Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181124081953/@comment-24032889-20181125080212

Disjointed thoughts on Ep 5 (beyond initial reactions):


 * INB4 specifically Weiss and Yang feeling tired and out-of-it is M&K's elaborate ploy to give Blake and Ruby more on-screen interaction as they pick up some pieces.
 * Blake having the hallucination of Adam in V6E1 was set-up for the understanding that both she and Yang are going through different levels of PTSD with Adam.
 * Blake is Best Girl of the Episode™ for she is there for all of her teammates on some level. (Checking up on Ruby, Blanket for Weiss, Talk with Yang)
 * Man, the compositing on this episode is top notch. The fire-flickering on character models was great, and the snow too.
 * There were some instances earlier in the volume where I thought Arryn Zech should have done another take for a Blake line, but all of these were really well done and showed Blake on a deeper level.
 * There will probably be more interaction between Blake and Yang this volume given that "You think I need help?" is not a good place to table a relationship (as Jaune and Pyrrha learned in V1. Also I do not mean to insinuate romantic relationship here, just plutonic.)
 * This season's pacing is faster than I'd expected even given what we've gotten so far. I figured this episode would only tease a Neo fight, but we just got it out the gate. And the team certainly does not want to stay on this compound for sure, so they'll probably leave if they have the option to next episode.
 * I agree that Brunswick Farm has Torchwick/Neo backstory involved somehow.
 * The fight was great because they still got the essence of how Neo fights - and her fluidity. We also saw Cinder use hand-to-hand, which is new I believe.
 * There's a lot of pictures of the farmfolk on the house walls. I feel like the residents will become important (a la Torchwick/Neo, a la something else maybe)
 * Everything had a malaise to it. The characters came across as on-edge well, whether by voice acting, animation, even sound design. All in all, this episode created suspense by planting that malaise - if there is planting, there must be payoff/catharsis later.