User blog comment:DiegoAnime3000/Beacon Broadcast: Episode 1 & 2/@comment-25195920-20140807165632

Personally i say the entrance exam and initiation are the same thing for a couple reasons: 1. Jaune didnt get caught with his fake transcripts so its likely they didnt have anything prior to the initiation that reveals it really isnt any good in a fight, 2. the fact that setting up and running two tests takes more effort than making one test to cover it all, it seems more logical to me to test to see if they're worthy of coming to Beacon at the same they test to figure out who the should be on a team with as the two go hand in hand; you come to Beacon, you get put on a team, end of story, so you can't know if you're truly ready for Beacon if you don't know if you can work with people. Honestly, i think most the people saying it isn't either are overcomplicating things or just want to see another big test like the Emerald Forest. As for the King Taijutsu, it makes sense with what we see Lie Ren can do. He channeled a fair bit of aura into the fang and drove it into the skull and then the aura charge released, by that i mean it tried to leave the head and, with Ren blocking his entry point with his aura charged hand, it exploded the head to escape. That and its a fetching anime people, not everything is going to make sense and not everything needs to make sense; it looked cool and showed what Ren can do, thats all that we need to know about why it worked. With the gears, i once again point to the "its an anime" comment so it doesnt have to make sense. yes they're free spinning but that doesn't mean they don't do anything, who's to say they haven't got some crazy thing that overides that problem? Besides, it looks cool. as for the Aura thing, my understanding is that people channel aura into things to improve its effectiveness as a weapon. Its also my understanding that not everyone has an activated aura. For junior's bat breaking, once again, its an anime and it looked cool, and the last punch Yang nailed him with was a loy stronger and he didnt die. Yang's aura seems more blunt than piercing to me, more pound em than slice em, so i doubt she's going to kill in an obvious manner (head exploding, decapitation etc.) and i doubt she wants to kill. Other thing is we have no idea what the weapons are made out of and Jaune's sword seems to be 1 solid piece and made out of a material we don't know. Also, ITS. AN. ANIME. it doesnt need to make sense to us. Really, all my explanitions could have been summed up with ITS. AN. ANIME. it doesnt need to make sense so stop overthinking it and enjoy the show, seriously, take it from me, you'll enjoy it more that way. Only thing i speculate on in abilities and plot to keep myself from going insane about this crap and i reccomend you guys drop this thread before you go as insane as me