Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-74.101.236.56-20170321065847/@comment-4010415-20170421133908

I don't think the Grimm beetle is only in Cinder's arm or her back or whatever. It's somewhere within her body and caused her whole body to count as weak against Ruby's silver eye flash. She had her left side more exposed to Ruby than her right, hence her left arm and the left side of her face getting wounded.

When the Nevermore landed in the arena, not only can you see Jaune and Pyrrha getting blown back, you also see one of Penny's swords go flying through the air with them.

It's pretty much Rooster Teeth's style, I guess. Even with Red vs Blue, they've always made RvB seasons long enough to be movies but not much longer than that. There's just something about them wanting to make each season of RvB and RWBY into something where, when you buy the DVD or Blu-ray, you can watch it as episodes or all together as one movie.


 * A Minor Hiccup - She was eager to go do the mission she and the rest of Team RWBY gave themselves, and Port wasn't really giving a lesson, but rather just telling a long, drawn-out story. They seem to be going with a joke that Port has a habit of telling long stories about hunts he went on just to brag about his exploits as a Huntsman, hence his many trophies around the classroom.
 * She seemed to have no combat experience in the initiation. Her training had taken place at home against robots (according to the manga), and training and spars tend to take place in controlled environments. It felt like her thoughts were supposed to convey to us that she had no combat experience outside of controlled environments, thus she had to remind herself of what her training taught her.
 * Shaking a leaky vial for the sake of a "comedic" scene. Miles and Kerry need to learn that "Because it would be funny" is not a good reasoning to do something in RWBY. The entire reason Jaune chased after Weiss for so long was because they thought it'd be funny if Jaune had a crush on her.
 * Her rapier does have an edge to it. Its blade is not like a regular rapier's.
 * "Right foot forward" - another example of them not going back and changing the script or recorded dialogue when plans change. Weiss was going to be right-handed for a while, but then Monty decided she should be left-handed so it would be easier for him to animate her fighting, as he had fencing training. Fencers put forward the foot that's on the same side that they are wielding their weapon on.
 * Stupidity for the sake of a "comedic" scene. And Weiss not knowing how to play board games because, I guess, she didn't play board games at home.
 * Weiss acting childish in volume 2 actually seems to be a result of Weiss trying to take the stick out of her ass and be more of a friend with everyone. Whenever I listen to Mirror Mirror Part 2, I end up thinking about Weiss thawing out her heart, taking the stick out of her ass, loosening up, becoming more goofy, etc when I hear this part: "And isolation's The price you pay And every friendship Is pushed away But bit by bit now A step each day I'm slowly starting To find my way"

All we really have on when Blake ran away in volume 1 is: Sun finds Blake crying at the statue on the night she ran off, and later Sun and Blake are sitting at a cafe during the day. Ruby wakes up one morning, looks at Blake's empty bed, and seems sad. Sun says to Blake "Nearly two days, and you've given me nothing but small talk and weird looks", and Ruby says to Weiss and Yang "She's been gone all weekend." When they finally find Blake, Weiss says "You know how long we've been searching? Twelve hours." Did she mean that day or in total? I guess we'll never know. Maybe they really did expect her to come back at some point during the weekend, and when they realized she wasn't going to, they went out looking.

Yeah, Weiss probably didn't think that through. She may have also been desperate to get away from Jacques for a while, hence insisting on attending Beacon instead of Atlas. The song It's My Turn paints their relationship as Jacques being really controlling, and Weiss now celebrating that she has taken control of her life and is no longer controlled by him. And yeah, it was a terrible decision to reveal all of that in the manga and make no mention of it in the show. They finally explain why Weiss was fighting the Giant Armor and what it is, show that she did get her scar during that fight, and show that Winter was the one who snapped Weiss out of obeying their father... and all of that was shown in the manga. Tsk tsk.

Lol, Port the round one. I dunno if RWBY vs ABRN was the very first round of the tournament, since it seems like they went to the fairgrounds for victory food shortly after their fight, and Cinder's group had already had their fight. Which makes it make even less sense that Port and Oobleck waited until then to explain how the tournament works. Did we really need to have an explanation, though? In that same episode, Team RWBY and Emerald talk about moving up to the doubles round and mention that Team RWBY got to choose who in their team would go, so from that, we would've been able to easily deduce that the winning teams choose two people to move on to a doubles round.

"Writers can't do math" is pretty much a half-joking saying that pretty much means "A lot of writers are bad at adequately laying out things that happen over a certain timeframe off-screen." It's used in reference to when things don't make sense with the timeframe given, such as how some things in volume 4 don't make sense if the timeskip really is 6-8 months.

Volume 4 would've been best if it didn't have a timeskip. They were way too eager to rush everyone toward Mistral for the next big event in the story. It would've been a lot better if they had slowed down and let volume 4 be about
 * RNJR journeying across Sanus, getting to Anima, and journeying there as well, while dealing with their grief, learning new things, fighting Grimm, becoming more capable fighters, making their arsenal better (Ruby's Dust bullets, Nora's weapon upgrade), etc.
 * Blake traveling across Sanus to catch a boat to Anima, then another boat to Menagerie, with her discovering Sun following her at some point during that. Along the way, they encounter Grimm and actual discrimination toward Faunus.
 * Weiss' story literally could've stayed the same, to be honest.
 * Yang dealing with her PTSD and depression, and Tai trying to help her through it. Could've even had an episode where Yang wakes up from a nightmare, experiencing phantom pain in her arm, and Tai comforting her.

Yep, the formula is that actiony stuff happens at the beginning, middle, and end of each volume, without fail. Volume 2 was less so on the middle part, but still.
 * Volume 1 - Beginning: Dust robbery + Glynda vs Cinder; Middle: RWBY and JNPR vs Nevermore and Death Stalker; End: Fighting Roman and the White Fang on the docks
 * Volume 2 - Beginning: Food fight; "Middle": The real "mid"-season action was the Paladin fight; End: No Brakes and Breach
 * Volume 3 - Well, volume 3 had action throughout, due to the tournament.
 * Volume 4 - Beginning: Geist fight; Middle: Tyrian fight; End: Nuckelavee fight

Maybe Winter's real importance, aside from her encouraging Weiss in volume 3, will be her role in Mistral in volume 5. Only time will tell. And yeah, the fight scenes having more danger to them makes things better. They were fun to watch before, but you never really felt that worried about the main characters, and the bad guys they fought felt like chumps who they were definitely gonna defeat. To be honest, that's a big source of why Adam cutting Yang's arm off had such a huge impact. We got used to the bad guys almost always losing, and we got used to Yang's Semblance being the automatic win button. I dunno about anyone else here, but as soon as Yang activated her Semblance, I thought "Oh, he's in for it now. She's gonna kick his ass." Because that's always what happened - Yang activates her Semblance, opponent loses.

I really hope Ruby's dreams about Pyrrha don't mean much of anything.

Miles said that Semblance uses Aura as fuel, and Emerald didn't get hit yet had lost Aura, so Flynt not losing Aura was probably just an inconsistency, or he lost less than 1%.

@the age thing: I guess. They did say they want to avoid sexualizing the characters, hence making the models in a way where we don't get panty shots, so maybe they also didn't want a bunch of underage girl characters running around, like anime tends to have these days.

If the pools can disappear, then I guess it would make sense that no one has found them. I dunno, hopefully we'll get explanations someday.

Ironwood was flying a smaller transport ship, heading to his main giant airship. When he said "my ship", the show acted like he was referring to the giant one that Roman was in. "and to make matters worse, some... vagabond has seized one of my ships. Until we regain command, the skies are out of our control." - said in Battle of Beacon. "I still need to get to my ship." - said in Heroes and Monsters, just before the giant airship Roman was in crash lands and Qrow says "Well, it won't be much of a walk."

It's not necessarily how many jobs you have, but rather how many government jobs you have. Weiss said that Atlas' government, military, and Huntsman academy are all merged as one unit. Ironwood is head of two sectors of Atlas' government and, thus, has two seats in the council. It's still a really stupid idea, and they should've made him choose one or the other and work in partnership with whoever heads the sector he doesn't take. But nope, let Old Paranoid "Shoot them before they shoot me" Ironwood have that much power.

I more so meant the "never again" thing being that they want to prevent the types of issues that Monty caused when he made epic fight scenes unleashed. Miles had no idea that he had Penny cut airships in half, and Miles was pissed off for a few minutes before calming down and deciding "It's okay. Penny's powerful. She can do that." That anger stemmed from Monty and Shane repeatedly trying, sometimes jokingly, to have the student characters do ridiculously powerful things that they reasonably shouldn't be able to do, like Blake cutting a fucking train in half in the Black Trailer. Monty had Ruby do an epic whirlwind tornado move during the food fight, and we didn't see her do anything similar to that until the Character Short, when it would've been helpful before that. Presumably, she wasn't really supposed to be able to do that yet in volume 2, but Monty thought it'd be cool, so he said "Fuck it". Monty had Coco explode a Death Stalker and cut a Nevermore in half with bullets, and Miles and Kerry had to nerf her in volume 3.

They've been trying to solve that disappearing nose issue since the beginning of time. But with volume 4 having dynamic shadows, I guess they didn't wanna paint shadows onto the textures on the undersides of their noses anymore. They really need to find a way to make Sun's abs still obviously exist when the lighting doesn't cast the right shadow on them.