Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20161106163624/@comment-25266931-20161106174703

MiniDaggers wrote: If I hadn't seen probably around half, if not more, of the fanbase speculate the same thing I would be impressed. Great minds think alike.

@ WC-83:

I use KNN because it's my initials. And the 005 is my favorite number and multiplication table.

As for Yang and Blake, them needing time to "sort things out" seems like the catchphrase of the season. Seems like people just want to mope and brood over things when they know the answer is clear.

1) Yang isn't gonna give up being a huntress because her mother's out there, and she still wants to see the world and deep down she still knows a part of her wants to use her powers to save people. Because she's not a fucking coward or a selfish asshole.

2) Black knows the longer she hesitates and procrastinates only give more time to the WF to keep doing their misguided terrorism. Better to rally some like minded people and once and for all set the WF straight or haul them in to prison.

3) Like Sun said, running and avoiding a fight doesn't stop enemies from finding you. When Spiderman sometimes gave up being a hero the villains didn't vanish, if anything without Spiderman, they thrived. And if Blake can't find answers wouldn't it make more sense to ask around a get different opinions from her friends as much as her family. Since her friends have been right there with her in the trenches fighting the good fight?

Sometimes watching shows and playing games it can feel like watching a slow train wreck or car crash. Let me explain what I mean by that: I love RWBY. Good show. For all my beefs with it, I like it a lot. No bullshit. But, and as other fans I bet yall can relate, sometimes it feels like you know what's gonna happen from the first 5 sentences of an episodes. Yet the revelations doesn't hit the characters until 4 episodes later. This happens in other shows and even in real life. Being genre savy and analytical can ruin shows. You can't come in with wide-eyed wonder and not know what's gonna happen. IRL if a girl goes out with a bad boy who like to brag about other girls he's banged and does this even right in front of her chances are he's a dick and will break her heart. Likely by cheating on her. You can see that "plot twist" coming a mile away. But telling the girl means nothing. She'll blow you off with a "what do you know, stay out of it." Same with shows. You can scream at the screen all you want but the writers seem to like to have the cast do things the same way they've always been done. Slowly.

I understand these are teens and they have to learn at a snail's pace like how we adult did at their age. But even as teen I would think that at least a few of them would have more get-up-and-go than this. Weiss is basically captured, so I get her case. But Blake has freedom but she can't see it due to her past hang-ups. And Yang, who seemed like everyone's rock in season 1 and 2 and now become the most depressed and miserable. I guess it could be nod at her and Blake's connection as war buddies or maybe it's to show that even chipper people fall and fall hard. BUT WHEN YOUR YOUNGER SISTER IS BACK OUT THERE AND PUTTING IN WORK it starts to look a little immature. Ruby right now seems like the only one of the 4 that stand a chance of making it as a hunter in the long term. She falls, she gets sad (like with Penny dying/deactivating), yet she get back up and bounces back. I get depressed too. Especially when I can't play an RPG or draw or write to take my mind off a heartache. But one thing that never makes it better is being alone and dwelling on it without any positive reinforcement.

I wanna see the heroes back together as one and getting to the heart of the real problem. Grimm don't matter right now. Not really. What matter is uncovering the MASTERMIND behind the Grimm. And Ruby doesn't have the brains to do that alone. She just doesn't.