Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181116204649/@comment-25936766-20181120184626

BlizzardDragon wrote:

1. You need to remember Qrow is not exactly the most mentally balanced person in general...

2. Remember, for the characters, they just learned that Salem is unkillable, and that Ozpin has had no plan, all in the span of five minutes after immediately witnessing Ozma's backstory, something that unnerved several of them watching it....

3. The villains side did do some things right.... 1) Look, that was already shown with the punch he gave Ozcar. I'm not saying he's the most sane person in the group. I'm saying that Qrow was talking as if meeting Ozpin was the worst thing to happen to him, when all things considered, it would've been worse if he hadn't, at least on a personal level.

If anything, the only part where you are right is that I shouldn't expect Qrow to give the most rational of statements. He's a sad little drunk tired of playing Despacito, why should I?

2) See, there's a big problem with that argument: They've been like this long before they even saw all that.

Yang was criticizing Ozpin all the way back in the train. She and Weiss were pointing weapons at Qrow just for "being peacekeeper" before they even asked Jinn anything. Blake herself was already ready to draw out her weapon the moment Ozcar got on his knees. Everything they did in this episode was nothing new, just more of what we already got in Ep1 and 2.

Your argument about them being all pissed and panicked over what they saw doesn't work, because they were already acting that melodramatically towards Ozpin before they saw anything. This episode gives them a fair reason for that attitude, but they've had that attitude since the season started even though their reasons were smaller and not proportionate to their Ozpin-hating.

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3) I get that. But it did not demand or need 2/3 of the episode just to get to the point or even to show most/all of the things you mentioned. Especially not when the episode is already at "Volume 2 Episode" length, including the intro.

In fact, they could've cut down a great chunk of Tyrian's "talk" with Emerald, since 80% of it has no purpose beyond "Crazy Guy Is Crazy". Emerald getting mad over shittalking Cinder? We knew that already. Merc defending her? Doesn't need that much screentime.