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Mercen-X wrote: Episode letdowns (based on the V2O):

Junior and the twins really played no role in the volume's events despite their appearance in the opening.

Despite members of CRDL and Penny being with the falling students in the opening, none of them played a role in the finale Grimm spree.

Sun and Neptune lent nothing to the battle either.

The opening also implied that RWBY would be on to Cinder at least by the end of the volume. Though this was admittedly unlikely to begin with.

One prediction I made came true. Scarlet and Sage played no role in anything much less the final battle there. My Episode Letdowns:

That really awesome entrance from the opening didn't occur. Neither did the duels between Yang and Mercury, Weiss and Emerald, Blake and Roman and Ruby and Cinder.

The battle had no real lasting repercussions. It was a simple one sided slaughterfest in which everything was fixed and all the previously scared townspeople in the previous episode went back to eating sugar and rainbows and playing with ponies. It wasn't like "The situation is hopeless, let's go down fighting", followed by a desperate battle in which it seems like they're losing before help arrives, and the tide turns against the Grimm, followed by a bittersweet ending, they've driven the Grimm off, but many innocents lie dead or dying in the streets. Instead, the Grimm get crushed and Glynda goes around repairing smashed buildings and streets like she was deciding what to wear.

A single member of Team CFVY does what the entirety of team's JNPR and RWBY could not do.

The Council. All that's needed is an "Ah Yes, Reapers" moment.

The episode could have, ultimately, been done better. It should have been a grand finish to a volume that was building things up to a crescendo, but it instead becomes anti-climatic and makes the Grimm look like they could be killed by a five year old kid with a teddy bear.

"Ah yes, an exciting season finale, the idea that RWBY Volume Two would have a finale that would be regarded as the best episode of the volume, we have dismissed that claim."