Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-410526-20161022144159/@comment-10390252-20161023123123

MiniDaggers wrote:

Still, why scorch (and destroy an eye?) with a person but petrify a Grimm? Hopefully we will find out. Probably because humans and Grimm are very different on a biological level. So, the same energy would affect us in different ways. Grimm pseudo-biology is placed in suspension whilst human cells are scorched.

If there is a thermal effect, it is quite possible that Cinder's hair was burned off (that's why it's so ragged and short) and it's possible that her left eyeball was flash-heated and exploded and the skin on the left side of her body destroyed as if she was caught in a nuclear blast. I strongly suspect that she has suffered agony enough for even Pyrrha's strongest fanboy to agree that she's been adequately punished.