Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20141024002244/@comment-24219008-20141024041718

Late to the party tonight, dang it! But HOLY HELL that episode was absolutely incredible! Best so far! You've all pretty much summed up my thoughts, and I, too, believe that this mysterious woman ("Raven") is Yang's mother. Also, if you look closely at the clasp on her hip, you can see a sort of bird-like emblem that looks a lot like Raven's emblem from Teen Titans (DC Comics), so to call the woman "Raven" and assume that it's Yang's mother over Summer is pretty dang plausible, and I'm sure that's where Monty, Kerry, and Miles were going with it.

I was sooooo afraid something terrible was going to happen to Weiss, so glad she's not hurt (I stumbled across the spoilers two weeks ago when the first half of Ch 11 was aired at NYCC, so of course, I panicked a little). But holy heck, she's so much more powerful than I ever would've thought her to be! Dang, that fight scene with Chainsaw Goon was beautiful. And Blake's fight scene with Torchwick using the Dust to enhance her Semblance was just as incredible, and I have to give Monty some serious props for this episode! Definitely kept me screaming at my TV, and begging to know more. I have a very big, sinking feeling that the Grimm aren't all going to be cleared out by next episode, and that Vale's going to have to start to take drastic measures to get back on their feet.

Predictions for Volume 3 based on this episode alone:

- Grimm are still going to be infiltrating Vale

- People are going to automatically blame Team RWBY for the Grimm reaching the city, but that'll probably be cleared up pretty quickly, even though I'm sure the girls are still going to be subconciously blaming themselves

- Yang is going to go into full-obsessive mode over that woman, and she's going to learn some pretty "nasty" stuff about her that's really going to shake her up, and probably Ruby, too

- Blake's going to continue to try to figure out the WF's plan (assuming they've finally captured Torchwick, which I still get the feeling he'll get away, he's going to refuse to talk, so it's going to be up to Blake and Team RWBY and the teachers at Beacon to once again try to stop this infiltration and set things right), and Adam is going to come into the picture at some point another (please, please, please!)

- We may finally get some more info on the SDC and Weiss's father, but I have a feeling the next volume is going to pretty much revolve around Yang's mother and the continued infiltration of Grimm

Okay, but enough of these predictions, I'm going to go watch the episode again, because BEST EPISODE EVER!