Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-5430952-20181103172633/@comment-25936766-20181109230821

Ok. Finally, once my semester was over, I managed to watch the episode. And while I know it's incredibly late since the next ep comes out tomorrow, I'll still share my thoughts about the ep.

Also someone ping me in Discord when Ep3 comes out so I can post all the fantastic shots of the ep. Some are quite exploitable.

1) Whoever thought Cinder was dead for real, I will laugh in their face so hard that my jaw will drop.

I will also laugh on the face of whoever thought that Ruby carrying a shrunk-down Relic of Knowledge in the trailer was because she was The Chosen One.

2) "On the bright side, we're finally getting out of this house". My opinion of Nora has increased by 5 points.

3) Who is Maria's VA? Because I'm seriously questioning the idea of giving a character an obviously-spanish name with a Dia de los Muertos aesthetic, and then giving her a VA that can't even pronounce her own character's name right.

I mean, seriously, who the fuck pronounces "Maria Calavera" as "Madia Caraberha"? It's not even hard; Ma-ree-ah Ka-lah-beh-rah, to put it in a "simple english-speaking joe" manner.

4) I really, really, really want to know who was the man of culture who came up with the idea of a Djinn that looks like a 100%-naked and attractive blue woman. It's lewder than some mature series I've seen.

I mean, come on, if they wanted to keep it "family-friendly" they could've given her some Shantae-style arabian ballerina clothes instead of putting her naked with only barbie doll anatomy as the countermeasure. Even Aladdin's Genie bothered to wear pants.

5) On a side note, I hope that most people don't seriously think Djinn's name is Jean or Jeanne, or that she's related to Jaune because the names sound similar.

6) I was liking the episode until the part where Cinder was walking to meet with Lil´ Miss, where something caught my eye and hurt my suspension of disbelief.

They show pictures of the characters's faces twice. First for Adam, Cinder, Merc, Emerald and Hazel. Then for RWBY+JNR. Ok.....The problem is that they used shots from Vol.2 at least, Vol.3 at most (except with Hazel).

First of all, they stand out big-time with the miles-superior Maya visuals and especially with V6. I literally cannot imagine why they would even think of taking faceshots from Vol.3 and using them, and not from Vol.5, when the latter would look far more consistent and just plain better.

Hell, Ruby looks like fucking Casper. They didn't even bother to take their faces with the updated visuals and models, even though they do have Maya versions of their V1-3 outfits (for RWBY at least), and have shown them to us already.

Or at least, they didn't use updated character models. I noticed Nora's Magnhild has some blue stuff on the head that wasn't there before in her V3 pic. Which only leaves me even more confused.

And second of all, how did Cinder take any of those shots of RWBY and JNR? They were from the tournament, but they are so up-close and up-front that it looks more as if she went up to the arena and took them right in their face. She didn't even sit in the front row seats back then.

And third of all, why would she keep all those pictures for a freaking year on her phone? She didn't even remember who Jaune was, what the fuck is she doing with a pic of him from back in the Vytal Tournament on her Scroll?!?!

And fourth of all, though smaller than the previous one; what's the point in-universe on using those pics? They are a whole year old. Merc and Em look mostly the same, but Cinder looks completely different with the scar and clothes and haircut, and Adam is wearing different clothes altogether. And the same goes for RWBY+JNR.

7) Oh yeah, what did Cinder call Lil´ Miss? I heard something that sounded like "Kyde" but I'm not sure if it's actually Kyde or if it's Kayle or something else.

8) Lil´ Miss has a really strong accent. I can barely understand what she's saying. This show really needs captions.

9) Are Weiss and Yang just gonna spend the entire Volume being the designated "Ozpin is an asshole and cannot be trusted" characters for the rest of the Volume? I get the point, Ozpin hides stuff even when it's basic info, but at this point it feels more like they're just demonizing his every decision for the lulz.

Yes, he keeps things from them for understandable (though not flawless) reasons, but from the way they react to it you'd think Ozpin mutilated babies. Hell, they outright draw (or get ready to draw) their weapons out at Qrow just for daring to speak up.

It's quickly getting old and unbearable, especially since Yang and Weiss don't even have a good reason to oppose Ozpin so much. They were simply told that Ozpin has shady secrets, from Raven, who spent all of Vol.5 bullshitting more than Ozpin ever did in the first 3 seasons.

Sure, she told Yang to question everything, but I think Yang's taking that life-tip way too much to heart, and Weiss is no better for acting like a "Yes" Woman to Yang instead of drawing her own opinion.

If it was Jaune who was acting like that it'd be far easier to tolerate, because so far, with Yang, Ozpin willingly gave Qrow and Raven the power to turn into birds, and that's horrible for some reason. Jaune, meanwhile, resents him because he got Pyrrha killed, indirectly.

But sadly, the show's morality is so simplistic that I have no doubt that if this continues Yang and Weiss will never be painted as possibly being in the wrong or at least excessive about it, because they are the heroines, and our heroines could never do something wrong.

10) You know, the entire scene, for all it's drama, becomes kind of hilarious when you imagine how it must look from Maria's perspective. Did she even know the Relics were a thing? Did she even know Ozpin is in the body of a 14 year old?

As far as we know she's a total stranger who's just there to tag along, and yet everyone's having this big discussion and calling this kid Ozpin and then there's the glowing blue ball which is something called a Relic and then this giant blue woman came out and said something about questions and then everyone's in this white void seeing random shit.