Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20141031002615/@comment-9090085-20141101201612

Maki Kuronami wrote: You know what would actually change the context of the entire fight?

If CFVY's theme didn't kick in.

Because their theme is awesome, we're lead to think the Grimm didn't make an impact at all.

Now if a theme akin to Attack on Titan's... "Attack ON Titan" theme was playing. Even though they're winning, we're gonna be lead to think that the Grimm may be a threat.

That and no strong Grimm actually chimed in during the fight. Only the lowest tier showed up.

Well, maybe; but i think the fight would have been more "dramatic" if Team RWBY looked like they were in actual danger before JNPR showed up. Yeah, Yang got hit by some man-sized Nevermores, but she got back up and punched a car. And the second-lowest tier Grimm like the King Taijitu mostly just stood around looking menacing, before being smashed like clay jars.

I think we would have found the RWBY's fight more desperate if the King Taijitu lunged at Ruby instead of hissing at her, and ended up biting Cresent Rose; then it "stands up", with Ruby dangling from it's mouth. Then Nora flies in and hits the King Taijitu in the head much like before. At that point we wouldn't care that the King Taijitu went down in one hit, because it was obviously close to killing a main character; it made a real contribution to the battle; and Nora's rescue of Ruby would have been awesome.

Besides, once JNPR, the Not-Bullheads and their AK-200 squads, Mercury, Emerald, Zwei, and Oobleck have joined the fight, it's essentially a mop-up operation. That doesn't mean I don't think Coco destroying 4 larger Grimm 3 seconds was too much. They could have had the Death Stalker get taken to bits over the course of, say, 5 seconds of fire; that would maintain the idea that it's tough but can still die to heavy weapons. And having Coco kill the 3 Giant Nevermores was just plain unnecessary; that could have been removed entirely(seeing as there was not hint of Giant Nevermores being around at all), or they could have been the same size as the ones that attacked Yang.

What's really sad is the changes I just mentioned probably wouldn't change the length of the fight by more then a few seconds, meaning it wouldn't affect the "Story Half" of the episode at all.