Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24038343-20131018021144/@comment-14265230-20131018065247

I really enjoyed Episode 14 as well.

[possible spoiler alert] I been thinking, the past four episodes (episodes 11 to 14) are related to the themes expressed in episodes 9 and 10. Basically this story arc demonstrates Ozpin's point about the burden of being a leader, and Ruby resumerized it to Jaun. We got to see Jaon learn this more hands on because 1) Ruby already knew that team comes before one's self and her problem was more about her behavior, 2) Jaun's problem was more personal and subtle than Ruby's, and 3) this allowed us the see more characterization of Jaon himself. Ruby did not need such face time because most of that was all established in the first 8+.

Another, possible more obvious or irrelevant, thought i've been haveing is that the first 8 episodes were the introduction to the world, the characters, the teams, and the major terms and themes that had to be established very early on. These most recent episodes (episodes 9 to 14) were to legitimize Ruby's and Jaun's standing as leaders and to ... "scratch at the surface of" topics that may (or will) come to greater light later. A good example of one such topics it the concept of "assemblance" ( or was it simple "semblance", idk). While the term is new, and get us fans curious on what it is, it is (i think) an aspect of auras that is to be explained in do time.

While the possible should be a discussion topic all it's own (which i plan on starting soon after getting a good night's sleep), "assemblance" is a talent or ability unique to one's soul (and by extension unique to each individual person).

Sorry that that large blocks of text. But these ideas here just floating around in my head and i thought they were important enough that people should see them and not in the official episode chat where it could get buried or lost.

I am happy to discuss or debate about the topics I noted here and open to critiques on my idea and writing ability (a I aspiring to be a story writer, so any help in that regard will be appreciated). I visit the site a weekly basis (corresponding to episode releases), but I will respond to messages directed to me as promptly as I humanly can.