Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-74.101.236.56-20170321065847/@comment-26018514-20170512073948

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Penny's sword - You do see the parts of Penny flying through the air with Jaune and Pyrrha in the first screenshot, but then they mysteriously disappear in the second one. No telling why the wires were magically severed, unless she had some kind of fail safe, though that kind of thing really should've activated when she was being cut up by her own wires. Arkantos' explanation of the mechanism regulating the spools for the wires being inactive because she was destroyed could make sense.

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To be honest, I really hope that RWBY Chibi being a thing gives Miles and Kerry a good outlet to redirect their "Because it'd be funny!" shenanigans. It's one reason that I'm fine with its existence, even though the skits are sometimes hit or miss.

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Honestly, if they went with non-timeskip volume 4, we also could've gotten to see more of how Weiss interacts with her family and how they interact with each other and - gasp - we could've seen her mom. Like, if, for timing purposes, they put off the... "I stowed away on a ship headed for Mistral so I can join Winter's cool storyline."

They said years ago that they want RWBY to steadily grow more serious and mature, so they're not gonna dive right in.

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Jaune wanting revenge... I recently passingly wondered if that scene where Ruby wakes up and hears Jaune's training video is supposed to foreshadow someone in the group eventually going astray because of grief for Pyrrha. The little blue lights floating around were like will-o-wisps, and while they have a wide variety of mythology about what they are and what they do, there are some myths and folklore about them connecting them to the dead, and there's a common theme of them leading travelers astray. Add that with the fact that the recording of Pyrrha saying "Follow these instructions" initially sounds like "Follow me"... But I feel like this is just hopeful thinking.

All in all, a story is all in how you execute it. Puella Magi Madoka Magica takes the magical girl genre and makes a dark story about it, with a cutesy art style typical of the genre. Meanwhile...

Ironwood's dumb....

Wait a second. Vale's council told Ozpin they had spoken with Atlas' council and had come to the decision, together, that Ironwood should be in charge of security for the festival. Atlas' council. Which Ironwood has two seats in. *Facepalm* These governments...

My Personal headcanon is that Penny's wires were controlled by electromagnetism, so Pyrrha accidently hijacked them and they stayed activated but the moment penny powered down and Pyrrha shut down the anchors/tethers on the sword side came loose allowing Ruby to take them... because lets face it there is no reason for a handle to exist on them at all if they aren't designed to come off some times.

...Agreed...

Hell I'm kinda mad about the other MC's arcs more tbh... if I were to have seen my wish list for this volume We'd likely be about as far as... maybe episode 3 of this season(RNJR arriving on Anima and maybe 1 town in)

I would have liked to see:

*Day 1(or 2) of RNJR's journey

*Their first fight as a team

*RNJR "daily grind" fights

*The character short battle(expanded) as a mid season fight

*their first Tasks they did for cash/supplies/aid

Interspersed with:

*Blake's Flight from Beacon with evidence the audience can see Sun is tracking her by... by actually seeing him in an ambiguous disguise, then end her portion of the season with the Seadragon fight.

*Weiss Arriving in Atlas while the tone for her arc with the family is set, hints towards the party, but end before it happens(expand a little on family interaction and her daily life/activities)

*Yang Moping and finally wearing the arm

Then Season 5 would finish out what was in this season while expanding on a few things(like actually ending with all the girls in Mistral or closer than they are now)

personally, I feel its a flow/movie format issue... they're trying to write an overarching movie storyboard, then they try to expand those plot points into episodes... it just seems to take all the good kind of filler out and then they try to force filler where it isn't needed.