Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20141031002615/@comment-9090085-20141102002727

@Alex T Snow You're right... to an extent. After all, a guy was MURDERED at the start of this volume, and a Main Character was almost MURDERED last episode. And RWBY would not be the first "children's show" to be very dark. And I did tone down the scene as I envisioned it - Ruby was actually bitten by the King Taijitu originally, now she's just hanging of her weapon. But the big problem is... well:

The Bespectacled Guy wrote: My personal big complaint is that not just CFVY and the teachers defeated the Grimm so easily - everyone did! The fight was so one-sided, and I firmly believe that Team RWBY could have fought off the Grimm on their own. The others being there just sped up the operation. Never before, not even in the Search and Destroy episode, have Team RWBY taken out so many Grimm so quickly. They're supposed to be a major threat, but no evidence has so far been shown to support this.

This. There's no tension in the fight when it's just RWBY, and they were supposed to be "scared" before it started. It's also why your Nevermore argument doesn't hold water with me: Yes, Giant Nevermores are easily defeated at the Kingdom's boarders - which are protected by teams of professional Hunters, Gunships, and (presumably)fixed gun encampments. It is not the same as a trainee Hunter effortlessly destroying several "mini-bosses" in a second.

I don't have a problem with her being able to make short work of them, mind. Just that she killed them too quickly and too close to all the build up on the Grimm being a threat - effectively undoing that buildup.

Let's face it, the Grimm in the tunnels were made out to be a threat to the people of Vale last episode. Not a Kingdom-ending threat; not even a District ending threat. But they were a threat, a personal threat. And now you turn around a say they're cannon fodder to be slaughtered in the hundreds by trainees? Then what about the Goliaths? Is Glenda going to wave her wand and kill them effortlessly?

Of course not. That would be dumb. But that's what it looks like.

If that was too long, I'll just say this: there is a difference between a "hard-fought victory"; a straight "victory", an "easy victory", and an "effortless victory". This last episode had too much of the last two, after building up for the first one, particularly when it was just RWBY fighting. If you want to see what I mean by "hard-fought victory", I recommend watching Transformers: Beast Wars, the first "Children's Show" I watched; where the heroes win most fights by the skin of their teeth.