Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20130802021443/@comment-4830106-20130808152446

BenRG wrote: Here's a firm prediction:

Episode 4 - The kids are woken up at Oh-Dark-Hundred hours and hussled into their combat gear before warm-up exercises followed by a nice, bracing run around the campus carrying their full combat loads. Once Glynda has them nicely hyperventilating, she drags them back inside to a sort of assault course that combines skill, strength and intelligence tests. We get to meet the three JAUN kids whilst everyone is in the queue waiting for their turn.

The episode ends with Glynda snapping out: "Rose, Ruby!" As Ruby steps up to the starting gate, Glynda mutters to her: "Now we'll see if you're worth the faith the headmaster has put in you, little girl."

Episode 5 - More than half of this will be Ruby's run through the course, shortened for run time as necessary. The end will be her trying to catch her breath and listening to Weiss's panicked babble that she screwed up and, oh God, daddy will kill her if she's washed out on the first day! Ruby tries to make her feel better; Weiss is dismissive but looks slightly happier that someone has treid to reach out to her.

The episode ends with the scores up; all eight key characters have passed with moderate-to-high scores. Ozpin comes onto the stage and announces that, based on the assessment results, they have been grouped into teams with whom they'll be working for the rest of their time at Beacon. They will know by the colour on the key-fob to their dorm room who is their team-mate. Ruby, Yang, Weiss and Blake all have blue fobs; Jaune, Nero and the two girls have red.

The four girls are looking at each other uncertainly when Glynda replaces Ozpin at the mike. "Okay, everyone, get settled into your dorms;" she announces. "From tomorrow, it's for real!" I like it. Interesting, yet totally believable at the same time. Nice twist at the end too.