Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20171229202410/@comment-34633327-20171231010926

Okay, now that I have gotten some sleep, I can give a more rational apraisal of this episode.

Weiss will almost certainly not die. Miles and Kerry aren't dumb enough to kill off one of the four lead characters before the volume is even over. As for the wound itself, people have made note that it possibly hit her liver, and that hopefully, the wound was cauterized by Cinder's weapon. Unfortunately, that still leaves some issues. If the wound was to her Liver, depending on the severity she will need a transplant. And considering we have no clue what her blood type is and whether anyone is a damn match, we can only hope the damage isn't bad enough to warrant it.

Leonardo I have lost all respect for. Remember how everyone gave up on Ilia after she trapped Blake? Well I'm giving up on Leo now. For what he is doing is far worse than what Ilia did. What Ilia did she did for "the betterment of the faunus" and she even acknowledged she didn't really know what else to do. Leonardo on the other hand knows he has betrayed Ozpin, yet is still willingly going further by considering handing Oscar over to Salem all to save his own ass. He is worse than Raven in that regard, for while Raven is justifying it as survival and for the sake of her people, Leonardo's is solely for himself, and his actions have led to more deaths than Raven's did. Yeah, he is the reason all those huntsmen are dead, he lead them to Hazel and Tyrian. Raven at the least kept to her own business when she wasn't ransacking villages, but Leonardo is helping the end of the world by doing this while only caring about his own ass! I don't frankly care if he was forced into this, because now, he has proven to be even more of a coward than his namesake, and doesn't deserve the name Lionheart.

Oscar fighting himself is definitely something. After all this time seeing Ozpin take over, I actually thought he was gonna do it again with Leo, but seeing the Small Farmboi fighting himself was awesome. The kid was holding his own against a trained huntsman for crying out loud, and with only a few weeks of training! Those quick strikes of his both reminded me, but also contrasted with, Ozpin's own fight with Cinder, because while Ozpin tried rapid fire jabs on her and defensive measures, Oscar goes straight in for bludgeoning. It'll be interesting seeing how his fighting style changes or develops.

Cinder....... I once liked her as an intimidating and entertaining villain. While she can still be intimidating, I no longer enjoy watching her, I just want Jaune to kill her. I frankly don't even care about her backstory anymore, she has truly earned the Complete Monster Trope on Tv Tropes. For while I could excuse her killing Pyrrha as taking out a possible threat and not engaging in Bond Villain Stupidity making it a strategically sound move, everything she did here was sadism for the sake of petty sadism. Disregarding him as if he was an ant, belittling him in his grief, and then attacking Weiss just to spite him when he was content with dying if it helped the others. Jaune was right to ask, how can someone like her take such pleasure in all this death? Just for power, to be feared, to be strong?! I hate Cinder as much as I hate Adam now.

This episode reinforces why I think Emerald can't be redeemed. She doesn't care for anything over than Cinder, the woman who saved her life. Even if she isn't okay with what Salem is doing, that doesn't matter so long as she can help Cinder. The only way I can see Emerald turning good is if she somehow loses her devotion to Cinder, seeing as there is now fat chance of Cinder ever turning good in my book. So for now, Emerald is irredeemable.

Raven. By god Raven you are almost as pathetic as Leonardo. The only thing saving you from being at his level is that you seemingly are doing this for the tribe and not just yourself. But by god, you really don't care if your brother and daughter die? Fuck you Raven Branwen. Fuck the Branwen tribe. The only saving grace of the tribe at the moment is Vernal, and thats only because she be excused as indoctrination to the tribe much like Ilia was indoctrinated to the White Fang.

Jaune..... Poor Jaune. I see people get pissed over him stealing spotlight that should belong to Ruby (Seriously, I see people saying the Jaune scenes in the past few volumes should have been Ruby's), but what he went through today.... By god I hope his semblance gets triggered and he at least disarms Cinder. The poor kid deserves to. I get that Ruby is suppossed to be Cinder's enemy, but Jaune is the more fitting one. He has a much more personal stake, for while Cinder killed two of Ruby's Friends and injured her teammate, she killed the woman that loved Jaune, and tried to kill the first woman Jaune loved. And kudos to Miles on the voice acting, pretty good imo. Jaune is rising to become one of my favs after seeing him willing to give his life to stop them, how much he has gone through, and just how he's changed from the Vomit Boy we first met.