Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20180120015359/@comment-10390252-20180120165615

Wow! That was a great wrap-up! As far as I can tell, we have this situation:


 * 1) Team Salem has evacuated Haven. The quest for the Relic of Knowledge is a bust with Cinder missing, presumed dead, Emerald suffering from what looks like a total emotional collapse/aura burn-out and Adam now likely completely on his own with the White Fang rejecting him as a coward and traitor;
 * 2) Team RWBY is back together at last! Cute little group hug there!
 * 3) Salem killed Leo for his failures;
 * 4) Ozpin has his limits it seems and it also seems that Oscar suffers when his 'hitch-hiker' pushes to them.

That final confrontation Yan had with Raven was brilliant. Yang calling her a coward and being so clear that she doesn't regard her as truly strong seems to have broken her in a way I doubt anything else could have. I wonder, has she returned to Vale and Taiyang in an attempt to find the part of herself that she's lost over the years. Might Ruby and Yang come home to a disturbing domesticity?

So, now we're off to Atlas (as I predicted, although that didn't take much brain-power on my part; I thought it was obvious). I doubt that it will be 'happy returns' for Weiss but I'm hoping for something weird like a Qrow/Willow Schnee romantic collision. Call it DrunkShipping? ;-)

It will be interesting to see if Emerald is the next Fall Maiden; she is the only person that I can imagine Cinder thinking of at the moment of her dying breath. If it's Ruby...? Well, that would be just plain creepy.

Volume Death List (Named significant character):
 * Fennec Albain
 * Vernal
 * Cinder Fall (until proven otherwise)
 * Leo Lionheart