Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20170205164448/@comment-26018514-20170207064536

Son of Nemesis34 wrote: Although none got bloody two of them had their Aura depleted which by Remnant standards is pretty severe plus the two that still had Aura took a beating not to mention that Ren was close to dying if Nora hadn't pulled him away or if she hadn't pinned the second arm to the wall. That still doesn't make the fight that much less underwhelming... It all still comes down to bad fight choreography(which has been a major flaw this season)... you have beats in the fight with some of the best fighters seemingly doing nothing for no reason, while you have other beats where the team loses 2 of it's best and most mobile and the fight slows to a crawl... You have an upskirt joke that either was failed in choreography or added last minute by writers who aren't engaged enough in the process.

Then after the "in it to win it" moment where Ren promises not to do something stupid that could get himself or others killed, he pauses, delivering extremely slow death blows essentially for no reason other than delivering dialogue(and the way the Grimm's head moved, should have resulted in him getting gored or knocked away by it's horns).

To truly make the fight more engaging wouldn't have taken much more either(though perhaps the horse movement animation is hard, I wouldn't think it would be that much more difficult) :

1. Let Ruby cut an arm off the first time the Nuckavee's arms were occupied and not moving

2. Let the Nuckavee then go berserk and run around like crazy, using it's hooves and remaining arm to maintain it's threat

3. With Ren in hand against the Wall, have it attempt to gore him, change Nora's approach angle to actually be upward with her hammer on the upswing, (revealing she knocked aside the head at the last second and it stuck horns in the wall) then the upskirt actually makes sense.

4. Make it notice Qrow while running around and attempt to kill him as the final blow set up, with Ruby pinning it's arm short and Jaune stopping it short for Nora, then taking a last minute kick that makes his own Aura Crackle as he attempts to manuever away from Nora's successful strike.

5. Condense the deathblow lines or make them internal dialogue delivered before and during each strike, making the Nuckavee armless first, then dodging and cutting(or parrying, because thick skulls)  the horns, then removing the head.

That way, you have faster pacing, escalation of threat, and 3 of four Aura knockouts while Ruby actually looks like a prodigy rather than practically incompetent, Jaune looks improved(note he still defends Renora under the house and Qrow) but not like he's so much improved he is at the others level.