User blog:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/SYUTK's V5E2 - Crazy Shit Happens - Impressions/Recap

Nature is weird, man.

You look at 2 species that are nothing alike, and then a biologist comes up to you and tells you "they're cousins!"

For example, you seen Echidnas? They're like hedgehogs with Krogan testicles and ant-eater mouths/beak/thingies. Then you look at Platypuses, which are some fat brown thing with a purple duck bill with electrolocation, poisonous otter feet, beaver tail....

......and then you check them up on Wikipedia, and it turns out they are both part of the same group: Monotreme. The only perceivable similarity in plain sight is that they both lay eggs despite being mammals. And that in itself is weird.

Conveniently, all surviving Monotreme species are indigenous to New Guinea and Australia. How funny...

In other news, this thing.

For newcomers to this thing, this is basically me, making an informal recap of what happened in the episode, while giving my thoughts about what happens. It also includes fancy color speak. 2 are particularly notable:

Red means truth, fact , in the eyes of the user, le me.

Blue means a guess, an hypothesis, a theory.

Now, this thing was actually done prior to Tuesday, but after asking around it turns out that even if I put a Spoiler Alert on the title, the images I use would show up on the Recent Activity page, and that makes the alert pointless. So for the sake of those voting with their wallets that are too Eddard Starky to go pirate, I decided to post this on Tuesday.

As for why it was posted hours after the episode? I got classes on tuesday from 10am to 5:30pm (RWBY episodes are released around 12pm on my timezone). And then I had to put all the images one by one. YYY And there's a lot.

In any case, off we go. But first of all, 'NOTE: This blog is Mega-full of images. 'You may want to let it load.

First thing we see is:

Triumph (or is it Triumph!?)
Vol.5's first promising aspect is the Opening. The video is good, though some may argue the show had better OP videos before. I've seen many say "Vol.2's was better", but they always ignore the fact that Vol.2's OP was full of lies , like implying Junior was gonna be a villain on the lines of Roman or Merc & Em. Or that Weiss and Emerald would have a fight. Note that even when events in Vol.2 had to be pushed back a Volume (leading to Vol.3),'' Junior didn't do shit and that fight never happened. ''

Meanwhile, what do we get this time? ....Well, to be fair, not much. Mostly just people posing and looking badass. The most notable things (that were not particularly obvious by now) are Blake and Sun still being stuck at the butt of the world, and Cinder and some unknown bandit chick staring down at each other, and Raven and Yang being back to back while a Qrow passes by.

But hey, it looks cool. And the song, man, the song IS AMAZING. Just from the little we've seen (well, heard), I'm already putting it on the lines of This Will Be The Day. It's more pumping-up and energizing than Let's Just Live, not melodramatic like Time To Say Goodbye, and not Overly-Edgy Tryhard Metal like When It Falls. It's just awesome. You could easily copy-paste it into anything and it will turn awesome.

I can already see it happen: Triumph(!) Goes With Everything.

Anyway, moving on we get our first actual scene in the episode.

1) Soft Kitty, Warm Kitty, little ball of- oh wait, wrong character
We start the day with an old man wallowing up on melancholy and despair.

Cue Salem Glare:
Okay, I was wrong. Her eyes are definitely on Le Papillon's level now.

2) Meanwhile, (still) flying over the middle of nowhere...
Now, let's take this moment to notice 1 thing: There are 5 elements in that box, 5 colors. Purple, Red , Yellow , Blue , Cyan . This....definitely confirms Cyan Dust is a thing...and assuming Purple is still Gravity, would work as evidence that Dust Active in the Environment does appear in a different color.

THE RIDE NEVER ENDS
And thus they crash as we cut to black. Cool to see that the Glyphs can be literally broken if the strain is too much.

Now that they crashed, I'm halfway close to getting a point on my Vol.5 Bingo card. All I need is for Raven's tribe to find them wherever they crashed. This is great. And wanna know what's even greater? <font style="color:#DC143C">WE FINALLY MOVE ON TO SOMETHING ELSE.

3) Meanwhile, at PETA's HQ
We cut to the WF HQ...Palace...something, in Mistral. Specifically, a discussion between probably-the-most-hated-guy-in-the-show, and Sienna. Who, btw, <font style="color:#DC143C">is definitely a woman, in case you didn't figure it out already between the trailer and Mojojo's art of her. Assuming you saw both, of course.

...Alright, so in her very first scene...Sienna died. <font style="color:#DC143C">She lasted more than Tukson, which is a good thing, but I thought she'd last longer. Personality-wise, I liked her, but her rather-hypocritical statements about what she wants, and her apparently locked Aura, make her....not really cool in an overall sense.

As for Adam...part of me wanted it to be that the whole "coup" thing was a lie done to bait Blake and co. While it was definitely not the case, I don't exactly hate the current idea. I'm more indifferent. Though I'd really like to know <font style="color:#6495ED">how is Adam that popular within the White Fang.

Also, I realized that Adam's new outfit is a modified version of his original, "Alpha-stage" outfit, before the Black Trailer was even done.

As for Hazel...voice-wise, <font style="color:#DC143C">he sounds like a crocodile. Way too grave and deep. While personality-wise, I like how he isn't just some dumb muscle. He's passive, calm, and his expression when Sienna died, his look at Adam afterwards, and how he repeated that "nobody had to die today", actually may make him the nicest guy among the villains...<font style="color:#DC143C">And also reinforce the point that the villains are not truly evil.

Now, that would be a very good place to finish the episode, right? Well, guess what? The Based Creators that write this show heard our prayers about more screentime in this show, so that there could be more plot progression and development, and less rushing through things. And when I say heard, I mean it.

There's 1 more scene, at the last 1:30 mins.

4) The Show Is Not Over
Remember how Weiss and Pie Lotte crashed on the shore, in Anima? Well, we're back there.

And with a kick to the face to the first snowball of the show, this episode finally ends.

Now, first of all, I wanna say: ''HA! IN YOUR FACE, SKY! What was that about <font style="color:#6495ED">Weiss definitely not crashing, and definitely not being found by Raven's tribe? WELL GUESS WHAT!''

On a more serious note though...who voices Raven again? <font style="color:#DC143C">She sounds horrendous. Also, what happened with the Pilot? He's not dead, right? <font style="color:#DC143C">He was cool.

Conclusion
I was told that this episode had a lot of crazy shit happen, and people were right. We had an aerial chase + fight, we had Weiss finally fight with the Knight, and it finished with a crash. The fight was awesome, it made me feel like This Life Is Mine is awesome, but it took too long for me. Almost the entire episode. It was a marathon.

I know fights are RWBY's main and probably only strength, but it doesn't mean it's nice to drag on a fight for almost the entire episode. Especially when said episodes are gonna be of standard anime length.

Speaking of the air fight...I love the pilot. The dude is just the coolest faceless guy in this entire show. And burn me for this, but leaving aside the age, I feel he and Weiss make a decent pair, and I'm not talking about my Abridged-sque version of them. The dude doesn't take her shit when she tries to be stupid-good, yet he helps her with little question when she decides to fight. He doesn't even get mad when she throws off his entire cargo. And they show a rather-good amount of cooperation during the fight.

I seriously hope he appears again. Pie Lotte the Pilot was cool. Compared to Sienna, who showed a severe lack of historical knowledge, and apparently doesn't even know how to use Aura.

Speaking of the fight...I seriously want to know who animated it and who directed it and who wrote it, specifically the part after Weiss summons the Knight. Because those people have no remote idea of how to animate giant suits of armor.

Sure, armor is less heavy than people think. Sure, even a man in full plate armor can do rolls and somersaults and even cartwheels without too much trouble, with enough training. BUT, this thing is a freaking suit of armor, that is more than twice the size of Weiss herself. It has NO reason to move with the acrobacy of an olympic gymnast. That simply hurts the image.

Look, guys, and whatever RT staff-member is reading this if they are, moves are like clothes. Just because you give X guy Y move it doesn't mean it will look good when they use it. Acrobatics of the kind the Knight showed are good on their own, but they do not fit a creature like the Knight at all, they are more fit for a character like Blake or Ilia. It's like people wearing fedoras and thinking they automatically look good.

As for the villains, now that we've seen more of Geoff and Hazel, I cannot decide which one I like more. Watts has the moustache that makes his every expression funny, while at the same time having an equally-hilarious amount of condescence. Hazel, meanwhile, has great masculinity and seems to be the most easily-likeable villain so far. They may not be on Roman's level, but they're getting close.

Adam....he's Adam. The most noteworthy thing I can really say is that now he'll probably be more relevant. He was a ghost in V1-2 and 4 and only did anything at the very end in V3.

Cinder will go back into action, and since she's bringing her team then hopefully Merc and Em do stuff again instead of just stand there saying nothing. Watts is gonna give Tyrian a new tail, and I'm personally inclined to the idea of giving him a mechanical tail. Maybe a drill tail? A syringue-tail might work but it'd be too fragile.

Plot-wise, Cinder and co. going to Raven's tribe can easily lead to a fight against Ruby, which I really hope happens. Weiss crashing instead of reaching Mistral is also good, since, combined with Blake still being stuck in Menagerie...for some reason...even if RWBY reunites, it won't be so damn soon. And Adam now ruling the WF, at least in Vale and Mistral, means Blake's in trouble if/when she gets there.

So far, the show IS looking promising. I hope it holds on for the next 12 episodes.

Also, a small trivia, though not exclusive to this ep. The lady on the airship said "Gods", but Pie Lotte said "God". Jaune also said "God" back in V1.

<font style="color:#6495ED">Could it be that Mistral is polytheistic? Maybe their religion is based on Steve and Bob, gods of Light and Darkness?

Let's see...Number of images used: Around 322. NEW RECORD!!!

Also, special thanks to Hazel "Raynart" Quill for helping me find out which of my images were duplicates. And also thanks to ChishioKunrin and whoever else uploads the episode pics to the Image Galleries.

Bingo Card as of V5-E2: