Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25498704-20141101060520/@comment-25399914-20141101115121

Savahn wrote: 1-  Cinder's group has successfully positioned Atlas forces in Vale as security during the festival. Atlas troops will likely be "hacked" and used for as yet unknown purposes. Unless there is a larger goal than trying to "upset current world order", trying to take apart Vale and/or the other kingdoms seems like a pointless exercise given how the world of Remnant works - where Grimm will f-ck you up at every given opportunity.

It is common in such stories for a big boss to do a "big reveal to the world" when everybody is watching - which would be at the festival. So we'll just have to wait for more info. That might explain why they hacked into the Cross Continental Transmit Tower. If it's also used for military communication.

I think comments in a similar vain have been posted on other threads and my one issue with this is I'm not sure how could Cinder be sure Ironwood would try to take over security or even if he would be successful.

They might be in cahoots given how Cinder was able to supply Roman and White Fang with paladins but the last conversation between Ironwood and Roman doesn't point to this. Cinder could be playing both sides but currently that's just speculation.

Savahn wrote: 2-  A bet:  Torchwick blows up or otherwise puts a hole in Ironwood's shiny ship while escaping and laughs about it. Its just his style. Maybe he'll ask for his bowler hat back or a light. Then blows up a red dust crystal.

Savahn wrote: 3-  Coco is supremely overpowered - unless its stated that "Aura-block" can stop even her bullets (that can cut through death stalkers and nevermores) and then... good luck with the humongous hail of bullets from a rotary cannon - that's 6000 rounds a minute. She could be like Behemoth from Sword art online, good in a team but not so much on he own Savahn wrote: 4-  Yang's mum; Raven Branwen... I have this thought in my head that Raven is the "Queen". Not enough foreshadowing though. Vol 3 should clear this up. Personally I don't think so but no evidence either way.

Savahn wrote: 5-  Too many characters, too little time. The series episodes are already tiny at a quarter to half the length of normal cartoon episodes. We're missing out on a ton of character development while introducing a ton of new characters; from 4 main characters, 4 main secondary characters, a half dozen support characters and 4 main villains... what? Let's add another villain, 4 new student characters and then some. They need more money for more resources so we can have longer episodes. This is all really frustrating.

6-  We seriously need more character stories on the main 4. All of Team RWBY have great back story potential. Only Blake has had any significant story so far. Or at least spend more time with Team JNPR. They have the most space to develop as characters seeing as we know so little of them and Jaune has a big space to "grow up" in. I agree with these points to a degree. It does look like they are starting to do something about this hence Scarlet and Sage not being given screen time and there has been less screen time given to secondary characters like teem JNPR then last season. I don't mind secondary characters like CFVY not getting fleshed out, watch shows like the Battlestar Galactica Reboot and there are a lot of named characters who get little screen time and story or who get it vary late on yet it doesn't detract from the show.

One of my problems with volume one was that whilst I like Juane they focused on him more then Yang, Blake and Weiss giving him his own story arc yet leaving especially Yang with no real character.

I commented on a thread about Roman early during this that whilst I think he's one of the more interesting characters so far I'd prefer focus on team RWBY which really happened during this volume.

We've at least now learned about Ruby and Yang's relationship to each other and each of the girls motivation for attending Beacon.