Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20141031002615/@comment-165.234.190.56-20141031193551

Going to reiterate some of my thoughts from elsewhere.

Oobleck and Port felt truly useless here. There was honestly no need for them to get in on the fight this episode. Could have easily established their badassery by having them causally ignore the grimm.

The only truly captivating action scenes were CFVY and Emerald

Where the fuck did those nevermore come from?

Roman was, like always, entertaining. The problem however is that Cinder's ambiguity leaves him a man without a mission to match his gravitas. Also, where did Neo go? For a right hand woman, she sure wasn't useful for getting her boss out of that situation.

I feel like there really is no neeed to hide the details of the failed mission from the viewers, like why was it supposed to happen a couple days from now? Why does Cinder see this off schedule mission as a success despite the fact that emerald and mercury seemed to treat it more so as a failure? Were the whitefang supposed to play a more active role in the fight and roman's actions lead to a major loss in forces?

The jaune scene felt tacky. I mean I understand that they intended to show progression, but why not do it in a more natural way? Have Jaune deflect the swipe he wasn't able to deflect on his own before then cut the bear to shit, or give a hint to his semblance.

Why were Sun and Neptune even there?

Ironwood's forces weren't even slightly necessary. I understand a sense of wanting to make them an overwhelming game changer, but given the situation, RWBY and JNPR had it pretty much completely covered. So they felt less like the calvary and more like overkill.

Where the hell is penny?

Raven looks way too much like yang. She's more like her twin than her mother, which is pretty obvious since they're the same model (which feels sloppy since it's clearly a different model than Raven with mask on.) I'm hoping beyond hope that this was a dream sequnece, just for the faith that raven will have a more unique facial model as well as the fact that her just randomly popping up in front of yang is way too jarring considering her first appearance. Like why not just carry yang into the shadow realm if you're going to just talk with her shortly after.

Adam's voice still sucks.