Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25498704-20141101060520/@comment-25498704-20141103105852

@ Logic1984

Regarding (1) how Cinder could be sure Ironwood would take over security - exactly as it has been depicted. Undermine Ozpin's authority, allow Ironwood to show off his droids. She chose a period of time wherein a lot of the students and Beacon Academy staff would be out on missions. It would have been likely that if the plan had been on schedule, there would be even less Hunters around to respond to the mess. Already, 4 teams and 3 professors (and a doggy) made a big difference.

(3) It doesn't look that way. Coco looks completely able to handle herself in hand to hand. On top of that, the gattling cannon is a phenomenal support and direct kill weapon just looking at its performance in that one scene.

(4)  You're completely right. No evidence. Just a thought dump. Hopefully I'm completely off the mark.

(5-6)  Seriously. At least one semester should show some progress among the team members. I mean - consider that since season 1, we can see that Weiss now has a big direct damage sort of glyph - the ice sword thingy. Personally, I would have upgraded Blake's gun with a burst fire mode (e.g. Beretta 92F). This would more realistically depict both progress and power in taking out Grimm quickly as we saw. But at least we got to see her dust empowered. That made all the difference against Torchwick. Yang misses out a lot in this area.

But I really really would have appreciated more time for both story filler and character arcs for the rest of the main cast. It has to be recognized that the trailers and song lyrics have filled in a lot of back story but that's sort of cheating their way through.