Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190112144055/@comment-4141313-20190120195727

1. I think the cone is suppossed to just be a blur of color. Back in the first episode of the volume, when Ruby grabbed Weiss and zipped back onto the Argus Limited, the blur they were in suddenly looked like a blend of white and red. Like you know when you spin something it starts to blur, like that.

6. Eh, I chalked that up to Nora doing what Ren did in Volume 4 and letting her anger cloud her. She seems to still be firing in that shot before Jaune rushes to her, so...

8. To be fair, the hardest thing we've seen Adam's Moonslice cut was an Atlesian Spider-Drone, from the generation/model before the newer ones Ironwood debuted in Volume 2, and considering his sword/Wilt could penetrate the metal of an Atlesian Knight of that generation like butter, but couldn't cut through the Spider-Drone without Moonslice, the question is what type of metal Yang's arm is made of compared to the Spider-Drone.

It's doubtful Ironwood would settle for using inferior material when constructing the second generation of Knights and the Paladins, if anything he'd use reinforced material. So if he'd use that on his drones, he'd probably use similar on his prostethic tech. Tai said Ironwood had the arm custom made for Yang afterall, and that the tech was state of the art.

Taiyang: Brand new, state of the art Atlas tech. You know, I thought I was gonna have to pull some strings, call in a few favors, but you earned this one all on your own, kiddo. Before I could even talk to him, General Ironwood already had one of his top scientists working on this, for you. He wanted me to tell you that you fought admirably. You should be proud of yourself.

So it's not unreasonable to think the Arm he gave Yang was made of material tougher than his Drone's, and since the hardest material Adam's seen cutting through is robots from an inferior line of Knights, it would make sense that his Moonslice can't tear through the new material.