Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181116204649/@comment-10390252-20181117181216

After last week, this week was always destined to be a bit of an anticlimax.

That said, Tyrian has cemented his position as the Joker of Salem's cabal. We've also got a very clear demonstration of just how powerful that Salem has got over the millennia. Perhaps it also demonstrates her two greatest weaknesses:


 * 1) She's grown to hate Ozma so much that even the slightest hint of him earning a victory sends her off of the deep end;
 * 2) She assumes everything revolves around her; for example, what if Cinder decides that she doesn't intend to return to the 'fold'?

I can see where this is going: Everyone has given up except Ruby. This is the volume, I think, when she gets the crew back on their feet. She's the one who is going to have to come up with a plan because Ozma is drawing a blank and everyone else rather stupidly thinks that "can't be killed" means "unbeatable". I'm pretty sure that Team RWBY's entire arc this volume will be in that abandoned industrial farm with her and her friends finally making their plans.

I wonder if, in the end, she'll ask Jinn another question; the question that Ozma should have thought to ask before:

"How do we permanently defeat Salem?"