Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-58.7.123.39-20151225104154/@comment-4010415-20151226020846

Actually, I think there's a good chance that the tournament is not going to get interrupted, and I'll love it if they don't have it get interrupted.

They've said before that they wanted to present us with seemingly-one-dimensional characters and tropes and such and then show us that there's something deeper there, so we'll see what happens.

Unfortunately, there's a lot of stuff scattered around in Volumes 1 and 2 that are important for understanding what is going on and things about Volume 3.

Volume 1:

Episode 1: The intro tells you the lore about the creation of mankind, the existence of Grimm, and the discovery of Dust. You meet Ruby, she has her first encounter with Roman, and you see how she got accepted into Beacon early. You also meet Yang.

Episodes 2 and 3: Meet Weiss and Blake.

Episodes 4-8: The initiation. Who gets partnered with who is obvious from the start (Ruby and Weiss, Blake and Yang, Jaune and Pyrrha, Nora and Ren). Important: You learn about Aura. The only other thing that's interesting is episode 8 because of the awesome fights.

Episodes 9 and 10: New type of Grimm, the Boarbatusk.

Episodes 11-14: Cliche "Jaune gets bullied" arc. The only important thing here is that Pyrrha tells us of the existence of Semblance. Apparently, we got a glimpse of Jaune's Semblance.

Episodes 15 and 16: The actual big important episodes of Volume 1!! So much stuff!! The drama, the reveals, the villains, the fights!

Volume 2:

Episode 1: Hey, we actually get to see the villains for more than 5 minutes!! Finally. Also, super awesome food fight.

Episode 3: Weiss stuff and Penny stuff.

Episode 4: Plotty plot and awesome fight.

Episode 5: Villains doing something, Blake causing a bit of conflict.

Episode 6: Blake's little conflict lead to us getting some Yang backstory!!

Episode 7: Pointless romance crap, buuuut the big boss villain does something very important that comes into play in Volume 3!

Episode 8: Lore about the Color Naming Rule.

Episode 9: Some character stuff about Weiss, Blake, Yang, and Oobleck, history about the ruined city Mountain Glenn, and the reveal of a new type of Grimm called Goliaths, who look like the may have a role to play in Volume 3.

Episode 10: More, much deeper character stuff about Weiss, Blake, and Yang. Also, plot stuff.

Episode 11: In my opinion, the BEST episode of Volume 2! Plot, fighting, awesomeness!!

Episode 12: If you ask me and a large portion of the fandom, the worst episode of Volume 2. But, as the finale, it has plot stuff.

Oh yeah, don't forget to watch the Red, White, Black, and Yellow Trailers. The voice acting in the Black and Yellow Trailers may not be great, but those two are the most important plot-related trailers. The show itself is easier to understand if you've watched the trailers, since the show tends to reference the trailers, we revisit the nightclub from the Yellow Trailer (and they reference the fact that we saw Roman for a second in the Yellow Trailer), and there's some important plot relevance to the Black Trailer (Blake's past, Adam, the train car full of Dust, etc).