Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181116204649/@comment-4141313-20181120173943

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: Agree for the most part, but I will bring up some points:

1. You need to remember Qrow is not exactly the most mentally balanced person in general, his perpetual drinking as a coping method being evidence to that. In the last month to 8 weeks alone he's:


 * A) Nearly died due to Tyrian's poison
 * B) Forced to experience bad memories due to said poison making him delirious
 * C) Feel useless and aimless until Oscar came back. His response to that was to both get plastered and then yell out "I did it!" from being happy he finally accomplished something.
 * D) Been betrayed by his bitch of a sister
 * E) Been betrayed by Leonardo
 * F) Find out most of his buddies in Mistral got killed by Leo, Hazel, and Cinder
 * G) Get his back busted by Hazel's electropunch
 * H) Try to keep order with 7 Mentally Unbalanced Teenagers (Not counting Blake since she just joined them)
 * I) Get Gauntlets and a Saber pointed in his face for trying to peace keep
 * J) Learned that the man who made him actually feel like he was worth something and he always defended had no plan for actually stopping Salem, therefore making the sacrificed lives seem in vain.

Just look at his hand twitching after he hit Ozpin, and the fact he again went right to the flask after, and combine that with the scene in the intro. He's spiraling out of control, and he wasn't that stable to begin with.

2. Remember, for the characters, they just learned that Salem is unkillable, and that Ozpin has had no plan, all in the span of five minutes after immediately witnessing Ozma's backstory, something that unnerved several of them watching it. We've had/will have two weeks to process all this, they are high strung, pissed, and panicking. Its actually all the better Maria shut them up, since now they can try to calm down and process this info.

3. The villains side did do some things right:


 * A) Humanized Mercury a bit more. Quick to defend Emerald, picked up on Salem's meltdown faster than anyone else thanks to having to learn microexpressions because of the beatings his dad gave him.
 * B) Gave us a small glimpse of Tyrian's new tail, which seems to be a metal stub to place attachments on.
 * C) Finally showed how the hell they've been travelling to and from Evernight.
 * D) Confirmed that not even they can touch Atlas.
 * E) Made Emerald and possibly even Hazel defecting all the more believable, both with Emerald realizing not even Cinder is worth Salem's wrath, and Hazel being more quick to defend Emerald. So if Emerald tries to up and leave, Hazel may go with her to protect her. Would make sense considering his only stake in all this is his hating Ozpin, something he doesn't need to be with Salem to do.