Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140829002738/@comment-109.144.151.40-20140829014101

I thought that lots of things in this episode point towards Jaune eventually thwarting Cinder's plans, whatever they might be - Pyrrha mentioning that he hasn't found his semblance yet, and Cinder pretty much explicitly saying that they hope to win the tournament(?) or at least damage the opposition by removing their "powers", which I would guess to mean semblances, probably using dust somehow.

Since Jaune hasn't found his, he's been training without it and, as many people have pointed out, he seems to be the "everyday guy" who doesn't really have a particularly powerful weapon and no semblance he knows of or can control. So when they start removing other people's powers, it's a good situation for the best normal guy to step up and win the day.

Someone asked what book Blake was reading - judging by the colour of the cover, it seems to be the same one she was reading in Episode 1.

Also, @OP, CFVY was not mentioned to be missing, only that their mission had taken longer than expected. They might even already be back in beacon, they just haven't had enough time to plan the dance, so it was given over to Yang and Weiss.

Interesting that we got to see Sun's team in the beacon courtyard but they didn't interact with RWBY, I wonder if the rest of them haven't been introduced to each other yet? It would seem odd, given that at least a couple of weeks seem to have elapsed since the last episode.

We also got to hear the findings of the investigation, and of them all, Weiss's probably threw up the most questions. Vale is the only place being targeted? And the SDC lost some military equipment? I'm guessing that's where our dear friend the Mech came from...