Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190126081959/@comment-2238912-20190126184728

And at last we have reached the finale. I must say, this episode was... a mixed bag. There wasn't anything outright bad, but there wasn't much that was amazing.

1. First we check up on Cinder and Neo, who have procured a ship and plan to use Neo's illusions to disguise the ship as an Atlas battleship. And I'm just gonna say it: I'm not a fan of their new outfits. Neo looks like a waitress in a bar and like BlizzardDragon said, Cinder looks like she stepped right out of Pirates of the Caribbean. Also, Cinder, sweetheart, black is definitely not your color. You looked so much better in red. Though I thought the call back to the Volume 3 finale was clever.

2. Then we see the fallout of the mess made by Cordo's pride: the Leviathan is heading straight towards Argus and the defense system is utterly useless. So, as we all predicted, Ruby decides that the only way to stop it is to use her Silver Eyes. While I liked that her plan didn't succeed immediately to show that she's not infallible, Djinn freezing time to give Ruby a chance to use her power felt like a blatant Deus Ex Machina. Granted, Ruby called her by accident, but it kinda killed the moment for me.

3. We finally get to see Summer Rose's face. To be honest, I wasn't that excited about it. I always suspected that she basically looked like an older version of Ruby and this episode pretty much confirmed it. Still, it was a pretty awesome moment.

4. And when Ruby's Silver Eyes fail to completely incapacitate the beast, Cordo steps in to deliver the coup de grace. And in a surprising display of Character Development, finally lets them go to Atlas. Still think she's a bitch though.

5. Speaking of Character Development, Qrow finally realizes what a idiot he's been throughout the volume and I found his little pep talk with Maria adorable.

6. We find out that Ozpin's the one who helped Oscar land the plane last episode. Good to know he hasn't just been hiding in Oscar's head the last nine episodes.

7. And we come to the ending. Atlas looks ready for an invasion and Salem is preparing for war. Hopefully this means she will finally take a more active role in the series. And it looks like Volume 7 is prepared to usurp Volume 3 as the darkest Volume in RWBY.

And so, Volume 6 comes to a close. It's been an incredible ride and a vast improvement over Volume 5. I am definitely looking forward to what Volume 7 has in store.

Keep moving forward, RWBY, keep moving forward.