Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190119003858/@comment-4141313-20190125000950

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: BlizzardDragon wrote:

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8) 2) What.

3) It is indeed poorly designed, and the fact no one bothered to fix it in decades is incredibly stupid. But, it isn't like once one tower falls, the whole network goes poof, just a region of it.

4) Which doesn't mean much. A couple of flying cats approaching Argus would't be enough to matter since they can just shoot them down. And the whole swarm only showed up after the people were freaked out by a giant robot that caused earthquakes by walking, and a Kaiju Grimm started approaching shore.

Without anything actively causing mass panic though, there might be an increase in Grimm activity, but nothing close to a reenactment of the Battle of Beacon.

5) I think you're taking the magnet analogy too literally.

7) No, it doesn't suggest that, they just never bothered to even try to see if it was possible. At best, it suggests they're too impatient. Also, Cordovin could've sent a message about them "finding Weiss Schnee on Argus" after their conversation. Or she could've waited to add it on a report.

8) True....though still, prices could be different between Vale and Mistral, or at least between a fancy little bar and a ramen shop in the slums. 2) Ruby: (in her thoughts as she writes) Hey sis, I hope my letters have been reaching you and Dad. Hand-written stuff's never been super reliable, but I guess it's all we've got these days. Anyway, in case you haven't been getting them, I want to say I'm sorry for leaving the way I did.

Its heavily implied that Yang and Tai have gotten none of her letters, as evident by Port's comment in Family.

Port: I hesitate to ask, but is there any word from young Miss Rose?

Taiyang: Not yet.

While the timeline for Volume 4 is wonky, even after Yang finishes training with Tai and is prepared to leave, there is still no indication they got any of the letters.

Taiyang: And we both read the note. We know your sister's headed to Mistral.

The most they seemed to know about Ruby's status at the time was from the note she left before heading out with RNJR. So, no, none of Ruby's letters made it to Patch it seems, regardless of where she sent them from.

3) What Sinjoh said.

4) Argus doesn't seem to have much in the lines of non-panic inducing Aerial Defense though. Back on the Argus Limited, it took rookie huntsman and second-rate huntsman to shoot them down, and that was when up close and personal. To get rid of the Aerial Grimm higher than huntsman can fight them from, they'd need to mobilize fighters. Constantly mobilizing fighters to take care of Grimm attacks would cause more panic, which would draw more Grimm, which would mean more fighters, which would mean more panic, and so on and so forth.

5) Probably.

7) Doesn't change the fact she seemed content with trying to kill Weiss, despite how big a no no that would be for political reasons. Imagine the headlines: "Former Schnee Heiress found dead in Argus under Atlas' watch! Culprit claims Heiress was commiting treason and she needed to discipline both her and Argus! Relations between Atlas and Mistral further Sour!"

Plus of course, pissed off Winter, Ironwood, and Jacques. Though in the latter's case, more for potential bad PR with his daughter apparently committing a crime and being killed for it.

8) Since the Lien looked like the same kind for both transactions, I doubt it, especially since reasonably the slums would be cheaper than the bars