Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26173711-20200204212304/@comment-4010415-20200208024903

Sharky2020 wrote: 1. We've got Jacques and Qrow ALLYING WITH THE ENEMY, and then they go all surprise-pikachu when the "trustworthy" people they were siding with got them into some deep shit.

2. Ironwood's plan wouldn't work at all even if it by some miracle succeeded because Salem would take over Remnant, Atlas would run out of resources, and they would all die from starvation. It's a stupid plan.

3. I didn't really have much problem with how RWBY acted, except for Blake and Yang backstabbing Ironwood 1. To be fair on Jacques' front, we don't know if he was aware of how far on the evil side Watts is. For all we know, he only knew Watts as a former scientist who worked for Ironwood, supposedly died, and then just suddenly popped up inside his mansion years later. They may have even had history together, considering it was established in Volume 2 that the SDC helps with military science. In A Minor Hiccup, Ironwood says the Atlesian Paladins were made in cooperation with the SDC. What incident did Watts supposedly die in? The Paladin Incident.

So in summary, Jacques might not have actually been aware that Watts is on Team Evil, and they may have been acquaintances via the SDC helping with military science, including the Atlesian Paladin project.

2. I dunno whether or not they would die of starvation. The City of Atlas concept art says they have farms. If the Relic of Creation is truly capable of producing limitless energy, they could just build a system that directs that energy all over the entire city instead of just the part that makes it float. Boom. Everything powered forever.

3. I actually didn't really have a problem with the thinking behind Blake and Yang telling Robyn about the communication tower. They felt that, if they could get Robyn and Ironwood to trust each other enough to actually talk, the two could work together, and everything would be better. One of the big problems here was the literal fact that Ironwood refused to try to work with Robyn even before the election. Literally all she wanted was for Mantle to no longer be neglected, and she was just trying to get the damn wall fixed.