Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-26397825-20171028154114/@comment-4010415-20171028165926

SpiritedDreaming wrote:

Fish faunus~ I saw a faunus girl with fins on her forearms. I thought she was a bat with tiny bat wings on her arms.

Well, then, this was an interesting episode.

We start off with the preview that they showed in RWBY Rewind where Ghira is pacing and getting ready for his speech. Sun with his little "You got this" was cute.

I know they have limitations, but I feel like the crowd of people could've been bigger. We're told that a whole lot of Faunus are crammed together in Kuo Kuana, but this crowd is pretty small. I know there are reporters there filming everything (and apparently streaming it live through local coms, considering one reporter said "live"), but still. Still not feeling like Kuo Kuana is crowded and cramped.

Girl with little bat wings on her arms at 3:42! So, Faunus with wings do not have full-sized wings that they can fly with, and those wings are on their arms, not their back.

Okay, so Ghira says that Haven's classes start back up in roughly 2 months, and Ozpin says that they start back up in 1 month, so... Blake's storyline is a month behind RNJR's. (Which has already been pointed out in this thread)

Seriously, where did Ilia even come from? I looked through the crowd, and she is nowhere. What's with the fabric that she throws into the air? Was she hiding under some lady's skirt?

Confirmation that Ilia's parents did, indeed, die in that mining accident she mentioned in the Blake Character Short.

I looked at the credits, and one of the characters is credited as Saber Rodentia, and I'm guessing it's the guard with a scar who yelled "After her!" The characters are credited in the order in which they speak/appear, after all, and the bandits are still Bandit 1 and Bandit 2. Interesting name. Saber could bring to mind the silver-colored blade of a sabre, the color of a sabertoothed cat, or anything else with "saber" in the name. Meanwhile, Rodentia... is the animal kingdom order of rodents. I had to pause at the right time to see his Faunus trait... buck teeth. His front-most teeth are rodent teeth.

RNJR's reactions = The fandom's questions

Ruby: *Giggle*

Oscar: *Awkward smile*

This episode is only going to encourage Rose Garden shippers.

Nora once again reminding me of Pinkie Pie, with her response about how it's all bizarre and confusing and stuff.

Glad to get some explanation on Ozpin. It's weird, but still an explanation at least.

Okay, okay, so... WoR: Aura had that whole thing saying that, with enough training, a user's Aura can make them "more than just a man". But that's not what caused Ozpin's soul to move from person to person. Now I'm guessing that, since Ozpin has had thousands of years to train, keep strengthening his amalgamated soul, and gain better control of his Aura, that's what Salem was talking about in WoR: Aura. So, really, not everyone can become "more than just a man" through training with their Aura, since not everyone lives for thousands of years.

The Spring Maiden's name is Vernal, which means "of, in, or appropriate to spring." Wow. That's really on the nose. I'd like for at least one of the Maidens to have a name that has nothing to do with which season their powers are. (Also already mentioned in this thread)

So... we won't be seeing Winter this volume? "I won't always be there to save you, Weiss." Yeah, no kidding!

"Four lieutenants I can trust, especially in times of reincarnation." Four. I'm guessing Beacon's headmaster was the fourth. All this stuff about "Ozpin's predecessor" and him saying "Four lieutenants I can trust", maybe the King of Vale was the one appointing headmasters even after the first four retired or died, since he was the one who had the schools founded in the first place.

Pfft. Qrow's Semblance breaks the coffee table, Nora's "Good luck with that" quip.

Ozpin pointed out that Ruby sucks at hand-to-hand, and I was like "Finally!" I guess Yang's short doubled as also being about something important about Ruby.

Are we gonna find out Jaune's Semblance this volume? Time will tell!

RNJR holding their poses and expressions for that long was really awkward. Could they not have had them resume natural passive poses and expressions while Ozpin spoke?

Weiss is gonna have Chibi Armor cut the rope on her wrists, I guess. This will be interesting. Of course she's not just gonna sit by and play the princess in distress until Yang shows up!