User blog comment:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/SYUTK's V5E2 - Crazy Shit Happens - Impressions/Recap/@comment-4010415-20171025063659

1. I think the crow that flies between Cinder and the bandit chick in the opening is actually not the same crow that Qrow is connected to. Qrow's crow has light red eyes and has feathers sticking from the top of its head that kinda resemble his hair. That crow had dark red eyes and a smooth head just like the one that has landed near him before. Considering it appeared in the bandit camp setting in the opening and then we saw Raven shortly after it flew into the screen, I kinda think it's more so connected with Raven.

10. Her foot glowing is the same color glow as the glyph beneath her feet, which has been having that same color on it pretty much the entire time. It's just much more subtle in the earlier shots. The glow continues being more obvious even after she stops firing lasers and making a barrier. I think it's just the glyph holding her on the floor, and they were showing her foot to show her stance change because "gotta get teh epic-est anglez". Also, if the black glyph really is supposed to be a gravity Dust glyph, it doesn't make much sense to make the outline be more blue than purple. Ugh.

I am also not very impressed with the art style change on the barrier dome thing.

11. I think she was just using her glyphs to levitate and throw the boxes. They should've made the glyphs bigger to better reflect that area of control.

12. How can it survive all that? Exoskeleton, I guess? It does seem to be pretty covered in bone plates...

Also, the Dust explosion... I think Weiss triggered it by creating glyphs over there because she did her "I'm making glyphs!" hand movement just before they exploded. And the effects we see are fire, ice, lightning, and... a cyan shockwave?

13. Yeah, the knight's movements were pretty stupid and uncharacteristic... I seriously thought "That was weird. ... Why."

@The glyphs breaking being cool: I know, right? I went out of my way to get a screenshot of one in the middle of breaking to pieces for the episode gallery. I love it, and it's interesting that that can happen.

14. I don't think it was said anywhere that Sienna was the one wanting Humans killed, tbh. Blake said that, when Sienna took over, they began setting fire to shops that refused to serve them and stealing cargo from companies that use Faunus labor. This is property damage and theft, not outright direct murder. So, the murders may not have even been Sienna's fault at all. (Though, it makes me wonder how Adam's influence made it to Atlas to have SDC friends and board members killed, unless there are other splinter groups than just Adam's...)

So, basically, if a shopkeeper refused to sell anything to Faunus, then the White Fang would burn their shop down. This sent a message to other shopkeepers and made them think twice about refusing service. "Hmm, if I refuse to sell medicine to this Faunus, the White Fang might burn down my pharmacy. *Sigh* Fine. I'd rather not lose that much merchandise, do insurance paperwork, and have to spend time and money rebuilding my shop. Take your medicine, you filthy animal."

Lol, that Hazel description, tho.

Basically, Sienna's deal is "Make Humans afraid to discriminate against us. Refusing to sell us things means their shop gets destroyed. Mistreating their Faunus employees means losing valuable merchandise to mass theft. Etcetera."

I think Adam didn't even have to sneak Hazel in, since he had the guards on his side.

15. I think his followers in Vale see him as the true leader because he went up to them one day like "Hey, so like, we're superior to Humans, right? Am I right, guys? So, why are we being subjugated, again? Why aren't Humans serving us? We beat them in a war despite being outnumbered, and we have natural abilities they don't. Isn't it stupid?" and they looked at each other and mumbled "he's got a good point, this guy knows what he's talkin' about".

16. Or, like, I dunno, instead of having Adam teleport closer to her and jab her in the belly with his sword, have him use his Semblance, which has and cut off Yang's arm. Seriously! We've already seen him do incredibly powerful things with it! Just have him use his Semblance, Sienna falls to the ground with her Aura shimmering, and then before she can sit up, he points his sword at her, says his lines, and then as she gets angry and goes to slap his sword away, he rams it into her heart. Boom. Dramatic, but still quick, and actually makes sense.

17. I think the purpose of the fight's length was to have it make sense that Weiss ended up in the state that she's in after the crash. She tired herself out fighting all those Grimm. Not only was she using Dust and probably activating a lot of it with her Aura, she was also spamming her Semblance and used the Arma Gigas summon, and the whole ordeal went on for a while. After that fight, she really would've needed to rest to replenish her Aura. Buuut the airship was crashing, so she had to use her Semblance a few more times, and then her Aura took a hit from the crash landing. With all that in mind, it makes sense that she would be reduced to just lying on the ground pleading for help.

18. The regular ship captain in Volume 4 said "By the gods". Meanwhile, Ruby and Yang have both said "god" in Volume 1. (Ruby: "Oh god, it's happening again!" Yang: "Oh my god, you really exploded.")