Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20180105193053/@comment-5808856-20180106195704

SpiritedDreaming wrote: I am honestly disappointed in Jaune's semblance if it actually is healing. I'll accept it, but I was sincerely hoping they wouldn't do something so cliched. Especially since they showed Cardin literally bouncing off Jaune and cradling his wrist after the big flash of light, so a shield makes way more sense in context of the scene where we were told 'this is the first hint of his Semblance'.

I am also disappointed in Hazel's reason for joining Salem. "Boo hoo, my sister made a choice to join a dangerous profession and got killed. I'm gonna get angry at the man who was peripherally involved, the Headmatser of the school, instead of the teacher who was with her at the time or her old teammates. While I'm at it, let me join the big evil who wants to wipe out humanity." It's just petty. I was with Phantom in theorising that Ozpin had possessed the body of Hazel's father and he hated him for taking his father away when he was a young man. It would have made things more personal and been a legitimate reason to hate Ozpin for being who he is.

Cinder has a Grimm arm. That's cool. So that's how she's going to do the Magic Absorption, since the glove sort of disappeared and infused itself with her.

And Raven is the Spring Maiden. That's cool too. The bait-and-switch worked very well. Could be a two-part semblance. Remember Nora can absorb lightning AND boost her strength with it. Weiss has a variety of gliphsand Blake can use dust to enhance her shadow clones.

Maybe it is healing AND reflecting damage.