Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160214165601/@comment-10390252-20160214193813

​Well, that was... brilliant. Horrible in an ​Empire Strikes Back​ sort of way but brilliantly done nonetheless. So, what do we have? And, of course, there is Ruby. Ruby who, it seems is far, far more than even a Maiden. She, it appears, ​is​ The Huntress. The spirit of the protective warrior made flesh. Of course, she has much to learn and many trials to face before she fully comes into her power but, as Pyrrha pointed out to Cinder, Destiny has a habit of happening, no matter how hard you push against it.
 * Pyrrha is KIA;
 * Ozpin is MIA;
 * Cinder is... quite possibly out of the game; she got caught in that blast and if it was enough to petrify the Dragon, she's as good as a pillar of salt;
 * Yang is... out of the game for now. I suspect that she's going to need a knock upside the head from someone (possibly Raven) before she's able to help again;
 * Blake has gone rogue; what other choice did she have?
 * Weiss is heading back to Atlas with daddy dearest. This may be a good thing; I suspect that there is something rotten in that city-state and Winter is going to need her support if she's to expose it.

So, the story of Teams RWBY and JNPR come to an end and the story of Team RJRN begins. It's pretty clear that Qrow wanted Ruby to head to Haven to track down the clues that might be there. He must have known that telling Ruby where the trail led would impel her to go their in pursuit, so this was part of his plan. The chess game continues, it seems. Furthermore, it seems that Ruby has been promoted from pawn... to The White Queen.

FWIW I'm not convinced that Pyrrha is gone for good. Oh, she's dead but that doesn't mean gone. Remember what she said to Jaune when activating his Aura about achieving immortality through sacrifice. Then there is that totally weird comment she made to Cinder about believing in destiny. I've got a feeling that she somehow disembodied herself (maybe some ritual that warriors of her culture learn). It will probably take her a while to learn to control this but I figure she'll be back as Ruby's disembodied spirit guide.

Then we have the end... and we finally see the face of the enemy. We finally see the face of the one whom the Creatures serve, we finally see the face of the one whom Cinder called 'She' and may have set her on her path. We have seen the face of Grimm. What is more, she seems to have a very, very personal grudge against Ozpin.