User blog comment:Forrestib/"Breach" was Brilliant, and Here's Why/@comment-4820209-20141031224430/@comment-11188061-20141101003114

Hard to say. Point is as stated above, RWBY is in such an early stage of the show and setting up for such a long one (with ten Seasons in mind), that all these tiny faults (or possible building blocks) are forgivable.

In fact, they're all explanable. First, the Nevermore and Deathstalker Team RWBY/JNPR fought are undoubtedly older and stronger. The Deathstalker had hibernated since a time when people draw silly stick figures on walls and probably left human sacrifices even the appease the Grimm. Judging from the history of Remnant, that could be up to hundreds years old.

The Nevermore itself is actually much larger than the ones Team CFVY fought. You have to remember that at one point we completely mistook Neo's height for something else, so visual appearance isn't a good indicator at all to judge how 'big' and thus 'powerful' a Grimm might be. The best thing to do here is to compare the Nevermore's size to the hole created by the train, because that is the only path they could've come in. If that is true, they're at least half or 3 quarters smaller than the ones Team RWBY fought, and there you have your answer.

The common sense regarding the power of Dust has been bumped up by Blake's amazing turnaround against Roman. So although it's somewhat mind boggling to see a Dust bullet (I wonder how many people forget that while Coco's Semblance might have something to do with it, it's still Dust bullets she's shooting) cutting down Deathstalkers and Nevermores so easily, it's not entirely unthinkable or even impossible.

Jaune has been training for a long time, and this time he didn't have his eyes closed while slashing. Not to mention it wasn't an Ursa Major like the last one, and just a slight larger than normal Ursa. Honestly, out of every people I feel that his attacks are the most normal and acceptable ones.

Like, I personally find Ruby spin kicking the Beowolves out of the way more bullshit than any other scenes in the show. Not because she supposedly killed all of them with just kicks (it's probably just a simple stun at worst), but because they just stood there and let her kick.We were also told that she didn't have enough muscle strength to budge a White Fang goon, and yet somehow she could spin around this giant scythe that's slammed into the ground. Again, still explanable, but not as understandably (without drawing on some biological knowledge) as the rest.

Ren was clearly not a strength type of fighter, and he used a Qi technique not unlike Fox to do the supposedly impossible. Nora slamming her hammer onto its head and probably crushing the brain was totally acceptable as a way to kill it. I mean, why else skull denting head bashes are usually fatal?

The stuff Team RWBY were destroying are small fries they've dealt with since forever. They've even just recently 'practiced' in Mountain Glenn, not to mention help came really quickly to deal with the tougher ones like Alpha Beowolves or King Taijitu.

Finally, it depends on your definition of overkill. In-verse wise, the number of Huntsmen attending were just okay. If you'd remember, even though Starcraft's Zerg are relatively powerful on their own, their true strength lies in swarming the enemy. Individually, even the Terran science could deal with them. It's the same here with RWBY. That they had to send so may Huntsmen to contain the spreading Grimm, even though their individual power is so much higher, shows that the damage could've been much worse than just crushed bakeries if they had lesser numbers to deal with it. In terms of containment, I believe it wasn't an overkill.