Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24573226-20161105124937/@comment-4010415-20161107020651

Nikoli the rebel wrote: 1. Blake refused to work with Sun to take down

2. the Hydra.

3. NOTE: Sun's line "My hero." is similiar to Wiess's line to Juane in Volume One when she lands on his back during the initiation arc. RT, don't reuse unfunny jokes.

4. The Captain should have said "General Quarters" instead of "All hands on Deck". This is basic naval terminology.

5. The ship's capatain calls the main armament the "Heavy Cannon". Seriously? Do the workers who make this Cannon call it the "Heavy Cannon"? The name is incredibly vague and would never be called this by a Captain. RT could have just as easily called it the "12 inch" or the "Main Armament". This really bothered me during the fight scene.

I really don't like this Captain. Maybe its because he doesn't talk like a Captain should talk or because he has unrealistic/corny dialogue. Either way he made me cringe and I can't wait until he is swallowed whole by Grim.

6. Sun does little to nothing during this fight. He distracts the sea monster and gives Blake a boost. Wow. Years training to be a huntsmen and thats all you can do? Pathetic. I used to like you.

7. Or better yet, the dying huntsmen could have warned of the Grimm getting more dangerous. It would have been a lot more emotional to hear it from a long time veteran and that scene would have helped delivery exposition because it was utterly useless to the plot. 1. She did help him, she was just annoyed and in disbelief that he'd been following her around for the past several months.

2. That... definitely was not a hydra. If it was a hydra, it would've grown more heads after they blew its head off. It was a sea dragon of some kind, though the arguments are between Chinese dragon, some kind of Celtic dragon I forgot the name of, and amphithere.

3. I actually found that line amusing, and it served as a setup to Sun catching Blake and telling her it was her turn to say it. I actually found that second thing funny, even though it made me go "You're trying way too hard, Sun."

4. Okay. And people who use sled dogs for travel say "Hike!" to get the dogs to run instead of "Mush!" but pretty much every movie under the sun (except Snow Dogs, which went in depth with its research due to the entire plot revolving around sledding) has people yell "Mush" at the dogs to get them to go. Even frigging Balto uses the word "Mush" multiple times, despite the plot heavily involving a sled team that was delivering medicine.

5. Again, welcome to the entertainment business, where even Hollywood tends not to do a whole hell of a lot of research on something and almost everyone falls into the same trap of going with what the general public thinks something is like.

6. Let me ask you something... Back in volume 1, what did Blake do in the fight against the Nevermore? Threw her kusarigama and held onto the ribbon with Yang so that Weiss and Ruby could use it as a slingshot. What matters is that teamwork was used and Blake would have had to do something different and possibly would've had a harder time without Sun there to assist. Sometimes giant Grimm take multiple people to take down.

7. There's a thing called "Show, don't tell" and the fandom used to get really fucking annoyed with RWBY for doing a fuckton of telling but barely any showing. The series kept going "Ohh the Grimm are these big scary monsters that are trying to wipe out mankind and they're the reason civilization isn't as widespread as it could be! Beware these dangerous monsters!" and then when the characters actually fought Grimm, the Grimm were often cannon fodder. Most fans felt like the Grimm weren't as much of a threat as the series kept saying they were until volume 3. You know why? Because the series kept SAYING they were but not SHOWING they were. Consistently showing that the Grimm are growing "more prevalent" (like Qrow said in volume 3) and stronger reinforces what the characters say! It's like the Faunus situation where they keep saying "Faunus are so discriminated against" but they barely show it! If they only say it but rarely show it, it's hard to believe the characters!!