Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181208003742/@comment-5430952-20181212215746

Nikoli the rebel wrote: Great episode. I was not expecting a good fight scene so soon. A note about the opening scene...

-->We learn that Cinder is trying to trick Salem. And we also know that Salem is keeping an eye on Cinder. So Salem knows that Cinder is purposefully twisting her rules. Neo is on board but might backstab. Cinder is trying to do her own thing and then after Ruby is dead she will come back to Salem.

If we assume that Ruby can't die then we can also assume that Cinder's plan will fail and Salem and Neo will be mad at her. I don't like this subplot. It is the exact same thing that happened in V5.I hope it gets less focus in the future or they wrap it up soon.

-->They definitely wasted a semblence on Tock. If I had seen the Tock fight without knowing her semblence then I would have still believed that her aura took all those hits and that by the end, she would be out. The semblence didn't change the fight. What we're seeing is Cinder's arrogance at work, she really believes she can pull a fast one on Salem, using Neo as a proxy to kill Ruby so she can't be held accountable. But as you said, it's probably doomed to fail, and I can see Neo backstabbing Cinder in the middle of it, it would serve her right for treating people as pawns. And even if her crazy plan does work, thinking Salem will be fooled for a second will be her undoing. Clearly this shows that Cinder has learned nothing from her defeat in Haven, though considering what an egomaniac she is, it's really not surprising.

As for Tock's Semblance, it doesn't just make her invulnerable, it also gives her a massive power boost for sixty seconds, enabling her to take out virtually anyone within that timeframe. That's how she was able to take on Maria in her prime, without it she would've been owned, she and all her men. So no, it definitely changed the fight, would've been a much different outcome without it.