Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-410526-20160702223237/@comment-10390252-20160704164532

So, I've seen videos of the teaser scene shown at RTX'16 (a fairly good-quality YouTUBE video) and I have some thoughts about it: Overall? I'm hyped. This is about as much a mood shift from the start of Volume 3 as from the start of Season 2 and Season 3 of Avatar - The Last Airbender.
 * 1) It looks like my worst fears about events post the Battle of Beacon have come true and humanity is on its back foot. Settlements are being attacked in large numbers and the body count is probably racking up;
 * 2) Ruby... has taken a level of badass. This is the first time we've seen her as being the living chainsaw of Grimm death in the show rather than the trailers. She's obviously learned a lot about fighting in the long journey (skipped over for dramatic reasons) and has learned to turn her Semblance into a weapon that she never really could do before because she didn't have the endurance to pull it off; this shouldn't surprise us because Qrow directly lampshaded this in Volume 3 - "A day out there is worth a week in this place": By simple force of necessity she's learned and has become a much better Huntress;
 * 3) There was something... cold about her in this clip. She seems so detached from events and hardly shows any emotions. Maybe that's not too surprising; after all, she's seen two of her best friends murdered, her sister maimed, another best friend practically kidnapped by her father and yet another forced into hiding by her psycho ex-boyfriend. She's looked into the abyss and I suspect that the abyss has looked back!