User blog comment:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/SYUTK's V5E8 - Blake Sucks - Impressions/Recap/@comment-4010415-20171207055023

Eh, what Youtube recommends to me on the right mostly depends on what video I'm currently watching and who I'm subscribed to.

Like, right now, I've got "Play Pals - Torquel (#2)" from Achievement Hunter's channel pulled up. It's basically just Michael and Gavin from AH playing a game called Torquel. Along the right side on this page is 99% Achievement Hunter videos on both their Achievement Hunter channel and their LetsPlay channel. There's one from the Rooster Teeth channel, one from BrownMan (Ray), and a video from Gigguk talking about Re: Zero. Yet I just got done watching a couple of videos from Cryaotic who finally started playing Night in the Woods.

Last night, I watched a couple of anime review videos, a fan-made MLP video (It's great. It's called Lullaby for a Princess, and I enjoy rewatching it once in a while), clips of a couple of my favorite Equestria Girls songs (Unleash the Magic and Welcome to the Show. Villain songs <3), a clip of the Open Up Your Eyes song from the MLP movie (Once again, villain songs <3 That one's kinda cheesy, but I love the music and the way it's sung), a reaction to the Rest and Resolutions ep of RWBY, a let's play, and I rewatched some of my favorite RWBY music vids.

Honestly, the Recommended thing on the Youtube home page offers me more variety than the side bar. The side bar is just like "Here are recommended videos that are similar to what you're watching right at this moment."

I recall Netflix's description of RWBY's plot being somewhat wrong too, but I don't remember what it said.

Then again, you can't trust what Netflix says about any of the shows and movies on there because the descriptions vary from mostly right to giving an entirely wrong impression. I still don't know why they put the "Comedy" category on Holes. That movie isn't really a comedy.

1. Night recruiting - Sun said they were hitting up the nocturnal section... as in the section of the town where people are awake at night and asleep during the day, as in people who weren't even conscious when he and Blake were trying to recruit during the day.

2. So, interesting note that I'm not sure if you caught or not: After Blake tells Sun she'll catch up with him and then walks off-camera, we can hear rustling in the trees. Ilia was nearby, watching and listening. The rustling was probably her leaving. Blake told Sun she would catch up with him, just in case Ilia was nearby listening in, so she wouldn't alert Ilia that she didn't fully trust her. When she went inside the house and shut the door, she probably told Sun about it then.

3. Indeed, they really should've shown more of that stuff about Weiss' family in Volume 4. It's one of the reasons I wish Volume 4 had been more about RNJR and Blake's journeys, Weiss' family, and Yang bonding with Tai while recovering and training.

The only hint we got about Mrs. Schnee being an alcoholic was just Whitley saying "She's already drinking in the garden."

4. They've said they had more planned for Cardin that they were gonna do with him, including development or something, but I guess they've abandoned that. Point is, they apparently planned for him to be more than just an asshole, but they stupidly dropped it.

Trophy Wife - They could've done a better job at conveying the Atlas elites, such as her, as being people who kind of live in a bubble where they don't fully comprehend what life is like for the lower class, let alone the rest of the world. She also seemed to be dreadfully uninformed because she blamed the Fall of Beacon on the City of Vale not having proper defense, when Ironwood was the one in charge of Vale's defense at the time. So, if the defense that the City of Vale had when Beacon fell was not proper defense, then I guess Atlas doesn't have proper defense either. Yet she spoke of it in such a smug "We're better than those idiots in Vale" way that I'm pretty sure she didn't know the guy in charge of Atlas' defense was the same guy who was in charge of Vale's at the time.

Hmmm, an asshole character who's more than just 100% pure asshole... First example that comes to my mind, due to recent interests, is Frank Gallagher from the TV show Shameless (well, the US version. I haven't seen the UK version. They apparently diverge and have different storylines).

He's an alcoholic drug addict who's not afraid to hit his older sons, a manipulative parasite who usually doesn't do anything for anyone unless he can get something out of it, and doesn't wanna do any real work so he runs scams and manipulates people. But, deep down, he does actually love and care about his kids. There are episodes and scenes where he shows he is truly proud of his kids and where he gets upset when one of his kids has been wronged. For example, he goes on an angry tirade at a private school that caused his youngest son's public school to shut down. He did that because the nearest public school they could send him to at that point was an utter shithole all the way across town, and they were too poor to put him in private school.

Eventually, it's shown that Frank is the way he is because his mother is an abusive, domineering bitch who ended up in prison because she was caught making meth. She treated him like shit while treating her other kids better. She even left his siblings money in her will but left him nothing. The way she raised and treated him left him screwed up.

5. Blake's one fear - Er, recall that Weiss stated Blake's walls were to protect them from her past. She didn't want them to get hurt by her past. Hell, in the beginning of Volume 2, she was thinking about the White Fang and what they were up to and kept quiet about it until Weiss made her talk to them. She was hesitant to let Sun join in on their investigation.

MK could've done a better job at showing her being afraid they'd get hurt by her past, though.

But anyway, yeah, apparently she put up walls supposedly to try to protect RWY from her past, and after she let her walls down, Beacon got attacked by the White Fang, and Yang got hurt by someone from Blake's past, thus "proving her right" that her past was too dangerous for her friends.

6. Blake falling for the trap - Uh, dude... She didn't go alone, evidenced by the fact that Sun thanked her for INVITING HIM. The entire point of him saying "Thanks for inviting me" was literally to tell us "Blake told Sun to go with her"!

As I mentioned earlier, when Blake found the note, after she walked off-screen, we hear rustling in the trees. Ilia was watching. If Blake told Sun right then and there that something was up, Ilia would've known. She waited until she was inside the house to tell him.

The entire reason Blake went to meet with Ilia was because she wasn't 100% certain if Ilia was being genuine or if it was a trap. That's why she had Sun be secretly nearby, just in case. She even yelled "Now!" right before Sun jumped down to attack.

'Blake did NOT go to meet with Ilia all by herself. She told Sun to secretly go with her.'

7. Honestly, I'm kinda holding onto the hope that Ilia is just brainwashed and the arguments she's making are actually the bullshit that the Albains and others have forced into her head. She believes all that stuff and needs someone to talk sense into her.

8. Ehh, to me, a character's sexual/romantic orientation doesn't need to have plot importance to be there. While you are right that Ilia's crush on Blake has undermined the stuff about her beliefs about Faunus discrimination and made her look like a joke, especially with the way that it came out, I don't think that they should be required to have her orientation be plot important.

It's like... being straight doesn't have to be plot important. No one complained about Yang checking out the guys at the sleepover in Volume 1 showing her having a non-plot-relevant sexual orientation. No one complained about Neptune being flirty with various girls showing him having a non-plot-relevant sexual orientation. I just find it funny that the only time anyone ever complains about a character's sexual and romantic preference by saying it shouldn't be there because it's not important to the plot is when that character is interested in the same sex.

Yeah, they really shouldn't have come out with Ilia's orientation that way, especially in that scene, especially in that conversation. But Ilia's homosexuality or bisexuality doesn't have to be plot important, any more than a character's heterosexuality does.

9. The Albains' weapons are drill-shaped, while Ilia's weapon has a flat blade. And I doubt the Albains' weapons extend like Ilia's, since the colored design is a swirl instead of just lines that segment the blade.