Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181201123231/@comment-14909251-20181209214148

So, I guess the idea of it being Neo and Roman's childhood home is out of the question now. Interesting how Maria is the one who seemed least affected. Even before she learned of the Grimm responsible, she seemed the most at ease. Perhaps the lady is so used to Grimm that she has trained herself to keep her emotions in check to the point it is very hard for them to affect her. I would say that apathy is an emotion, or more accurately a facet of an emotion. What they were going through was basically extreme depression. However, that can only have as much of an impact based off reasons to feel depressed. That is why Blake and Qrow were the most affected with Yang and Weiss being right up close. Oscar and Ruby have reasons to be depressed, but not as many. As such it had a harder time taking hold of them. Maria may have inadvertently made herself more resilient by giving herself a stable emotional outlook as a general counter-measure against Grimm.

Funny that Qrow seems to have the death flag hanging over him on a regular basis now. Ever since Volume 4 it seems as if he has been living on borrowed time. That said, I don't know if they would have him go out tragically in a futile situation. One possibility is that this is all building up to a scene where Qrow sacrifices himself to save the group where he finally has his Big Damn Heroes moment. Real question is how many times are they going to flirt with this before it happens. Not sure they can play this up more than a few Volumes before it gets old.