Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24993958-20171021151743/@comment-4010415-20171021174859

KingFubuki92 wrote:

Then a new song (Sounds like an upbeat Reprise of This Life is Mine) as the ship was falling, Actually, that's not a reprise at all. It's nothing new. That's in the full version of This Life is Mine from the Volume 4 soundtrack.

Gundam Legilis wrote:

I don't get what RT is trying to characterize Adam as. It's as if they're trying so hard to make him evil. "LOOK AT ME, MA! I'M EVIL AND EDGY!" I don't find it too odd. He's a Faunus supremacist. Do you call KKK members "edgy"?

Well, that was a crazy episode.

So, Watts is pretty much always kinda near Lionheart. Also, his eyes are definitely green, which was hard to see in The Next Step.

Hidden door leads to a Seer, which can be used as a crystal ball to communicate. Guess we know now why it's called a Seer. Also, pretty big advantage that Salem has there, where they're able to communicate across continents without a CCT. Guess that'd be yet another reason they knocked out the CCT system. Also, as soon as I saw the bone blades and spikes on the ends of the Seer's tentacles, I was like "I knew it wasn't someone's weapon."

"I guess you could say... a little birdie told us. *Anime pose*" Watts pls. Watts is secretly that anime nerd you see at school who's always doing anime poses and running like Naruto.

Now that I'm rewatching the episode and taking a closer look at Cinder, it's really setting in just how much longer her left sleeve is than her arm. Damn, dude. It's like, over half a foot longer.

So, the trailer faked us out. Which is kinda good, actually.

Cinder staring at a new girl with a bandit camp kind of setting in the background in the opening is now confirmed to be about Cinder heading out to get Spring.

Tyrian is getting a new tail. Question is still whether it'll be robotic or Grimm. Though, considering Watts seems to be a bit tech oriented, it may be robotic. Hey, I'd consider that an upgrade. Instead of only his natural venom, Tyrian could put vials of other toxins in there to change out what he does to people.

Ohh, Salem frowned when she said she wishes to have a word with Tyrian. Guessing she's mad that he said Qrow is as good as dead and yet Qrow showed up at Haven.

Ooh ooh, when the Atlas pilot explains the sky islands to Weiss, while the camera is outside panning across the islands, you can hear the Dust shimmer sound effect! Dust still makes noise!

Oh, I got it now. The reason the Atlas pilot is-- *Glances at paused episode* Schnee symbol!! On the inside of the box lid! Anyway, the reason the Atlas pilot is transporting Dust is because he's probably making a pretty good amount of Lien smuggling Dust out of Atlas with the embargo going on.

I'm confused. In the box, there are regular purple Dust vials. But in Myrtenaster, there's a pale purple Dust vial, which we have never seen before. I'm curious if that's just an inconsistency in textures or if that's an actual thing now. On one hand, she was reloading all of the vials in Myrtenaster. On the other hand, there are only five colors in that box. The missing color is white, and she clearly had white in Myrtenaster.

Also, very disappointed that they once again showed white = wind and red = fire but didn't show us what color made the "magic missile" type projectiles nor the barrier. Also, the barrier looks different now, but it's still light blue. And I can't quite tell which color she's using just from looking at Myrtenaster, since they're really weird about where the Dust that's in use actually sits. They sound like they might have some substance to them when they hit the Grimm. It'd be weird and confusing if they are ice, since they have a glowing trail, while other instances of her shooting ice from glyphs don't have those trails.

I like that they actually show the Queen Lancer waking up when Weiss shoots fireballs at the sky island.

Still can't tell what color Dust she's using when she fires "magic missiles" at the Queen Lancer. However, I did manage to pause at the perfect time to see the heads of the projectiles as she fires them. I don't see any ice chunks in there. It's just glittery energy.

Yes, it's glittery.

Weiss is assaulting Grimm with glitter. *Tosses glitter into the air*

Pretty clever attacking the Grimm with the boxes of Dust, and I noticed fire, ice, and lightning in that mix.

I figured that it would be strange for Weiss to use the Arma Gigas against a swarm of Lancers, so now that we know that she uses it against one giant one, it suddenly makes sense.

Interesting that they decided to play This Life is Mine in the episode.

It's a good thing Weiss learned how to summon the full Arma Gigas before leaving home. Also, crazy that she can have it teleport and fly off glyphs. And it's actually not a bad choice to have the ship's crash landing be caused by the Arma Gigas accidentally deflecting the Queen's stinger toward the ship. Weiss' eyes were closed, and I think she could've been seeing through the Gigas' point of view and was concentrating on that too much to be aware of the stinger going toward the ship.

Also, clever of her to use black glyphs to slow the airship during its crash landing. And interesting to see them stretch and break from the force of the ship being too much for them to stop.

Sienna looked awesome. I'm sad and surprised that she died as soon as she was introduced. She was definitely a tiger Faunus, so the Shere Khan allusion is even more likely.

Hazel is a Human, confirmed.

Adam is a Faunus supremacist, double confirmed. Sienna was actually not bad.

Oh, on second watch, I noticed you can actually see Adam reach for his sword while Sienna talks, just before she turns to face him.

Alsooo... so... this scene strengthened my theory that a lot of Faunus on Menagerie might already be aligned with Adam and that would be why Ilia said Blake's plan won't work. Sienna's own guards are allied so strongly with Adam that they let him murder her and will lie about the circumstances of her death.

Turns out Salem's group really didn't know about Adam's plan to overthrow Sienna. Hazel seems like an actually nice guy who doesn't like needless killing. With him hanging around Adam, that'll be interesting.

Loved the detail that there was actually blood on Adam's sword. It's there while the blade is stabbed through her and after he has finished killing her.

Also, there goes all hope for Adam being a sympathetic villain.

So, Weiss got captured. Back in September, I talked about how one thing the story could do is have the airship get attacked and crash land, leading to Weiss getting kidnapped by White Fang members who consider it their lucky day. I did not imagine Raven, of all people, capturing Weiss. Seems RNJR, Qrow, Yang, and Weiss will all meet up at Raven's camp. Blake's future is still uncertain.