Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-26512661-20200118161649/@comment-4010415-20200119014708

I was so tense almost the entire episode. And after the episode, I just-- AHHHHHHHH *Lays down*

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Great episode, though.

Now to go back through the episode-- AHHHHH-- with the captions on.

Mufuckin' Gravity Dust in Ironwood's black gun, and Ice Dust in Watts' gun.

Theme song for Ironwood, about how he'll do literally anything. "I would fly to the sun if that would keep our dream alive. Deliver you from harm, sheltered in my arms." Wellp, there's our foreshadowing of Ironwood's new plan.

So, Ironwood's Aura is blue and Watts' is green.

Oooh, "rat-imbecile", I thought Watts was calling Pietro fat.

Uuuugh, Ironwood degloving his own arm made me tense up so bad, and then I stayed tense for the whole rest of the episode!

Clover, Qrow, and Robyn vs Tyrian was such an awesome fight, and I kinda wish it was longer, but they did great. It's hard to choreograph 3 vs 1 without having people standing around doing jack shit.

So last episode, Phantomlink and I disagreed about how Cinder was gonna go about finding the Winter Maiden. Phantom interpreted it as Cinder saying she was going to use the Relic of Knowledge to find the Maiden, while I felt that she was going to use Ironwood's security guarding the Maiden to find her. And now we know the answer. Cinder is going to follow Winter and Penny right to Fria. Now the question is if Neo will go with her, and if so, will our Ice Cream Queen become the new Maiden of Winter?

"You don't have to understand orders, kids. You just have to follow them." There was quite a bit of foreshadowing toward the conflict at the end of this episode. Not only was there the song, there was also Ironwood telling Watts that he will sacrifice anything (for example, the remaining citizens in Mantle) to stop Salem. Then there's also the Ace-Ops' stance, where they will follow Ironwood's orders no matter what.

The scene with Smoke Salem... oh my God. Ruby breaking down upon realizing that Summer faced Salem and lost. I wonder if the lamp's missiong question was asked by Summer?

"The timeline has changed." Whaaat is this about? I don't think it's time travel. Maybe this is just the Kingdom Hearts fan in me, but I would expect this to be about someone seeing the future and recording those events, rather than outright time travel. Either way, wasn't there something about "Ozpin's cane stores time"?

Yang has the best "I will fucking kill you" face.

I like how Qrow and Robyn look at Clover, and I'm uncertain if Clover is gonna turn against them or help them. Also, Tyrian's face in that scene cracks me up.

Neo, Cinder told you to retrieve the lamp, and you took the whole-ass boy.