Talk:Breach/@comment-9464517-20150106024557/@comment-24891101-20150106082008

It was certainly very underwhelming. Too stompy. Not a credible threat. Other things said months ago.

LiveandSound: I cannot even comprehend how people came to either of those conclusions.

73.42: That's an interesting comparison, but the characters acting like it's easy mode wasn't even the principal issue.

It's more the unwarranted escalation. Too many characters. Too many good guys showed up. At the end there, it's very possible that the human assets in place actually outnumbered the Grimm, when one counts the AK-200s. That's not something that's supposed to happen. The Grimm's entire thematic aspect is that they're impossibly numerous, and much more dangerous than mere wild animals, and specifically hunt humans. And yet they seemed to do nothing, and were outnumbered by humans. Glynda's casual contempt spoke volumes.

What was the White Fang intending to accomplish? Sure, the plan went off prematurely, but if assets could get into place to defend that quickly, what would the point be? It's not as if they'd be able to lure more Grimm than they did. Instead, we've got top-of-the-line combat mechs, bombs, a train, and vague nefarious intentions, with no idea of the plan.

For the purposes of my SoD, I'm forced to assume that what occurred on screen was not an entirely faithful depiction of what happened, (as indeed I assume for virtually all fiction, for it makes accounting for Doylistic concerns much easier). That is, their numbers were much greater, and posed an actual threat, with several hundred to thousand deaths from the incident.

Also, how did Glynda get there so quickly? Unless she was aboard an aircraft at the time, she'd have to travel dozens of miles to get there. For that matter, where'd she come from in the first episode? And Sun and Neptune just so happened to be in the neighborhood, and not hundreds of miles away, given the city's size?