Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181208003742/@comment-24032889-20181215020654

ChishioKunrin wrote: RaijinRising wrote: Why did they have the Cinder/Neo scene in this episode? I didn't see the point of it besides like... maybe they had parts of a conversation that just didn't feel right to put after the fight in Ep5, and they needed another spot for them. The way I see it is

2. It shows us that the gate to the pocket dimension the Relic was in is gone.

3. Like Blizzard said, CRWBY actually format the episodes in a way where they can stitch them all together into a movie. The DVD/Blu-ray menu even gives you the option to either watch as episodes or watch as a movie. 2: Ever small of a detail yet, yes, important. Perhaps not gone, just inaccessible, which is what I take it you meant.

3: That's the main thing I noted about Volume 5. The fact that they basically teased the Belladonna climax twice is because they were thinking about the volume in terms of a single movie.

I just thought... well... the one scene didn't feel like the information in it was important enough to give it its own scene. We'd already known Cinder/Neo had an agreement to work together (though I guess "Let's talk" isn't necessarily an agreement, just that they're physically with each other.) It also seemed like they could have extended the Ep5 conversation just a bit longer to fit this conversation's info into that one.

I get that I said it doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the episode, but I wasn't really focusing on that. That was more of a side comment.

To go off of the "written to be watched as a movie" thing, I wanted to bring up that because RWBY is a web series and not TV/streaming, they don't cater to 22 minute runtimes. And so the reason a lot of people say "cliffhangers are everywhere" (which they exist in RWBY, yes, but not nearly as prevalent as people cry for it) is because the crew chooses often to end the episodes on a new development rather than a character moment. They will get to the point of the "movie" where somehting important happens and decide to end the episode there.

(Note: "Cry for it" as in "cry wolf" not "cry tears")

And about the whole Adrien thing... Yeah. Artificial insemination, Terra had the kid with someone else's contribution, however it happened... it's not like every same sex couple out there have to both be biologically related to their kid. This goes to show how little the average person knows about same sex couples that raise kids IRL.