User blog comment:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/SYUTK's V5E6 -Known By It's KRAAAW - Impressions/Recap/@comment-4010415-20171122022454

1. Woo names.

Boyd Raine - So... once again, we have someone named Yellow Rain. Wtf, MK?

Amethyst Kreiss - LOL.

Ivy Altham - An ivy is a vine. Ooh, the meaning of Altham sounds pretty.

Aoi Rivas - Sooo Blue/Green Rivas?

Farrow Vaccaro - A cowboy with a barren cow. Sounds sad.

"A guy who loves to listen to lunatics he meets on the road" Lol

.... I now accept the headcanon that Shani is someone Qrow had a few flings with and/or briefly dated.

Weeeell, Qrow's list is inconsistent because here, it's 10, but later, we see even more new names on it.

Qrow checked the mission boards to see if the people he was looking for had taken any missions, and he found that literally all of them were on missions, some of which they were taking several weeks to complete. The names on his list are scattered across all three mission boards. I think that the scene is meant to depict him looking at each of the three mission boards, but they didn't animate it in a way that clearly conveys that, so it looks like the board he's looking at keeps changing.

Lali Choi - Should I be embarrassed to admit that the only reason I know "Choi" is the English Romanization of a Korean surname is because of Mystic Messenger? (Saeyoung Choi, my precious sweet baby...)

Jay Hawkins - I wonder if it's coincidence or if this is a sly reference to Jim Hawkins, the protagonist of Treasure Planet.

Cyan Kratz - I could've sworn it was Kratz, not Kartz.

Caroline Teale - If it weren't for the fact that Agent Carolina's armor is apparently cyan, in Red vs Blue, I'd say this could be a reference to her.

2. The use of "Terminated" instead of "Finished" gives me a negative connotation that these Huntsmen didn't finish their mission, rather they had to end it unfinished, by either A.) Deciding it's too much trouble, B.) Getting injured, C.) Dying, or D.) Other circumstances like something came up.

What would have made this even stronger is if one of the zoomed-in shots they had shown us were of "Shields, Heather - (whatever mission type) - Terminated 2 Weeks Ago". It would've made us wonder "Wait, if her mission ended two weeks ago, why are her husband and daughter still waiting for her to come home? Unless..."

3. Considering WoR: CCT's depiction of "local coms", I'd think that their local coms generally only cover approximately the area of a large city... such as Mistral's capital city. After all, WoR: CCT showed visualization of local coms within the City of Vale being able to reach from about Beacon to Patch. So, this would mean that Qrow would only be able to call people who are actually present in the city at the moment. Also, the Kingdom of Mistral is huge - the biggest of the four kingdoms. Surely the local coms won't be able to cover the entirety of that kingdom.

4. An added layer to that "No Faunus" sign is the implication that there are no civil rights laws protecting Faunus. It's completely legal for "Marty" to refuse service to Faunus. Also, that refusal of service lines up with what Blake said in Volume 1 about shops refusing to serve Faunus. Now, if only we had actually seen those signs around Vale before she gave that exposition dump at the end of Volume 1. That would've been better.

But anyway, yeah, this is pretty similar to how things were for a lot of people, mainly black people, here in America before 1964. Up until 1964, businesses could deny service to black people, and it was completely legal. State and minicipal governments could also deny black people access to public facilities. But in that year, a Civil Rights Act was passed that outlawed discrimination for these things based on race, sex, religion, and national origin. If someone tried to put up a sign like that in their store these days, they'd get in big trouble.

That's also the basis for the scene in Zootopia where the elephant ice cream shop has a sign that says they have the right to refuse service to anyone and the elephant doesn't want to serve Nick because he's a fox.

5. Here's an interesting little thing to note: Pay close attention to Weiss when Yang says "Don't you dare talk about my family that way!"

Weiss stares up at Yang, wide-eyed, and when Yang angrily raises her voice to put emphasis on "dare" and aggressively leans forward, Weiss flinches. She turns her head away from Yang while closing her eyes and tensing her shoulders up. Then, she turns her head back toward Yang and looks up at her again with wide eyes while letting her shoulders go back down.

I made gifs.

I went back and rewatched the scenes in Volume 4 where Jacques yelled, and in Taking Control, when Ironwood angrily yells "Jacques!", Weiss flinches.

So, it seems Weiss is a bit sensitive to anger-fueled yelling.

Also of note: That scene in Taking Control begins with glass breaking and Ironwood telling Jacques he needs to control himself. I still believe that Jacques is the one who broke the glass, and Ironwood's response seems to imply that he did so in anger. This would insinuate that Jacques occasionally physically lashes out when his anger peaks... which makes it even more obvious that Weiss really should've seen that slap coming.

In The Stray, Weiss said that her father's anger made her childhood difficult. Jacques yells when he's angry, and when he gets too pissed off, he might physically lash out. So, if this is the case, that would be a good reason why his anger made her childhood difficult and why she's a little sensitive to angry yelling.

6. Fun note about the stove: When the burner heats up, we hear the Dust "shimmering" noise, which means it's powered by Dust, probably fire Dust in particular.

7. Question: Was Ruby burning the food caused by Qrow's Semblance, or is Ruby just a bad cook?

8. I don't think Marty hated Shiro, per se, he was just pissed that Shiro was racking up such a big tab and still hadn't paid it off. He seemed sad in the scene where Qrow paid the debt. It seemed implied that he and Qrow think Shiro is dead. "How much did Shiro owe you?" Instead of Qrow saying "does", he says "did". As Qrow leaves, Marty's expression saddens, and he says "That idiot..." Qrow sadly responds "Yeah..."

Though, that also adds even more onto Marty being just a normal guy who's not necessarily an asshole or anything, he just has a business to run and can't just let people rack up huge debts without paying at least some of it. Shiro was a regular there. He got to know the guy. He liked Shiro. He's really and truly saddened by the thought that Shiro might have died on his latest mission.

So, he's a normal guy (who's covered in scars, so I mean, he has some combat experience of some kind) who forms bonds with his regular customers and just gets mad when they won't pay their debt... and he discriminates against Faunus. This is excellent!

9. "Raven reveals she and Qrow turn into a bird and that it is indeed magic, which everyone already figured since if Qrow's Semblance wasn't turning into a bird, Magic's the only explanation."

Not everyone... For some reason, a lot of RWBY fans keep forgetting that magic is a thing, and they're like "Wait, if turning into a crow isn't Qrow's Semblance, then how does he do it?? Is it an extension of his Semblance? How this happen??"

"Uh, magic, dude. Y'know, the thing that was revealed to exist halfway through Volume 3?"

"But what if it's an extension of his Semblance???"

"No no no, it's magic."

"But???"

It also at least gave us confirmation that those ravens with dark red eyes were not connected to Qrow or companions of his in any way, but are instead Raven herself.

But yeah, the whole rest of Raven's scene was pretty useless. If Sacrifice is about Raven, they should've just drawn from that, having her reference the song, claiming to Yang and Weiss that Ozpin has basically been sacrificing people for a war he hasn't won in millennia and that, from her perspective, all he is is just a manipulative chessmaster using everyone as pawns to keep the status quo. Her little line about suffering "the same fate as many others" would've had more meaning if she had claimed that the sacrifices and deaths of Ozpin's pawns don't change a damn thing in the greater scale of this millennia-old war. Instead of beating around the bush and merely implying at them, she should've come right out and said what she feels is the truth.

This scene serves to plant seeds of doubt in Weiss and possibly Yang, but it went on too long with Raven just telling us what we already know, implying things to them, and then getting Yang to yell at her about her abandonment.

10. An idea I've had for how they could animate the transformation is that they could have a mini version of Qrow's cape/Raven's hair bandanna come out of the crow/raven by way of clipping through the model, then obscure the bird with some kind of energy, then show Qrow/Raven with feathers sticking out of their arms. Have the feathers shrink and sink into their arms - again, by way of clipping through the model - and boom, it actually looks like they've transformed.

I got the idea for utilizing clipping models for animation tricks from MMD. Y'know, the free animation software that people used to think RWBY used. Some people make models for it where you can adjust a slider that clips pieces of a model into itself and shrinks those pieces so you don't have to switch models when animating things like a character taking a bite of a piece of food.

Seriously, it's so ridiculously simple that CRWBY could definitely do it, but they apparently haven't thought of it.