Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190119003858/@comment-38271940-20190206053510

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

1) If you do know why, then consider that Ruby did it in a single swing with no fucks given while doing it. A robot like the AKs, especially the old ones, would be much much weaker and easier to cut than the average tree.

2) Penny was just the prototype of this plan.

3) "No, you're wrong" is your point there in a nutshell.

4) And why is he a dumbass when using his Semblance?

5) To be fair it was, in context, something that would be surprising.

7.1) No. If you need so much imagination to prove why your point works, then that just means your point doesn't work.

7.2) ..........Have you ever heard this word called side-stepping? Or hell, considering his strength Hazel might well just grab it and throw the tree around. 1. Have you ever cut through metal with a single slice? It's surprisingly similar in cutting a tree down in the fact that it can't happen in real life and making that comparison just isn't relevant. There's no reason to think that Adam couldn't do the same, given their world. There's no reason to think any huntsman with a sufficiently long and bladed weapon couldn't achieve the same feat.

2. May your heart be your guiding key.

3. No, you're wrong. Joke aside, I still believe you are. This isn't your typical trope setting. This isn't your typical trope show. Adam would lose against the army - tons of faunus who may or may not be much of a threat, police who are trained to defend the people from hostile threats, and the air advantage. I get I'm just reiterating, but it's because it makes sense. Hell, we can throw in the fact that Adam clearly faces a massive disadvantage because he can't block from more than a single side at once. We saw this with Blake and Yang v him and when we see him fight in the show he's only defending from one side, typically, unless he has help. Unless the scene is written specifically to take advantage of the trope, which this one wasn't, it doesn't make any sense.

Cinder's whole team together could take them out, yeah. But without Cinder? Maybe. Emerald wouldn't be much help, Mercury could fight for a while, but would go down. Hazel is the only one who stands a chance, but gunshot after gunshot would still take him down. He's not a mobile opponent - he's a tank. Slow.

4. He's a dumbass using his semblance because the show has shown him to be one. Angry, unthinking, and blind. You see it with the stinger, with Nora, and with Ozpin. Dive deeper into it, his semblance is a painkiller. Too much of a painkiller dulls the sense's. And with that good of a painkiller...

5. There's a war going on around you. If it was me, I'd have my aura up even just for a stray bullet. It'd be stupid to not have it up at all. Especially when his regenerates so easily.

7.1. But RWBY is ABOUT imagination. Well, not counting vol 4 or 5 >.> ....which Hazel is focused on in 5...hmm... a conundrum.

7.2. No way in fuck would he sidestep. That type of a character? Hell no. Grabbing and throwing could certainly work, but he'd lose focus on Adam for the briefest of moments to do so, and the quicker the tree's fall, say using a semblance run-around ability, the easier it all becomes.