Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20131101010653/@comment-174.78.145.156-20131102092853

EP 15 as a whole wasn't particularly surprising, other than the introduction of new characters, which you can't really anticipate.

-Bake comes out as a faunus, as if the forums here weren't clawing their eyeballs out over confirmation one way or another. I'm just glad they got it settled early, and quickly.

-Weiss continues to be a catalyst for internal trouble by suddenly (albeit justifiably) establishing an anti-faunus stance. Her 'friendship' capital has been spent early for continuing to be a general nuisance of herself.

-While leaving room for plot twisting as always during ep 16, the opportunity to press big-arc storyline is given up for the small arc tournament storyline and a lot of team infighting.

Oum isn't keeping a whole lot of the small stuff in reserve to crop up later, and builds a bit on White Fang as potential antagonists from Weiss/Blakes angle, keeps Roman on the back-burner, and drops the Grimm threat as antagonists of any merit.

One wonders whether Beacon is a monster-hunter school or just a deluded elite soldier school, because the Grimm have certainly dropped out of any relevance at all, especially since many of all of the larger variants (to date) have had their heads exploded, impacted, or ripped off by teenagers. The only antagonists of any merit are human (or faunus).