Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-26512661-20200125162058/@comment-4010415-20200125210455

MaxusFox23 wrote: especially since Blake's broke too and if that cut logo is anything to go by... Blake's Aura actually isn't broken, just weakened. They've started using a particle effect to show when a character's Aura has broken so that we can tell the difference between the "Aura has almost run out" flicker and the "Aura is empty" shimmer.

See Watts, Ironwood, and Tyrian last episode for examples and literally all of the Ace-Ops this episode for examples.

Solaris XD wrote:

1. Why would Robyn intentionally escalate the situation and cause a fight on a ship while a confict is on board?

2. Why the everloving fuck would Qrow team up with Tyrian, a serial killer who is literally insane who Qrow clearly hates, to fight Clover? Of course he was going to betray you the milisecond Clover's aura broke. Wouldn't it make more sense to team up with Clover to detain Tyrian, the bigger threat, then continue your fight? And why would Clover attack Qrow while he was attacking Tyrian?

3. Why didn't Marrow use his semblance from the start? It'd make more sense if the fight started with him using it, Ruby dodging it with her speed before he can finish, then smacking him on the back of the head to break his concentration and free the others.

4. Also I'm worried their going down the route of making Ironwood the bad guy in this situation rather than having both sides be gray in who is right.

5. And on some smaller nitpicks, why didn't Qrow just jump out of the ship while it was falling, turn into a bird and fly away?

6. And why would Neo try to impersonate Oscar while he was literally a few metres away? 1. Because Clover was insistent on detaining Qrow right then and there and seemed like he was ready to fight Qrow. That, and Robyn is hotheaded.

2. As has been discussed already in this thread, it was a heat of the moment decision based on the facts that Clover was piroritizing apprehending Qrow over Tyrian, Clover would not let Qrow take the offensive against Tyrian, and Tyrian had been attacking both Clover and Qrow up to that point. If Qrow wanted to stand a chance of not being worn out enough for Tyrian to kill him by the end of it, he needed Tyrian off his back and needed to conserve energy and Aura in his fight against Clover. He didn't have a lot of good options.

3. That would've been a lot better. Like, have Marrow start to point while Ruby turns into a blur at the same time, everything goes slow-mo as Ruby passes Marrow while he says "Sssstaaaaayyyyyy", and Ruby's scythe whacks him in the back of the head, then everything goes back to normal speed and everyone fights.

4. So far, to me, it seems like they're sticking with the whole situation being very gray, rather than Ironwood being straightup bad. Winter even explained that this is just something they need to do, even though they feel bad about doing it.

5. I... don't know. Didn't want to abandon Robyn, maybe?

6. Maybe she thought he was knocked out, or she had him tied up, and she intended to walk out of the academy unsuspected because everyone would think she's Oscar.