User blog comment:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/SYUTK's V5E8 - Blake Sucks - Impressions/Recap/@comment-4010415-20171207055023/@comment-4010415-20171207214458

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1. Yeahhh, I dunno. For me, at least, it actually just shows videos related to what I'm watching, videos from people I'm subscribed to, and sometimes videos related to ones I just watched. I dunno why Youtube is being stupid with you. I assume you're logged into an account?

2. Like Sentry said, it can be preference. Honestly, I kinda prefer being awake at night, which is why I don't mind that a lot of my shifts at work are late afternoon to night. (Though, I've started getting lunch shifts for whatever reason, but if that's what it takes to start getting more hours, then so be it...)

And then there's also Spirit's explanation, which works as well. Can't have 24-hour grocery stores, 24-hour hospitals and emergency clinics, and stuff like that without people who work at night either.

Though, I have to wonder if there are any Faunus whose trait does cause them to be nocturnal, such as a bat Faunus whose trait is bat eyes. Bats have a hard time seeing during the day, especially at noon. They basically have super night vision that makes them great at night but terrible during the day. With a trait like that, it'd be better to be awake at night and asleep during day, unless they wanna walk around with specialized sunglasses/goggles. I mean, hey, we saw a fish Faunus whose trait is having a fish tail instead of legs, which forces her to live her life in the water... which is kinda depressing.

3. Exactly. They really fumbled her arc badly.

As it stands, it seems Volume 4 was mostly just "Let's rush everyone to Mistral as fast as possible", which is a stupid way to go about it.

Instead, it should have been about RNJR and Blake's journeys, Weiss' family, Yang bonding with Tai while recovering and training without it being rushed and timeskippy, and Ozpin convincing Oscar to go to Mistral without it being rushed and timeskippy. They could've still had the villains doing the same exact thing in Volume 4 without the needless 6-8 month timeskip that makes it confusing why Salem waited for over half a year to send everyone on their next assignments.


 * RNJR - Their journey, getting combat growth through experience out in the world, all four of them dealing with their grief, they still meet up with Qrow and encounter Tyrian.
 * Weiss - Focus on her family. Don't just give us a glimpse and then jump straight to the charity ball and her losing her heiress title and then running away. Focus on what's going on with her family because that's literally the only chance they had so far to SHOW US that stuff instead of just having Weiss spout exposition!!
 * Blake - Show her journey, with her discovering Sun earlier on so it's not like he stalked her for 6-8 months, instead of just skipping straight to her arrival in Menagerie. I came up with something additional while talking with other staff on Discord: Throughout her journey, have Sun gently trying to nudge her into telling him what's going on and what's wrong, and as they travel, she keeps doing a lot of thinking and reflecting, thus giving us flashbacks to her time in the White Fang with Adam and Ilia. Boom, now Ilia doesn't come quite as out of nowhere, we get shown instead of told about how Adam and Ilia were, and Blake's Volume 5 character short could've been the Blake Character Short instead of the Ilia short.
 * Yang - Trying to recover from her PTSD and depression, has a talk with Tai who we know went through crippling depression years ago, the scene in Family, Yang getting used to her arm instead of skipping straight to her being used to it weeks later, blablablah.
 * Oscar - Same shit, but not rushed.

Yeah, we still would've had the issue of "Only 1% of this volume is plot!!", but at least there would have actually been more substance to the volume and we would've been shown things instead of told them.

4. Indeed. They should really think things through when writing up dialogue.

I'm still kinda sore about how they really didn't have to have Jaune inexplicably already know about Raven, when they could've put him on the same page without having Ruby tell him off-screen for some unknown reason by having them go

Lionheart: Raven...

Ruby: *Le gasp*

Jaune: Who?

Ruby: Yang's mom. I'll... explain later.

3 extra seconds.

5. You literally quoted Sun saying "Thanks for inviting me" in your abridged thing. Why do you think he said that?

Blake yelled "Now!" and then Sun jumped in and attacked the White Fang members, Blake thanked him for helping her, and Sun said "Thanks for inviting me." That was meant to indicate that she arranged this off-screen.

Having Blake wink would have ruined their precious plot twist that "Oh, it's okay, Sun is nearby!" If they wanted to preserve that tiny twist, they could've


 * 1) Shown a black figure moving through the trees instead of relying on us hopefully actually taking notice to the sound of leaves rustling.
 * 2) Shown Blake walking into the house with Sun, shutting the door, and... I dunno, giving him a look or something, with him looking at her like "Huh?"

7. *Shrug* If she's gay, she's gay. She developed a crush on Blake? Alright, then.

Yeah, a character being LGBT is treated as special, but people in the LGBT community want it to eventually get to where it's not even really reacted to anymore, where people are used to it and don't go either "Holy shit, he/she is gay!" or "Eww, he/she is gay..."

8. Looks pretty flat to me. Look at the section near the hilt.

There's also the concept art, which shows the front view of the hilt, including the hole that the blade comes out of, which is a very, very thin oval, indicating the blade is flat, not drill-shaped: