Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24993958-20161210130927/@comment-4010415-20161211055905

(Started this post hours and hours ago, whoops) Wellp, time for me to type up a post while rewatching the episode to recount my initial reactions and notice things I didn't notice before, and then I'll skim the other posts.

So, the first thing I noticed, Nora appears to have pink eyeshadow. It's pretty subtle until she closes her eyes and stands in direct sunlight.

I thought they were gonna drop the infobomb in-show that it's been 6-8 months, but instead, just Ruby's gross underestimation of how long the trip would be. That really would've been a great time to go "It's been half a year, btw, those of you who haven't been reading anything." It's easy, just do this:

Ruby: I thought it'd just be a couple weeks, maybe a month at most, not half a year!

Boom. Would've been that easy.

Okay, now I see Nora's eyeshadow even with her eyes open, when she asks if the buildings are damaged. Also, I wonder why Oniyuri isn't even on the map.

Finally, we get some Ren backstory. Really interesting. I guess Ren and Nora didn't start out together and weren't born in the same town. "Not just anyone", huh? Raven? Someone else?

Interesting song. We get yet another Weiss song. "I am not your (something), not another thing you own. I was not born guilty of your crimes. Your (something) and your influence cannot hold me anymore. (Something something something test?) I will not surrender. This life is mine!"

Whitley's smug face as he applauds. What's that about? It seems Weiss was faking a smile for the audience.

Cocktails, rich people, people who can speak without moving their lips! Alright! I love how the conversations we're overhearing are actual words, by the way. "Hey, nice dress." "What, this old thing?" "Heheh, did you enjoy the performance?" "She has a lovely voice." <-- This exchange, for example.

Okay, Jacques, you give Faunus equal pay, but... what about the working conditions? Economic disparity between Atlas and Mantle? Not surprising. "The SDC is making jawwwbs thooo" "Yesh, that makesh me a good guy!"

Okay, at this point of typing my post, I got invited to go out to a bar with my aunt and uncle, so I'm a little not sober, so I apologize if anything in the rest of this post comes off as odd.

I didn't even notice that Whitley was standing next to Jacques that whole time. Phantom and I half-jokingly talked out a conspiracy theory that Weiss' accidental stress-induced summoning was actually Whitley being a little shit and summoning a Boarbatusk to make Weiss look even more like a terrible daughter so he could stay daddy's favorite.

How else could Weiss' Semblance accidentally manifest from stress, though? It'd be pretty funny if she accidentally made a normal glyph under Trophy Wife (hey, that's her name in the credits), and it launched her into the air like a catapult.

Still can't tell if glasses guy who's talking to Jacques is just a generic background character or some important guy, but I guess since I saw him in the audience at the concert, he may be a background character.

By the way, I hear the tune of It's My Turn going on at the party, especially when Weiss goes to the Beacon painting and during her conversation with Henry.

Not gonna lie, when Henry showed up, I went "Hello.~" He's pretty good-lookin', I like his fashion sense, but his personality sucks. I wonder if he's actually important beyond this scene, since he has a full name, or if that was just so the script writing wouldn't be awkward. Oh shit, watch him be the son of some rich bussiness guy who Jacques wants to make a deal with, and the guy is like "Not a very good first impression that your daughter yelled at my son at the charity event." Oh no, dude, what if Jacques tries to put Weiss in an arranged relationship with Henry for some reason? Not that I expect that to happen, but that'd be a pretty bad situation for her. He's sorta kinda wearing red and black, but it's not bad because it's more of a burghundy and not quite so Edgemeister.

Mantle fundraisers. Are the charity events for Mantle just PR stunts like the Vale fundraiser?

Oh God, I paused at a moment where three background women have the same face. There's also a guy who has a monocle in the crowd.

Even drunk, I still don't find Weiss' fall convincing. That wasn't animated quite well enough. She pulls away and then suddenly flops over and hits the floor with a very light cushy thump. Maybe if they'd had Jacques' arm jerk back a bit like his grip slipped and had her tilting over (instead of just turning away) before the sudden camera cut, it would've been more convincing, especially with more effort/struggle in Weiss' voice.

So, I paused to get a better look at the Boarbatusk, and the redesigned Boarbatusk looks nice. It definitely looks more dangerous and less like someone let a normal wild hog loose in the room. That said, wild hogs really are quite dangerous in real life. They'll fuck you up, man. Also, that is definitely a different appearance for the Boarbatusk glyph than the Giant Armor one (obviously). So, the summoning glyphs do have different appearances based on what is being summoned. Does the signature on the Beacon painting say Erin Winn? I think it does.

I'm just realizing, how big is Oniyuri that it got dark like that while RNJR was walking through it?

So, does Ren have some kind of sensory Semblance, or is that something that comes with being super highly trained in Aura? Then again, if it came from being super highly trained in Aura, Ozpin would've noticed Cinder before she shot Amber in the vault.

The fighting animation keeps bouncing between sluggish and okay. And I have to wonder what he was doing to Ruby to make her Aura shimmer like that. That can't just be some new art style shift thing, since it didn't happen whenever Jaune got hit during the Geist fight.

Okay, Tyrian is kinda creepy. I wonder why he's interested in Jaune and how long it's gonna take for fanart to appear. His facial expressions are pretty good.

That moment with Nora's Semblance was pretty great.

So, scorpion tail. How did we not guess that, considering his ponytail kinda looks like one? His hairstyle choice definitely makes sense now, at least. I've been trying to watch for when exactly Tyrian's eyes turn purple, and it's only during the moment when he prepares to take Ruby after kicking her in the gut.

So, Qrow burst through a wall to save Ruby. And how dare they leave a cliffhanger there?! I bet that means the next episode will start at a different scene. Also, how far can Tyrian's tail stretch? Geez.

I started this hours ago... Multitasking and leaving the house, man.