User blog comment:Hidden Scorpius XI/My impressions on "Family" (RWBY, V4-E4)/@comment-4010415-20161121003542

1. Well, it's Cinder's left arm, and the eye she lost was her left eye, so... maybe her left arm got injured too.

2. I knew they wouldn't take the time to make unique models for Oscar and his farm and randomly cut away to him for nothing! The whole thing screamed "We're showing you this kid so when he's important later, it won't be so sudden or jarring." That is good writing.

Meanwhile, suddenly springing "Oh yeah, some fairy tales are legit historical accounts" on us without the characters talking much about fairy tales in the first place was bad writing. Honestly, the only reason I'm not as annoyed about the Silver-Eyed Warriors thing coming out of the blue is because the Maidens getting added made it a little less sudden. That's pretty much one reason I actually love that they added the Maidens, really. It cushioned the blow of the SEW reveal. By the time that Qrow revealed the legend about it, we were already familiar with the concept of fairy tales and legends being real.

Oh, and looks like the "Farmkid is Ozpin" camp gets somewhat of a victory, while the "Farmkid is the Spring Maiden in disguise" camp most likely lose. I'm actually surprised that farmkid does actually have something to do with Ozpin, but I'm not surprised (and I'm thankful) that he's not literally Ozpin. Also not surprised at all that he's not the Spring Maiden. Honestly, I wouldn't like the writing decision of having Salem mention the Spring Maiden and then cutting to some random kid like "There she is!"

3. Yang's nightmare was interesting. I think they did a really good job at having it dreamlike and unreal.

Also, on one rewatch, I was kinda messing around with things, and the episode glitched out. The glitchy corruption made the nightmare a whole lot more terrifying. It was doing that pixelated screen thing, sometimes only around the edges, which made things look even more strange. At first, I couldn't even see Adam, but then he just morphed out of the background. And it kinda skipped some bits in the video and audio, so it was jumping around and disorienting, and for the most part, all I could hear was distorted screaming and growling. The only other clear sounds I got were Adam's footsteps and Adam drawing his sword.

4. Oh, I didn't even think about how Tai was talking from experience. I kinda forgot about the fact that he shut down with depression at one point.

5. They're actually probably not talking about the same "we".

Qrow's "we" is mankind as a whole - all Humans and Faunus.

Raven's "we" is just her bandit tribe, no one else. She only cares about the tribe. She likely doesn't care about any of the people who died in the Fall of Beacon.

6. It seems implied that Qrow suspects that one of Raven's bandits became the Spring Maiden.