Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-1599757-20151212162645/@comment-4313204-20151215081223

Well the thing that troubles me is the relative placement of Yang and Mercury in the after-match incident. The video footage was somewhat contradict to the live situation.

After Yang launched her final blow on Mercury, she obviously turned back. We may be safe to assume everything was going just right until she said "Better luck next time". At that moment she clearly turned her back on Mercury, walking away from him, and Mercury stood up looking at her back.

However on the footage shown on the screen, it was EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE. Yang was approaching Mercury from his back side, turned to confront him, and hit his leg.

So it appeared to be a clear contradiction, and I bet Phoenix Wright would shout "objection" if this thing goes to a court. (XD)

The fact that those Haven (Where Mercury was believed to come from) students booed at the moment when Mercury was hit, indicating that they obviously didn't see Mercury's sneak attack, does make things worse for Yang. However the rest of RWBY's surprising face when they saw the footage may suggest something more complicated. If they saw it when it happen, they wouldn't save their surprise for the instant replay.

So my theory is Cinder (or anyone else?) did something that prevents every one in the colesseum (including Prof. Port and Dr. Oobleck) from seeing the stage for a period of time, and Emerald (or whoever possess this kind of Semblance) not only produced a mirror image of Mercury attacking Yang, but somehow "linked" it with the real Mercury. (Wait...What if Yang DID just attacked a illusory Mercury, and the real Mercury was just acting as if his leg was broken?)