Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24573226-20171012080158/@comment-34633327-20171018121654

BenRG wrote: I think Volume 5 is going to primarily focus on:


 * Attempting to 'rescue' Spring from Raven (but she doesn't want to be rescued);


 * Blake trying to break Adam's hold on the Faunus on Menagerie Island.

We'll probably have some small bits (only an episode or two) of Weiss meeting up with the team, Oscar trying to learn to fit in with RNJR (poor kid) and Yang finding out that Qrow was telling the truth: Her bio-Mom is a bad person.

I'm thinking that the mid-season fight will be the battle to settle the fate of Menagerie. My guess is that, between the pseudo-spiritual charisma of the Fox Brothers and Ilia's fighting prowess, Adam's faction will look like they are winning until Ilia has a Heel Face Turn for some reason and this turns the tide. The final scene will be Adam (with a scowling Hazel hovering in the background) appealing to Sienna for more overt aggression against human non-combatant populations, citing the events on Menagerie as proof that 'human cultural contamination' is 'undermining' their support amongst the population. (BTW - That's Adam's explanation for why Blake and Ilia, once the Fang's most reliable warriors) have changed sides.)

Right now, I'm calling that the climax will be a knock-down drag-out fight at Raven's encampment. Team RNJR (with Q and O along for the ride) attempt to extract Spring. It might have worked (they're doing it subtle-like) if Cinder, her two stooges and a legion of Grimm that seem to be under Cinder's control hadn't suddenly turned up and attacked. Yes, of course Lionheart told Watts where to find Spring; he had been promised no attack on Haven or Mistral if he cooperated. In the resulting chaos, Cinder escapes with Spring.

It isn't until Yang appears with her mother's beaten body that we realise that Spring went willingly, intending to prove to Salem that she, not that cripple Cinder Fall, is the true Dark Maiden of this generation. In the post-mortem, Oscar notes that there has been chaotic epochs in the past when all four Maidens were dark; those weren't nice time-periods; one of the reasons for Ozpin's conspiracy was to avoid repeats of those times.

The post-credits epilogue will be Watts doing a 'You have outlived your usefulness' scene with a cowering Professor Lionheart whose last words will quite possibly be: "But... but we had a deal!".

If I'm right, then Volume 6 will be regarding what way Sienna Khan jumps as Adam ramps up the pressure and will climax with Spring and Cinder trying to destroy Haven and steal the Artefact of Knowledge. 1. That hypothetical argument of Adam's has no basis. The WF have had disserters and such that were not a result of being with humans, as evidence with Emerald's and Mercury's hunting down of Tukson and others.

2. Cinder showing up is possible since the intro hints it, but it could just as easily be a case of Never Trust a Trailer. How many intro's teased Weiss vs Emerald? 2. How many fights did they have? None.

3. Lionheart is heavily implied to have not made a deal, rather, is being threatened by Watts, as evidence by Watts bugging his room, the intro showing several rope dart like tendrils nearing him as Watts is sinisterly behind him, and the trailer showing one ensnaring his neck. The whole reason Haven is empty is assumedly because of this, Lionheart's way to protect the students.

4. Yang with her mothers beaten body? Do you seriously think Yang can beat Raven of all people?

5. Dark Maiden? Really? Nothing suggests any of this is the case. If it was, why is Salem having them hunted down and using parasitic bug grimm to steal there powers as the first method?

6. This seems more like a fanfic then anything, as barely anything here has any precedence or evidence.