Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-108.9.190.228-20151213211819/@comment-5414218-20151213213915

108.9.190.228 wrote:

Now... Let's be real here, she's taking out the heavy hitters to help with the distraction, hence, why she had Mercury and Emerald take out Coco and Yatsuhasai, and Mercury decredit Yang. Out of everyone in the school that I've seen, I can say, that to me personally, the four greatest heavy hitters are Coco, Pyrrha, Yang and Yatsuhasai. So that's three out of four. And that's pretty good so far. But... Here come my problem with her plan. Not that it's a bad plan. To me, it's brilliant. But there's one major flaw in this plan: She targeted Yang. Many things wrong here.

First, you really think the greatest threats to her plan are the first and second year students? Seriously? When you have a lot of proffesional huntsmen like Qrow, Oobleck, Port, Glynda and let's not even talk about Ozpin and the whole army Ironwood brought. If she doesn't care about strong fighters, why would she care about students that are much weaker than the proffesionals, not to mention that it's said proffesionals who are aware of her movements while RWBY and CFVY are completely oblivious.

Second, even if she was targetting the strongest students. Those are all from Beacon, you are telling there aren't a lot of competent students from other academies?

Third, they are not "out", they are still right there. Coco and Yatsuhashi are perfectly fine, she's even seen in the background, it's not like they are in the hospital unable to move.

This act with Mercury and Yang seems to generate disorder, since it's a pretty important blow that a student from an academy attacks and injures gravely another one for absolutely no good reason. It also showed that it generated a lot of negative emotions, hence why the Grimm's attention was caught.