Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20131108040231/@comment-10390252-20131108104556

Okay, I'm really not in the positiont to give a detailed reaction at the moment but I'll say this much:

1) As I have maintained from the start, Cinder is pulling the strings with Roman. Whether she's following her own agenda or is the Dragon to distract us from the real Big Bad remains to be seen;

2) Ruby still has a long way to go; Roman took her out easily because she forgot that, in combat, 'distracted' is spelt 'D-E-A-D';

3) Penny... I'm not sure. A lot depends on the moral stance of her creator/handler. If he's basically a guy who's trying to make himself a daughter or a champion for the world, all will be okay. If she's a robot assassin and he is either amoral or bad then she could easily be a lot of trouble... unless friendship works its magic again;

4) At this point, it seems that Sun is a Han Solo rather than an infiltrator. That said, it isn't beyond the bounds of possibility that he's a deep-cover WF agent sent to undermine our heroes from within. It's just that I think it's more unlikely. I'm looking forward to plenty of Han Solo/Princess Leia-style love/hate flirting between him and Blake;

4(a) And possibly between Sun and Weiss too... Somehow the way she turned around at the end to specifically berate him really reminded me of the way Han somehow got on Leia's bad side before the two even really knew each other;

5) What, oh what, is Cinder's plan? What requires Roman's organisation, White Fang and as much Dust as can be stolen? I'm starting to think that she wants the Hunters destroyed and she's amassing a criminal/dissident Faunus army whose only common goal is to eliminate the Hunters. I'm pretty sure she has her own agenda; she's just using Roman and WF as expendible tools.