Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20171229202410/@comment-40.133.171.156-20180102175919

This episode is V3 in a nutshell. High stakes. High risk. High reward. Emotional gut punches.

A small sidenote: In the beginning Qrow is hunched over but doesn't have his hands in his pockets. That really bothered me.

All this development out of Juane out of nowhere feels weird. I don't think they paced it well. If he was going to have a ton of development then they should have shown him interact with more people. However, less Juane ment we could actually develop Ruby so I will take what we get.

The fighting was.... ok. Weiss and Yang's fights were good, better than I expected. Weiss was better than Yang.

Ren and Nora were boring. They have literally no reason to fight Hazel and Hazel also doesn't seem to like to fight. Even in the fight, it looks like Hazel is just playing defense, not wanting to hurt children. He doesn't even try to strike back.

Overall, there was a lot of reaction shots and people standing still in the backround. Weiss was standing still for like a whole minute.

I think what would have made it better is if all the bad guys attacked instantly after Raven made the Summer remark. Make it feel like an actual ambush.

That ending. That ending. That ending. I am shaking. If they kill Weiss, I will be fine but I really hope they don't. I understand the show is called RWBY but damn this is hitting the feels.

Good news is that Blake was stabbed in the same place and survived. Furthermore, the spear burned up Weiss's wound so she won't be bleeding.

In hindsight, Weiss should have frozen Spring to the ground instead of putting up an ice wall.