Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24573226-20161003151422/@comment-25396609-20161004125819

Weiss I could maybe see, or (more likely) the bars on the window are to protect her the White Fang has it out for her entire family, and they recently helped destroy the school she had been attending.

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Blake is literally standing on a dock staring forward into the sunset, in a world with boats that's like the opposite of not being able to see a way;

In fact, how do we know she isn't looking forward and waiting for a boat to arrive?

Or maybe she's looking back, watching the boat that dropped her off leave?

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I think you're reading too far into camera angles meant to convey their updated appearances. Notice how no characters appear in-person in any of their scenes?

Why single out Yang for that?

She is staying in her childhood home because that is where she lives when she's not at Beacon, which is currently in ruins.

I wouldn't exactly call 'an obvious tree stump in the front yard' isolated. For all we know she was just sitting outside waiting for Taiyand and Zwei to get ready before heading into town.