Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20141024002244/@comment-25308133-20141028044413

My take:


 * The woman that saved Yang was pretty obviously her mother.  Who is allied with the WF but is not necessarily a faunus.  We haven't seen any indication so far that faunus and humans are interfertile.


 * Yang and Weis got their asses kicked, but I feel this is more that the matches were sub-par.  It probably would have been better for Blake to fight Neo, since Blake's an agility fighter like Neo is; Then have Yang fight the Warhammer40k fan since they're both brute fighters; And have Weis fight Torchwick, since they're both the weakest of the bunch.  Of course since RWBY didn't really know anything about the enemies going in it really isn't there fault.  They'll know better in the future.


 * Why didn't Oobleck use his superspeed to zip to the front of the train and stop it while the girls fought the mechs? That seemed to be the better plan.  After all the objective wasn't to defeat all the enemies, it was to stop the train.


 * Ruby kinda got the shaft here.  No bad-ass battle for her.  In fact we haven't really seen her go all out in awhile, other then the team effort against Torchwick's mech.


 * I agree with a previous poster that a mech going down to a bat perpelled flaming corgi is pretty lame.


 * I'm a little surprised that Blake just gave Torchwich a boot to the head and didn't go for the kill, considering how strong her feelings against him are.


 * Dust can be used to influence semblance, good to know.