Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160131163802/@comment-14138255-20160131200532

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: I did like the way they used the lockers to pin the Nevermore and then Ruby used it to launch herself back to Beacon.

As far as this episode goes, it is not really that dark as people expected. Seriously, this is really tame given the context of the situation. When they showed Blake and Weiss standing around the festival with everybody running I was thinking, "Why isn't there anyone lying still on the ground? No legs sticking motionless out from behind a stand? How are all these random civilians magically escaping this surprise onslaught?"

Like, I don't recall even seeing someone injured being dragged to a ship arms over others pulling them along limping. It's like these random civvies just got hit with a massive army without warning and are getting away uncathed in the crossfire even with a bunch of the combat robots getting hacked in addition to the White Fang and Grimm.

Penny may have gotten stepped on by the Nevermore and looked worse than it seemed initially, but she is still an android and we can easily presume that she will be revived. Ironwood is obviously not dead as that is a pretty classic cutaway to make you think it when he will actually survive. Looks like his ship is the one that crashed at Beacon when Ruby showed up so he will probably pop up there soon.

Granted, we still got two more chapters before this Volume concludes, but this isn't encouraging in terms of the series being darker in a meaningful way. Seems Rooster Teeth is still being too chicken to make this series truly grim. First of all, spell check isn't enabled on the wiki and when I typed it in to google it was spelled that way (and I don't watch the credits).

I have a feeling Penny is gone, forever. They had already left the colosseum without retrieving her. I have a feeling she'll only come back in a SPOILER: 

Rei Ayanami situation, where another one is made with no memory of Ruby or anything in particular (maybe with a different personality).

Ironwood will probably be dying if Weiss finds him in the wreckage (having his aura drained by the Knights firing and broken and more by the crash). Ironwood probably will have some final words.

I can see Jaune giving a really good fight against Cinder, more than she could possibly have thought, maybe even almost defeating her before going down. But he will probably go down and Pyrrha has to finish her off. Pyrrha will also have to fight the Dragon I imagine.