Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160117163823/@comment-26206856-20160118013810

80.192.6.40 wrote:

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: I find it interesting that they had Penny get torn apart by the wires on her swords rather than it being Pyrrha's magnetism. Admittedly, I'm a bit disappointed that they didn't have Penny get hacked or have the ships get hacked. Suppose despite them trying to be "dark" they weren't quite ready for "massacre a bunch of innocent civilians using a rogue android and hijacked battleships" dark. True, though maybe that's for next time. Also, hacking ships would probably be really hard, because I doubt those ships are designed to be remote-controlled. Binding all your weapons to a network to such a degree would be a bad idea.

I wonder if we'll see Vale's army proper next time. Penny wouldn't get hacked, and there was no need to hack the ships. Ironwood showed up at the arena because Penny was there. Neo stole his ship (the one that flew behind Ozpin before the match) and used his identity/scroll (info stolen from the hack a few eps back) to gain access to the main ship/destroyer Torchwick was on. Her disguise called for her hair to be black instead of brown, and she massacred everyone on board.

Thought Soup Time

I'm not sure why Zwei is back... he hasn't been in the dorms, and I thought he was with TaiYang on a mission. Adam is at Beacon's drop point, unleashing grimm at the school since the main wave is getting at the city.

Oz has his fighters go to the city to hold off the waves before they get too far in, and then encroach upon the school. The train/adam's drop off are supposed to make things more difficult by adding more panic and confusion while keeping containment/choke points harder to hold. The grimm were simply caged up and transported, not controlled.

It seems those traveling to the stadium need to leave their weapons aside before arriving, and the rocket lockers go to preset coordinates (codes) on the ground. (They wouldn't know that the coordinates were in the air, and I'm not sure how stationary a floating stadium is. )

The only communication down is the main broadcasts. Phones should work, but Ruby will be separated and proably worry her teammates when they can't contact her, possibly causing an explosive outburst or hotheaded berserking mistake from Yang thinking her sister could be dead. Winter is too far to arrive yet, and Cinder is in the city, not near the school. My confidence she has no idea Amber is still alive is only getting stronger. Since Oz doesn't realize there are grimm past the defensive line so to speak, he's expecting to lockdown the tower (maybe special forcefield like the stadium?) and maybe get Pyrrha to Amber as quickly as possible.

Cinder's plan is for a human cause, not a faunice one, but Adam is focused on taking advantage of the human's disadvantage at this point for revenge. Torch can easily start wreaking destruction in an Atlas ship, and get Atlas blamed for it as starting the war between countries.

The nevermore/stadium are interesting. We could see Ruby riding one down like in Vol 1, or we could see an evacuation from Beacon to the stadium. (If everyone panics and runs to their ship to leave, won't they be outside the force field and easily attacked by the nevermores?)

Penny will probably be back. Maybe her plan was to lose, just not like this, or maybe she's already transfered. (The blank robot stare through the entire fight was very... weird, especially when a lot of the animation was already completed and taken from Dead Fantasy 8).

What are we going to do with all the stolen dust? HMMMMM?