Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20170108170343/@comment-2.80.229.69-20170121115551

Really, this is their chance to make Grimm a more imposing enemy. The Grimm overrunning Beacon is a lot less impressive given the role the White Fang, Cinder's crew, and the hijacking of Atlas tech played. It is also easier to make it convincing because Qrow is weakened. All we would need is for him to be healed up enough where he could fight.

The way I would see it is they fight that big Grimm, but it is proving too much for Ruby and Jaune. Qrow sends them off due to his bad luck charm and lets loose. Even though weakened he hasn't switched his weapon into its other form, presumably a scythe, so in a last ditch effort he whips that out and is able to take out the big Grimm. Despite being victorious large numbers of Grimm descend, too many for him to fight off due to already being weak and likely injured from the fight or maybe just too much for him to defeat without being too injured to survive. For extra drama they could come back with reinforcements and find him in the middle of a sea of dead Grimm as he is just bent on his knees perfectly still. Honestly, putting a Grimm there now would be pretty stupid. Qrow is already dying. All that needs to happen for him to not save him is not show a person who can help him appear. A strong Grimm wouldn't help making Grimm scary. For starters, it's clearly not about the Grimm - they seem to have a pretty minor role all things considered. 2nd) Qrow is no condition to fight anything at all, so fighting a Grimm right now, would not make a Grimm seem stronger and scarier; 3rd) Even if the result was to show Jaune and Ruby having no choice but to run, it would still make no sense. It's obvious they would have to fight it, since Qrow in his condition would never be capable of stopping a Grimm for a significant period of time and if the Grimm is that strong, it would go after Ruby and Jaune.

Grimm weren't impressive at Vale because of Torchwick, White fang and Cinder, but that scenario would make Grimm impressive? Killing a warrior who is already more dead than alive?