Michael was trying to sound awkward and exaggerated for Sun's stupid burst-in moment. I actually liked Arryn's voice acting for the part where Blake was crying, and the voice acting for both Blake and Ghira during the awkward tea moment was great, since it felt genuinely awkward.

Qrow's Semblance is that he makes the people around him have bad luck, not that he gives himself bad luck. Instances of his Semblance in action have been things like


 * Bartender accidentally knocking his glass in the floor (a bit that previously had seemingly no reason to exist other than "Haha, that was a little funny").
 * At one point in Qrow vs Tyrian, Tyrian blocked one of Qrow's attacks, a burst came out from the block, and then part of the burst randomly went off and cut the corner off a building in the distance.
 * That wooden beam waiting until Ruby was standing under it to actually decide to fall.
 * A log randomly rolling out of the campfire.

And like I said above, his advice of "Sometimes bad things just happen. I say, it's time to move on."

Who's to say Qrow is poisoned with normal venom, though? Tyrian's eyes turned purple when he used it, so it was actually probably some Semblance bullshit instead of just a function of his tail.