User blog comment:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/SYUTK's V5E10 - The Hottest RWBY Episode Ever(?) - Impressions/Recap/@comment-4010415-20171222233523

1. I like how they took until now to finally make it crystal clear that all the Huntsmen that Qrow was looking for are apparently dead. He said "Oz, pro Huntsmen like that don’t just bite it all at once." By "bite it", he means "bite the dust", as in "died". Yet episodes ago, we only got hints about Shiro and maybe Heather being dead, and Qrow mumbling to himself wasn't clear on whether he was talking about all of them being on missions or all of them being dead.

2. And yeah, Ozpin sitting around twiddling his thumbs is stupid. They're suspicious of Leo, even before he calls Qrow, so why would they just sit around waiting and listening to what Leo said about not attacking Raven's camp until it's a sure deal?

3. I remember when the show had times where they said "mankind", which seemed like it was meant to reference both Humans and Faunus. Whatever happened to that?

4. To be fair, Ruby didn't know about the Maidens being needed to reach the Relics until they arrived in Mistral, so really, she has waited a month, not several. And, I dunno, maybe she was sitting around going "I'm curious, but I'm sure Ozpin knows what he's doing, so maybe I shouldn't ask, but I kinda wanna know, but it might be annoying to ask, but I kinda wanna know..." I, too, have had social anxiety about speaking up about someting on my mind.

5. If Choice is mind control, then it's kinda hard to fight in a war against someone who can mind control you and just say "Stop, you no longer have the ability to choose to fight me." You can try to fight against destructive powers, creations that work for your enemy, and an enemy who has omniscience, but it's a lot harder to fight when something is forcefully taking away your ability to choose to fight.

6. Ruby in End of the Beginning: My silver eyes make me special, right? So I should help fight the bad guys!

Qrow in Volume 4: The bad guys are after you because you used your silver eyes.

Ruby in Volume 4: Yeah okay whatever.

Ruby in Volume 5: what silver eyes

Good job.

7. I think Qrow's Scroll was just vibrating. I dunno why he would leave it on vibrate. The only reason I leave mine on vibrate is because it's inappropriate to have your phone on a setting other than vibrate or silent while you're at work, and I'm too lazy to switch between noise-making and vibrate when I go to and from work. Qrow doesn't have that problem.

As for Scrolls' hologram-ish screens being transparent... I dunno. I ask the same thing about the TVs because it seems like it would be awfully difficult and annoying to watch your favorite show on a screen that you can see through. I'd end up putting mine up against a white wall so I don't have people walk behind it like they can at Ruby and Yang's house (theirs has a doorway behind it).

For fuck's sake, Tukson's book shop had windows that could have the transparency turned off through touch-activated switches! Why don't their TVs and Scrolls have that?!

8. Raven's Semblance likely also made her and Qrow an excellent duo for fighting together against something, as long as Qrow's Semblance didn't screw her up.

This is also a reason I suspect they at least tried to pair up in the initiation at Beacon.

9. Honestly, one of the dumbest parts of the episode was Kali's scene just because she stands in the middle of the room during a gun fight and the White Fang members are too stupid to shoot her legs while she guards her upper half with a tray. They could've at least had the tea table overturned and broken in a way where Kali can barely hide behind it or something.

The only thing I can guess for why the tray thing worked is because Yuma was so absolutely stunned and baffled by this woman actually running at him with a tray that he just froze from the "what the fuck" feeling and wondered if someone gave him some bad mushrooms or something.

10. Yeah, they haven't even used songs in the credits... Are they saving the for the last four episodes and the end credits? What kind of content do the songs have for them to hold onto them until then? Geez.

11. I guess Blake not dual wielding can be chalked up to how Ilia pointed out that Blake was holding back. "Stop taking pot shots and fight me like you mean it!!!" Doesn't excuse her not using the cleaver to block, though.

Also, Ilia's whip can cut because the metal parts are blades. I actually got a pretty good screenshot this episode that shows how the blade's profile is diamond-shaped, rather than cylindrical.

12. Actually, Ilia's skin turned dark blue, not black, and the rest of the environment was dark blue as well.

Besides, night vision, even in cats and other animals, has a tendency to be monochrome (varying shades of one color), not multi-colored. Eyeballs, in both people and animals, have two things translating vision - rods and cones. Rods are responsible for sight at low light levels - basically, night vision. Cones are responsible for color and are what we mostly use when there is actually a decent amount of light.

Humans have a pretty good amount of cones, allowing us a full range of color vision (unless you have color blindness), but we have a shitty amount of rods, giving us poor night vision. Animals like cats have the reverse of that. They have a really good amount of rods, which gives them superior night vision, but the amount of cones that they have gives them weak color vision, so they don't see as many colors as we do. Even if they did have a lot of cones, rods do not process color like cones do, and cones do not have the ability to process information in low light like rods do. Rods give you night vision without a range of colors, period.

So, imagine that the only difference that Blake's eyeballs have over a Human's is that hers have more rods. That still means that her night vision is basically monochrome. If Ilia takes on a color that's similar to the rest of the environment (dark blue), then her shade of whatever color Blake is seeing (like, gray or dark blue) might not be too off.

Note how Ilia's cover was countered by fire not only lighting up the room, but also turning the room orange with its light. Funny enough, on the color wheel, orange is the opposite of blue, meaning they make each other stand out more.

13. I dunno what Sun was doing. Maybe taking out other WF members before heading over there?

Fennec: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I think Sun attacked Ilia because he was pretty sure Ilia was the one who hurt Blake and wanted to prevent her from continuing to. I mean, if Blake hadn't gotten through to Ilia, then Sun running over to help Blake stand up would've been stupid because that would've left both of them open for Ilia to zap them. Sun didn't know that Ilia was temporarily non-combatant.

14. I think Sun's clones ran like monkeys in Ilia's Blake's character short, and it was weird then too.

15. I'm pretty sure the dagger changing from wind to fire Dust was an inconsistency because the sound that it made seemed to be from the fact that it charged up. If you watch closely, the red glow travels up the spiral from the hilt to the tip, rather than all of it glowing at once.

Also, the change from white to red happened in a single frame. I'm not even kidding. I broke that part down into the individual frames, flipped through the pictures, and saw it just suddenly POOF turns red.

There is nothing to indicate that it can switch to another type of Dust, considering it seems that the Dust is contained in that cylinder at the end of the hilt. Unlike Myrtenaster, these daggers don't have a rotating chamber with multiple vials or anything. It's just one single cylinder stuck onto the end of the hilt.

16. Heavy stuff is easier to haul over your back. Trust me, when I have to carry a heavy bag, it's much easier if I just sling it over my shoulder. It's still heavy, but it doesn't feel as heavy and doesn't drag me down as much as if I just tried to carry it normally. That's why Blake turned her back toward Ghira and pulled the ribbon over her shoulder. Doing it like that makes it a lot easier.

It doesn't mean she's suddenly stronger, it just means she's using physics to her advantage. And she didn't really lift him off the ground, she just slid him out from under the balcony. With the balcony gone, the amount of effort that Blake was putting into pulling was suddenly more than she needed to pull just Ghira.

17. ..... Corsac was talking to the Belladonnas, not Fennec. He was saying that they ruined everything.

When the hell did Corsac say "he"? He said "What have you done? You ruined everything. EVERYTHIIIIIIING!!!" There is no "he" in there.

18. I dunno if you noticed, but those two guards who "died" in Alone Together actually did not die after all. Check it out:

I guess the White Fang members set their phasers to stun. I dunno why those two fainted. Drama?

19. I have a fun pic. I paused at the wrong/right time and just had to get a screenshot.