Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20151115174306/@comment-10390252-20151115205941

I loved episode three! The character of Winter is oddly how I think Weiss would have turned out if she hadn't had months of the influence of Ruby, Yang and Blake to thaw her out slightly. It's also clear that Winter isn't going to approve of the woman that her younger sister is turning into.

Even only slightly in, I'm loving the Winter/Weiss as well as the Qrow/Ruby dynamics. It's strange but they are both different and yet the same - idolising what is clearly their mentor/role model figure and ignoring their very real flaws.

The interaction between Qrow, Ozpin, Ironwood and Glynda raises so many questions. The fact that there is an inner cabal of Huntsmen and Huntresses protecting the world against a threat so serious that they don't even feel comfortable discussing it openly makes my eyebrows shoot up. Especially as the duel between Winter and Qrow indicated just how utterly OP fully-qualified Huntsmen (or 'Specialists' as Atlesians seem to call them) tend to be.

Ozpin was as wise as I have come to expect, pointing out that massive and visible military security will only increase any feeling of fear and insecurity, not reduce it.

Then there is the heavy hint that Qrow gave that Cinder... well, that she's a threat on a scale that they can't imagine.

Oh, and cyber security in Vale and Atlas sucks in a big way. Given Atlas's dependency on technology for maintaining its civilisation, that's a bad thing.

So... Who wants to bet that Mercury and Emmy are going to cream Coco and Yasuhashi, if not come close to outright killing them?