Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20170206193307/@comment-28345522-20170217052327

But that's a major component of the conflict KNN. The conflict is the villians have been preparing long before the show's start and waiting and preparing until the time was right and they lashed out, and they lashed out hard.

Their goal was to knock 'em on their asses so that they can continue to steamroll the world and achieve whatever it is specifically. And they were competent enough to complete part of that goal, and they're continuing with that plan. The heroes are in a steep uphill battle against the vilians, and I think it's great they're going down this route.

The villians doing whatever they want while the heroes are held back because they have morals and consequneces for these actions is tired trope but it's not the worse. It's pretty sensible if our protagonists are trying to stop a villain do immoral crimes while in the bounds of the law because that's what they're trying to uphold. When that doesn't happen you go into anti-hero territory, and no one in RWBY is an antihero.