Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20141031002615/@comment-25436196-20141031010139

Ok, so the fight scenes were good, especially with Coco, and I usually love to see slower scenes, with the "people on power" discussing the current situations and how to deal with it, but to be honest, this chapter was slightly... disappointing. They had this huge conflict set up in the end of Chapter 11, a really dark atmosphere and the possibility of seeing the Grimm doing some huge damage to the city, but the actual conflict ended too quickly. Earlier today I was even talking about how ingenious Cinder's plan was, because of how difficult defending the city would be, but in the end it was just a normal fight scene - we didn't see the Grimm attacking any civillians, we didn't see any devastation, and even the hole the train opened was just fixed by Glynda in a second. It just felt like too much of a happy ending, given what we saw last week - we went from seeing the characters losing their first major battle and the impact that their defeat had to seeing the others just dragging the Grimm across the floor like it was nothing.

I did like to see Ironwood interrogating Torchwick (the shadows on his face were pretty damn impressive), the scene with the Council was interesting, and as far as the whole Volume goes, I still think it was absolutely great - the character development, world-building and plot progression were very satisfying IMO, but this last chapter just felt a bit rushed. If I had to rate them, I'd give the finale a 7.5, and the Volume as a whole a 9