Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20180112214926/@comment-4010415-20180113230140

So, this episode's title is a pun. Downfall. Fall fell down.

Anyway, nice to see that Ruby learned a little something from Ozpin.

Very glad that they explained Jaune's Semblance. It turns out that the theory of it being Aura amplification rather than healing was absolutely correct. And Jaune realized what his Semblance was actually doing when the white glow on Weiss turned light blue, the color of her Aura. Neat.

I'm also very happy that they told us what Hazel's Semblance is. I ended up in a slight argument on Youtube with someone who insisted that people cannot control Dust with just Aura and that they absolutely positively have to have a Semblance that allows them to use it. Hazel's Semblance blocks out pain. That doesn't do shit for controlling the Dust. Like, this person was sitting there saying that Weiss' glyph Semblance is literally the only reason she is able to use Dust at all, and they brushed off me telling them that WoR: Dust straightup says that people can trigger Dust with their Aura.

Nora was so badass.

Disappointed that Mercury, Emerald, and Lionheart kept disappearing/standing around doing nothing, just so the good guys could talk to each other.

I am actually surprised that Blake and her family got the Mistral police involved. Dunno why. I just wasn't expecting it. I had no reason to think they wouldn't. Just didn't think that'd be a thing.

Adam really needs to use the fire Dust in his sword. The only time he's used it was the Black Trailer, damn it. And kind of in the Volume 3 opening.

I like that bit where Yang was mad at Merc for a second, but she let it go, just set aside her anger. And Yang being able to detach her prosthetic at will was foreshadowed by her arm wrestling match with Nora.

Raven vs Cinder was really good. I enjoyed it a lot. Having the fight go vertically instead of just staying on a flat plane was the best thing they could've done. I noticed Raven kept switching to different colored blades throughout the fight. Kind of a shame that we would have to check for eye flames if she ever uses the Dust in those blades in the future.

I'm rewatching the fight, and I just spammed Pause/Play to check if Raven's blades were breaking too, and it looks like they were. At 10:20, she's using a blue blade. At 10:21, if you pause at the right time, you see a line of blue shards in the air, right after their weapons clashed. You can also pause at a good time to see that Raven's hilt doesn't have a blade at all anymore while those blue shards are falling. If I could post screenshots at the moment, I'd show you guys. Anyway, at 10:22, Raven puts the empty hilt to her sheath and draws a yellow blade.

So, to break it down as a list instead of a paragraph:
 * 10:20 - Raven is fighting with a blue blade
 * 10:21 - Raven's hilt suddenly does not have a blade, and there are blue shards in the air
 * 10:22 - Raven puts the hilt to her sheath and draws a yellow blade

I know most of us already figured that the sheath is full of various colors of Dust blades, but there've been people who have doubted that or still thought that it was something else. It's just nice to finally see her using a color other than red.

At 10:23 she keeps changing to other colored blades, and I can kinda hear the sound of something breaking. At about 10:26, her dark blue blade shatters and she draws a black blade.

At 11:52, it's possible that she did use the Dust in her blade, considering she swung a blue blade and made ice appear on the ground, then slid on the ice past Cinder. It's hard to tell because, again, Maiden powers.

Really neat how the door works, and I must say, I was surprised and interested by the fact that there's like... some kind of other dimension on the other side of it. I like how they did that. That's much more fantastical and interesting than just a small, normal room. Why a desert, though?

TL;DR


 * The episode's title is a pun - Downfall, Fall fell Down
 * Jaune's Semblance is confirmed to be amplification of Aura, not healing. Super glad they explained.
 * Super glad they told us Hazel's Semblance because of an argument I had on Youtube.
 * Me: Anyone can use Dust. They manipulate it with their Aura. World of Remnant: Dust even literally tells us that.
 * Other person: No, they can't. There's nothing to indicate that. They need a Semblance that lets them use Dust that way in order to use it, like Weiss' glyphs! Semblance comes from Aura, so that could've just been another way to say it.
 * Whyyy must the bad guys disappear/stand still so the good guys can talk?
 * Surprised Blake got Mistral's police involved, didn't expect
 * Adam pls use the fire Dust in your sword, bro. You haven't done it since the Black Trailer and kinda the Volume 3 opening.
 * Yang did good controlling her anger; yay foreshadowing
 * Raven vs Cinder = good fight
 * Raven used different colored blades throughout the fight, especially since some of her blades got broken.
 * Possibly used the Dust in one or two of her blades? Could indicate she doesn't rely on the Maiden powers like Cinder does (suggested by Phantomlink on Discord)
 * The "room" containing the Relic is wonderfully fantastical