Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4010415-20170717151617/@comment-4010415-20170721181257

I still wish that, instead of having that awkward scene of Weiss rearranging her bedroom furniture, they had her look into her mirror, touch her scar, have a quick summary flashback of what was shown in the manga, then show her get fed up, walk over to her desk (have Myrtenaster's case moved to the desk, btw), open the case, and take out Myrtenaster.

What we got:

Weiss cries for a bit, and then airships fly past her window. She looks up, looking fed up, probably getting the idea to stow away on an airship. Calmly rearranges her bedroom furniture... to represent rebelling against being perfect, I guess? Takes out Myrtenaster and smirks.

This kind of ended in her looking like a spoiled brat deciding to run away from home because daddy took away what she wanted.

What could have been:

Weiss goes to her room, crying, and catches sight of herself in her mirror. She looks into the mirror and touches her scar, and we transition into a flashback, where she's in the Schnee training room and the Arma Gigas enters. Maybe they could've shown flashes of her fighting it with voiceovers of the conversation from before the fight.

Secretary: "Your father said that if you continue to insist on going to Beacon, you must defeat it. The Schnee Dust Company put multiple specimens of Geist inside, and it is now three times stronger than the original model."

Weiss: "So you're basically telling me that I don't stand a chance."

Arma Gigas' fist comes toward the camera, cut to black.

Secretary: "Precisely."

Blood drips onto the floor, Weiss stands back up and readies Myrtenaster again, view of her face, transition back to present day where the blood fades away to her scar with Weiss looking fed up. And then she storms over to the desk and grabs Myrtenaster, determined to summon the very thing that gave her that scar.

What would we get from this version? Well, she'd look a bit less like a spoiled brat running away just because daddy took what she wanted, and it'd show us that her relationship with her father has always been... complicated? Unsteady?