Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181215021300/@comment-25936766-20181224185114

Finally watched the episode. Tried to do it last week but there were multiple good anime to watch and it's much harder to enjoy RWBY when you just finished watching something amazing like SSSS.Gridman, something interesting like Bunny-girl Senpai, or something just too beautiful like Iroduku: The World In Colors.

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1) The Twin Guards are the best part of this entire episode and there's nothing you can do to change my mind.

Though I do wonder why are they called "Nubuck Guards" in the credits. I googled the meaning of Nubuck, and they sound nothing like that.

2) Caroline Codovir....when I saw the drawing Dish made of her I really was expecting someone taller. At least Weiss's height, not Maria's height.

In contrast to the guards, she is.....one of the most obnoxious characters in this entire show. Her excessive nationalism goes beyond funny and into annoying and only comes back to funny because of her Napoleonishness.

Though something I found funny was when the camera was placed as if we were looking up at her....while the view of the base behind her remains the same as if we were in front of it (think of grabbing a doll and turning it around so it's feet are pointing at your face).

Why I found that funny? Because it gives the impression that she's bending backwards like 40º as she gives her speech. Just trying to picture it is funny. And the worst part is that I feel it'd be in-character.

3) I can't quite comprehend why Napoleona there would call everyone "civilians". RWBY+JNR are Huntsmen-in-Training, and even if that was still considered "civilian status", there's Qrow Branwen, an official Huntsman. The only civilians are Maria and Oscar, really.

4) I've heard some people say she's racist against Faunus because she looked at Blake when she said "questionable characters". But that's silly. She was calling everyone questionable. It's not discrimination guys, it's equality.

More seriously though, the group does include:

>A drunk

>A random farmer

>An old woman who has done an ilegal thing or two right there in Argus.

>A guy who thinks walking around everywhere with armor on regardless of weather or necessity is cool.

>Pinkie Pie

The only ones who look rather normal are Ruby, Ren, Blake and Yang.

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5) I imagined Jaune would get mad once he found out but come on man, why you gotta punch the wall? Can't you punch a pillow instead? It's not even your house. What will Saphron say when she sees that big crack on the wall?

That said, I'm 100% convinced the only reason they got that mad and that they feel they've worked for nothing is because everyone explaining about Ozpin are the people who consider him the literal devil for the unforgivable sin of trying to do something about Salem and the Grimm but not having a game-ending plan at all.

I'm sure if someone more even-headed, like Maria, was there explaining it instead, Jaune and Nora would be reacting more like Ren, and Saphron's wall wouldn't have suffered for it.

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6) Silver Eyed Warriors are just Jedi without lightsabers. Change my mind.

7) Maria has the most boring Semblance in the entire damn show. "I got better reflexes!". I'm utterly convinced that Miles and Kerry just ran out of ideas of what to give her by the time they wrote that scene.

8) I'll be fully honest: I did not make the connection between the Silver Eyes and Bob, God of Light before, even with the silver blasts. That said, if the SEW really do come from Bob, then the question is, how?

First: The original humans were Thanos-snapped by Steve, God of Darkness.

Second: Even if the current humans were still "part Bob, part Steve" like the originals, why are SEW so rare? Everyone is supposed to be part Light, then why is it only a tiny few get the Silver Eyes?

The only saving grace is that Maria's basically just throwing a theory after making a connection.

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8) I really am not surprised Oscar ran away. I bet the first thing Jaune and Yang do in the next ep. is think Ozpin took over and left them to die or something. I mean, come on. Everyone treats Ozpin like utter shit in spite of everything he has done and accomplished (like preventing Salem from killing everybody already).

And just because he's Ozpin's current host, everyone yells at him, and Qrow - the strongest guy on the team - even punches him in the face. Jaune, meanwhile, just a minute or two after being told what happened, slams him against the wall while yelling at him. Again, just for being Ozpin's host.

If his so-called friends and allies are going to treat him like a literal punching bag for something he had 0 control over and doesn't like any more than any of them do, it's no wonder he's going to run away. He can't even fight back, all of them are better than him, even Jaune.

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Oh yeah, can we upload shots of the episode already?