Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-29684190-20191116162010/@comment-35199716-20191121040207

I'm really late on discussing my thoughts on the episode here but I thought it was pretty good. Really the only thing I didn't like was how forced and unnatural some of the talking scenes were, namely Weiss, Blake and Marrow talking about faunaus oppression and the way Ruby, Weiss and Blake justified lying to Ironwood. It's hard exactly to describe why these rubbed me the wrong way apart from both conversations sounding unnatural and forced and for the life of me, I can't put a finger on why.

Also some of the weapon upgrades seem pretty underwhelming? Like Yang got proximity mines, Ren got a grapple attack straght outta any hack-and-slash game, and Jaune's got a hardlight shield upgrade which are all cool, but everyone else either got nothing or a meh upgrade. Blake seems to only get her weapon fixed, Ruby's blade can switch sides which seems rather pointless because she could literally just flip her weapon around and it would take just as long with just as much effort and everyone else got jackshit. Maybe we just haven't seen everything yet, but considering the point of this episode was to showcase what the ace-ops could to and the upgrades other characters got, it would be weird if they didn't show everything off here since that was the whole point. I'm not holding breath, but I hope to be proven wrong.

Anyway. The Ace-Ops seem pretty cool, the fights were good although far from the series best, I like that Ruby got called out for lying and the implication that Ruby's semblace is going to evolve at some point (semblance evoloution being something we've been told can happen but we've yet to see).

And big R.I.P to FRWBY