Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140905003518/@comment-209421-20140905125312

Also, I just rewatched the episode with a sixteen year old girl, my younger sister. The two of us agreed, there is literally NO romantic undertone to Yang and Blake's scene. My sister is a shipping radar. She can sense a ship a mile away, and is a violent supporter of her favourite ships, especially in things like Avatar. But, to note - Blake wasn't blushing when Yang winked. Yang's wink was a promise, not a flirt, and that's how I choose to see it. Also, if that scene was going to ship-tease, then there'd be more than two girls shouting at each other, pushing each other, then hugging it out. That's just how teenaged girls are, judging by observation.

If anything, this episode is important not because it teases Bumblebee, since Eclipse/Black Sun has more in-universe support than ever. This episode is important because of what it reveals about Yang and Ruby. Sure, the JNPR sub-arc is there. There are unanswered questions about Ren and Nora, about Pyrrha's ultra-kind nature. But the biggest mystery of the four main characters was Yang, and now we know more about her... Miles and Kerry are brilliant writers, and Barbara is a fantastic voice actress. That scene could have been screwed over in so many ways, but they kept it toned down. The ship tease wasn't deliberate, nor was it, in my eyes, planned. What they planned was to give the truth behind the woman Yang was searching for in the Yellow trailer, to reveal the truth of Yang and Ruby's parentage, to hint more about Qrow, and above all, to reveal what a remarkable young woman Yang is. Because, what we can conclude from this episode is simple - Yang essentially raised Ruby. And she's only two years older.