Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140905003518/@comment-47.55.216.111-20140910000933

I'm a little late to the party:


 * I knew the bumblebee shippers were going to have a field day with the moment I saw this.


 * I was both amused and surprised at the laser-pointer gag, since it seems more then a little racist.


 * Since Ruby specifically mentioned it: what's up with the girls and impractical footwear?  Weiss isn't even the worst offender.  Both the former stealth terrorist and the champion fighter wear heels into combat.  Even Nora's boots have a bit of a heel to them.  Glynda, Cinder, Emerald, the Twins - they all wear heels when fighting.  The only sensible ones seem to be Ruby and Yang, both of whom wear tough heavy boots.

One, that everyone assumes the Qrow as an uncle thing is now confirmed. What I got out of it was the exact opposite, that he's was likely an honorary uncle by dint of being a teammate and close friend of their father's. And two, that it would be assumed that Ruby was a toddler when Summer died. If you pay attention to how Yang is speaking during her talk with Blake, you can see that there are actually two separate stories she's telling, one where she accounts about how Summer died, and the other where she talks about her own mother. These two stories don't have anything to do with each other and are not necessarily in chronological order. Red Like Roses part II seems to imply, at least to me, that Ruby was considerably older then a toddler when her mother died, likely in the seven to ten year old range.
 * In reading the previous posts in this thread, two things I suspected were going to happen are indeed happening:


 * As at least one other person has already mentioned, I'm against Sloth simply because the close childhood friends getting romantically involved thing has been done to death and I'm sick of seeing it.  Two people of the opposite gender can be very close friends without romance happening, but you'd never know it by what tv shows us.  So I choose to take Nora's 'not together-together' line at face value.


 * Something that has been bouncing around in my head for awhile was really emphasized in this episode: that these are mixed dorms and that's gotta be awkward.  I wonder how Nora or Pyrrha's parents are feeling about the fact that their daughters are sleeping in the same room as two boys?


 * I'm glad that Nora finally got a serious line.  She needs more depth to her character.  It's nice to see.


 * We have confirmation that Weiss really does sing and thus the event in the white trailer was probably not metaphorical as some people believed.  Now the question is when exactly Jaune had opportunity to hear her sing.


 * Several people seem to reading more into Yang not saying her mother's name then I think is really there.  People don't refer to their parents by name unless they have to.  Think about your own parents, when you picture them is it their names or simply 'mom' and 'dad' that comes to mind as labels?